According to a survey in the Diya application, the South-Western section of the Ukrainian railway will be renamed into Central, the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine reported..

“Ukrainians have decided how they want to rename the South-Western. The name Central received the most votes.. It was chosen by more than 417.2 thousand users out of more than 1.1 million who voted,” the ministry said..

Now the application has launched a new survey on the renaming of the Southern branch of Ukrzaliznytsia, covering the territories of Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy, certain districts of Chernihiv, Luhansk regions. Its name, like all the others, has remained since the time when Ukraine belonged to the Russian Empire, and does not correspond to the actual location in the context of the state.

Among the options that offer to provide the site:.

Kharkov railway.

Slobozhanskaya railway.

Sloboda railway.

Eastern Railway.

The survey will run in "

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It should be noted that the names of Ukrzaliznytsia branches were inherited from the times of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, when the Ukrainian railway was part of the imperial. In modern realities, some of these names do not correspond to reality regarding the territorial location in relation to the country.