The renaming of the Dnepropetrovsk region into Sicheslavskaya is very justified.

This is a return to one of the most famous pages of Ukrainian history, assured the director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory Vladimir Vyatrovich, reports "Apostrophe".

"We know that on the territory of the current Dnepropetrovsk region there were five of the eight Sich Cossacks of the Ukrainian Cossacks. Accordingly, this explains why it is this area that we rename Sicheslavskaya. In addition, the name "Sicheslav" was unofficially used for the present city of the Dnieper during the Ukrainian Revolution in 1917-1921. Also an element of the coat of arms of the current Dnepropetrovsk region is the Cossacks, which also appeals to the Cossack history, "he said..

In Vyatrovich's opinion, the name "Sicheslav region" will emphasize the historical destiny of this region.

"There will be no discord between the name of the region and the regional center, since we already have precedents: the center of the Volyn region is Lutsk, and the center of Transcarpathia is Uzhgorod," the historian assured.