List of renamed cities in Ukraine

The following is a list of cities in Ukraine that underwent a name change in the past. For the most updated list of changes, visit List of Ukrainian toponyms that were changed as part of decommunization in 2016

Crimea[]

Aluston → Lusta → Aluşta → Alushta (1784)
Ermeni Bazar → Armianskyi Bazar (1736) → Armiansk (1921)
Karasubazar → Bilohirsk (1944)
Aqmeçit → Chornomorske (1944)
Canköy → Dzhankoi (1784)
Kerkinitis → Kezlev (7th century) → Gözleve → Yevpatoria (1784)
Theodosia → Ardabda → Kafas → Caffa → Kefe (1475) → Feodosia (1784)
Sarabuz → Hvardiiske (1944)
Inkerman → Belokamensk (1976) → Inkerman (1991)
Panticapaeum → Bosporus → Korchev → Vosporo/Cerchio → Kerch
İslâm Terek → Kirovske (1944)
Kurman-Kumelĉi → Krasnohvardiyske (1944)
Qızıltaş → Krasnokamianka (1945)
Aşağı Otuz → Prymorie (1945) → Kurortne (1978)
Albat → Kuibysheve (1945)
Yedi Quyu → Sem Kolodezey (1784) → Lenine (1957)
Seyitler → Nyzhniohirsk (1944)
Büyük Onlar → Oktiabrske (1945)
Kaygador → Provalnoe → Dvoiakornoie → Bubnovka → Ordjonikidze (1937)
Yañı Küçükköy → Parkove
Or Qapı → Perekop (1736)
Curçı → Pervomaiske (1944)
Aşağı Kikineiz → Ponyzivka
Bazarçıq → Poshtove (1945)^{[citation needed]}
Hafuz → Yuzhnaia Tochka (1938) → Prymosrkyi (1952)
Aqşeyh → Rozdolne (1944)
Saq → Saky (1784)
Aqyar → Sevastopol (1826; also: Sebastopol)
Otuz → Shchebetovka (1944)
Aqmescit → Simferopol (1784)
Dolossı → Sovietske
İçki → Sovietskyi (1944)
Eski Qırım → Staryi Krym (1783)
Sudaq → Sudak (1784)

Zaporizhzhia Oblast[]

Alexandrovsk → Zaporizhzhia (1921)

Luhansk Oblast[]

Yuryevka → Alchevsk (1903) → Voroshylovsk (1931) → Voroshylovsk/Alchevsk (1957) → Komunarsk (1961) → Alchevsk (1991)
Izium → Almaznaya (1878) → Almazna (1977)
Bokovo-Antratsyt → Antratsyt (1962)
Yekaterinovka → Artem (1923) → Artemivsk (1938)
Gorskoye → Hirske (1938)
Golubyevskiy Rudnik → Kirovsk (1962)
Sorokino → Krasnodon (1938)
Kryndachiovka → Krasnyi Luch (1920)
Lugansk → Voroshylovhrad (1935) → Luhansk (1958) → Voroshylovhrad (1970) → Luhansk (1990)
Aleksandrovka → Petro-Maryevka (1865) → Pervomaisk (1920)
Kadiyevka → Sergo (1937) → Kadiivka (1940) → Stakhanov (1978)

Odessa Oblast[]

Ophiusa → Asperon → Moncastro → Akkerman (1503) → Cetatea Albă (1918) → Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi (1944)
Buh Khutirs → Illichivsk (1952) → Chornomorsk (2016)
Birzula → Kotovsk (1935) → Podilsk (2016)
Hacibey → Odessa (rebuilt 1794)

Mykolaiv Oblast[]

Fedorivka → Fiodorovka (1776) → Novaya Odessa (1832) → Nova Odesa (1989)
Kara Kerman → Özi → Ochakov (1792) → Ochakiv (1989)
Orlyk → Orlovsky sconce (1743) → Yekaterinsky sconce (1770) → Olviopol (1781) → Pervomaisk (1919)
Konstantinovka-2 (founded) → Yuzhnoukrainsk (1987)

Donetsk Oblast[]

Donetsko-Amvrosiyevka → Amvrosiivka (1938)
Nelepovsky → Artyoma (1921) → Artemove (1938)
Avdeyevka I & Avdeyevka II → Avdiivka (1956)
Bakhmut → Artemivsk (1924) → Bakhmut (2016)
Belozyorka → Bilozerske (1966)
Paraskoviivka & Erastovsky rudnik & Svyatogorovsky (Krasnoarmeysky, 1920) rudnik → Dobropillia (1935)
Yelenovskiye Karyery → Dokuchaievsk (1954)
Yuzovka → Stalino (1924) → Donetsk (1961)
Grodovsky rudnik → Novy Donbass (1934) → Novoekonomichne (1957) → Dymytrov (1965) → Myrnohrad (2016)
Sotsgorodok → Hirnyk (1958)
Nova Khrestovka → Kirovske (1958)
Karakybbud → Komsomolske (1949)
Kramatorskaya → Kramatorsk (1932)
Grishyno → Postysheve (1934) → Krasnoarmiiske (1938) → Krasnoarmiisk (1938) → Pokrovsk (2016)
Kurakhovgresstroy → Kurakhovgres (1943) → Kurakhove (1956)
Lyman → Krasnyi Lyman (1938) → Lyman (2016)
Dmitriyevskoye → Dmitriyevsk (1925) → Makiivka (1931)
Manhush → Pershotravneve (1946) → Manhush (1995)
Pavlovsk → Mariupol (1779) → Zhdanov (1948) → Mariupol (1989)
Gladky → Staronikolskoye (1855) → Nikolske → Volodarske (1924) → Nikolske (2016)
Novonikolayevskaya → Budyonnovskaya (1923) → Budyonivsky (1938) → Novoazovsky (1959) → Novoazovsk (1966)
Grodovka → Novohrodivka (1958)
Selidovka → Selydove (1956)
Alekseyevo-Orlovka & Olkhovchik → Katyk → Shakhtarsk (1953)
Yama → Siversk (1973)
Tor → Sloviansk (1784)
Vasilyevka → Snezhnaya (1864) → Snizhne (1920)
Bryantsevsky → Bryantsevka (1924) → Karla Libknekhta (1926) → Karlo-Libknekhtove (1965) & Bilokamyanske → Karlo-Libknekhtovsk (1965) → Soledar (1991)
Bannoe → Banne (1929) → Bannovske (1938) → Slovianohirsk (1964) → Sviatohirsk (2003)
Uglegorskoy TES → Svitlodarske (1969) → Svitlodarsk (1992)
Shcherbinovka → Shcherbinovsky → Dzerzhynsk (1938) → Toretsk (2016)
Alekseyevka → Alekseyevo-Leonovo (1857) → Chystyakove (1932) → Torez (1964)
Lesovka → Ukrainsk (1963)
Bolshoy Yanisol → Velyka Novosilka (1946)
Khatsapetovka → Vuhlehirsk (1958)
Yenakiyevo → Rykovo (1928) → Ordzhonikidze (1937) → Yenakiieve (1943)
Bunge → Yunikh Komunarov (1924) → Yunokomunarovskoye (1965) → Yunokomunarivsk (1965)
Novo-Zhdanovka → Zhdanov rudnik (1966) → Zhdanivka (1966)

Dnipro Oblast[]

Kamianske → Dniprodzerzhynsk (1936) → Kamianske (2016)
Yekaterinoslav → Novorossiysk (1797) → Yekaterinoslav (1802) → Dnipropetrovsk (Dnepropetrovsk) (1926) → Dnipro (2016)
Mykytyne → Slovyanske (1775) → Nikopol (1781)
Samara → Novomoskovsk (1782)
Shakhtarske → Pershotravensk (1960)

Kharkiv Oblast[]

Konstantingrad → Krasnohrad (1922)
Lykhachove → Pervomaiskyi (1952)
Zmiiv → Zmeyev (1656) → Hotvald (1976) → Zmiiv (1990)

Lviv Oblast[]

Krystynopol (founded) → Chervonograd/Chervonohrad (1951) → Chervonohrad (1991)
Dymoszyn (first mentioned) → Kamionka Strumiłowa (15th century) → Kamenka-Bugskaya/Kamianka-Buzka (1944) → Kamianka-Buzka (1991)
Lviv → Lwów (1356) → (Lemberg) (1772) → Lvov/Lviv (1939) → Lemberg (1941) → Lvov/Lviv (1944) → Lviv (1991)^[1]
Żółkiew (founded) → Zhovkva (1939) → Nesterov (1951) → Zhovkva (1992)

Volyn Oblast[]

Lutsk → Luchesk (1427) → Łuck (1569) → Lutsk (1795) → Mikhailogorod (1850) → Luck (1915) → Łuck (1919) → Lutsk (1939)
Volodymer (founded) → Vladimir-Volynskiy (1795) → Volodymyr-Volynskyi (1991)

Khmelnytsky Oblast[]

Proskuriv → Khmelnytskyi (1954)
Liakhivtsi → Bilohiria (1949)

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast[]

Stanisławów (founded) → Stanislaviv (1939) → Ivano-Frankivsk (1962)

Ternopil Oblast[]

Tarnopol (founded) → Ternopil (1939)

Kirovohrad Oblast[]

Yelizavetgrad (1784) → Zinovyevsk (1924) → Kirovo (1934) → Kirovohrad (1939) → Kropyvnytskyi (2016)

Kherson Oblast[]

Chapli → Askania (1828) → Askania Nova (1835)
Oleshky → Alioshki (1802) → Tsiurupynsk (1928) → Oleshky (2016)
Ali-Agok → Skadovskoye (1894) → Skadovsk (1933)
Holy → Golaya Pristan (1786) → Hola Prystan (1923)
Geniczi → Genichesk (1784) → Henichesk (1923)

Kyiv Oblast[]

Pereiaslav → Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi (1943) → Pereiaslav (2019)

Zakarpattia Oblast[]

Ungvár (1248) → Užhorod (1919) → Ungvár (1938) → Uzhhorod (1944)
Munkács → Mukačevo (1919) → Munkács (1938) → Mukacheve (1945) → Mukachevo (2017)

Notes[]

^ The city of Lviv was never officially renamed but as during its history it belonged to different states, different variations of the city name were used: Polish (Lwów), German (Lemberg), Italian (Leopolis) and Russian (Lvov).

External links[]

List of old and new settlement names (1986—2006) – Verkhovna Rada website (archived)

[1] The city of Lviv was never officially renamed but as during its history it belonged to different states, different variations of the city name were used: Polish (Lwów), German (Lemberg), Italian (Leopolis) and Russian (Lvov).

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