This is a list of streets renamed due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Following the invasion, the One Philosophy consulting group together with the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs launched a campaign called "Ukraine Street", which calls on nations to change the name of the streets where Russian embassies or consulates are located. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called the campaign part of an effort to "isolate Russia and de-Putinize the world." In addition, Ukraine has been conducting a campaign of derussification, removing addresses associated with Russian and Soviet history, and replacing them with names associated with Ukrainian history. The most streets were renamed in Zaporizhzhia Oblast (1.011), Vinnytsia Oblast (912), Odesa Oblast (581) and Kharkiv Oblast (656). While in Ternopil Oblast (22), Lviv Oblast (12) and Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (3) very few street needed/were renamed.
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The spokesperson of the local council of San Ġwann in Malta rejected proposals to rename Triq Antonio Schembri, where the Russian embassy is located, or any of the surrounding streets, citing the impact it would have on residents of the street in question, such as forcing them to change their ID cards, driving licences and bank details.
The naming committee of Stockholm Municipality, Sweden, opposed calls to rename Gjörwellsgatan, where the Russian embassy in Stockholm is located, to "Zelenskygatan" ("Zelensky Street"). Its chairperson Olle Zetterberg cited the fact that streets in Stockholm usually aren't named after living people, and that there is no "good reason" to reject the current name. Instead, a section of a nearby park was renamed "Fria Ukrainas plats" ("Free Ukraine Place"; see below).
The City Council of The Hague, Netherlands rejected proposals to rename Andries Bickerweg, where the Russian embassy is located, stating that street names should only be changed out of "extreme necessity in the context of findability and safety", while also citing costs, paperwork and possible objections. In Zaandam, Netherlands some citizens changed certain street names by themselves by adding stickers on street signs, but these were removed. The same happened in a street in Prague, in the Czech Republic.
In Latvia, the renaming of 93 streets "glorifying the communist regime or russification policies" was proposed by the a group of historians of the Public Memory Center association. The surveyed municipalities conceptually did not object to the renaming, but cited associated difficulties and costs for residents and entrepreneurs located on these streets.
Riga City Council renamed streets named after Soviet Latvian Lieutenant General Detlavs Brantkalns, Soviet Russian author Valentin Pikul, Russian city Staraya Russa and Riga-born Soviet Russian mathematician Mstislav Keldysh. Rēzekne Municipality renamed streets named after the Latvian communist activists Lidija Samuilova and Jānis Zvīdra, as well as the Pioneer movement. Krāslava Municipality renamed streets named after the Bolshevik revolutionary Konstantin Eremeev, the Soviet Russian cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova, and the Soviet Russian horticulturist Ivan Michurin. The choices of some new street names have stirred historical discussions between the residents of these streets, official institutions and historians.
As a consequence of support to Ukraine from various countries, streets have also been renamed in Ukraine in their honor.
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