HODONYMS AS POLITICAL SIGNS: FROM DE-SOVIETIZATION TO DE-RUSSIFICATION IN UKRAINE
Journal: Research Bulletin Series Philological Sciences
Year: 2025

Toponymy is a tool of forming new reality, national identity and political culture. The article’s scientific goal is to track Ukrainian hodonyms (the street names) as political signs withing the compass of the historical events between 2013–2025, based on the Euromaidan Revolution (2013–2014) and the Russo-Ukrainian War (2022–nowadays). Hodonyms are the voicers of nation’s attitude to the ruling regime, acknowledging their own affiliation to European views and values. The street names are a hist