Renaming of modern Ukrainian oikonyms
Journal: Ukrainian Linguistics
Year: 2018

The active nominating processes, caused by the necessity of renaming oikonyms and town objects, have started in the linguistic landscape of cities and villages of Ukraine. This article is dedicated to 32 names of Ukrainian cities before and after the decommunization process. Among the astionyms of the Soviet era, which were to be renamed, seven contained the component Krasny or Chervony, two of them contained the component Komsomol (Chervonopartyzansk, Krasny Lyman, Krasnoarmiysk, Komsomolsk), o