Mass Renaming of Settlements of Lviv Region in the mid-1940s
Journal: Archivi Ukraїni
Year: 2023

The objective of the work is to study (on example of Lviv Region) the large-scale campaign of the renaming of settlements of the Ukrainian SSR in 1944–1946, as a result of which the names of almost 3 thousand cities, towns, villages and hamlets were changed. The scientifi c novelty of the article consists in the introduction into scientifi c circulation of documents with proposals to rename settlements (including rejected ones). These materials are stored in the fond of the Lviv Regional State A