Creating a new Ukrainian identity: Renaming campaign in the capital city of Kyiv during the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war
Journal: Onoma
Year: 2025

The subject of this article is the renaming campaign of streets in the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv, since the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2014. The renaming process was analysed in two main aspects: linguistic and broader ethnocultural. Within the linguistic aspect, it was established that in most cases, the renaming occurs within the same category, i.e., an anthroponym is replaced by an anthroponym, a toponym by a toponym, with anthroponyms performing primarily a commemorative function