“Iron Ukrainization”
Journal: Names
Year: 2025

This article examines the historical names of railways in Ukraine by employing cultural-geographic and critical approaches. More specifically, this research describes semantic categories of railway names in Ukraine and highlights how railway names are explicitly or implicitly used as political instruments and forms of discursive power. The empirical part of the research is based on a database of the names of the railways in Ukraine throughout the history of the national railway network. The data