Kyiv residents have initiated a petition to rename the gate
This is reported by Kyiv24
A public initiative is gaining momentum in Kyiv to change the name of the ‘Moscow Gate of the 18th century’, located at 23 Lavrska Street within the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. The capital’s residents believe that retaining names associated with the Russian Federation is inappropriate in the context of the full-scale aggression from the Russian Federation.
Petition on the Kyiv City Council website
The corresponding electronic petition is already available on the official portal of the Kyiv City Council. The city’s residents are urging the local authorities to consider changing the historical name of the gate, which they believe is currently associated with the aggressor state.
Arguments of the initiators
The authors of the initiative emphasize that after the onset of the full-scale war of Russia against Ukraine, there should be no toponyms in the capital that contain the name of the aggressor country.
The residents of the capital are calling on the city authorities to change the name ‘Moscow Gate of the 18th century’ at the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, located at 23 Lavrska Street.
The petition reflects the sentiments of Kyiv residents who seek to cleanse sacred and historical sites of associations with the Russian Federation, and is part of a broader trend of total de-Russification of the Ukrainian space.