List of renamed cities in Ukraine

The following is a list of cities in Ukraine that underwent a name change in the past.

Crimea

• Aluston → Lusta → Aluşta → Alushta (1784)
• Ermeni Bazar → Armyanskiy Bazar (1736) → Armyansk (1921)
• Karasubazar → Bilohirsk (1944)
• Aqmeçit → Chornomorske (1944)
• Canköy → Dzhankoy (1784)
• Kerkinitis → Kezlev (7th century) → Gözleve → Yevpatoria (1784)
• Theodosia → Ardabda → Kafas → Caffa → Kefe (1475) → Feodosiya (1784)
• Sarabuz → Hvardiyske (1944)
• Inkerman → Belokamensk (1976) → Inkerman (1991)
• Panticapaeum → Bosporus → Korchev → Vosporo/Cerchio → Kerch
• İslâm Terek → Kirovske (1944)
• Kurman-Kumelĉi → Krasnohvardiyske (1944)
• Qızıltaş → Krasnokamianka (1945)
• Aşağı Otuz → Prymorye (1945) → Kurortne (1978)
• Albat → Kuybysheve (1945)
• Yedi Quyu → Sem Kolodezey (1784) → Lenine (1957)
• Seyitler → Nyzhniohirsk (1944)
• Büyük Onlar → Oktiabrske (1945)
• Kaygador → Provalnoe → Dvoyakornoe → Bubnovka → Ordjonikidze (1937)
• Yañı Küçükköy → Parkove
• Or Qapı → Perekop (1736)
• Curçı → Pervomaiske (1944)
• Aşağı Kikineiz → Ponyzivka
• Bazarçıq → Poshtove (1945)
• Hafuz → Yuzhnaya Tochka (1938) → Primosrky (1952)
• Aqşeyh → Rozdolne (1944)
• Saq → Saky (1784)
• Aqyar → Sevastopol (1826; also: Sebastopol)
• Otuz → Shchebetovka (1944)
• Aqmescit → Simferopol (1784)
• Dolossı → Sovietske
• İçki → Sovietsky (1944)
• Eski Qırım → Staryi Krym (1783)
• Sudaq → Sudak (1784)

Zaporizhia Oblast

• Alexandrovsk → Zaporizhia (1921)

Luhansk Oblast

• Yuryevka → Alchevsk (1903) → Voroshylovsk (1931) → Voroshylovsk/Alchevsk (1957) → Komunarsk (1961) → Alchevsk (1991)
• Izium → Almaznaya (1878) → Almazna (1977)
• Bokovo-Antratsyt → Antratsyt (1962)
• Yekaterinovka → Artem (1923) → Artemivsk (1938)
• Gorskoye → Hirske (1938)
• Golubyevskiy Rudnik → Kirovsk (1962)
• Sorokino → Krasnodon (1938)
• Kryndachiovka → Krasnyi Luch (1920)
• Lugansk → Voroshylovhrad (1935) → Luhansk (1958) → Voroshylovhrad (1970) → Luhansk (1990)
• Aleksandrovka → Petro-Maryevka (1865) → Pervomaisk (1920)
• Kadiyevka → Sergo (1937) → Kadiivka (1940) → Stakhanov (1978)

Odessa Oblast

• Ophiusa → Asperon → Moncastro → Akkerman (1503) → Cetatea Albă (1918) → Bilhorod-Dnistrovsky (1944)
• Buh Khutirs → Illichivsk (1952) → Chornomorsk (2016)
• Birzula → Kotovsk (1935) → Podilsk (2016)
• Hacibey → Odessa (1794)

Mykolaiv Oblast

• Fedorivka → Fiodorovka (1776) → Novaya Odessa (1832) → Nova Odesa (1989)
• Kara Kerman → Özi → Ochakov (1792) → Ochakiv (1989)
• Orlyk → Orlovsky sconce (1743) → Yekaterinsky sconce (1770) → Olviopol (1781) → Pervomaisk (1919)
• Kostiantynivka-2 → Yuzhnoukrainsk (1987)

Donetsk Oblast

• Donetsko-Amvrosiyevka → Amvrosiivka (1938)
• Nelepovsky → Artyoma (1921) → Artemove (1938)
• Avdeyevka I & Avdeyevka II → Avdiivka (1956)
• Bakhmut → Artemivsk (1924) → Bakhmut (2016)
• Belozyorka → Bilozerske (1966)
• Paraskoviivka & Erastovsky rudnik & Svyatogorovsky (Krasnoarmeysky, 1920) rudnik → Dobropillya (1935)
• Yelenovskiye Karyery → Dokuchaievsk (1954)
• Yuzovka → Stalino (1924) → Donetsk (1961)
• Grodovsky rudnik → Novy Donbass (1934) → Novoekonomichne (1957) → Dymytrov (1965) → Myrnohrad (2016)
• Sotsgorodok → Hirnyk (1958)
• Nova Khrestovka → Kirovske (1958)
• Karakybbud → Komsomolske (1949)
• Kramatorskaya → Kramatorsk (1932)
• Grishyno → Postysheve (1934) → Krasnoarmiiske (1938) → Krasnoarmiisk (1938) → Pokrovsk (2016)
• Kurakhovgresstroy → Kurakhovgres (1943) → Kurakhove (1956)
• Lyman → Krasnyi Lyman (1938) → Lyman (2016)
• Dmitriyevskoye → Dmitriyevsk (1925) → Makiivka (1931)
• Manhush → Pershotravneve (1946) → Manhush (1995)
• Pavlovsk → Mariupol (1779) → Zhdanov (1948) → Mariupol (1989)
• Gladky → Staronikolskoye (1855) → Nikolske → Volodarske (1924) → Nikolske (2016)
• Novonikolayevskaya → Budyonnovskaya (1923) → Budyonivsky (1938) → Novoazovsky (1959) → Novoazovsk (1966)
• Grodovka → Novohrodivka (1958)
• Selidovka → Selydove (1956)
• Alekseyevo-Orlovka & Olkhovchik → Katyk → Shakhtarsk (1953)
• Yama → Siversk (1973)
• Tor → Sloviansk (1784)
• Vasilyevka → Snezhnaya (1864) → Snizhne (1920)
• Bryantsevsky → Bryantsevka (1924) → Karla Libknekhta (1926) → Karlo-Libknekhtove (1965) & Bilokamyanske → Karlo-Libknekhtovsk (1965) → Soledar (1991)
• Bannoe → Banne (1929) → Bannovske (1938) → Slovianohirsk (1964) → Sviatohirsk (2003)
• Uglegorskoy TES → Svitlodarske (1969) → Svitlodarsk (1992)
• Shcherbinovka → Shcherbinovsky → Dzerzhynsk (1938) → Toretsk (2016)
• Alekseyevka → Alekseyevo-Leonovo (1857) → Chystyakove (1932) → Torez (1964)
• Lesovka → Ukrainsk (1963)
• Bolshoy Yanisol → Velyka Novosilka (1946)
• Khatsapetovka → Vuhlehirsk (1958)
• Yenakiyevo → Rykovo (1928) → Ordzhonikidze (1937) → Yenakiieve (1943)
• Bunge → Yunikh Komunarov (1924) → Yunokomunarovskoye (1965) → Yunokomunarivsk (1965)
• Novo-Zhdanovka → Zhdanov rudnik (1966) → Zhdanivka (1966)

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

• Kamianske → Dniprodzerzhynsk (1936) → Kamianske (2016)
• Yekaterinoslav → Novorossiysk (1797) → Yekaterinoslav (1802) → Dnepropetrovsk (1926) → Dnipro (2016)
• Mykytyne → Slovyanske (1775) → Nikopol (1781)
• Samara → Novomoskovsk (1782)
• Shakhtarske → Pershotravensk (1960)

Kharkiv Oblast

• Konstantingrad → Krasnohrad (1922)
• Lykhachove → Pervomaiskyi (1952)
• Zmiiv → Zmeyev (1656) → Hotvald (1976) → Zmiiv (1990)

Lviv Oblast

• Krystynopil → Chervonohrad (1951)
• Kamianka-Strumylova → Kamianka-Buzka (1944)
• Lviv → Lwów (1356) → Lemberg (1772) → Lwów (1918) → Lvov (1939) → Lemberg (1941) → Lvov (1944) → Lviv (1991)^[1]
• Żółkiew (until 1939) → Zhovkva → Nesterov (1951) → Zhovkva (1992)

Volyn Oblast

• Lutsk → Luchesk (1427) → Łuck (1569) → Lutsk (1795) → Mikhailogorod (1850) → Luck (1915) → Łuck (1919) → Lutsk (1939)

Khmelnytsky Oblast

• Proskurov → Khmelnytskyi (1954)

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast

• Stanisławów → Stanislaviv (1939) → Ivano-Frankivsk (1962)

Ternopil Oblast

• Tarnopol → Ternopil (1939)

Uzhhorod Oblast

• Ungvár (1248) → Užhorod (1919) → Ungvár (1938) → Uzhhorod (1944)

Kirovohrad Oblast

• Yelizavetgrad (1784) → Zinovyevsk (1924) → Kirovo (1934) → Kirovohrad (1939) → Kropyvnytskyi (2016)

Kherson Oblast

• Chapli → Askania (1828) → Askania Nova (1835)
• Oleshky → Alioshki (1802) → Tsiurupynsk (1928) → Oleshky (2016)
• Ali-Agok → Skadovskoye (1894) → Skadovsk (1933)
• Holy → Golaya Pristan (1786) → Hola Prystan (1923)
• Geniczi → Genichesk (1784) → Henichesk (1923)

Notes

See also

• List of Ukrainian toponyms that were changed as part of decommunization in 2016
• List of renamed cities in Belarus
• List of renamed cities in Moldova
• List of renamed cities and towns in Russia

External links

• List of old and new settlement names (1986—2006) – Verkhovna Rada website (archived)