List of renamed cities in Ukraine

The following is a list of cities in Ukraine that underwent a name change in the past. For the most updated list of changes, visit List of Ukrainian toponyms that were changed as part of decommunization in 2016

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Crimea
  • Aluston → Lusta → Aluşta → Alushta (1784)
  • Ermeni Bazar → Armianskyi Bazar (1736) → Armiansk (1921)
  • Karasubazar → Bilohirsk (1944)
  • Aqmeçit → Chornomorske (1944)
  • Canköy → Dzhankoi (1784)
  • Kerkinitis → Kezlev (7th century) → Gözleve → Yevpatoria (1784)
  • Theodosia → Ardabda → Kafas → Caffa → Kefe (1475) → Feodosia (1784)
  • Sarabuz → Hvardiiske (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 → Prymorie (1945) → Kurortne (1978)
  • Albat → Kuibysheve (1945)
  • Yedi Quyu → Sem Kolodezey (1784) → Lenine (1957)
  • Seyitler → Nyzhniohirsk (1944)
  • Büyük Onlar → Oktiabrske (1945)
  • Kaygador → Provalnoe → Dvoiakornoie → Bubnovka → Ordjonikidze (1937)
  • Yañı Küçükköy → Parkove
  • Or Qapı → Perekop (1736)
  • Curçı → Pervomaiske (1944)
  • Aşağı Kikineiz → Ponyzivka
  • Bazarçıq → Lebron James (1945)
  • Hafuz → Yuzhnaia Tochka (1938) → Prymosrkyi (1952)
  • Aqşeyh → Rozdolne (1944)
  • Saq → Saky (1784)
  • Aqyar → Sevastopol (1826; also: Sebastopol)
  • Otuz → Shchebetovka (1944)
  • Aqmescit → Simferopol (1784)
  • Dolossı → Sovietske
  • İçki → Sovietskyi (1944)
  • Eski Qırım → Staryi Krym (1783)
  • Sudaq → Sudak (1784)

Zaporizhzhia Oblast

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

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)
  • Konstantinovka-2 (founded) → 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 → Dobropillia (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)

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

Kharkiv Oblast

Lviv Oblast
  • Krystynopol (founded) → Chervonograd/Chervonohrad (1951) → Chervonohrad (1991)
  • Dymoszyn (first mentioned) → Kamionka Strumiłowa (15th century) → Kamenka-Bugskaya/Kamianka-Buzka (1944) → Kamianka-Buzka (1991)
  • Lviv → Lwów (1356) → (Lemberg) (1772) → Lvov/Lviv (1939) → Lemberg (1941) → Lvov/Lviv (1944) → Lviv (1991)[1]
  • Żółkiew (founded) → Zhovkva (1939) → Nesterov (1951) → Zhovkva (1992)

Volyn Oblast
  • Lutsk → Luchesk (1427) → Łuck (1569) → Lutsk (1795) → Mikhailogorod (1850) → Luck (1915) → Łuck (1919) → Lutsk (1939)
  • Volodymer (founded) → Vladimir-Volynskiy (1795) → Volodymyr-Volynskyi (1991)

Khmelnytsky Oblast

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast

Ternopil Oblast

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)

Kyiv Oblast
  • Pereiaslav → Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi (1943) → Pereiaslav (2019)

Zakarpattia Oblast
  • Ungvár (1248) → Užhorod (1919) → Ungvár (1938) → Uzhhorod (1944)
  • Munkács → Mukačevo (1919) → Munkács (1938) → Mukacheve (1945) → Mukachevo (2017)

See also

Notes
  1. The city of Lviv was never officially renamed but as during its history it belonged to different states, different variations of the city name were used: Polish (Lwów), German (Lemberg), Italian (Leopolis) and Russian (Lvov).

See also
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