List of renamed cities in Ukraine

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

  • Aqmescit → Simferopol (1784)
  • Aqyar → Sevastopol (1826; also: Sebastopol)
  • Alexandrovsk → Zaporizhzhya (1921)
  • Bakhmut → Artemivsk (1924)
  • Dmitriyevsk → Makeevka (1931)
  • Armyanskiy Bazar → Armyansk (1921)
  • Hacibey → Odessa (1794)
  • Hotvald (Gotwald) → Zmiiv (1990)
  • Inkerman → Belokamensk (1976) → Inkerman (1991)
  • Karasubazar → Bilohirsk (1944)
  • Karlo-Libknekhtovsk → Soledar (1991)
  • Kerkinitis → Kezlev (7th century) → Eupatoria (1784)
  • Lugansk → Voroshilovgrad (1935) → Lugansk (1958) → Voroshilovgrad (1970) → Luhansk (1990)
  • Mariupol → Zhdanov (1948) → Mariupol (1989)
  • Zhovkva → Nesterov (1951) → Zhovkva (1992)
  • Panticapaeum → Bosporus → Korchev → Vosporo/Cerchio → Kerch
  • Proskuriv → Khmelnytskyi (1954)
  • Stanislaviv → Ivano-Frankivsk (1962)
  • Slovianohirsk → Sviatohirsk (2003)
  • Theodosia → Ardabda → Kafas → Caffa → Kefe (1475) → Feodosiya (1784)
  • Yekaterinoslav → Dnipropetrovsk (Dnepropetrovsk; 1926)
  • Yelizavetgrad (1784) → Zinovyevsk (1924) → Kirovo (1934) → Kirovograd (1939) → Kirovohrad (1991)
  • Yuzovka → Trotsk (1924) → Stalino (1924) → Donetsk (1961)

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