List of renamed cities in Ukraine

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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)
• 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

• Bakhmut → Artemivsk (1924) → Bakhmut (2016)
• Nelepovy → Artemove (1921)
• Yuzovka → Stalino (1924) → Donetsk (1961)
• Nova Khrestovka → Kirovske (1958)
• Karakybbud → Komsomolske (1949)
• Grishyno → Postysheve → Krasnoarmiisk (1938)
• Krasnyi Lyman → Lyman (2016)
• Dmitriyevsk → Makiivka (1931)
• Mariupol → Zhdanov (1948) → Mariupol (1989)
• Karlo-Libknekhtovsk → Soledar (1991)
• Bannoe → Banne (1929) → Bannovske (1938) → Slovianohirsk (1964) → Sviatohirsk (2003)
• Tor → Sloviansk (1784)
• Dzerzhynsk → Toretsk (2016)

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

• Kamyanske → Dniprodzerzhynsk (1936)
• Yekaterinoslav → Novorossiysk (1797) → Yekaterinoslav (1802) → Dnipropetrovsk (Dnepropetrovsk; 1926)
• 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

• Lviv → Lwów (1356) → Lemberg (1772) → Lwów (1918) → Lviv (1939)
• 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)

Kherson Oblast

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

See also

• 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