List of renamed cities in Ukraine

This article is about cities renamed in Ukraine since 1986. For cities renamed in 2016 as part of decommunization, see List of Ukrainian toponyms that were changed as part of decommunization in 2016. For cities renamed as part of derussification, see List of Ukrainian toponyms that were changed as part of derussification.

Numerous cities in Ukraine underwent name changes since 1 January 1986, based on the database of the Verkhovna Rada.

Autonomous Republic of Crimea

• Albat → Kuibysheve (1945) → Albat (2023)
• Aluston → Lusta → Aluşta → Alushta (1784)
• Ermeni Bazar → Armianskyi Bazar (1736) → Armiansk (1921)
• Komsomolskoye/Komsomolske → Baqaçıq Qıyat/Bakachyk-Kyiat (2023)
• Karasubazar → Bilohirsk (1944)
• Büyük Onlar → Oktiabrske (1945) → Büyük Onlar/Biuk-Onlar (2023)
• Aqmeçit → Chornomorske (1944)
• Dolossı → Sovietske → Dolossı/Dolossy (2023)
• Canköy → Dzhankoi (1784)
• Theodosia → Ardabda → Kafas → Caffa → Kefe (1475) → Feodosia (1784)
• Sarabuz → Hvardiiske (1944)
• İçki → Sovietskyi (1944) → İçki/Ichki (2023)
• Inkerman → Belokamensk (1976) → Inkerman (1991)
• İslâm Terek → Kirovske (1944) → İslâm Terek/Isliam Terek (2023)
• Kaygador → Provalnoe → Dvoiakornoie → Bubnovka → Ordzhonikidze (1937) → Kaygador/Kaihador (2023)
• Panticapaeum → Bosporus → Korchev → Vosporo/Cerchio → Kerch
• Qızıltaş → Krasnokamianka (1945)
• Aşağı Otuz → Prymorie (1945) → Kurortne (1978)
• Seyitler → Nyzhniohirskyi (1944)
• Yañı Küçükköy → Parkove
• Or Qapı → Perekop (1736)
• Curçı → Pervomaiske (1944)
• Aşağı Kikineiz → Ponyzivka
• Bazarçıq → Poshtove (1945)
• Hafuz → Yuzhnaia Tochka (1938) → Prymorskyi (1952)
• Kurman-Kumelĉi → Krasnohvardiiske (1944) → Qurman/Kurman (2023)
• Aqşeyh → Rozdolne (1944)
• Saq → Saky (1784)
• Otuz → Shchebetovka (1944)
• Aqmescit → Simferopol (1784)
• Eski Qırım → Staryi Krym (1783)
• Sudaq → Sudak (1784)
• Bromzavod → Krasno-Perekopsk (1936) → Krasnoperekopsk (1964) → Yañı Qapı/Yany Kapu (2023)
• Yedi Quyu → Sem Kolodezey (1784) → Lenine (1957) → Yedi Quyu/Yedy Kuiu (2023)
• Kerkinitis → Kezlev (7th century) → Gözleve → Yevpatoria (1784)

Chernihiv Oblast

• Snovsk → Shchors (1935) → Snovsk (2016)

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

• Yekaterinoslav → Novorossiysk (1797) → Yekaterinoslav (1802) → Dnipropetrovsk/Dnepropetrovsk (1926) → Dnipro (2016)
• Kamianske → Dniprodzerzhynsk (1936) → Kamianske (2016)
• Mykytyne → Slovyanske (1775) → Nikopol (1781)
• Samar → Novomoskovsk (1782) → Samar (2024)
• Shakhtarske → Pershotravensk (1960)
• Ordzhonikidze → Pokrov (2016)

Donetsk Oblast

• Donetsko-Amvrosiyevka → Amvrosiivka (1938)
• Avdeyevka I & Avdeyevka II → Avdiivka (1956)
• Bakhmut → Artemivsk (1924) → Bakhmut (2016)
• Belozyorka → Bilozerske (1966)
• Ostheim → Telmanovo/Telmanove (1935) → Boikivske (2016)
• Bunge → Yunykh Komunarov (1924) → Yunokomunarovskoye (1965) → Yunokomunarivsk (1965) → Bunhe (2016)
• Alekseyevka → Alekseyevo-Leonovo (1857) → Chystyakove (1932) → Torez (1964) → Chystiakove (2016)
• Paraskoviivka & Erastovsky rudnik & Svyatogorovsky (Krasnoarmeysky, 1920) rudnik → Dobropillia (1935)
• Yelenovskiye Karyery → Dokuchaievsk (1954)
• Yuzovka → Stalin (1924) → Stalino (1931) → Donetsk (1961)
• Sotsgorodok → Hirnyk (1958)
• Karakybbud → Komsomolske (1949) → Kalmiuske (2016)
• Nova Khrestovka → Kirovske (1958) → Khrestivka (2016)
• Kramatorskaya → Kramatorsk (1932)
• 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)
• Grodovsky rudnik → Novy Donbass (1934) → Novoekonomichne (1957) → Dymytrov (1965) → Myrnohrad (2016)
• Gladky → Staronikolskoye (1855) → Nikolske → Volodarske (1924) → Nikolske (2016)
• Novonikolayevskaya → Budyonnovskaya (1923) → Budyonivsky (1938) → Novoazovsky (1959) → Novoazovsk (1966)
• Grodovka → Novohrodivka (1958)
• Grishyno → Postysheve (1934) → Krasnoarmiiske (1938) → Krasnoarmiisk (1938) → Pokrovsk (2016)
• Selidovka/Selydivka → 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)
• Lesovka → Ukrainsk (1963)
• Bolshoy Yanisol → Velyka Novosilka (1946)
• Khatsapetovka → Vuhlehirsk (1958)
• Yenakiyevo → Rykovo (1928) → Ordzhonikidze (1937) → Yenakiieve (1943)
• Nelepovsky → Artyoma (1921) → Artemove (1938) → Zalizne (2016)
• Novo-Zhdanovka → Zhdanov rudnik (1966) → Zhdanivka (1966)

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast

• Stanisławów (founded) → Stanislaviv (1939) → Ivano-Frankivsk (1962)
• Yaremcha → Yaremche (2006)

Kharkiv Oblast

• Konstantingrad → Krasnohrad (1922) →Berestyn (2024)
• Lykhachove → Pervomaiskyi (1952) → Zlatopil (2024)
• Zmiiv → Zmeyev (1656) → Hotvald (1976) → Zmiiv (1990)

Kherson Oblast

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

Khmelnytskyi Oblast

• Liakhivtsi → Bilohiria (1949)
• Proskuriv → Khmelnytskyi (1954)

Kirovohrad Oblast

• Hrushkivskyi Vysilok → Blahovishchenske (1921) → Ulianovka (1924) → Blahovishchenske (2016)
• Yelizavetgrad (1784) → Zinovyevsk (1924) → Kirovo (1934) → Kirovohrad (1939) → Kropyvnytskyi (2016)

Kyiv Oblast

• Chernobyl → Chornobyl
• Pereiaslav-Ruskyi → Pereiaslav → Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi (1943) → Pereiaslav (2019)

Luhansk Oblast

• Yuryevka → Alchevsk (1903) → Voroshylovsk (1931) → Voroshylovsk/Alchevsk (1957) → Komunarsk (1961) → Alchevsk (1991)
• Izium → Almaznaya (1878) → Almazna (1977)
• Bokovo-Antratsyt → Antratsyt (1962)
• Vakhrushevo → Vakhrusheve → Bokovo-Khrustalne (2016)
• Dovzhykove-Orlovske/Sharapkyne → Sverdlovsk (1938) → Dovzhansk (2016)
• Gorskoye → Hirske (1938)
• Golubovka/Holubivka → Kirovsk (1944) → Holubivka (2016)
• Petrivka → Irmyne (1900) → Teplogorsk/Teplohirsk (1977) → Irmino (2010)
• Kadiyevka → Sergo (1937) → Kadiivka (1940) → Stakhanov (1978) → Kadiivka (2016)
• Kryndachiovka → Krasnyi Luch (1920) → Khrustalnyi (2016)
• Krynychansk mining town → Krasnogvardeyskiy/Krasnohvardiiskyi (1953) → Chervonogvradeyskoye/Chervonohvardiiske (1962) → Krynychanske (2016)
• Kundriuche → Kalininskyi (1957) → Kundriuche (2016)
• Yekaterinovka → Artem (1923) → Artemivsk (1938) → Kypuche (2016)
• Lugansk → Voroshylovhrad (1935) → Luhansk (1958) → Voroshylovhrad (1970) → Luhansk (1990)
• Aleksandrovka → Petro-Maryevka (1865) → Pervomaisk (1920)
• Petrovo-Krasnosillia → Petrovskoye/Petrovske (1959) → Petrovo-Krasnosillia (2016)
• Sorokino → Krasnodon (1938) → Sorokyne (2016)
• Voznesenskyi & Mykolaivka & Vasylivka & Krasna Mohyla & Chervonyi Partyzan → Chervonopartyzanskyi (1956) → Chervonopartyzansk (1960) → Voznesenivka (2016)

Lviv Oblast

• Krystynopol (founded) → Chervonograd/Chervonohrad (1951) → Chervonohrad (1991) → Sheptytskyi (2024)
• Dymoszyn (first mentioned) → Kamionka Strumiłowa (15th century) → Kamenka-Bugskaya/Kamianka-Buzka (1944) → Kamianka-Buzka (1991)
• Komarno → Komarne → Komarno (1992)
• Lviv → Lwów (1356) → (Lemberg) (1772) → Lwów (1918) → Lvov (1939) → Lemberg (1941) → Lvov (1944) → Lviv (1991)
• Yantarne → Novoiarovivske (1969) → Novoiavorivsk (2008)
• Novyi Rozdol → Novyi Rozdil (1992)
• Żółkiew (founded) → Zhovkva (1939) → Nesterov (1951) → Zhovkva (1992)

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) → Pivdennoukrainsk (2024)

Odesa Oblast

• Ophiussa → Tyras → Turis → Moncastro → Cetatea Albă (1391) → Akkerman (1503) → Cetatea Albă (1918) → Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi (1944)
• Buh Khutirs → Illichivsk (1952) → Chornomorsk (2016)
• Hacibey → Odesa (rebuilt 1794)
• Birzula → Kotovsk (1935) → Podilsk (2016)
• Zakharivka → Frunzivka (1927) → Zakharivka (2016)

Poltava Oblast

• Komsomolsk-na-Dnipri (or simply Komsomolsk) → Horishni Plavni (2016)
• Stalinka → Chervonozavodske (1961) → Zavodkse (2016)

Rivne Oblast

• Radzylivy → Chervonoarmiysk (1939/40) → Radyvyliv (1992)
• Równo → Rovno → Rivne (1991)
• Hvarash → Varazh (or Varash, Variazh, Hvariazh) → Kuznetsovsk (1977) → Varash (2016)

Sevastopol

• Aqyar → Sevastopol (1826; also: Sebastopol)

Sumy Oblast

• Khutir-Mykhailivskyi → Druzhba (1962) → Khutir-Mykhailivskyi (2024)

Ternopil Oblast

• Tarnopol (founded) → Ternopil (1939)

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) → Volodymyr (2021)

Zakarpattia Oblast

• Beregszasz → Beregovo → Berehove
• Munkács → Mukačevo (1919) → Munkács (1938) → Mukacheve (1945) → Mukachevo (2017)
• Ungvár (1248) → Užhorod (1919) → Ungvár (1938) → Uzhhorod (1944)

Zaporizhzhia Oblast

• Kamianka → Tsarekostiantynivka (1845) → Pershotravneve (1926) → Tsarekostiantynivka (1930) → Kuibyshevo/Kuibysheve (1935) → Bilmak (2016) → Kamianka (2021)
• Alexandrovsk → Zaporizhzhia (1921)

Zhytomyr Oblast

• Oleksandropil → Horoshkovychi → Horoshky/Horoszki nad Irszą (1607) → Kutuzove (1912) → Volodarsk (1924) → Volodarsk-Volynskyi (1933) → Khoroshiv (2016)
• Chortolisy → Pulyny → Chervonoarmiisk/Krasnoarmeysk (1935) → Pulyny (2016)
• Zwiahel → Novohrad-Volynskyi (1795) → Zviahel (2022)

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
• List of Ukrainian toponyms that were changed as part of derussification

Source

• "6. Алфавітний покажчик нових і старих найменувань населених пунктів" [6. Alphabetical index of new and old names of settlements (1986—2021)]. Verkhovna Rada website. Archived from the original on 5 June 2021.