Erasure and Renaming of Place Names

in the campaign “Full-Scale Invasion (from February 24, 2022)”

Deliberate restoration of old Soviet or imperial names to captured cities and streets (in particular, the renaming of Bakhmut to Artemovsk) in order to erase Ukrainian national memory and visually integrate them into the space of the Russian Federation.

ID: C0103.T0043
Start: February 2022
End: May 2026
Contributors: decolonial.ist project