Aggressors may carry out the deliberate replacement of the historical geographic names, street names, city names, and region names of the Indigenous people with toponyms tied to the culture, ideology, and history of the metropole. Erasing the original names allows the colonizer to visually and mentally integrate the seized lands into its state space, and to deprive the colonized society of the physical markers of its national identity and historical memory.
| ID | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| C0103 | 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. |
| S0008 | Government |
Erasure of the historical names of the southern Cossack territories, which had been used as a staging ground for the annexation of Crimea, and their renaming by Catherine II into the colonial construct "Novorossiya"[1]. |
| C0035 | Military Annexation of the Crimean Khanate (1783) |
Erasure of the historical names of the southern Cossack territories, which had been used as a staging ground for the annexation of Crimea, and their renaming by Catherine II into the colonial construct "Novorossiya"[1]. |
| S0012 | Occupation and Controlled Administrations |
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. |
| G0009 | Russian Empire |
Erasure of the historical names of the southern Cossack territories, which had been used as a staging ground for the annexation of Crimea, and their renaming by Catherine II into the colonial construct "Novorossiya"[1]. |
| G0011 | Russian Federation |
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. |