On Friday, 18 October, a regular meeting of the commission on de-Russification measures and renaming and assigning names to streets, alleys, parks and squares within the Drohobych city territorial community was held.
The members of the commission processed the results of a survey of community residents on the choice of names for parks and squares and supported the recommendations to name three squares in Stebnyk.
The commission was chaired by the deputy mayor for humanitarian and social relations, with the involvement of members of the city council and active community members.
Also during the meeting, the commission instructed the community’s property management department to develop a land management project to allocate a land plot near Solonyi Pond for a public garden, find out the availability of documents on Shpikhlyr and instruct the architecture and urban planning department to include changes to the recreational use of land under the city’s parks and squares when adjusting the master plan of Drohobych.
Earlier, the commission reviewed the results of the voting on the names for Drohobych’s parks and squares. In the case of Stebnyk, during the electronic consultations, the community residents had the opportunity to choose names for six parks and squares in the city. As a result of the commission’s work, three parks will be given official names.
In particular, the commission recommended naming the park at the corner of Hrushevskoho and Drohobytska streets, with an area of 0.0961 hectares, the Heavenly Hundred Park. This name was supported by 66.9% of residents during the voting.
The 0.33-hectare square on Sheptytskoho-Ivan Franko Street will be named Panskyi. This name was supported by 80.5% of respondents.
And the 0.51-hectare park on Truskavetska Street will be named Salina. This historical name was supported by 86.4% of the community members surveyed.
It was decided to postpone the naming of other parks and squares in Stebnyk for the time being, as the vote on them was not unambiguous and there is currently no clearly defined concept for the further development of these areas.
The commission members also heard information about the park-monument of landscape art – the former Vasyliev Park. Earlier, the commission recommended that it be renamed by its folk name, Ivasyk-Telesyk Park. The decision to rename it is up to the Lviv Regional Council.
They also heard the developments on the reburial of the bodies of NKVD members from the former memorial “Cemetery of Soviet Soldiers” (popularly known as “Eternal Flame”). In accordance with the law, after obtaining permission from the Ministry of Culture, it will be possible to carry out an exhumation procedure and, if the remains are found, rebury them in the cemetery.