The scientist Mikhail Lomonosov and everything associated with his name in Ukraine was declared propaganda of "Russian imperialism", according to materials from the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance.
According to the law, local authorities are obliged to "decommunize" these names and remove them from the public.
Previously, the Institute of National Remembrance of Ukraine created and published a list of Russian cultural and political figures, as well as historical events considered "imperial" and subject to "decommunization" in Ukraine. This list includes Ivan Susanin, Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Gavriil Derzhavin, Ivan Bunin, Yuri Olesha, Yevgeny Petrov, the conqueror of Siberia ataman Ermak Timofeevich, naval officer Pyotr Schmidt, the tsarist ambassador to the Pereyaslavl Rada Vasily Buturlin, as well as the battles of Borodino and Poltava.
The renaming of streets and the removal of monuments to Soviet and Russian figures in Ukraine began in 2015, after the adoption of the so-called decommunization law. Since 2022, this policy has intensified significantly. Monuments are being demolished across the country, streets named after Russian writers, artists, and scientists are being renamed, and references to the contribution of the Soviet people to the victory in World War II are being removed.