(24 May 2016) Ukraine's central industrial city of Dnipropetrovsk is being renamed after Ukraine's parliament voted in favour of the move.
Dnipropetrovsk, named in honour of Soviet statesman Grigory Petrovsky, will be renamed Dnipro, after the river the city sits beside.
On Tuesday, workers began removing a large concrete sign at the entrance to the city.
The city's mayor said he believed the majority of the city's population of one million were against the move.
But many welcome the name change, seeing it as a move away from Ukraine's community past.
Petrovsky is blamed by many for the man-made famine that killed millions of Ukrainians in the 1930s.
Ukraine's parliament has approved a package of so-called "decommunisation laws", including the renaming of cities, towns and villages to their pre-Soviet names.
The next big city on the Dnipro river is Dniprodzherdzhynsk, now known as Kamyanske.
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