Ukrzaliznytsia has announced the launch of a program for de-Russification and Ukrainianization of railway transport facilities. According to RBC with reference to the chairman of the board of the company Alexander Kamyshin, the first step was the transfer of the starting point: now the Ukrainian zero kilometer will be located not in Moscow, but at the main Kyiv-Passenger railway station.
The Iron Ukrainization program is designed for 2023–2025; a special page on the network has been created to promote it.
“We start from scratch. Previously, we saw mileage marks at the country’s main station, which indicated 856/857 km. Why? Because for about a hundred years we had a calculation of a zero kilometer from Russia. We’re done with this. From now on, the zero kilometer of Ukrainian railways is here, in Kyiv, at the Central Station,” Kamyshin said.
Kamyshin also presented the already established symbolic zero mark on the first platform of the Central Station of the Kiev-Passenger station and said that over the next three years, all kilometer signs on the railway would be replaced with modern reflective ones.
Railway workers will also change the names of roads, such as South and South-West, left over from the times of the Soviet Union. Signal marks, Soviet bas-reliefs, names of stations and half-stations, reminiscent of Russia or the USSR, will be replaced.
Ukrainian railway workers will also refuse to duplicate inscriptions on cars in Russian, which was mandatory under the agreement of the CIS countries, from which Ukraine withdrew.
Source: Rosbalt
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