The Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk will get a new green area called Lubelski Square. On 20 September 2023 members of the Committee for the Change of Names of Geographical Features at the City Council voted for the establishment of a new square. The originator of the initiative is a local social activist, Mr Artem Riasa, who suggested that the green area at the end of Molodizhny Square should be called Lubelski Square. Providing reasons why the area should be named after Lublin, the Committee Chairman and City Council Secretary stressed that such gestures fostered cooperation. The decision needs to be approved at the City Council session.
Artem Riasa established his ties with Lublin while studying at the Faculty of International Relations of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, which he graduated from. During his time as a student, he was also the Chairman of Committee for Foreign Students at the Student Self-Government of the Faculty of Political Science and Journalism. After his return to Ukraine, as the Chairman of the Centre for Child Diplomacy he initiated cooperation between cultural institutions based in Kremenchuk and in Lublin. Since the outbreak of the full-scale Russian invasion in Ukraine, Lublin has been providing humanitarian aid to Kremenchuk by donating food, hygienic products, as well as wound-care and orthopaedic products that had been received from our partners from France and Germany. We wrote about this here.
