Today at a session of the Lutsk City Council, on the initiative of the head of the Volyn regional organization of the civic party "Pora," city council deputy Anton Sosnovskyi, and with the support of deputies from the "Lutsk European," "Our Ukraine" factions, an appeal was submitted to Lutsk City Mayor Anton Kryvytskyi regarding renaming Medvedev Street in the city to a street named after Heorhiy Gongadze. The event is dedicated to the fifth anniversary of the disappearance of the well-known journalist, founder and editor of the online publication "Ukrainska Pravda," reported "Lutsk Investytsiinyi" citing the press secretary of the Volyn regional organization of the civic party "Pora," Olena Pianykh.
According to her, Anton Kryvytskyi received this proposal favorably, and it remains to await approval of the draft decision.
The appeal to the mayor of Lutsk in particular states: "In connection with the fifth anniversary of the disappearance of the well-known journalist, founder and editor of the online publication "Ukrainska Pravda" Heorhiy Gongadze, we request permission to rename D. Medvedev Street in Lutsk in honor of journalist Heorhiy Gongadze. After all, Dmytro Medvedev was not simply a Soviet partisan-scout and saboteur, but also the commander of the 4th special-purpose detachment of the NKVD Directorate of the USSR. By order of that same Medvedev, members of the OUN-UPA were massively exterminated. In part they simply became victims of the 'misses' of commander-in-chief Medvedev and his associates. From June 1941 (from the time when, by order of L.P. Beria, he headed the special detachment) until May 1943, the actions of the 'Victors' (as the partisan-scout 4th detachment of the NKVD Directorate of the USSR was called) were carried out with impunity in the territory of the cities of Rivne, Zdolbuniv, Lutsk, Kovel, Sarny, Kostopil and other populated areas.
We request that the request to rename D. Medvedev Street in the regional center to a street named after Heorhiy Gongadze be granted and thereby honor the memory of the fallen Hero of Ukraine, the well-known journalist Heorhiy Gongadze."
Anton Sosnovskyi also noted that at his own expense he would agree to produce new signs for the buildings of the future Heorhiy Gongadze Street.
Let us recall that Heorhiy Gongadze disappeared on September 16, 2000. In November of that same year, his decapitated corpse was found in a forest near Tarashcha in Kyiv Oblast. Gongadze's body has still not been buried. On the occasion of the 14th anniversary of Ukraine's independence, President Viktor Yushchenko conferred the title of Hero of Ukraine (posthumously) upon Heorhiy Gongadze.