Pervomaiske () is a Ukrainian toponym. Places with the name include: * Pervomaiske, Crimea * Pervomaiske, Horlivka Raion, Donetsk Oblast *

Pervomaiske, Pokrovsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast Pervomaiske ( uk, Первомайське) is a village located in the suburbs of Donetsk, in the Pokrovsk Raion of the Donetsk Oblast. The population is 2,208. The governing body is the Pervomaiske Silska Rada. Geography Pervomaiske is geogr ...

Pervomaiske, Mykolaiv Oblast Pervomaiske ( uk, Первомайське, russian: Первомайское) is an urban-type settlement in southern Ukraine, locating in Mykolaiv Raion of Mykolaiv Oblast. It hosts the administration of Pervomaiske settlement hromada, one of ...

Pervomaiske, Odesa Oblast Pervomaiske ( uk, Первомайське; russian: Первомайское) is a village in Rozdilna Raion, Ukraine. It belongs to Zakharivka settlement hromada, one of the hromada A hromada ( uk, територіальна громад ...

The toponym literally means "the first of May", in reference to the

International Workers' Day International Workers' Day, also known as Labour Day in some countries and often referred to as May Day, is a celebration of labourers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movement and occurs every year on 1 May, ...

holiday that takes place on that date. It shares the same etymology with the toponyms ,

Pershotravensk Pershotravensk (, ) is a city and municipality in Synelnykove Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (province) of Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after ...

, and

Pershe Travnia Pershe Travnia () is a Ukrainian toponym. Places that currently or formerly held the name include: * * Pershe Travnia, Pokrovsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast * Pershe Travnia, Kirovohrad Oblast * The former name of Ozarianivka, Donetsk Oblast * The for ...

, among others. Due to the law " On the Condemnation and Prohibition of Propaganda of Russian Imperial Policy in Ukraine and the Decolonization of Toponymy", signed in April 2023 by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, all localities in Ukraine with the name "Pervomaiske" or other May Day-related toponyms are set to be renamed by 27 January 2024. The

Ukrainian Institute of National Memory The Ukrainian Institute of National Memory ( uk, Український Інститут Національної Пам’яті, UINM), also translated as the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, is the central executive body operating un ...

has described toponyms related to May Day as "a clear example of massive Soviet ideological toponymic nomination aimed at glorifying the

proletariat The proletariat (; ) is the social class of wage-earners, those members of a society whose only possession of significant economic value is their labour power (their capacity to work). A member of such a class is a proletarian. Marxist philo ...

as the hegemon of the

class struggle Class conflict, also referred to as class struggle and class warfare, is the political tension and economic antagonism that exists in society because of socio-economic competition among the social classes or between rich and poor. The forms ...

, the driving force of the October Revolution of 1917 and the future ' world revolution.'"

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{{SIA, populated places in Ukraine Soviet toponymy in Ukraine

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