Ukrainians vote for Kyiv`s international airport to be renamed after hetman

Voting on renaming Boryspil, Kyiv`s international airport, has ended.
A majority of participants have voted for the airport to be renamed after Ukrainian hetman Ivan Mazepa, the Infrastructure Ministry reported on its website.
The hetman`s name received 12,800 votes, while 9,297 votes went to aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky. The third most-popular name proposed during voting was of Russian painter Kazimir Malevich, which received 9,224 votes.
In May, the Ukrainian parliament proposed four new names for the country`s international airport. Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan announced that the voting would occur on the ministry`s website.

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