Krasnodar mayor wants to rename city

Krasnodar Mayor Vladimir Yevlanov, speaking at the City Council, proposed Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Alexander Tkachyov to rename Krasnodar to Yekaterinodar, the name the city had had in 1793-1920, Interfax reports.

The mayor expressed confidence that the majority of the population would approve the idea. Yevlanov associates renaming of the city with annexation of Crimea.