As “Krimska Svitlytsia” reported on January 7, its editorial board four days earlier had approached the Ministry of Development of Communities, Territories and Infrastructure of Ukraine with a proposal to rename the city of Shcholkine, proposing three options: “Heraclius”, “Kemske” and “Sonyachne”. Regarding “Kemskye”, we already wrote that this idea was simultaneously promoted to the ministry by former Ukrainian official Sergei Mokrenyuk, and it was proposed to rename the town in honor of the Hero of the Heavenly Hundred Sergei Kemsky from Kerch.
Explaining the fact that there is no information in open sources about the connection of Sergei Kemsky specifically with the city of Shcholkine (Kazan-Tip), social networks put forward a version of the justification that, according to the new administrative department, Kazan-Tip is the “center of the Kerch disctict”, which is still not so. “Sonyachne” is proposed in honor of the “SES-5” tower-type solar power plant created near Shcholkine in 1985, which existed until 1995 and was dismantled, including due to structural defects. Now on the map of the Crimea you can find at least two villages of Sonyachne, near Feodosia and near Simferopol.
The “Heraclius” option is offered in honor of the ancient Greek settlement mentioned by Strabo and Ptolemy; however, the exact location of ancient Heraclius is unknown, and it can be correlated with the ancient settlement discovered on Cape Kazantip in 1953, but only according to one of the versions. It follows from the initiative that the variant of the name “Kazan-Tip”, which, as “Krimska Svitlytsia” writes, “translated from the Turkic language means “bottom of the cauldron” and has the geographical name of the cape”, does not suit the initiators for some reason.
