Most participants in online survey support Mazepa name for Boryspil airport

17:49, 18.07.2016 1 min read

The proposal to rename Boryspil airport Mazepa airport has gained more votes in an online poll conducted by the Ministry of Infrastructure.

According to the website of the ministry, 12,768 survey participants supported the initiative of renaming Boryspil airport Ivan Mazepa airport.

Some 9,297 people believe the airport is worthy to be renamed after the creator of a helicopter, Ukrainian and American aircraft designer Ihor Sikorsky, 9,224 supported naming the airport after Ukrainian avant-garde artist of Polish origin Kazimierz Malewicz.

Some 6,385 people voted for naming the airport after aircraft designer Oleh Antonov, 335 were in favor of the name of the Ukrainian ethnographer, author of the words of the anthem of Ukraine Pavlo Chubynsky.

At the same time, 6,057 people believe the airport should not be assigned any name.