New victory of Ukraine: Verkhovna Rada renamed the airport of Simferopol
The decision was made by a majority of votes: voted “for” 240 people's deputies with the necessary minimum of 226 votes.
"Renaming the airport, we will perpetuate the hero, leaving it to future generations," said Andrei Teteruk, presenting the draft document to the people's representatives.
The airport director Yevgeny Plaksin told journalists that there would be no official comment on this absurd decision. “And what's the point of responding? We are on the territory of the Russian Federation and these issues are governed by the regulations of our country, ”he said.
The director emphasized that in order to rename geographical objects, and airports are just such objects, it is necessary to observe a special order. "We have a name - Joint-Stock Company" International Airport Simferopol ", it is listed in all the necessary directories, the appropriate codes are assigned according to the classification of the airspace of the Russian Federation," explained Plaksin.
“In addition, the name of the Soviet pilot Amet-Khan Sultan already carries the airport in Dagestan,” he added. “And the assignment of the same name can have negative consequences.”
Meanwhile, the authorities of the Crimea reacted to the trick Rada with humor, and suggested that she begin renaming around the world.
“We invite them (the people's deputies of Ukraine) to follow further in the policy of insanity and stupidity and rename the cities of Central Africa, South America. For example, no one bothers them to rename the central airport of the United States of America named after John F. Kennedy to the airport named after Stepan Bandera ", - quotes Newspaper.ru Crimean Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Polonsky.
Ahmet Khan Sultan is known as a military pilot of the times of the Great Patriotic War, a test pilot, twice Hero of the Soviet Union.
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