In the Nemyshlyansky district of Kharkov, busts of Soviet-era figures were dismantled. In particular, the bust of Soviet writer Nikolai Ostrovsky, Komsomol member Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, military leader Pyotr Koshevoy and Red Army soldier Alexander Matrosov was dismantled.

Other Soviet objects were removed in the city. On the facade of the Kharkovsky City Clinical Hospital named after. prof. Shalimov, the hammer and sickle was closed.