[3] In the Ukrainian language, the adjective for something or someone related to a place named Pershe Travnia is pershotravnenskyi (перошотравненський).
[5][6] "Pershe Travnia" has been described as a "typical Soviet oeconym, not so much red as pink, not so much communist as social democratic.
"[7] In 2016, as part of laws enacting decommunization in Ukraine, the settlement of Pershe Travnia in Bakhmut Raion, Donetsk Oblast was renamed to Ozarianivka.
[1] Due to the law "On the Condemnation and Prohibition of Propaganda of Russian Imperial Policy in Ukraine and the Decolonization of Toponymy", signed in April 2023 by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, all remaining localities in Ukraine with the name "Pershe Travnia" or other May Day-related toponyms is set to be renamed by 27 January 2024.
The Ukrainian Institute of National Memory described Pershe Travnia, along with the other toponyms related to May Day, as "a clear example of massive Soviet ideological toponymic nomination aimed at glorifying the proletariat as the hegemon of the class struggle, the driving force of the October Revolution of 1917 and the future 'world revolution.