Varash (Ukrainian: Вараш, IPA: [wɐˈrɑʃ]), previously known as Kuznetsovsk (Кузнецовськ) from 1977 to 2016, is a city in Rivne Oblast, Ukraine.

[2] The status of an urban-type settlement was established in 1973 as a company town of the Rivne Nuclear Power Plant.

The new town was named in honor of the Soviet intelligence agent and partisan Nikolai Kuznetsov.

On 19 May 2016, Verkhovna Rada adopted a decision to rename Kuznetsovsk to Varash and conform to the law prohibiting names of Communist origin.

[citation needed] As Varash is a relatively young city, it has a typical building style from the Soviet period.