On Friday 13 January 2023 the Kyiv City Council announced Druzhby Narodiv metro station would be renamed.

[1] In a poll organised by them Kyiv residents cast more than 100,000 votes for the renaming of seven city objects, including this station and Ploshcha Lva Tolstoho.

[1] In a May 2022 online poll (with 170,000 respondents) voters chose to rename the station Botanichna[2] (Ukrainian: Ботанічна, lit.

'Botanical') — after the nearby Hryshko National Botanical Garden — in a poll taken during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine; other choices included Yevropeiska (European) and Chervona Kalyna (Red Viburnum).

[4] In the January 2023 poll the majority of votes went to the name Zvirynets (Ukrainian: Звіринець), a historical neighbourhood inside Pecherskyi District where the metro station is situated in.