In Runet, one can find the allegations that the Ukrainians “decommonized” the Mendeleev table, changing the name of the element that was obtained in honor of the Moscow region. We checked the reliability of this story.
January 24, 2025 Telegram channel "Ukraine.ru”(151,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) wrote:“ Meanwhile, Mendeleev was decommunified in Ukraine. The chemical element of Muscovy in it there was “successfully” renamed Ukraine (in some posts Ukrainium. - approx. Ed.). The element received its true and international name due to the fact that it was open and received in Dubna near Moscow. What does Ukraine have to do with this is a rhetorical question. Now, the main thing is that non -lace chemists do not remember the existence of a chemical element of ruthenium, which is completely Name In honor of the Latin name of Russia (Ruthenia). From people whose cranial box is clogged with Bandera Gafini, anything can be expected. ” The post shows a table that supposedly Show Children in Ukrainian schools.
According to the TGSTAT service, in January 2025, at least 350 similar Russian-speaking posts appeared in Telegram, in the amount of more than 2.2 million views. Among them are channel records "NE.SAHAR"(283,000 views),"Uncle Glory"(196 000),"Kirill Fedorov / War History Weapons"(121 000),"The first folk"(98 000),"Z-News | Army 🅉 18+"(71 000),"Open Ukraine | Open Ukraine"(58 000),"Evil rabbit 18+"(56,000) and others. On renaming the element told"Fifth channel" And "Komsomolskaya Truth". Moreover, the newspaper specified: "This is not a joke, not a fake of any" panorama "or a similar source."
However, reports of renaming Muscovy in Ukraine met two years ago. So, according to TGSTAT, in January 2023, about 460 similar posts appeared in Telegram, which in total received approximately 4.2 million views. Among the most popular are channels' publications "Truthfulness"(283,000 views),"Observer"(238,000),"Z-News | Army 🅉 18+"(234,000),"The first folk"(189 000),"Sheikh Tamir"(179 000),"Pozdnyakov 3.0"(164,000),"From the scene"(152 000)," Ostashko! Important "(twice: 107 000 And 141 000), "Horde"(129,000),"Kostyan Cat - Official Channel"(114 000),"What happened?"(109,000),"Uncle Glory"(108 000), TG Team Russia (85,000) and "Anti -Face | Warp"(68 000). Those records were given the same image as in 2025, and it was argued that the new table can already be purchased in stationery stores. There are similar publications in "VKontakte" And "Classmates", As well as in X on English language.
Muscovy (MC) - a chemical element that was the first time Received In 2003, the United Institute of Nuclear Research (Dubna City) in cooperation with the Livermanship National Laboratory (USA), its atomic number - 115. Initially, the systematic name "was originally used for it"Ununpenty"(UnunPentium, UUP), composed of the roots of Latin numerals corresponding to the serial number. In June 2016, the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Chemistry (Jupak) Offered The names of four new chemical elements of the periodic table of Mendeleev, including Muscovius (Moscovium, in honor of the Moscow Region). After five months of consideration, the name was officially Assigned In November 2016.
The proof of the renaming of Muscovy in Ukraine in all the publications given at the beginning of this analysis is the same screenshot of Instagram storosis, which can be seen from the same elements of the interface (the same time, the level of charge, Ukrainian language, etc.). According to the virus image, initially a picture with a new version of the periodic table was published by the user @helenamaystrenko. At the time of writing this text is such profile Inaccessible. Storiz states that the photo is allegedly taken in a certain store of stationery, and the following text is imposed:
“I graduated from the school 20 years ago and I still remember the table of elements. But this is something new. ”
"Verified" studied several Ukrainian trading floors from the issuance of Google by request “Buy a table of chemical elements”, and on all versions of the product where there was a 115th element, it was called either Muscovy or Ununpenty. Moreover, no authoritative publication of Ukraine wrote about its renaming in Ukraine. On the contrary, several Ukrainian factors and media departments in 2023 claimed that this news was Fake.
At the bottom of the picture you can notice an email [Email Protected] - This address belongs to the Kyiv publishing house "Liter LTD" And specified On his site. Visible in the photo and the last four digits (04–16) of the old telephone numbers online store of this company. "Liter LTD" engaged the creation of educational literature for preschool educational institutions, secondary general and vocational education, as well as university students.
According to the agency "Ukrinform", In 2023, the main editoring of the publishing house Elena Borodina stated that the periodic table of chemical elements, captured in the viral screenshot, was not produced, and the image was forged. She also emphasized that then a similar telephone number of the online store was not indicated on their printed materials. “This number is only on the official website. They simply took the data from the site and entered it, ”said Borodina.
Post with a refutation on January 24, 2023 I went out And on the page "Liter LTD" on Facebook:
“We received such a letter on the electronic box of the publisher:
"Good afternoon! My name is Victor. Today I noticed a photo in some publics, which states that one of your textbooks or notebooks, where there is a periodic table of chemical elements, the name of one of the elements (it can be seen in the photo) changed. Can you confirm this information? Thank you in advance for the answer."
Thanks for the question! Suddenly ))))
Indeed, a fake accelerates with the alleged photograph of our chemistry manual, where the element of the Muscovy is replaced by an element of Ukraine.
Dear our buyers, firstly, our publishing house did not give a periodic table of chemical elements on the covers of our products (see photos of one of our publications, others are made in this way). Secondly, please check the sources. Our manager of the online store in one request at Google found where they grow from ... horns. Twitter is teeming with this stuffing - made in Photoshop a "picture". Do not let the hostile IPSO (information and psychological operation.-Approx. Ed.) Manipulate your thoughts and beliefs.
P. S. The element under this number in our table (black and white in the blocks of publications, visible in our photo) has a completely different name. And if he had this, as in tables printed in the editions of the enemy, then, of course, we would not have against his renaming, if that)) ".
The application contained photos of the cover of the publication in chemistry and a turn with the table. A similar picture was shared by the Ukrinform agency. In these versions of tables, the 115th element was called Ununpenty.
In addition, at the time of writing, the notes of Ukrinform @helenamaystrenko was still available, but the profile is closed as a private one. According to our colleagues from the project Stopfake, the owner of the page did not respond to reporting journalists.
The earliest publication with a viral picture, which “verified” was able to find by keywords, appeared on January 23, 2023 at 16:22 Moscow time in the Telegram channel "Nonal news"(@Komitetz, 21,000 views). There was a note in the record: "From the subscriber Nikolai Fomenko." Previously, this resource twice mentioned In our analysis as a disinformation distributor. After 12 min. A similar post also marked "from subscribers" in the Telegram channel "Shaman Rahu"(3000 views) that was Noticed In the distribution of dozens of fakes. The wave of 2025 started on January 24 from Telegram channels "Miroslava Berdnik"(2700 views),"The voice of Russia"(2000) and"Ukraine.ru"(151 000).
Thus, in Ukraine they did not rename the chemical element of Muscovy in Ukraine. In 2025, a viral screenshot of 2023, which originally appeared in the pro-Kremlin Telegram channels, which had previously spread fakes, was dispersed over the network. “Verified” did not find a store in which a changed table of chemical elements would be sold. In addition, the publishing house, which allegedly released such a table, called a viral photo for a fake.
Photo on the cover: social networks
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