Ukraine’s Lviv region has become the first to remove all Soviet-era monuments, the head of the local government announced Tuesday, as part of Kiev’s broader effort to erase all traces of what it calls Russian rule.

Regional governor Maksim Kozytsky reported via Telegram that last year 312 monuments were removed by activists and residents. “Not a penny was spent from the district budget to topple these ‘idols’,” he assured.

He accompanied the post with a photo of a demolished statue, without giving any details about it.

Ukraine began a “decommunization” campaign after the 2014 uprising that toppled a pro-Russian president and has stepped up the effort in the past nearly two years since the Russian military invaded its territory.

Thousands of streets, places, communities and cities in Ukraine, which gained independence from the former USSR in 1991, have changed names in recent years.

The mayor of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, proposed last week that Pushkin Street, which honors the Russian poet and writer Alexander Pushkin, be renamed after a Ukrainian philosopher.

Last month, authorities in the capital Kyiv removed a statue of a Red Army officer (that of Ukrainian general Mykola Sors) from a central avenue.