The news was broken in an online post by a council official, who said the new name represented “new heroes”.

Lesia Vasylenko, a Ukrainian MP, wrote after the announcement: “Derussification is spreading fast across Ukraine. All Moscow and Pushkin streets are getting new names. A town in the Odesa region will soon get a Boris Johnson street, for example. All I can say is support Ukraine.”

Vladimir Mayakovsky, after whom the street was named until now, was a Russian poet and playwright at the forefront of the “Russian futurist” movement.

Despite initially failing to impress Lenin, the experimental poet emerged as a celebrated “poetic journalist” whose output was seemingly in tune with the ideology of the Soviet regime. But he became increasingly frustrated with the state and increasing cultural censorship before taking his life aged 30.

During Mr Johnson’s visit to meet Mr Zelensky, the Ukrainian defence ministry suggested more western countries should follow his lead in offering more defensive and non-lethal aid.

Celebrating the “show of solidarity” between the nations, it said: “We are strengthening our union of democracies. Be brave, like Boris. Be brave, like Ukraine.”