Precious archival materials are among the cultural properties which have suffered at the time of the war in Ukraine – the total number of archival materials of the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine recorded on various carriers amounts to 82.7M. The State Archives of the L’viv Region (Oblast) is the largest of the state...
On 9-10 June at the International Cultural Centre in Krakow a conference entitled 50 Years of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention in Europe. Achievements and Challenges. The meeting was attended by experts from Great Britain, Germany, Israel, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Lithuania, Slovakia and Spain. The conference participants shared, among others, their experience in implementing the...
On 8 June, in the framework of the celebrations of the 60 years of service of the National Institute of Cultural Heritage, special topic panels were held on the issues related to protection and preservation of cultural heritage. The situation in war-stricken Ukraine was one of the main discussed subjects. A starting point for the...
According to data from the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, the majority of 370 registered heritage sites destroyed as a result of Russian aggression are religious buildings. Out of these, 49 are registered monuments of history, architecture or urban planning of all-national importance – such as the Eletsky Holy Dormition Monastery (Church...
The recent shelling of the Holy Mountain Lavra of the Dormition of the Mother of God in Svyatoshirsk in the Donetsk region has been one of the most blatant examples of Russian barbarism against Ukrainian culture. This temple compound is one of the most important centres of Orthodox life in Ukraine – a national monument...
The Kyiv authorities in the Donetsk region report that Russian troops have destroyed or damaged 43 religious sites in the area (most of them Orthodox churches subordinate to the Moscow Patriarchate). Among the destroyed temples there are also Roman Catholic churches – mainly parishes of local Poles. One of them is the church of the...
The International Conservators Council held its meeting in Krakow on 8th May 2022. The Council brings together representatives of Polish and Ukrainian (state and diocesan) conservation services, as well as institutions involved in the protection of cultural heritage. During the meeting, challenges related to the protection of world heritage and Polish-Ukrainian UNESCO World Heritage Sites...
The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine has already recorded more than 370 cases of destruction of the country’s cultural heritage by the Russian Federation’s troops. The collected data is posted on https://culturecrimes.mkip.gov.ua/ and comes from 13 regions. Most destruction has been recorded in Kharkiv, Donetsk, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy and Luhansk regions. The...
Information about the activities of the Polish Support Centre for Culture in Ukraine appeared in Chronical of the Cultural Front, prepared by the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.
More than 350 cultural sites have already fallen prey to the ongoing war in Ukraine. Most damage has been registered in Kharkiv and the Kharkiv region (96 objects in the region, plus 79 in the city itself and in its immediate surroundings). Before the war, Kharkiv was the second most populous city in Ukraine (it...
