Cultural Heritage of Ukraine: On the Issue of Its State Research in the Context of the Consequences of Military Invasion

Author

Chehusova Zoia

a Ph.D. in Art Studies, a research fellow at the Department of Fine, Decorative and Applied Arts of the NAS of Ukraine Maksym Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology, Honoured Figure of the Arts of Ukraine, Taras Shevchenko National Prize laureate, Platon Biletskyi Prize winner

Cultural Heritage of Ukraine: On the Issue of Its State Research in the Context of the Consequences of Military Invasion

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the topical issues of the state of historical and cultural heritage during the full-scale invasion of Russia on the territory of Ukraine in 2022. The problems of new realia and aspects of the research raised in the article consist in the creation of the impartial scientific analysis of the state of significant oblects of the national historical and cultural heritage by the way of study and systematization of the lost or partly ruined immovable monuments – architectural buildings of various purpose in the synthesis with the works of monumental and fine arts as well as the movable monuments – the works of decorative art in the museum collections of Ukraine during the full-scale Russian armed aggression on the territory of Ukraine in 2022. Urgent necessity of the fixation of damaged and ruined artistic monuments is explained by the exigency to raise question on the reparations and their renewal after the victory of our people in Russian-Ukrainian war.

Keywords

cultural and artistic heritage of Ukraine, Russian-Ukrainian war of 2022, ruined and damaged monuments of Ukraine, architecture, monumental, decorative and visual arts, museum collections of decorative art.

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