Russia began an invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War that began in 2014. It is the largest military attack in Europe since World War II.[1][2][3] During the fighting many pieces of Ukrainian cultural heritage were either destroyed, damaged or put at risk due to the widespread destruction across the country.[4]
Legal protections
Cultural property enjoys special protection under international humanitarian law.[5] Protocol I of the Geneva Convention and the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (both binding on Ukraine and Russia) prohibit states parties to use historic monuments in support of the military effort and to make them object of acts of hostility or reprisals.[5] The Second Protocol to the Hague Convention allows attacks on cultural property only in case of "imperative military necessity" when there is no feasible alternative. Attacks against cultural heritage amount to war crimes and can be prosecuted before the International Criminal Court.[6]
Notable sites
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There are seven United Nation Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) world heritage sites in Ukraine, which include the St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, and an entire quarter of Lviv.[7] Additional sites in Kharkiv, Mykolaiv and Chernihiv, were being considered for nomination to the world heritage status but were not added prior to the invasion.[8]
In late April 2022, it was reported that Ukraine had registered the shipwreck of the Russian cruiser Moskva as an "underwater cultural heritage" site.[9]
Conservation efforts
Domestic
The director of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in Kyiv, Fedir Androshchuk, worked with two colleagues to conserve and safe guard the museum from attack and potential looting. Androschuck also reported that four other museums in Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Sumy and Chernihiv had managed to remove, store and protect their main exhibitions with the museum in Vinnytsia used as a displaced persons housing.[7] An artist collective; Asortymentna kimnata (Assorted Room) that is based from the Ivano-Frankivsk Contemporary Art Center, created several bunkers and worked with galleries in Kyiv, Mariupol, Odesa, Zaporizhzhya and elsewhere to evacuate and preserve pieces from the galleries.[10]
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Many monuments and memorials are protected with bags of sand or wrapped in various materials. In Kyiv, approximately 28 objects were protected in this way as of mid-April.[11] Residents in Lviv attempted to help preserve several stone statues and fountains that could not be dismantled, by wrapping them in plastic, foam and other materials. Additional efforts were photographed and posted by the Lviv Foundation for the Preservation of Architectural and Historical Monuments of wooden frames and boards being used to protect monuments and church stained glass windows.[12][11]
On 28 March an NFT museum launched by the Ministry of Digital Transformation to help preserve the statehood and history of Ukraine, with all proceeds to go to the ministry. The site, Ukrainian MetaHistory NFT-Museum, would include a "warline" or timeline of events with a corresponding NFT, which would include a tweet regarding a significant moment in the war and an illustration by a Ukrainian artist. By 1 April, about $600,000 had been raised through the sale of the NFTs, with the funds slated to help rebuild museums, theaters and others cultural institutions that had been destroyed or damaged.[13][14]
International
Shortly after the invasion, UNESCO announced that they were working to mark any possible key historic monuments and sites across the country with the emblem of the 1954 Hague Convention, the internationally recognized symbol for the protection of cultural heritage in an armed conflict. The organization would also work with the country's museum directors to coordinate conservation efforts to protect collections and monitor any damage to cultural sites through satellite imaging.[15]
Cultural institutions in Poland offered aid, through the Committee for Aid to Museums of Ukraine which was created shortly after the invasion. The Committee offered support to all museums and cultural institutions in Ukraine to support and secure their collections as well as documentation, digitalization and inventory of collections.[10] The aid from other institutions continued throughout the war. In May 2022 the Czech Ministry of Culture commissioned the National Museum of Prague to send packing materials such as bubble wrap and polyethylene foam along with safety equipment such as fire extinguishers and oriented strand boards to block windows.[16]
Exhibitions
The Ukrainian Cultural Center in East Hollywood, Los Angeles, California hosted an arts fundraiser which highlighted works by Ukrainian artists in LA in an art exhibit and silent auction as well as a concert, which included the work of late Myroslav Skoryk. Organizers stated that all proceeds will be donated towards humanitarian aid in Ukraine, and hope that the cultural heritage and language would be passed on to another generation.[17] Others, both refugees and transplants, have embraced traditions and traditional clothing during holidays, outside of Ukraine to show support and resilience against the invasion.[18]
During a Milan furniture fair in June 2022, Ukrainian designers Victoria Yakusha and Kateryna Sokolova, highlighted the cultural heritage and symbolisms of Ukraine with their pieces. Sokolova stated her pieces were created in an effort to avoid "Ukrainian design being wiped off the world map" while Yakusha claims her mission is to "show the world the creativity and beauty of Ukrainian culture and thus assert the identity."[19]
Damage
On 1 April, UNESCO reported full or partial damage of at least 53 objects: 29 religious sites, 16 historical buildings, four museums and four monuments. The list was said to be incomplete, because some data awaited verification.[20][21] The same day, Ukrainian Cultural Foundation preliminarily reported more than 150 damaged objects.[22] On 9 May, UNESCO had verified damage to 127 sites: 54 religious buildings, 11 museums, 26 historical buildings, 14 buildings dedicated to cultural activities, 15 monuments and seven libraries.[23]
On 25 February 2022,[24] Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum about fifty miles from the capital burnt to the ground after Russian bombardment.[25] The museum contained folk artwork, including paintings by Maria Prymachenko and textile works by Hanna Veres. Some paintings and other items were saved from the burning building by locals.[24] The number of artworks by Prymachenko, Veres, and other artists that were destroyed or damaged is currently unknown.[26]
The Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center, which was under construction, was damaged on 1 March 2022. A museum building at the center suffered structural damage and there was damage to the adjacent cemetery. Other elements of the site, including the memorial's synagogue and menorah sculpture, were not damaged.[27][28] The Kyiv Small Opera building suffered damage on 15 March.[29]
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The Dormition Cathedral in Kharkiv was damaged during the Battle of Kharkiv. Artwork and stained glass in the cathedral were damaged by a cruise missile that also damaged the Kharkiv city center.[30] The Slovo Building in Kharkiv was also damaged.[30] A memorial in Drobytsky Yar on the outskirts of Kharkiv dedicated to Holocaust victims was damaged by Russian military actions.[31] on 7 March, the Kharkiv Art Museum received damage to its exterior, and while the exhibitions were not damaged, they continued to face danger from street and air attacks.[32] Many modern-era buildings received damage, including the Kharkiv Regional Administration building, Kharkiv City Council, the Opera & Ballet Theatre and the Faculty of Economics building of Kharkiv University.
In March 2022, three wooden churches built in the 19th century were destroyed by Russian shelling: St. George's Church in Zavorichi, the Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos in Viazivka and the Church of the Ascension in Lukianivka.[33][34][35][36] All these churches belonged to the Moscow Patriarchate.[37][38] The Sviatohirsk Cave Monastery was damaged by an airstrike on 12 March 2022, which also wounded several of the roughly 520 refugees seeking shelter in the monastery.[39]
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The Donetsk Regional Drama Theatre, built in 1960, was largely destroyed by Russian airstrikes on 16 March 2022.[41] On 23 March 2022 it was announced that the Kuindzhi Art Museum, which was dedicated to artist Arkhip Kuindzhi and held other Ukrainian artists works was reportedly destroyed, although some of the works had been removed beforehand.[42]
In the city of Chernihiv, which had been under siege since 24 February, the Vasil Tarnovski House of the Museum of Ukrainian Antiquities was almost completely destroyed on 11 March.[43] The Gothic Revival-styled Chernihiv Regional Youth Library was damaged to an extent. 6 March saw the shelling of the Chernihiv Regional Art Museum, the same day that the Chernihiv Literary Museum-Reserve was damaged. Damage was also reported to the Shchors Cinema, Ukraina Hotel, and a museum branch dedicated to the military, though its contents had been previously sealed in a vault.[44] The Korolenko Chernihiv Regional Universal Scientific Library was bombed on 30 March, resulting in damage to its library.[45]
At the end of March 2022, it was announced that Club 8-bit, one of Ukraine's largest privately-owned computer museums, which held over 500 pieces of computer history that dated back into the 1950s, had been destroyed by the siege of Mariupol.[46]
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The mayor of Trostianets announced in April 2022, that the Koenig Manor; a 18th century neoclassical palace complex, which includes a local history museum, a chocolate museum, an art gallery, a gallery on Russian composer Pytor Tchaikovsky and gardens, was damaged during its occupation by Russian forces since February 2022 and shelling.[47] That same month Ukrainian authorities intentionally dismantled a 27-ft bronze statue that depicted two workers, Ukrainian and Russia, holding together a Soviet order of friendship and situated under the large Peoples Friendship arch. The structures had been installed in 1982, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Soviet Union, but Ukraine had been discussing the removal of the statue since 2016.[48]
On 4 May Ukrainian cultural inspectors announced that Russian troops had destroyed Kurgans, ancient burial sites that are over 2,000 years old. The mounds are up to 15 metres high and are reportedly being used as elevated positions for artillery fire.[49]
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On 6 May 2022, the Memorial museum of Gregory Skovoroda in Skovorodynivka, Kharkiv Oblast, was targeted with a Russian missile and burned down.[50] The most valuable items were evacuated beforehand.[51]
On 8 May, a historic Jewish cemetery in Hlukhiv was damaged by Russian shelling.[52][53][54] Some graves were destroyed by fallen trees, and the cemetery was littered with pieces of neighboring houses' roofs.[55]
Looting concerns
In April 2022, the Mariupol city council announced that over two thousand exhibits had been looted from Mariupol museums, including original works by Arkhip Kuindzhi and Ivan Aivazovsky. Most exhibits from the Museum of Local Lore and Kuindzhi Art Museum had been removed by Russian occupation forces.[56] However, the director of the Mariupol Local History museum; Natalia Kapustnikova, told a pro-Kremlin news outlet, Izvestiya, that she had handed over the works of Aivazovsky and Kuindzhi to Russian forces, "following the end of the hostilities".[57]
In May 2022, Ukrainian officials claimed that Russian forces looted the "largest and most expensive" collections of Scythian artefacts in Ukraine from Melitopol.[49]
Online cultural heritage
Volunteers internationally are working to archive Ukrainian cultural heritage digital content that is at risk of destruction due to the Russian invasion of 2022.[58] The Internet Archive is supporting various preservation efforts, including the initiative Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO), started on 1 March 2022.[59]
SUCHO began after three academics from Stanford University, Tufts University and the Austrian Center for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage connected on Twitter in late February 2022. The group moved to expand the use of the Internet Archives Wayback Machine which only documents the homepage, and utilized grants from the Association for Computers and the Humanities and European Association for Digital Humanities as well as Amazon and DigitalOcean. In the first two weeks of the initiative, more than 1,500 websites, digital exhibits, open access publications and other online resources from Ukrainian cultural organizations had digital archives made, which accounted for about three terabytes of data.[60]
The project Backup Ukraine was announced in May 2022, and is working in partnership with VICE Media Group's Virtue, the Blue Shield Denmark and the Danish UNESCO National Commission. The project asks volunteers to use an app to scan objects in Ukraine, which are then turned into a 3D model and uploaded into a cloud data base to be backed up. Scans already uploaded to the project include every day items such as bedrooms and pets along with works of art.[61]
Effect of damage to sites
Some academics such as a lexicographer and lecturer of Ukrainian language at Columbia University have raised concerns that due to the continued destruction of Ukrainian culture by Russian forces the destruction is targeted in an attempt to destroy Ukraine even if Ukraine wins the war. These concerns were echoed by the director of UNESCO World Heritage Center, who stated, that Ukraine was not only losing part of its cultural heritage but its identity and part of its history would disappear if the war was not ended.[62] Additional concerns were raised by a US Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights who warned that the questioning and denial of the Ukrainian identity and history through the war, comments made by Russian authority figures and the destruction of Ukrainian cultural heritage, would have lasting effects.[63]
The Chair of Blue Shield Denmark issued a press release highlighting the concern of a countries cultural heritage being destroyed as the fastest way to undermine the national identity. They continued that from what has been learned after WWII and other conflicts that saving a countries cultural heritage is the best pathway to reconstruction of society after a conflict.[61]
Response
Ukrainian scholars have raised concerns about an "unfolding cultural catastrophe", which has been echoed by the President and CEO of the J Paul Getty Trust, James Cuno. Cunos statement condemned the cultural atrocities being committed in Ukraine, along with the human and environmental losses, and said that protecting and preserving cultural heritage is a core value.[7] The Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative worked with Ukrainian contacts that have been trained in conservation of cultural heritage to provide support.[8]
The Simon Wiesenthal Center called on UNESCO on 7 March 2022 to take immediate steps to protect all religious and cultural sites in Ukraine following reports of Russia bombing the Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center. The Wiesenthal center also called on the banning of Russia from hosting the World Heritage Conference, which was initially scheduled for 19-30 of June, due to the Russian invasion, as the conference was to take place in Kazan, a city in the Republic of Tatarstan which is a federal subject of Russia.[64]
On March 9, the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine announced the collection of information on the destruction of cultural heritage objects of Ukraine.[65] At the same time, the Ministry urged not to disseminate information about ways to protect cultural property or the location or movement of museum collections during the war. On April 5, the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation launched an interactive map called the "Map of Cultural Losses", showcasing destroyed or damaged heritage sites across the nation since the invasion.[66]
After reports of looting of Scythian artifacts by Russian troops, the Greek Culture Minister Lina Mendoni called the looting heinous and barbaric, and highlighted the past actions of Russia looting after World War II, when Priams Treasure from the Schliemann excavation was taken to Russia. Mendoni, reiterated her call for the creation of a Red List to prevent the illegal trade of looted artifacts and the creation of a platform to collect information of the looted cultural goods.[67]
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Further reading
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