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Fund of manuscripts, old prints, rare publications, historical collections, Ukrainian archive fund and depository of the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine; Nuclear-physical installations: research nuclear reactor with "hot chambers", isochronous cyclotron "U-240" of the Institute for Nuclear Research Science Center
The monument consists of a figure tied up mother whose eyes are closed and his hands pulling the child and protecting their man whose hands are tied with rope. The inscription on the arch above the monument reads: “In memory of the victims of fascism and nationalism,” whereas beneath is a slab engraved with a dozen names belonging to those ...
The Statue in Lviv was part of increased Ukrainian Nationalism in Western Ukraine that led to recognition of Stepan Bandera as a National hero. [6]Bandera was a Ukrainian nationalist leader born in 1909, imprisoned in Poland in his twenties for terrorism, freed by the Nazis in 1939 following the invasion of Poland, and arrested again by the Gestapo in 1941, spending most of the rest of the war ...
There are numerous monuments to Bandera in western cities of Ukraine. [3] Monuments to Bandera, a Ukrainian leader of a split faction of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists leadership, have been erected in Galicia, Volyn and partially in Western Podillia (administratively Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Rivne and Ternopil region). Over 40 ...
The National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War (Ukrainian: Національний музей історії України у Другій світовій війні) [a] is a memorial complex commemorating the German-Soviet War located in the southern outskirts of the Pechersk district of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, on the picturesque hills on the right-bank of the ...
Menorah-shaped monument to the Jews (about 100,000) massacred at Babi Yar (opened on Sept. 29, 1991, 50 years after the first mass killing of the Jews at Babi Yar). Wooden cross in memory of the 621 Ukrainian nationalists, including Olena Teliha and her husband, murdered by the German Nazis in 1942 (installed in 1992) [6]
Kruty Heroes Memorial (Ukrainian: Меморіал пам'яті героїв Крут, romanized: Memorial pamiati heroiv Krut) is a monument honoring 500 [1] cadets who died defending Kyiv at the Battle of Kruty delaying the advancement of Bolshevik Red Army on January 29, 1918. The memorial is a 10 metre red column situated on a hill and ...
Since 14 May 2022, according to the decision of the Kyiv City Council, the monument is named the Arch of Freedom of the Ukrainian People. [8]The official name from opening date in 1982 until its renaming was Peoples' Friendship Arch, colloquially the monument was referred to as the Rainbow (Ukrainian: Райдуга, romanized: Raiduha) or the Yoke (Ukrainian: Ярмо́, romanized: Yarmo [2 ...