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The controversial Bronze Soldier of Tallinn monument, vandalized in protest of the Russian invasion on Ukraine, 12 April 2022.. During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, that had commenced in February 2022, a number of Soviet-era monuments and memorials were demolished or removed, or commitments to remove them were announced in former Eastern Bloc Soviet satellite states, as well as several ...
The list of damaged cultural sites during the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a list of cultural sites in Ukraine that have been verified by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as damaged and/or destroyed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine (that started on 24 February 2022).
Cultural property enjoys special protection under international humanitarian law. [7] 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 from using historic monuments to support their military effort or making them the objects of acts of hostility or ...
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 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 ...
The State Register of Immovable (Tangible) Monuments of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Державний реєстр нерухомих пам'яток України) is a register of around 25,000 objects of cultural heritage in Ukraine. An object of cultural heritage added to the register is known as a monument.
Ukraine had 5,500 Lenin monuments in 1991, declining to 1,300 by December 2015. [58] More than 700 Lenin monuments were removed and/or destroyed from February 2014 (when 376 came down) to December 2015. [58] On 16 January 2017 the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance announced that 1,320 Lenin monuments were dismantled during ...
In April 2015, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine voted in favor of the draft law "On the condemnation of the communist and national socialist (Nazi) totalitarian regimes in Ukraine and the prohibition of propaganda of their symbols", which, in particular, will oblige local authorities to dismantle monuments to communist figures on the territory of ...