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).[1][2][3][4][5]
Both Ukraine and Russia have signed the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (the 1954 Hague Convention), which was drafted to safeguard cultural heritage during periods of armed conflicts. UNESCO is primarily responsible for the dissemination and monitoring of compliance.[6]
List
[edit]The list is current as of 29 August 2022 and based on information verified by UNESCO.[7]
This includes 183 sites in total:[7]
- 78 religious sites
- 13 museums
- 35 historic buildings
- 31 buildings dedicated to cultural activities
- 17 monuments
- 9 libraries
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Historic building of the regional youth center, formerly the Shchors Cinema[7] | Будинок Чернігівського обласного молодіжного центру | Historic building | Chernihiv | partially destroyed as a result of an air strike on the building of the Chernihiv City Council (State Bank House) on February 27, 2022 [8] |
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Church of St. Theodosius[7] | Церква святителя Феодосія (Чернігів) | Religious site | Chernihiv | |
Military Historical Museum, a branch of the Chernihiv Historical Museum[7] | Чернігівський військово-історичний музей — відділ Чернігівського обласного історичного музею імені В. В. Тарновського | Museum | Chernihiv | Chernihiv Historical Museum of V.V. Tarnovsky[7][9][10] | ||
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Regional children's library (former Vasyl Tarnovsky Museum of Ukrainian Antiquities)[7][11] | Будинок В. В. Тарновського | Library | Chernihiv | [12][13] |
Catherine's Church, Chernihiv[7] | Катерининська церква (Чернігів) | Religious site | Chernihiv | Damaged in a rocket attack.[14] | ||
Former Chernihiv District Court House (built in 1904)[7] | Historic building? | Chernihiv | ||||
Korolenko Chernihiv Regional Universal Scientific Library (built in 1910–13)[7] | Чернігівська обласна універсальна наукова бібліотека імені В. Г. Короленка | Library | Chernihiv | |||
St. Kazan Church in Chernihiv[7] | Свято-Казанська церква (Чернігів) | Religious site | Chernihiv | |||
Memorial cemetery with a memorial sign to the dead and the chapel of St. Archangel Michael (built in 2014–21)[7] | Religious site | Chernihiv | ||||
Voskresenska Church (built in 1913)[7] | Religious site | Chernihiv | ||||
Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (built in 1801–04)[7] | Religious site | Chernihiv | ||||
Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi Central City Library[7] | Михайло Михайлович Коцюбинський | Municipal Library | Chernihiv | [15] | ||
G. Galagan Regional Art Museum (built in 1899)[7] | Чернігівський обласний художній музей імені Григорія Галагана | Museum | Chernihiv | |||
House of Culture – Ivanivka/Inanovo Library[7] | Іванівського будинку культури | Ivanovo | Built in 1956[16] | |||
Memorial house-museum and estate of Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky[7] | Museum | Chernihiv | ||||
House of Prayer of the Second Chernihiv Church of Christian Baptists[7] | Religious site | Chernihiv | [17] | |||
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Ivankiv Museum[7] | Іванківський історико-краєзнавчий музей | Museum | Ivankiv | Home to Ukrainian folk artist Maria Prymachenko[18] | |
Church of the Ascension (Voznesenska Tserkva)[7] | Religious site | Church of the Ascension, Lukianivka? Or the Church of the Ascension of the Lord in the village of Bobryk? | ||||
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St. George's church in Zavorychi (Heorhiyivska Tserkva)[7] | Свято-Георгіївський храм с. Заворичі | Religious site | Zavorychi (Заворичі) | |
Peter and Paul Church (Petro-Pavlivska)[7] | Religious site | |||||
Irpin Bible Seminary[7][19] | Religious site | Irpin(Ірпінь) | ||||
Memorial monument to villagers who died in the Second World War[7] | Monument | |||||
House of Culture (built in 1952–54)[7] | Irpin(Ірпінь) | [20] | ||||
Church of the Resurrection of Christ[7] | Religious site | |||||
Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (built in 2008)[7][21] | Religious site | |||||
Monument to the fallen soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (established between 2014 and 2021)[7] | Monument | |||||
Bust of Taras Shevchenko in Borodianka (established in 1999)[7][22] | Monument | Borodyanka | ||||
Wooden Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (built in 1892)[7][21][23] | Religious site | Peremoha (Baryshivka District) | Храм Різдва Пресвятої Богородиці (Перемога) | |||
Church of St. Georgiy Pobidonosets in Irpin (built in 2021)[7] | Religious site | Kyiv Oblast | ||||
Convent of the Icon of the Mother of God "Uslyshatelnytsya" in Fasova village (built in 2012–16)[7] | Religious site | Fasova village | ||||
Mass grave of soldiers and a monument to compatriots who died during the Great Patriotic War in Bucha (established in 1951)[7] | Bucha | |||||
Church of Saints Elijah and Apostle Andrew the First-Called (built in 1997)[7] | Religious site | |||||
Local History Museum of Borodianshchyna[7] | Museum | Borodianka | ||||
Central City Library in Irpin[7] | Library | Irpin | ||||
Taras Shevchenko Palace of Culture[7] | ||||||
Monument to St. Archangel Michael in Borodianka (established in 2015)[7] | Religious site | Borodyanka | ||||
Makarivska Public Library (building of the early twentieth century)[7] | Library | |||||
Monument to workers killed in World War II (renovated in 2016)[7] | ||||||
Church of St. John the Baptist – Moshchun[7] | Moshchun | |||||
Orthodox church in Kamianka village of Izyum[7] | Religious site | Kamianka village of Izyum | ||||
Assumption Cathedral (Uspenska Katedra)[7] | Kharkiv | |||||
Kharkiv Court of Appeal building[7] | Kharkiv | |||||
"Slovo" building[7] | Будинок «Слово» | Historic building | Kharkiv | |||
Kharkiv Art Museum[7] | Kharkiv | |||||
Church of the Holy Queen Tamara[7][21] | Religious site | Kharkiv | ||||
Kharkiv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater[7][24] | Харківський національний академічний театр опери та балету імені Миколи Лисенка | Kharkiv | ||||
Residential historical building in Kharkiv[7] | Historic building | Kharkiv | ||||
Kharkiv Korolenko State Scientific Library[7][21] | Харківська державна наукова бібліотека імені В. Г. Короленка | Library | Kharkiv | |||
Building of the faculty of Economics of Kharkiv National University[7] | [:uk:Будинок Наркомпраці (Харків)]Будинок Наркомпраці (Харків) | Kharkiv | ||||
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Building of the former "Palace of Labor"[7][25] | Палац праці | Kharkiv | Former House of the Rossiia Insurance Company[7][26][27] | |
Church of the Holy Myrrh-Bearing Women[7][19] | Religious site | Kharkiv | ||||
Building of the former central lecture hall in Constitution Square[7] | Kharkiv | |||||
Historic residential building of the 19th century[7] | Historic building | Kharkiv | ||||
Memorial Complex of Glory in Kharkiv[7] | Kharkiv | |||||
Former Lux store (Liuks, 19th century)[7] | Historic building | Kharkiv | ||||
Drobytskyi Yar Holocaust Memorial[7][18] | uk:Дробицький Яр | Monument | Kharkiv | |||
Fire department complex (built in 1886)[7] | Kharkiv | |||||
Former women's gymnasium (built in 1870s)[7] | Historic building | |||||
Kharkiv school No. 7 (built in 1906–07)[7] | Historic building | Kharkiv | ||||
Building of the Department of Labor and Social Protection of the Population of Izyum City Council (built in the 19th century)[7] | Historic building | Izyum | ||||
Building of the Research Institute of Venereology (building 1889)[7] | Historic building | Kharkiv | ||||
Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (built in 1838)[7] | Religious site | |||||
Church of the 2000th anniversary of the Nativity of Christ in Kharkiv (built in 1999–2001)[7] | Religious site | Kharkiv | ||||
V.A. Afanasiev Kharkiv State Academic Puppet Theater (built in 1906–1907)[7] | Historic building | Kharkiv | ||||
Holy Ascension Cathedral (All-Holy Church) in Izyum (built in 1826, completed in 1902–03)[7] | Religious site | Izyum | ||||
Church of the Cross (built in 1809–23)[7] | Religious site | |||||
Church of Saint Demetrios of Soluneia[7] | Religious site | |||||
Former Palace of Culture for the railway workers in Kharkiv (Central House of Science and Technology of the Southern Railway)[7] | Kharkiv | Soviet architecture recognized as an architectural monument in 1987.[28]
Architect: Aleksandr Dmitriev[28] | ||||
Memorial to the Victims of Totalitarianism (built in 1991–2000)[7][29] | Monument | Kharkiv | A cemetery containing the graves of victims of Stalinism and the Katyn massacre in Piatykhatky.[29] | |||
Kharkiv Regional Palace of Children and Youth (House of Children's and Youth Creativity, built in 1851–53)[7] | Historic building? | Kharkiv | ||||
Church of the Transfiguration (built in 2011–13)[7] | Religious site | Kharkiv | ||||
Holy Trinity Church (built in 1909–15)[7] | Religious site | |||||
Church of St. George the Victorious[7] | Religious site | Kharkiv | ||||
Strytenska Church in Lisne (built in 2018)[7] | Religious site | Lisne | ||||
Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (built in 1991–96)[7] | Religious site | |||||
Hryhorii Skovoroda National Literary Memorial Museum – Skovorodynivka[30] | Museum | Skovorodynivka | [31][32] | |||
Church of St. Tikhon of Zadonsky[7] | Religious site | |||||
Historical and Architectural Museum "Popov Manor"[7][33] | uk:Садиба Попова | Museum | Vasylivka | Historical and architectural museum reserve "Sadyba Popova", complex of the 19th century;
Was looted too.[33] | ||
Orthodox church near Zhytomyr (Church of the Blessed Virgin of the Ovruch Eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church)[7][34][35] | Religious site | Vyazivka | ||||
Church of St. Nicholas (Church of the Holy Veil defrocked Archimandrite Agathangelos)[7] | Religious site | |||||
Sviatohirsk Holy Dormition Lavra[7] | uk:Свято-Успенська Святогірська лавра | Religious site | Sviatohirsk | |||
Church of St. Nicholas of Myrlikiisky Wonderworker[7] | Religious site | |||||
Chapel of the Holy Martyr Tatiana[7] | Religious site | |||||
Church of Christ the Savior (Tserkva Khrysta Spasytelia)[7] | Religious site | |||||
The Drama Theater in Mariupol[7] | Theater | Mariupol | ||||
Our Lady of Kazan Orthodox Cathedral in Marinka[7] | Religious site | Marinka | ||||
Monument to Metropolitan Ignatium of Mariupol in Mariupol[7][35] | Religious site | Mariupol | At Cathedral of Saint Michael the Archangel (Mariupol)? | |||
St. Archangel Michael Church in Mariupol[7][36][37] | uk:Собор Архистратига Михайла (Маріуполь) | Religious site | Mariupol | |||
Church of the Icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Mourners"[7][19] | Religious site | Volnovakha | ||||
The Holy Transfiguration Church[7][19] | Religious site | Volnovakha | ||||
St. Nicholas the Wonderworker[7] | Religious site | |||||
Church of the Nativity of the blessed Virgin Mary in Mariupol[7][36] | Religious site | Mariupol | ||||
St. Dmytrivska Church (built in 1850–61)[7] | Religious site | |||||
Mariupol Museum of Local Lore[7][35] | Museum | Mariupol | ||||
Residential building of the 19th century in Mariupol[7] | Historic building | Mariupol | ||||
Memorial monument to Afghan soldiers[7] | Monument | |||||
Residential buildings in Mariupol (1930–41)[7] | Historic buildings | Mariupol | ||||
Monument to V.G. Korolenko in Mariupol (installed in 1966)[7] | Monument | Mariupol | ||||
City palace of Culture in Mariupol (built in 1952)[7][21] | Mariupol | |||||
St. Volodymyr's Church in Mariupol (built in 1999–2000)[7] | Religious site | Mariupol | ||||
Church Vifaniia in Mariupol (building of the early XXI century)[7] | Religious site | Mariupol | ||||
Yuryev's House in Mariupol (building of the late nineteenth century)[7] | Historic building | Mariupol | ||||
City palace of Culture "Ukrainian House" in Mariupol[7] | Украинский Дом Мариуполь | Mariupol | ||||
Palace of Culture "Iskra" (building 1960)[7] | ||||||
A. Kuindzhi Center for Contemporary Art and Culture in Mariupol (built in 2004)[7][35] | Mariupol | Was looted too.[38] | ||||
Palace of Culture "Molodizhnyi" in Mariupol (built between 1887 and 1910)[7] | Палац культури «Молодіжний» у Маріуполі[39] | Mariupol | ||||
Chaika House of Culture in Mariupol[7] | Mariupol | |||||
Holy Trinity Church in Mariupol (built in 2010)[7] | Religious site | Mariupol | ||||
School of Arts in Mariupol (built in 1953)[40] | ||||||
Estate of A. Tregubov (buildings of the end of XIXth - beginning of XXth century)[7] | ||||||
House with a spire tower in Mariupol (built in 1953)[7] | Mariupol | |||||
Central City Library V.G.Korolenko in Mariupol[7] | Library | Mariupol | ||||
Building of the former Alexander Men's Gymnasium (built in 1894–99)[7] | ||||||
Artem House of Culture (built in 1926) – Lyman[7] | Lyman | |||||
St. Catherine's Church (Katerynynska Tserkva)[7][41] | Religious site | Shchasta | ||||
Church in honor of the Icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" in Sverodonets[7] | Religious site | Sverodonets | Sievierodonetsk? | |||
Islamic Cultural Centre "Bismillah" in Sievierodonetsk[7][41] | Religious site | Sievierodonetsk | ||||
Church of the Nativity in Sievierodonetsk[7][42] | Religious site | Sievierodonetsk | ||||
St. Tykhvin Church[7] | Religious site | |||||
St. Nicholas Church[7] | Religious site | |||||
Church of St. Luke of Crimea (building of the early 21st century)[7] | Religious site | |||||
Building of the former Soda barracks (Built in 1895)[7] | Lysychansk | |||||
Three Saints Church [7] | Popasna | Religious site | ||||
225x225пкс | Okhtyrka City Museum of Local Lore[7][43] | Охтирський міський краєзнавчий музей | Museum | Okhtyrka | ||
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Former People's House (1911–1914)[7] | 50°18'18.1"N 34°53'36.5"E | ||||
House of the estate manager L.E. Koenig (1911)[7] | Outskirts of Trostyanets | |||||
Monument in honor of the 183rd Tank Brigade (WW2)[7] | Monument | |||||
Okhtyrka City Council (building of the 20th century)[7] | Okhtyrka | |||||
Locomotive depot "Smorodyne" (built in 1877) [7] | Historic building | Trostyanets | 50°28'56.9"N 34°58'09.1"E | |||
The main house museum of the estate L.E. Koenig (building from the late 18th century: 1870; part of Trostianetskyi Museum and Exhibition Center)[7] | Museum | Historic building? | ||||
Mass grave of Soviet soldiers and Monument in Velyka Pysarivka village[7] | Monument | Velyka Pysarivka village | ||||
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Transfiguration Cathedral[44] | uk:Спасо-Преображенський кафедральний собор (Одеса) | Religious site | Odesa |
See also
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