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Rebuilt from massive pine logs (early 2000s), #AllSaintsSketeOfSviatohirskLavra was once Ukraine's largest #WoodenChurch self-sufficient with gardens, orchards & ponds within a palisade. Bearing 16th & 17th CE Orthodox traditions, the church was deliberately destroyed by a #RussianMilitaryStrike in June 2022. Today only foundations & remnants remain #UkrainianCutureUnderAttack.
In Source: All Saints' Hermitage
Plans to build #SlovoHouse were quickly approved by Soviet authorities who used #SocialHousing to put Ukrainian intellectuals in one house & monitor them. Residents faced #PoliticalRepression & most were shot in the 1930s #StalinistTerror; 11 at #Sandarmokh. Registered an #ImmovableMonumentofUkraine in 2019, this symbol of resilience was hit by a #RussianMilitaryStrike in 2023.
In Source: “Slovo” House
In 2001, #UPA veterans established a memorial to #RomanShukhevych a Ukrainian #MilitaryLeader whose fight for independence ended in 1950, when his house was surrounded by Soviet Forces & he was killed in a firefight. To honor his heroic last stand & Ukraine’s fight for #Freedom, the #LvivHistoricalMuseum turned the house into a #Museum - hit by a #RussianMilitaryStrike in 2024
In Source: Roman Shukhevych Mus.
#Kharkiv’s heart is a vast 12-hectare sq, renamed #FreedomSquare in 1991 when Ukraine gained Independence. Built in 1919 for a #NewPoliticalEra it symbolises Ukrainian national identity & resistance to soviet ideology - protests for sovereignty rallied here. Targeted during the 1st days of the war, its destruction by #RussianMilitaryStrike is symbolic - to shatter its spirit.
In Source: Freedom Square
#AllaHorska’s Mosaics #LifeTree & #Kestrel in #Mariupol were destroyed in 2022 by a #RussianMilitaryStrike. For 30+ yrs they were secretly hidden behind false walls, by city architect #VasylBocharov & artist #ValentynKostiantynov, to save them from Soviet authority demolition. Rediscovered in 2008, these 1960s monumental mosaics exist in memory only #AllaHorskaMosaic
In Source: Life Tree & Kestrel
#StoneAge artefacts, #WW2 exhibits & works of #Art were lost when the #IvankivHistoricalandLocalHistoryMuseum was hit by a #RussianMilitaryStrike in Feb 2022. It held a precious 800+ collection of #NaiveArt by #MariiaPrymachenko, a #UkrainianFolkArtist who inspired #Picasso. Only 10 works were saved by a man who entered the museum when it was on fire #UkranianCultureUnderAttack
In Source: Ivankiv History Museum
Football dreams & Olympic were realised at the #ChernihivStadium, home to the Desna Football Club, until a #RussianMilitaryStrike destroyed the eastern stand in Mar 2022 - days later, the pitch too! Built on the site of a 19th CE city garden, football heroes like #AndriiYarmolenko started their careers here. Now decades of sport ambition are over #UkrainianCultureUnderAttack
In Source: Chernihiv Stadium
The #HouseofOrganandChamberMusic in #Dinopro fell silent in Mar 2022, after it was hit by a #RussianMilitaryStrike. 5 domes & 3 bell towers laid out in a cross were built with #Neoclassical & #Baroque grace in 1915, as #StNicholas Church. Staging recitals of #ChamberMusic by global artists since 1987, its famed organ is listed by #UNESCO as heritage #UkrainianCultureUnderAttack
In Source: House of Organ Music
One of Ukraine’s best Top 100 educational institutions, the #LysychanskGymnasium was hit by a #RussianMilitaryStrike in May 2022. Built in 1889 by Belgian entrepreneur #ErnestSolvay as part of a residential complex for factory employees & their families, it survived 2 world wars. In 1977, the #Lysychansk #Gymnasium opened - now it is reduced to ash #UkrainianCultureUnderAttack
In Source: Lysychansk Gymnasium
With 25K+ works of #Art by eminent artists, the #KharkivArtMuseum was hit by a #RussianMilitaryStrike in Feb 2022. Housed in a 1914 #NeoRenaissance estate built by millionaire #IvanIhnatishchev, 94% of its 75K+ original collection was stolen in #WWII. Since then, the museum expanded - exhibiting outstanding paintings, sculptures & decorative craft #UkrainianCultureUnderAttack
In Source: Kharkiv Art Museum
One of Ukraine’s oldest & largest Museum’s, the #DonetskRegionalMuseumofLocalHistory was hit by a #RussianMilitaryStrike in 2014, when Russia first started to invade #Donbas. Opened in 1924, the Museum housed 180K+ objects on archaeology & ethnography inc. objects of global significance from the local #Amvrosiivka site, where primitive man lived #UkrainianCultureUnderAttack
In Source: Donetsk History Museum
Missiles hit the #DonetskAcademicRegionalDramaTheatre in #Mariupol on 16 Mar 2022. Built in a #MonumentalClassicism Architectural style, it opened in 1960 to stage opera & plays. Hit by a deadly #RussianMilitaryStrike when innocent civilians were sheltered inside, up to 600 lives were lost, despite the word “Дети” / “Children” being painted outside #UkrainianCultureUnderAttack
In Source: Academic #DramaTheatre
The #PolitekhSportsComplex was hit by a #RussianMilitaryStrike on 24 Jun 2022, sparking a fire that damaged 200 sqm. A public facility that hosted PE classes, competitions & national training, its life ended after only 35 yrs of use. It’s enabled people to excel, achieve personal goals, build national pride & memory - now it’s at risk of becoming one #UkranianCultureUnderAttack
In Source: #PolitekhSportsComplex
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