Mykolaiv Installs Protective Plaques on Historic Buildings

In Mykolaiv, new security boards have been installed on historic buildings. The installation of signs on the city's architectural monuments will continue.

This was reported by the press service of the Mykolaiv City Council.

Mykolaiv continues to install protective plaques on architectural monuments, confirming their national value. Recently, such plaques appeared on six more historic buildings in the city that are under state protection.

Among them are the national monument "Officers' Assembly" (1820), the administrative building of the City Council (1954), the historic yacht club (1904), and the house where P.K. Saksaganskii lived. Also, protection signs were installed on the complex of buildings of the Königsberg Water Hospital (1901) and the chess pavilion of the early twentieth century on Fleet Boulevard.

According to the city's Department of Cultural Heritage Protection, the process of installing signs on architectural monuments will continue.

Last year, Mykolaiv decided to preserve an architectural monument, the Fish Yard, which is part of a residential complex built in the 40s and 50s. It is planned to find funding for the further reconstruction of this facility.

In addition, in the process of decolonization, 27 monuments were removed from the State Register of Immovable Monuments of Ukraine. 11 monuments of national significance from Mykolaiv region were included in the register, but 27 city sites that were registered before the Law of Ukraine on the Protection of Cultural Heritage came into force lost their status and cannot be listed again.

Mykolaiv and Kherson regions were among the most affected by the shelling, which led to the destruction of cultural infrastructure. In total, more than two thousand cultural sites were damaged in Ukraine. In Mykolaiv region, 44.2% of the sites were damaged, in Kherson region - 43%, and in Odesa region - 10%.

Last December, the Armed Forces of Ukraine decided to create a new unit to protect cultural heritage under a joint directive of the Minister of Defense and the Commander-in-Chief. The unit will be composed of military personnel with education and experience in the fields of culture, archeology, history, and museums.

Анна Бальчінос