Due to the flooding of the Kakhovskaya HPP, unique sights are being destroyed – an archeologist
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On June 6, the Russian occupiers blew up the Kakhovskaya HPP. Because of the flooding, irreparable damage has already been caused to unique cultural monuments and the Nizhnyodniprovskyi National Nature Park, and many valuable objects are in danger. About this UP. Life was told by Svitlana Bilyaeva, doctor of historical sciences, who led the study of the Tyaginka fortress – a unique architectural monument of the 14th-15th centuries, located in the village of Tyaginka, Beryslav district of the Kherson region. As of now, the fortress is flooded. “This is a unique monument of Ukrainian and Lithuanian culture, as well as Crimean-Tatar culture. I spoke about it the other day in Lithuania at a conference. But today it was completely flooded, and before that the occupiers bombed and mined it,” said Svitlana Bilyaeva. Read also: “If it weren’t for the collaborators, we would have saved the museum from the Russians.” Interview with the director of the Kherson Art Museum According to the archaeologist, the scale of destruction may increase, because the flooding of the area continues. “Now there should be maximum flooding of the area. Already in the morning, they said that Tyaginka was completely flooded. Tyaginka is exactly the place of the fortress, which stands almost on the shore. If the water goes further, many different monuments may be affected. The unique zone itself is Nova Kakhovka, and there are wonderful monuments from different periods: Scythian, Bronze Age, Middle Ages,” says the archaeologist. Preserved part of Tyagin fortress, decorative insert with Seljuk ornament. Photo: http: vgosau.kiev.ua In addition to the Tyagin fortress, which was studied by the archaeologist, there are also endangered monuments in the region that have only just begun to be studied by scientists. “Now they are all suffering from water. There is Burgunka (a village in Beryslav district, Kherson region. The official date of foundation is 1779, but historians believe that even in the princely times, and then in the Lithuanian times, the fortified city of Burgun stood here – ed.) there are still remains, objects in the village of Vesele (there, in particular, is the Vytov Tower, from the period of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania – ed.). I don’t know what state they are in now, because it was impossible to go there, and now this monument “The tombs are threatened with destruction,” the archaeologist commented. The photo shows the participants of the expedition led by Svitlana Bilyaeva. In July–August 2020, scientists continued the excavation of the monument of national importance – Tyagin fortress. Photo: http: vgosau.kiev.ua Read also: Kherson Art Museum identified two more paintings stolen by the Russians. PHOTO We will remind you that the valuable archaeological objects of the Kherson region were stolen by the invaders from the Kherson Museum of Local History. Now some of the rescued exhibits are shown at the exhibition of the Natural History Museum in Kyiv. The exhibition presents unique objects related to the history of Ukraine, Lithuania and the Crimean Khanate. The exhibits were taken out of Kherson a week before the start of the full-scale invasion of Russia. “The valuables that were in the museum in Kherson were given to the Russians by the director’s collaborator. That’s why it’s good that we saved some of them before that, because they brought them to Kyiv for an exhibition at the Natural Science Museum,” says archaeologist Bilyaeva. UP.Zhyttia appealed to the Ministry of Culture for a comment on the assessment of damage caused to cultural and historical objects due to the explosion of the Kakhovskaya HPP. MKIP reported that they are evaluating and analyzing the information and will report on it soon.
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