Shelling of Kharkiv: in 5 minutes, the Russians damaged 62 objects of historical heritage in the city. PHOTO
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During one of the largest Russian missile attacks on Kharkiv on January 23, 2024, the Russians shelled, in particular, the historical area of the city. As a result, 62 historical buildings were damaged.
As reported by the organization HeMo: Ukrainian Heritage Monitoring Lab, among the damaged buildings 20 are architectural monuments and objects recommended for inclusion in this list. About 50 facilities were damaged for the first time since the start of a full-scale invasion.
“These statistics make this attack the most damaging in terms of damage that our team has documented during a full-scale invasion.” – says Ivan Shchurko, head of HeMo Lab’s expedition department.
Two areas of the city with dense historical buildings came under attack:
- Zalopany district, where houses of the XVIII-XX centuries are located;
- the central part of the city with buildings of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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The building of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine, built in 1896 according to the project of Serhiy Zahoskin for the merchant Herman Gelferykh, brother of the famous industrialist Maximilian Gelferykh, suffered the greatest damage.
“As a result of the explosion, there was a collapse of the roof, attic floor structures, the floor of the second and third floors, the collapse of the walls and partitions of the central part of the 3rd and 2nd floors, as well as fragments of the walls of the second floor.
A fire broke out. As a result of the collapses, the interior decoration was destroyed,” – says Viktor Dvornikov, regional coordinator of Heritage Monitoring Lab expeditions in Kharkiv and Kharkiv region.
In total, in 62 objects of cultural heritage, damage to the glazing was recorded, in more than 35 – damage to the interior decoration, roofs, the formation of structural cracks, which will have an impact on the further destruction of these objects due to the progression of the opening of cracks and the impact of precipitation.
Among the damaged buildings are also objects important for the social and cultural life of the city, such as the educational institution of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine, the Annunciation Cathedral, the Regional Organizational and Methodological Center of Culture and Art, the Kharkiv Medical Society, etc.
Earlier we wrote that the rocket attack on Kharkiv on January 23 took the lives of ten people.
Read also: The Ministry of Culture has published updated statistics of cultural monuments damaged by Russia
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