“The water stopped at 230 meters.” The Kherson Art Museum escaped flooding. VIDEO
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Kherson Regional Art Museum named after Oleksiy Shevkunenko, who was looted by the Russian occupiers in autumn last year, did not suffer from flooding due to the Russian military’s detonation of the Kakhovskaya HPP. Read UP.Kultura in Telegram The museum announced this on its official Facebook page. “To everyone who was worried about the fate of the museum, we inform you: the water stopped halfway and reached Bogoroditskaya (Chervonoflotskaya) Street. The Kherson Art Museum was not affected by the flooding,” the museum officials informed and added to the post several photos of the streets near the museum itself. The museum was not damaged by the flooding. Photo: Kherson Art Museum / Facebook Photo: Kherson Art Museum / Facebook They noted that although the occupiers removed more than 11 thousand exhibits from the collection, which consisted of almost 14 thousand items, the museum building itself is also an architectural monument. The Shevkunenko museum also shared several videos of street flooding. “The water stopped somewhere 230 meters from the museum,” they explained there. In addition, Kherson museum workers shot a video of the consequences of the flooding of the city of Kherson from the highest point of their building. Kherson. Overview of the flooding sites from the highest point of the art museum. Kherson. Overview of the flooding sites from the highest point of the Kherson art museum. pic.twitter.com/FPwbGDkZlD — ArtMuseumKherson (@ArtMuseumKs) June 7, 2023 The Kherson Art Museum also shared paintings with the image of the Kakhovskaya HPP destroyed by the Russians – the works of Ivan Botek “Pouring sheet piles on the construction of the Kakhovskaya HPP” and “Construction of the Kakhovskaya HPP sluice” and Boris Lavrynenko “On the construction of Kakhovskaya HPP”. The occupiers also stole these works and took them to the annexed Crimea in November 2022. “Evidence of the double crime of the Russians. The museum collection was stolen and the Kakhovskaya HPP was blown up,” museum officials emphasized. Earlier, the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy published a list of museums and cultural monuments of the Kherson Region that have already been flooded or are at risk of being flooded as a result of the explosion of the Kakhovskaya HPP. According to the ICIP, as of the end of the day on June 6, such sights as the Complex of buildings of the Kakhovka HPP, erected in 1951-1958, the Ensemble of buildings of the Central Square in the city of Nova Kakhovka, the Building of the historical center of the city of Nova Kakhovka, etc., were already affected. The house-museum of Polina Raiko in Oleshki is also threatened by water. Archaeologist Svitlana Bilyaeva, who led the research of the Tyaginka fortress – a unique architectural monument of the 14th-15th centuries in the village of Tyaginka, Berislav district of the Kherson region, said that the fortress is currently flooded. The State Tourism Development Agency of Ukraine has published a map of attractions and natural recreational resources that are under threat due to the actions of the Russians. 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
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