As a result of the strikes on Kharkiv on January 23, 62 objects of historical heritage were damaged

Among them are 20 architectural monuments and objects that architects recommend to be included in the list.

Experts of the public project HeMo: Ukrainian Heritage Monitoring Lab, who survey the areas of the hits and document the destruction, consider the shelling on January 23 to be one of the largest.

“In the 5 minutes that the shelling lasted, a total of 62 historical buildings were damaged, of which 20 are architectural monuments and objects recommended for inclusion in the list of architectural monuments of local importance and historical monuments of local importance. About fifty objects were damaged for the first time since the beginning of a full-scale invasion,” experts said.

According to Ivan Shchurk, the head of the expeditionary direction of HeMo Lab, two areas of the city with dense historical buildings came under attack: the Zalopan district – an area with houses of the 18th and 20th centuries, which was also shelled on January 16, and the central part of the city with buildings from the late 19th and early 19th centuries. 20th century

Buildings on Pushkinska St. — buildings #70, 65, and 68 — as well as on St. Christmas — houses Nos. 17, 19, 21 and St. Kotsarska, 3, which are located closest to the place where the rockets hit.

The building of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine is located at 70 Pushkinska Street. It was built in 1896 according to the project of Serhiy Zagoskin for the merchant Herman Gelferikh, the brother of the famous industrialist Maximilian Gelferikh.

“As a result of the explosion, there was a collapse of the roof, the 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 and fragments of the walls of the second floor, and a fire broke out. As a result of the collapse, the interior decoration was destroyed,” says architect Viktor Dvornikov.

In total, in 62 objects of cultural heritage, damage to glazing was recorded, in more than 35 — damage to interior decoration, roofs, the formation of structural cracks, which will affect further destruction, the organization notes.

As of January 2024, the participants of the HeMo: Ukrainian Heritage Monitoring Lab project surveyed more than 780 sites to document the loss of cultural heritage and created a database that will help in planning the restoration of monuments, as well as defend the interests of Ukraine against Russia in the International Criminal Court courts for crimes against culture.