Next year, the restoration of 100 cultural sites will be part of the national project “Great Construction”
Minister of Culture and Information Policy Oleksandr Tkachenko announced this on his page on social networks.
“For the first time in 30 years of independence, we will actually be able to restore the historical and cultural heritage, which, in some places, is in critical condition – neglected and half-destroyed. But these objects are the code of our nation. Preserving their authenticity and spirit is our responsibility, filling them with new meaning is our duty to future generations,” the government official emphasized.
According to Tkachenko, this is not the only positive signal. The restoration of monuments will also ensure the sustainable development of community territories, lay new tourist routes. Monuments will become local attractions, filled with new meanings.
The project is ready for consideration by ministries and will be presented in the near future. The list will include objects that will unite the entire country, the minister assured.
Tkachenko also illustrated the post with photographs of some monuments that are part of the “Great Construction” project.
Among them are the Ostroz Castle, Rivne region; the National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv; the National Historical and Cultural Reserve “Kachanivka”, Chernihiv region; the Berezhany Castle, Ternopil region; the Defensive Walls of Zhovkva, 16-17 centuries, Lviv region; Kharkiv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after M. V. Lysenko, Kharkiv; Potocki Palace, Odessa; Pidhirtsi Castle Palace, 1635 – 1640, 1779, Lviv region; Khortytsia National Reserve, Museum of the History of the Zaporizhian Cossacks, Zaporizhzhia region; Mykolaiv Astronomical Observatory, one of the oldest observatories in Eastern Europe, founded in 1821, Mykolaiv region.
