Ukraine’s State Emergency Service rescues 66 unique Holodomor engravings from rubble in Sumy region

In the regional center of Sumy, the State Emergency Service employees rescued 66 unique engravings dedicated to the Holodomor from under the rubble of a building.

The State Emergency Service reported this.

As Rubryka wrote, on July 29, Russian occupying forces launched a rocket at Sumy, destroying the educational building of the Sumy Interregional Higher Vocational School that housed the Holodomor Resistance Research Center.

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The emergency workers said that the engravings were taken from under the rubble. In turn, the Ministry of Internal Affairs released a video of the rescue of historical engravings.

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The State Emergency Service notes that since the Center's opening almost six years ago, the exhibition of Mykola Bondarenko's graphic drawings "Ukraine – 1933: Cookbook. Human Memory" has been in it. The exhibition included 89 works.

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" The unique works were buried under the rubble after the Russian missile attack. However, thanks to the institution's rescuers, volunteers, and employees, most of Mykola Bondarenko's linocuts were saved," the Ministry of Internal Affairs emphasized.

Linocut is a convex engraving created by cutting a pattern on linoleum. In terms of technique and artistic means, it is similar to woodcut. It arose at the beginning of the 20th century.

"The works, thanks to which almost the whole world learned about the Genocide of Ukrainians, ended up under rubble," the State Emergency Service added.

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It should be noted that scientists saved a unique herbarium from Kherson from the Russian enemy, which has been collected for 50 years. The second operation to rescue the herbarium in 100 years was successful (the first, by the way, took place at Kharkiv University during the Second World War).

In addition, on August 1, the second part of the Soviet coat of arms began to be removed from the "Motherland" monument in the capital, and work on replacing this fragment with the Ukrainian trident should be completed by Independence Day, August 24.