Andriy Ivanets participated in a scientific conference

Andriy Ivanets, a leading researcher at the Holodomor Museum and a candidate in historical sciences, participated in the scientific conference “National Ukrainian Museum: Times, People, Destinies.” The event was timed to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the National Art Museum of Ukraine and lasted two days – October 8 and 9. More than 70 scholars from the museums of Kyiv, Kherson, Rivne, Lutsk, Kropyvnytskyi, Kaniv, Lviv and researchers from Israel participated in the conference. A collection of materials will be published based on the results of their performances.

Andriy Ivanets gave a speech, “Memories and artefacts of Vasyl Perevalsky in the funds of the National Museum of the Holodomor-genocide: the history of the creation of the first memorial to the Holodomor victims in Kyiv.”

The scholar spoke about the museum objects donated to the Holodomor Museum by the People’s Artist of Ukraine, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Vasyl Perevalskyi. We will remind you that the artist is the author of the memorial to the Holodomor victims of 1932-1933 on Mykhailivska Square in Kyiv. It was unveiled on September 12, 1993, for the 60th anniversary of the Holodomor. “This work has significant artistic value and great social and political importance. In 1993-2008, it was the central place of memory of the victims of the genocide of the Ukrainian people in Ukraine,” emphasised Andrii Ivanets. In 2024, Vasyl Perevalskyi, with Andrii Ivanets’ assistance, gave our museum his memories of the creation of the monument, as well as sketches, drawings and other artefacts that reveal the process of creating the first memorial in Kyiv to the Holodomor victims of 1932–1933.

For some time, this memorial was considered a mandatory state ceremony. Madeleine Albright, Bill Clinton, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, and other prominent states, political, and religious figures laid flowers in honour.

Photo: Dmytro Yurchenko.