People’s Artist of Ukraine Vasyl Perevalsky donated to the Museum a number of artefacts about the creation of the first monument to the Holodomor victims in Kyiv

Vasyl Perevalsky, People’s Artist of Ukraine and Academician of the National Academy of Arts, donated several artefacts to the National Museum of the Holodomor Genocide. These artefacts reveal the process of creating the first memorial in Kyiv to the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933.

It was unveiled in September 1993 according to V. Perevalsky’s project on Mykhailivska Square in the capital city as part of the first official commemoration of the Holodomor victims in Ukraine. From 1993 to 2009, the memorial officially served as an all-Ukrainian place of memory of the Holodomor. To this day, the memorial remains one of the key visual symbols of the tragedy and has several copies in Ukraine and abroad.

Vasyl Perevalsky donated to the Museum 27 objects of various value, which illustrate the process of creating the emblem of memorial events for the 60th anniversary of the Holodomor and the monument sign to the victims of the Holodomor of 1932–1933 on Mykhailivska Square. Among them is a sketch of a monument sign dated August 1993; layout for the production of the commemorative ribbon “60th anniversary of the Holodomor in Ukraine” and its original; a drawing of the memorial sign made by V. Perevalsky in 2011 at the request of the Ukrainian community of Toronto to install a copy of the one in Canada. In the spring, the artist handed over his memories of its creation to the Museum.