Russia's massive attack on Odesa: missiles hit monuments protected by UNESCO
Kyiv • UNN
The Russian attack on November 14 in Odesa damaged numerous architectural monuments in the historic center of the city. Among the damaged sites are buildings dating back to the 19th and 20th centuries that are under UNESCO protection.
On the evening of November 14, Odesa suffered a massive combined enemy attack. Russian missiles hit cultural heritage sites protected by UNESCO, UNN reports, citing the Ministry of Culture.
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According to the agency, the occupiers' attack damaged cultural heritage sites located within the endangered World Heritage Site "Historic Center of Odesa" and its buffer zone:
monuments of architecture and urban planning, local history:
The building of the Technological Institute, which during the defense of Odessa housed a detachment of sailors-Scouts of the Odessa defense district (1936-1938, architect Minkus A. B.);
The building of the Richelieu Lyceum (Novorossiysk University) (1852-1857, architect O.S. Shashin);
Zhitlovsky budinok Zarifi (1840-ti, 1851, arch. Cherkunov N.N., Morandi F.Y.);
The apartment house and outbuilding of Kovalevsky, where B.F. Verigo, physicist and professor, lived (1846, late 19th century, architects K.Y. Dallakva and O.S. Shashyn);
Mashevsky's apartment building, where A.I. Koptyukh was born (1850-1860, architect F.V. Honsiorovsky);
Tolstoy's apartment building (1880, architect F.V. Gonsiorovsky);
Latry apartment building (I half of the XIX century);
An apartment building (late nineteenth century) where W. Malyszewski, a Polish composer, conductor, and teacher, lived;
Michelson's apartment building (1890, architect L.L. Vlodek);
Apartment building (1901, architect P.D. Tokarev);
Hostel house (early twentieth century, Chernihiv L. M. architect) (right-turn building);
The house of Vurgaft, where S. M. Yampolsky, an economist and founder of the Faculty of Radio Electronics of the Odesa Polytechnic Institute, lived (1845, architect Kozlov I. S.);
Zhitlovsky budinok, where lived: Lange M. M. - psychologist; Burkser E. S. – khmimik-neorganik i geohimik; Bobinin M. M. - mathematician (1845, arch. Kozlov I.S.);
The building of the Physics and Chemistry Institute of Novorossiysk University (1897-1899, architect Tolvinsky M.K.);
Inber's apartment building (Savoy Hotel) (1870s, architect L. L. Vlodek);
The Rink-Wagner apartment building (1881, architect A.K. Veitko);
Wesley's apartment building (1881, architect D.E. Mazyrov);
Leonardi's apartment building (1913, architect V. Prokhaska);
The administrative building (part of the Weinstein Mill complex) (1888-1890);
The building of the Weinstein School (part of the Weinstein Mill complex) (1896);
local historical monument: Duryan House (Victoria Hotel with steam bakery).
Prosecutors, in cooperation with other law enforcement agencies, document the consequences of Russia's armed aggression to ensure that no crime goes unpunished.
On January 25, at the 18th extraordinary session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, the Historic Center of the Port City of Odesa was inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger to preserve Ukrainian cultural heritage. The decision of this year's 46th meeting of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee confirmed the status of this site on the list.
