Mykola Yakovyna¶
Mykola Yakovyna is the honorary president of the Ukrainian National Committee of ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites); the author of an article on the 1972 UNESCO Convention as a tool for protecting monuments in occupied Crimea ("Krymska svitlytsia", 2019, No. 33-34).
Overview¶
In the article "The 1972 UNESCO Convention and the Protection of the Heritage of Occupied Crimea", Yakovyna outlines the legal basis of the 1972 Convention, the history of Ukraine's nominations to the World Heritage List and the Tentative List, the statistics of losses due to the 2014 occupation of Crimea, and the chronology of actions by civil society (ICOMOS, ICOM, Blue Shield) and the state (2014–2018). He emphasizes the role of the Ukrainian National Committee of ICOMOS (in particular, the 2015 initiative regarding the List of World Heritage in Danger for Tauric Chersonesus and the Bakhchysarai Palace) and calls on experts to publicize the position on Crimean sites worldwide.
Key Details / Subtopics¶
- Position: Honorary President of the Ukrainian National Committee of ICOMOS.
- Publication: "The Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage as a Tool for Protecting Monuments in Occupied Crimea", newspaper "Krymska svitlytsia", 2019, No. 33-34; with the support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.
Sources and Links¶
- The 1972 Convention as a Tool for Protecting Monuments in Occupied Crimea — an article by Mykola Yakovyna; the sole source for this page.
- The 1972 UNESCO Convention and the Protection of the Heritage of Occupied Crimea — a concept page based on the materials of the article.
- Cultural Heritage of Ukraine in Occupied Crimea — an article by M. Yakovyna on the 1954 Hague Convention, the Second Protocol, and the protection of cultural property under occupation ("Krymska svitlytsia", 2019, No. 27-28).
- Tauric Chersonesus — a World Heritage Site (WHS) for which the Ukrainian Committee of ICOMOS initiated the List of World Heritage in Danger (2015).
- Andrii Shchekun — the editor-in-chief of "Krymska svitlytsia", where the article was published.