Lands for vegetable gardens around the Church of the Savior at Berestove

Did you know that Kyiv District Economic Committee distributed land around the Church of the Savior at Berestove in the late 1920^s? It was given for local residents and was meant for vegetable gardens.

That type of economic activity led to the distortion of the historical landscape and, first of all, destruction of the shafts.

All-Ukrainian Museum Town “State Historical and Cultural Preserve”, which operated on the territory of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra then, repeatedly appealed to various authorities with the request to take decisive measures to stop the “anarchic excavation” of the territory and bring the perpetrators to justice. The appeal was sent to the Head of the Kyiv City Council, the Ukrainian Central Administrative Office (Coordinator the activities of Scientific Institutions) that functioned under USSR People’s Commissariat of Education, Authorized Representative of the Commissariat of Education in Kyiv, Regional Inspector for the Protection of Antiquities, Military Engineering Department, etc.

Anna Yanenko

Captions to the illustrations
1. Church of the Savior at Berestove. The first third of the 20th century. [Scientific Archive of the Institute of Archeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, fund 10, file № 17]
2. View of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra buildings (№ 19, 20 and 21), the Church of All Saints and the Church of the Savior at Berestove. Late 1920s – early 1930s [From the Fund collection of the National Preserve “Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra”, inv. № KPL-N-1235]