Rapid Site Report: Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Kyselivka, Mykolaiv Region, Ukraine

OVERVIEW: The Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (hereafter, the Church) was damaged between August 2021 and July 2022. Analysis conducted by the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative (SCRI), in collaboration with the Penn Cultural Heritage Center at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (PennCHC), the Cultural Heritage Monitoring Lab at the Virginia Museum of Natural History (CHML), and the Ukrainian Heritage Monitoring Lab (HeMo), confirmed this damage. This report was undertaken after reports from cultural heritage professionals of damage to cultural sites in Ukraine following Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022

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CITE THIS REPORT: Hanson, K., Bender, T. J. P., Lawrence-Weilmann, J., Rozhko, V., Makar, R., Zadorozhna, M., Oleksii, A., Pohranychnyi, M., Fitzgerald, K., Welsh, W., Maher, A., Bassett, H., Gunter-Bassett, M., Muller, C .E., Kane, K. E., Daniels, B. I., and Wegener, C. (2024). “Rapid Site Report: Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Kyselivka, Mykolaiv Region, Ukraine” Virginia Museum of Natural History, Cultural Heritage Monitoring Lab; Ukrainian Heritage Monitoring Lab; University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Penn Cultural Heritage Center; and Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative. DOI: 10.25573/data.25657512.