Rapid Site Report: Freedom Square, Kharkiv, Ukraine, in March 2022

Kharkiv Freedom Square (also known as Svobody Square) and the adjacent historic building housing Kharkiv’s Regional State Administration were first damaged on 2 March 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), the Center for International Development and Conflict Management at the University of Maryland (CIDCM), and the Ukrainian Heritage Monitoring Lab (HeMo), confirmed this damage. This review was undertaken after this first attack on Freedom Square was reported by news outlets.

CITE THIS REPORT: Hanson, K., Bender, T. J. P., Lawrence-Weilmann, J., Rozhko, V., Makar, R., Zadorozhna, M., Oleksii, A., Frolova, Y., Dvornikov, V., Cil, D., Tuttle, E., Bakhshi, R., Aronson., J., Fitzgerald, K., Welsh, W., Maher, A., Bassett, H., Gunter-Bassett, M., Muller, C. E., Kane, K. E., Daniels, B. I., Carroll, C., Averyt, K., and Wegener, C. (2024). “Rapid Site Report: Freedom Square, Kharkiv, Ukraine, in March 2022,” University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Penn Cultural Heritage Center; Virginia Museum of Natural History, Cultural Heritage Monitoring Lab; Ukrainian Heritage Monitoring Lab; University of Maryland, Center for International Development and Conflict Management; and Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative. DOI: 10.25573/data.27307632.