Rapid Site Report: Solomos Residential Building, Odesa, Ukraine

The Solomos Residential Building in Odesa, Ukraine, was damaged between 20 and 24 July 2023. Satellite imagery of the building indicates that damage occurred within this date range. 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 of damage to cultural sites in Odesa in July 2023.

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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., Frolova, Y., Gunter-Bassett, M., Welsh, W., Fitzgerald, K., Maher, A., Bassett, H., Muller, C. E., Kane, K. E., Daniels, B. I., and Wegener, C. (2024). “Rapid Site Report: Solomos Residential Building, Odesa, 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.25451914.