Rapid Site Report: Transfiguration Cathedral, Odesa, Ukraine

The Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa, Ukraine was damaged on July 23, 2023. For additional background on the Cathedral and damage to it, please see our previous report published in August 2023. This review was undertaken 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).

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CITE THIS REPORT: Hanson, K., Lawrence-Weilmann, J., Bender, T. J. P., 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: Transfiguration Cathedral, 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.25505092.