LOSS
April 2022. The Russian military mined the Kakhovskaya HPP. Locks and piers were mined, 2 military tented tracks without drivers were on the dam. According to Ukrainian intelligence, both cars are fully loaded with boxes of explosives. On the right bank, next to the Kakhovskaya HPP, there is the Vytautas Tower (Watchtower), which witnessed another war.
July 19, 2022. The russians inviders and collaborators entered the Kherson art museum, forcibly took the keys to all funds and appointed a new "director".
On October 24, 2022, the occupiers began looting the Kherson Museum of Local Lore. Nearly 70 people from Crimea came by buses. "Force support" of the robbery was carried out by the FSB. The russians said that the artifacts were being taken from Kherson to Crimea, they say, to protect them from the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and would be returned after "re-inventory". Four large tracks with taped number plates tooken out the whole collection of the local history museum for "re-inventory". The FSB hid the most valuable things in their cars, that is, they stole them.
Among the most valuable objects of heritage stolen by the russians, experts call the "golden room" (collection of Scythian gold and silver), lapidary, collection of weapons, which the founder of the museum, Viktor Goshkevich, began to collect, collection of numismatics.
On November 1, 2022, Russians began to loot the Kherson art museum. Occupiers took away 90% of the museum's collection (10,000 museum exhibits of 13,500). Collection of Baltic paintings and graphic art works was stolen also. Then paintings from the Kherson Museum appeared in the city of Simferopol, Crimea, in the Central Museum of Tavrida. Among identified exhibits, for example, the painting "Ancient Walls of Vilnius" by Augustinas Savickas (1919-2012). This artist is a classic of Lithuanian painting of the second half of the 20th century, a representative of the artistic dynasty of Savickas.
November 1, 2022. News came from the temporarily occupied Nova Kakhovka that art collection of the Albin Gavdzinsky art gallery were stolen by russians. They robbed the art gallery and took of all painting, graphics, and sculptures.
In the Kherson art museum and local history museum, in the art gallery of Nova Kakhovka, nothing but bare walls remained. After the liberation of Kherson on November 11, 2022, museum employees, who did not agree to work for the russians during the occupation, returned to their workplaces. They saw empty exhibition halls and empty funds.
The collection of artifacts from archaeological research in Tyagin, including unique medieval mace, Lithuanian heraldry, Crimean Tatar ceramics, coins – all these artifacts survived. This archeological collection was preserved because in February 2022 the NGO "Cultural Center of Ukraine-Lithuania" and the NGO "Center for Cultural Development "Totem" managed to take the collection away from Kherson for the exhibition in the National Archaeological Museum in Kyiv.
