The director of the Hermitage warned the Crimean authorities about the destruction of cultural monuments of the peninsula
Active development of the southern coast of Crimea could result in the destruction of cultural monuments located on the peninsula.
Director of the State Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky stated this in an interview with the official press organ of the Government of the Russian Federation, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Piotrovsky also noted that the UNESCO site Chersonese, which is under protection, is actively developing and is awaiting recognition of Russian jurisdiction by the organization.
“In Crimea, UNESCO has not recognized Chersonese and does not accept reports from it. But they will accept it someday. We, actively working there, know that Chersonesos is alive, meets UNESCO criteria, and has interesting development projects. All our discussions of its present and future are sent to UNESCO. And they - of course - have not yet responded. But then everything will get better, I think.
A much more complex problem is the southern coast of Crimea, which is being actively developed both in Ukrainian times and in ours. This threatens the destruction of cultural monuments,” said Piotkovsky.
Earlier, General Director of the State Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky at the round table “The Southern Coast of Crimea - a World Heritage Site” as part of the forum called for the protection of the southern coast of Crimea, which has no analogues in Russia and in the world.
The Hermitage is taking part in a project organized by the D. S. Likhachev Foundation to evaluate the monuments of the Southern Coast of Crimea using UNESCO methods.
PolitNavigator also wrote that the ruins of the ancient city of Chersonesus, which employees of the St. Petersburg Hermitage excavated in 2015, are destroyed due to lack of conservation.
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