In Lviv, the procedure for installing tombstones and gravediggers on the territory of the Lychakiv Cemetery museum was approved. It is, in particular, about certain requirements for the size, arrangement, materials from which they are made.
And the sketchy designs of undertakers and gravestones, which they want to install on Lychakov, must now be approved by the Scientific Council of the museum. The relevant decisions were approved today by the executive committee of the LMR.
As explained in the Department of Protection of the Historical Environment of the LMR, this is how they want to settle the issue of the aesthetic appearance of gravediggers and tombstones at the Lychakiv Cemetery. “Earlier, the Academic Council was convened in individual cases. Now its activity will be systemic. She will examine the sketch designs of undertakers and tombstones and give her recommendations. Based on these recommendations, the head of the Lychakiv cemetery will make the final decision – to approve or disapprove of their installation.
The Lychakiv cemetery is still a museum, so we want all the graves or tombstones that appear here to be at the appropriate aesthetic level,” said Oleg Khandin, head of the department for the protection and use of cultural heritage objects of the Department of the Protection of the Historical Environment of the LMR .
In order to install a tombstone at the Lychakiv cemetery, you should contact the head of the museum, who is also the head of the Academic Council, with a corresponding application and sketch project. And already he, on the basis of appeals, convenes the Scientific Council, which gives its conclusions and recommendations.
The members of the Scientific Council are the heads of the city departments of architecture and urban planning and protection of the historical environment. And also, by agreement, sculptors, architects, artists, scientists: Taras Benyakh, sculptor-restorer; Oles Dzindra, artist; Vasyl Kosiv, rector of the Lviv National Academy of Arts; Roman Mogytych, architect, restorer; Yuriy Ostrovsky, associate professor of the department of works of art of the Lviv National Academy of Arts; Vasyl Yarych, sculptor, Honored Artist of Ukraine, People’s Artist of Ukraine.