Work has begun in Kyiv to restore the Dovzhenko Film Studio following the missile strikes
This has been reported by the Ministry of Culture.
According to the Ministry, a specially established commission is currently assessing the exact extent of the damage to cultural heritage sites. The immediate priority is to protect the premises from further damage and to create the conditions necessary for the film studio to resume operations.
They also add that, in total, 18 buildings at the film studio were damaged in the attack, including monuments of history, science and technology of national and local significance. In particular, the Main Filming Pavilion, built in the late 1920s, the administrative, laboratory and ‘Shchorsivsky’ buildings, the film archive, the combined filming workshops and the staff accommodation block have been damaged. The buildings’ roofs, windows, walls and interiors have been damaged.
The film studio suffered its greatest losses due to a direct hit on the costume workshop. It housed one of Ukraine’s largest collections of stage and film costumes. In addition, the missiles destroyed part of the utility networks, including the electricity supply, water supply and sewerage systems.
Russian strike on the Dovzhenko Film Studio: what is known
During the Russian attack on Kyiv on 15 June, the occupiers struck the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Film Studio. The attack caused a fire in the studio’s costume workshop, and the strike destroyed Ukraine’s largest and oldest costume collection.
The film studio’s Director General, Andriy Donchik, said that they had managed to save the costumes of Pronya Prokopivna and Svyryd Petrovych Golokhvastov from the film *Chasing Two Hares*, as well as Ivan Mykolaychuk’s costume from the film *Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors*.
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