Inventory of mosaic works exists only in Kyiv and 5 regions
Only Lviv, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Ternopil, and Donetsk regions, as well as the city of Kyiv, are currently maintaining records of mosaic works, regional administrations told Interfax-Ukraine.
In December 2025, Deputy Minister of Culture for Digital Development Anastasiia Bondar noted that the initiative for preserving mosaics must come from local communities. According to her, the state is responsible for preserving what is on its balance sheet and entered into relevant registers.
In Kyiv, as of early March 2026, about 30 works of monumental art are on record, with two entered into the state register as monuments of local significance. Lviv regional authorities reported that as of mid-March, 226 such objects have been recorded, though the process is ongoing. In Vinnytsia, over 30 mosaics were included in the list of newly discovered objects in August 2025.
Zhytomyr regional authorities have begun summarizing information and requesting data from local communities, while Ternopil has recorded 32 mosaics so far. In Donetsk region, as of January 2022, 73 mosaic works were recorded on government-controlled territory. However, as of March 2026, 54 of these are located in temporarily occupied territories or active combat zones, and 19 are in areas under periodic shelling.
Most other regional administrations—including Khmelnytskyi, Poltava, Rivne, Sumy, Kirovohrad, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zakarpattia, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhia, Cherkasy, Odesa, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Chernivtsi, Volyn, Luhansk, and Kyiv region—reported that separate records of mosaic works are not maintained.
Despite the lack of general records, several regions noted specific protected objects:
Sumy: The "Seven Birds – Seven Notes" panel (based on Viktor Zaretsky’s sketches) was added to the heritage list in September 2022.
Cherkasy: The "Bird" architectural-monumental object by Alla Horska and Viktor Zaretsky in Helmyaziv is under state protection.
Chernihiv: The "Worker and Female Worker" panel in the regional center has been on the state record since January 2021.
Volyn: Lutsk city authorities have completed the inventory of mosaics, identifying 12 addresses.
The Ministry of Culture informed the agency that the State Register of Immovable Monuments currently contains 34,168 monuments, including 453 monuments of monumental art. The Ministry is currently processing orders to add five mosaics in Kyiv and one in Lviv to the Register. Additionally, a draft resolution has been prepared to grant national significance status to the "Bird" object in Cherkasy region.
In 2025, a replica of Alla Horska’s "Boryviter" mosaic, which was damaged by Russia in Mariupol, was created in Ukraine.
Text Iegor Shumikhin
