Bronze busts were rescued: what is known at the Shukhevich Museum, which was destroyed by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (photo)

The house itself is historic for Ukrainians, because since 1949 it was a conspiratorial apartment of Roman Shukhevych. Lost memorial things: table, chair, armchair, piano. On New Year's Eve, the fragments of the whipped enemy UAV Shahd fell to the Museum of the General-Huruni Ukrainian Insurgent Army Roman Shukhevych, located on Belogorsh Street, 76 in Lviv. There is no longer a legendary building, it is completely destroyed.

The local authorities reported that the losses were caused by more than UAH 2 million, said the head of the Lviv OVA Maxim Kozytsky. According to him, the lost memorial things: table, chair, armchair, piano. "The rest, about 600 units of exhibits, have been moved to another place from the beginning of a full -scale war. The losses are 2 million 258 thousand hryvnias. According to Kozitsky, it is only the cost of the building. Losses due to lost property are still calculated.

The museum team managed to save the bronze bust of Roman Shukhevych by Mikhail Chereshnevsky. The sculpture was only minor damage. It is a memorial -type museum dedicated to the figure of UPA Chief Commander Roman Shukhevych, was located in the house where he died. Here, since 1949, there was a conspiratorial apartment of General-Hurunzh. The museum was opened on October 23, 2001 at the expense of the UPA soldiers in the United States named after Taras Chuprynka. The house had two floors.

On the ground floor there were five thematic halls. The second floor reproduced the life of the UPA chief commander during his stay in this underground apartment in the period 1948 - 1950. At the entrance to the attic there was a hiding place, and in fact - a partition that separated the attic from the room with a double rain wall. The entrance to the Kryivka was made from the staircase. It was this entrance that Roman Shukhevych used when he entered the last battle with MGB units on March 5, 1950.

The stairs are saved unchanged. The inner part of the hiding place and the entrance to it is restored. Stairs, Kryivka, living room became the main memorial objects of the museum. When carrying out renewable work in the wooden wall opposite the entrance to the hiding place, a ball from the pistol "Walter" was found. The hole from the ball was at a height of 80 cm from the floor. On March 5, 1950, Shukhevych planned to move from there, but did not have time.

"At dawn on March 5, 1950, MGB agents surrounded the village of Belogorsh near Lviv. One of the houses staged a round -up. The operation lasted half an hour. The Chekist attention object - UPA commander Roman Shukhevych - managed to shoot two attackers. The communications commander Galina Didyk tried to accept poison, but was rescued and sentenced to 25 years of camps.