Hall of Remembrance, Kyiv

The Hall of Remembrance opened on October 14, 2018.[2]

It located on the site of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and has two entrances – from the domain of the Ministry of Defense and the street. Within the complex, there is a hall with a book in memory of the fallen Ukrainian militarians, a stele with a memorial bell, and a square for the ceremonial events.

The memorial hosts a ritual to commemorate members of the Armed Forces who died since 1992 in the battles for Ukraine or peacekeeping missions. A bell of memory will follow each surname.

As of the beginning of 2020, 2,678 plaques with the names of the dead have been installed in the Hall of Remembrance.[3]

On March 15, 2021, the third Book of Remembrance was officially added in the Hall of Remembrance, which also mentions the names of Ukrainian volunteers. Initially, the names of 71 volunteers were included in this book, and this work will continue until information about all the victims is posted on the memorial pages. Almost all those who are now entered in the Book of Remembrance were posthumously awarded state awards by Presidential Decree.[4]

The memorial complex was created with the assistance and initiative of the fifth President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko. The complex project was prepared by the Central Design Institute of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and built by servicemen of the State Special Transport Service of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. The memorial bell was made on the citizen's donations.

On October 14, 2018, on the Day of the Defender of Ukraine, the opening ceremony of the Memorial Complex took place.

The first ceremony honored the memory of Mykhailo Rybak, a soldier of the 51st mechanized brigade, who died on October 14, 2014, from injuries he received in the battle near Volnovakha in May 2014.

As of the beginning of 2020, the bell will be silent 17 days a year only. In those days, not a single serviceman or employee of the Armed Forces, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Security Service of Ukraine died.

From August 29, 2019, the Hall of Remembrance will honor servicemen of the Armed Forces and servicepersons of all military and law enforcement units who died in the battles for Ukraine. On that day, the names of 223 militaries who died on August 29 in different years were read out during the ceremony.[5][6][7]

In September 2020, the Order of the Ministry of Veterans "On the Book of Memory of Volunteers – Defenders of Ukraine who died in the battle for independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of Ukraine" was issued.

The concept and structure of the Book of Remembrance of Volunteer Defenders of Ukraine were agreed with representatives of the public, volunteer groups, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army, the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps "Right Sector", the OUN Volunteer Battalion, the Ministry of Defense and the Public Council.

From December 11, 2020, to March 5, 2021, several meetings of the Commission of the Ministry of Veterans Affairs of Ukraine on entering information into the Book of Remembrance took place. As a result of the work, 71 petitions were supported to include data on the lost volunteers in the Book of Memory of Volunteers-Defenders of Ukraine.

On March 15, the Book of Remembrance of Volunteers-Defenders of Ukraine was handed over to the "Hall of Remembrance" by the Minister for Veterans of Ukraine, Yulia Laputina.

Hall of Remembrance is located in Kyiv, Povitroflotskyi Avenue, 6.

Hall is open from 08.45 to 18.00 for all visitors.

With the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, from the beginning of 2020, the Hall of Remembrance is open only during the solemn ritual from 8:45 to 9:30. All interested visitors carry out the commemoration of the dead with the obligatory observance of anti-epidemiological measures.

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