As Russian bombs rain down on Ukraine, one young Ukrainian activist is trying to halt destruction of a different kind: the neglect of, and damage to, modernist buildings and public art.
Nearly a decade ago, in 2015, Ukraine instituted laws demanding the removal of monuments and street names glorifying the country’s communist past, with the exception of listed heritage sites. But masterpieces of Soviet modernism are at risk from an unthinking approach to the laws, according to architecture expert and photographer Dmytro Soloviov.
