Chairman of the Committee for the Preservation of the Cultural Heritage of the Leningrad Region became Julia Kripatova

The Governor of the Leningrad region Alexander Drozdenko appointed Yulia Kripatova to the post of Chairman of the Committee for the Preservation of the Cultural Heritage of the Leningrad region. This was reported in the press service of the administration of the Leningrad region.

Julia Igorevna is a historian, a graduate of SPbU. Participated in the project “Without statute of limitations”, collecting archival documents about the crimes of the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War. Together with colleagues, she created a memorial in Zaitsevo, based on documents from 22 regions. For almost 20 years she worked in the Leningrad Regional State Archive in Vyborg, including 8 years as a director.

Yulia Kripatova, having taken a new position, will continue her activities to protect and preserve architectural monuments, of which there are about five thousand in the region. In addition, she will be charged with managing the work of thirty regional museums.

For me, the Leningrad region is a land with a rich history, and our task is to preserve the evidence of epochs that connect generations. Work with objects of cultural heritage is not easy, it requires a systematic and professional approach, strict compliance with the legislation, building a constructive dialogue between the state, owners and investors.

According to the Leningrad Heritage Committee, among the most important projects of the region is “Without a statute of limitations”, within the framework of which archivists from 22 subjects of the Russian Federation carefully collected documents and testimonies about the atrocities of the Nazis and their accomplices against civilians during the Great Patriotic War.

On the initiative of Julia Kripatova and her colleagues, the sculptural compositions of the memorial in Zaitsevo are not generalized collective images: each of them is a historical fact embodied in bronze. The architects created the sculptures on the basis of archival photographs or documentary descriptions, the press service of the Leningrad Heritage said.