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Tangible and intangible cultural heritage

“Without a native language, there is no nation, young man”

V.Sosyura
A cultural heritage of each nation is not only a combination of inherited cultural values from the predecessors. It is a source of life, from which each nation and country feeds itself, and without which a successful development of the state.

While travelling through different countries we first learn the culture of a certain nation, its spiritual values, traditions and beliefs, we study the language, trying to understand its essence. And the answer to this understanding lies within depths of a national culture, that manifests in a tangible and intangible cultural heritage of each nation.

When we talk about a “tangible cultural heritage” we mean: monuments, ensembles, sights, as well as: the content of libraries, museums, archives; architectural buildings (churches, monasteries, castles, palaces) and other cultural and architectural monuments.

In the UNESCO Convention the term “intangible cultural heritage” means those traditions, forms of representations and expressions, knowledge and skills, as well as corresponding instruments, items, artifacts and cultural spaces, that are considered by the communities, groups and in some cases certain individuals as part of their cultural heritage. This is intangible cultural heritage, which is passed down from generation to generation and is constantly reproduced

Ukrainian sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List

7 Ukrainian cultural-architectural and natural pearls, listed on the UNESCO, world heritage list are:

  1. St. Sophia Cathedral, Kiev-Pechersk Lavra and related monastic buildings (from 1990)
  2. Ensemble of the historical center of Lviv (from 1998)
  3. Struve Geodetic Arc (2005)
  4. “Residence metropolitans of Bukovina and Dalmatia” (now – Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University) (from 2011)
  5. “Ancient city Chersonese Tavriya and its choirs” (from 2013)
  6. “Wooden Churches of the Carpathian region of Ukraine and Poland”, joint Ukrainian-Polish nomination (from 2013)
  7. Natural object: “Beech Villas of the Carpathians and Ancient Beech Forests of Germany (from 2011)

As of the intangible cultural heritage list, 6 elements are included in it, which are:

  • Opishnian ceramics
  • Bread culture (Bread culture and traditions)
  • Krolevets woven towels
  • Petrykivka painting
  • Kosiv painted ceramics
  • Cossack songs of Dnipropetrovsk region.

In October 2020 it was decided that “Culture of Ukrainian borscht cooking” will also be added to the list. In addition, Petrykivka painting and “Tradition of Kosiv hand-painted ceramics” are included to the representative list.