The unique stained glass windows at the Taras Shevchenko University, damaged during the shelling of Kyiv, will be restored.

Special workshops have already been found, legal and financial issues are being resolved now, and they are also engaged in the search for parts lost after the explosion, TSN reports.  

"Each stained-glass window consists of two halves, and each half consists of 4 sections," says Associate Professor Oleksandr.

Where the convexity of the stained glass windows is not critical, they have been carefully fixed with tape and are waiting for the restorers.

They also decided not to touch the fact that the working premises fell out.

Only what fell into the corridor was collected for safekeeping.

"Unfortunately, today, after the last rocket attack on December 31, not a single surviving stained glass panel remains, two of them are completely damaged, and three are partially damaged," says the associate professor. 

5 modernist stained glass windows at the faculty of the Institute of Biology and Medicine were made in the late 80s by the artist Larisa Mishchenko's workshop.

The subjects were chosen by the scientists themselves.

"They were devoted to various branches of biological science, and had authentic plots that praised the objects or research methods of such branches of biological science as: zoology, botany, genetics, reproductive biology," - say the workers. 

In the same building, but a little further from the biological one, there is a geography faculty, which also had works of art - 5 panels of colored glass, and they are also damaged.

"If everything was more or less preserved in the biofac, then in the neighboring building - the geofac - the debris was simply taken out into the street.

People often throw such things in the trash because they don't understand the value," says Dmytro Solovyov, founder of the UkrainianModernism community.

This is probably just such a case, the activist believes, because there were many damages at the university, and these panels probably did not give due importance.

Eliminating the consequences of the missile strike in all the affected buildings, including 13 buildings.

"There were more than 15 cubes of broken glass alone," the workers say.

Mykhailo Levkiv, head of the vivarium at the Institute of Biology and Medicine, says that windows and doors in the classrooms were damaged, and there were many cracks on the walls.

Most of the damage is near the sports body.

Miraculously, scientific equipment, Europe's largest collection of algae, and experimental animals survived.

A separate point here will be the assessment of the level of damage to the stained glass windows made of biofac - although they are broken, but with all the details preserved, which cannot be said about the panels made of colored glass on the biofac.

"We went to the backyard and I saw a pile of broken glass and there was colored glass among them.

We started collecting them and taking them from the street.

But during that time, many passers-by took them for themselves," says Dmytro Solovyov, the founder of the UkrainianModernism community.

Dmytro appealed to the people of Kyiv to return these works of art through social networks.

Surprisingly, there are people who responded and passed them back to the university.

Activists have already found professional masters for the restoration of stained glass windows, and are currently collecting funds for the implementation of this idea.

The university promises to contribute and work together to restore the monuments.

If the damage assessment examinations do not last long, the restoration of the shop windows will take from several months to a year.

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