Regional museum directors hit by Ukrainian sanctions
Heads of 15 Russian museums have fallen under Ukrainian sanctions. They were accused of use The cultural treasures seized in Ukraine are displayed in their exhibits, glorifying Russian aggression, attempting to integrate museums in the occupied territories into the Russian museum system, holding exhibitions there, and opening cultural centers.
The 10-year restrictions affected:
🔹 manager Gukovsky museum of mining labor from Rostov Region Evgeniya Garkusheva - he organized exhibitions and children's centers in the Luhansk region;
🔹directors Tatarstan Museum-Reserve "Island-town of Sviyazhsk" Artem Silkin;
🔹head of the All-Russian Historical and Ethnographic Museum in Irina Zhukova's Torzhok,
🔹former deputy director of the Penza Museum of Local History, deputy minister of culture of the region, deputy director of the Tarkhany Museum-Reserve Viktor Kladov - he participated in the opening of children's cultural and educational centers in the Zaporizhzhia region,
🔹the director of the Chuvash National Museum in Cheboksary, Irina Menshikova, who participated in the opening of a children's ethnographic center in occupied Berdyansk,
🔹Director of the Yasnaya Polyana Museum-Estate in the Tula Region, Galina Alekseeva,
🔹Director of the Kulikovo Field Museum-Reserve Vladimir Gritsenko,
🔹Director of the Orenburg Museum of Fine Arts Yuri Komlev, who participated in the integration of Ukrainian museum institutions in Russia,
🔹Aleksandr Ushakov, head of the Orenburg Governor's Museum of History and Local History, who participates in projects in the occupied territories and collaborates with museums in the occupied Luhansk region.
As expected, the list included museum employees from St. Petersburg and Moscow. These included Dmitry Kozhanov from the Polytechnic Museum, Igor Koreyev from the Borodino Field Museum-Reserve, Yulia Kupina from the Russian Ethnographic Museum, Mikhail Mindlin from the Andrei Rublev Central Museum of Old Russian Art, and Oleg Chepurnoy from the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. Also sanctioned was Roman Kovrikov, director of the Peterhof Museum-Reserve.
