Victor Vechersky

Victor Vechersky
Born	15 August 1958 Kyiv
Nationality	Ukrainian
Alma mater	Kyiv State Institute of Art
Occupation	Architect
Awards	State Prize of Ukraine in the Field of Architecture in 1998 and 2007; I. Morgilevsky Architectural and Town-planning Prize in 1999; Honoured Cultural Worker of Ukraine, 1995

Victor Vechersky (born 15 August 1958) grew up in Kyiv, the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union and present-day Ukraine. He is a Ukrainian architect who graduated from the Kyiv State Institute of Art architectural department in 1981. He gained his PhD in architecture in 2001.

Awards, prizes, honorary titles: State Prize of Ukraine in the Field of Architecture in 1998 and 2007; I. Morgilevsky Architectural and Town-planning Prize in 1999; Honored Cultural Worker of Ukraine, 1995.

He is also a scientist (Deputy Head of the Institute of Monument Protection Research under the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine), and a teacher (Asst. Prof. National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture).

Victor Vechersky is the author of numerous architectural studies, including: Researches and Restoration:

• Movchansky Monastery in Putyvl (1981);
• Wooden Fortress in Putyvl (1986);
• Reconstruction of the House of Ukrainian Painter Mykola Pymonenko in the village of Maliutianka (1990).

Plans and projects of protection areas for historical cities:

• Hlukhiv (1984);
• Poltava (1984);
• Lebedyn (1985);
• Chernivtsi (1986, 2006);
• Chyhyryn (1987);
• Putyvl (1987);
• Romny (1987);
• Okhtyrka (1988);
• Trostianets (1989);
• Bilopillia (1990);
• Konotop (1991);
• Sumy (1993, 2011);
• Odessa (2007);
• Vasylkiv (2008);
• Kyiv (2009–2010).

Projects of creation state historical-architectural preserves: Putyvl (1986), Hlukhiv (1992), Sumy (1993). Rehabilitation and preservation of historical town-building formation in Hlukhiv (1997).

State program of preservation of historical town-building formation in Hlukhiv (1999).

Master plans of state historical-architectural preserves in Hlukhiv (2003), Putyvl (2006), Chernihiv (2008).

Documentaries: "The World of Ukraine":

"The Temples of Ukraine" (1996),

• "The Ukrainian Elite" (1997),
• "The Ukrainian Steppe" (1998),
• "The Crimea" (1999).

Books:

• Historical-Architectural Researches of Ukrainian Towns, Moscow, 1990;
• The State Register of the National Heritage (Monuments of Architecture and Urbanism), Kyiv, 1999;
• Architectural and Urbanistic Heritage of Hetmanate Period: Creation, Research, Preservation, Kyiv, 2001;
• The Lost Objects of the Architectural Heritage in Ukraine, Kyiv, 2002;
• The Old Urban Heritage: The Historical and Urbanistic Researches for Historic Preservation of Inhabited Sites in Ukraine, Kyiv, 2003;
• Hlukhiv, Kyiv, 2003;
• Ukrainian Heritage, Kyiv, 2004;
• The Lost Temples, Kyiv, 2004;
• Heritage of Architecture and Urbanism of Left-bank Ukraine: Recognition, Researches, Recording, Kyiv, 2005;
• Castles and Fortresses of Ukraine, Kyiv, 2005;
• A History of Architecture, Kyiv, 2006;
• A History of Architecture of Eastern Europe, Kyiv, 2007;
• Ukrainian Wooden Churches (Kyiv, 2007);
• Monasteries and Churches of Putyvl region (Kyiv, 2007),
• The Capitals of Ukraine in Hetmanate Period (Kyiv, 2008);
• Ukrainian Monasteries (Kyiv, 2008);
• The Historical and Urbanistic Researches of Odesa (Kyiv, 2008);
• The Historical and Urbanistic Researches of Chernivtsi (Kyiv, 2008);
• The Orthodox Churches of Sumy region (Kyiv, 2009);
• The Historical and Urbanistic Researches of Kyiv (Kyiv, 2011);
• The Historical and Urbanistic Researches: Vasylkiv, Vinnytsia, Gorlivka, Izmail (Kyiv, 2011);
• The historical-cultural preserves (Kyiv, 2011);
• The historical-cultural preserves: master plans (Kyiv, 2011);
• Fortresses and Castles of Ukraine, (Kyiv, 2011);
• Ukrainian Wooden Architecture (Kyiv, 2013);
• The Historical and Urbanistic Researches: Sumy, Myrgorod, Korets (Kyiv, 2013);

References

Castles and fortresses of Ukraine / Victor Vechersky Castles and fortresses of Ukraine / Victor Vechersky on ArtUkraine.com