Kyiv to create Babyn Yar victims museum, Avenue of the Righteous

The program foresees mourning events at the National Babyn Yar Historical Memorial Preserve on September 29, 2016, which will be attended by Ukrainian and Kyiv authorities, NGOs, including foreign ones, the clergy, diplomats, and ambassadors. An official ceremony is to be held to break ground on a Memorial Museum of the Victims of the Babyn Yar Tragedy. A feasibility study and blueprints are to be prepared in 2016 along with the installation of a monument to the Romani people at the National Babyn Yar Historical Memorial Preserve. In September, the Memorial Complex 'National Museum of the History of Ukraine in World War II will have exhibits devoted to Jewish and Romani people who were killed and buried in the Babyn Yar ravine. They will also inform about other crimes committed by the German Nazis during World War II when Kyiv was occupied. Besides, the Avenue of the Righteous will be created as part of the National Babyn Yar Historical Memorial Preserve and all the related issues should be decided in 2016. One of the facilities of the former Jewish cemetery located at 44 Melnykova Street in Kyiv should be transferred in January-April 2016 to the National Babyn Yar Historical Memorial Preserve, which will house the Memorial Museum of the Victims of the Babyn Yar Tragedy. An international scientific conference devoted to the 75th anniversary of the Babyn Yar tragedy will be also on the agenda. Its materials will be published during the year. In September, Ukraine will issue an envelope 'The First Day' and a postage stamp to commemorate that tragic period of Ukrainian history.