“In the Volyn region this year, the court returned to the state land with an area of more than 80 hectares with ancient hillforts – dating back to the times of Kyivan Rus.”, — write: www.ukrinform.ua
In the Volyn region this year, the court returned to the state land with an area of more than 80 hectares with ancient hillforts – dating back to the times of Kyivan Rus.
It is noted that this year six lawsuits were brought to the court for the protection of archaeological monuments on lands with an area of more than 80 hectares.
In particular, the fact of an illegal inventory of a 72-hectare plot as agricultural land on the territory of the Lytovezka Village Council of the Volodymyr District was revealed. There is an archeological monument of national importance – the Fort “Zamok” of the 9th-13th centuries, which is washed on three sides by the Zahidny Bug River.
“Prosecutors reacted to the violation and appealed to the court to return the historical and cultural plot of land to the state. The claims have been satisfied, and the court’s decision has already been fully implemented,” the OGP informed.
In addition, at the request of the prosecutor’s office, the state was returned to the state a 4-hectare plot of land under the archeological monument of national importance “Horodishche – Ramparts of the IX-XIII centuries”, located in the State Historical and Cultural Reserve “Ancient Volodymyr”.
As noted in the OGP, a lawsuit was also filed and a plot of land with an archeological monument of national importance – the Korshiv hillfort of the times of Kyivan Rus – was returned from private to state ownership in a court of law. “Since 2009, it has been included in the State Register of Immovable Monuments of Ukraine. The court’s decision will be implemented after it enters into force,” the department specified.
Another example is the satisfaction of the claim for the return to the state of a plot within the village of Lytovezh of the Volodymyr district, which was illegally transferred to communal ownership. It is about the archaeological site of national significance of the Horodyshche “Hirka” of the 11th-13th centuries.
The settlement was discovered in 1901 by the Ukrainian historian Volodymyr Antonovych. Later, it was examined by the archaeologist, historian, ethnographer and researcher of Volyn Oleksandr Tsinkalovskyi. Stone and flint tools, ceramics of the Neolithic, Bronze Age, and Roman times, ceramic products of the Tryplian culture and the ware ware culture, and stone domino of the spherical amphora culture were found there. According to the OHP, the artifacts discovered during the survey are now in the Lviv Historical Museum.
Read also: In Khmelnytskyi region, the court returned to the state the land on which the archaeological site is located The department noted: scientists also hold the opinion that the lands under archaeological monuments should be state property. In particular, the head of the Volyn archaeological expedition of the Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Viktor Bayuk, notes that the prosecutor’s office has completed the state case – the return of archaeological monuments, because the ancient settlements are the national heritage of Ukraine and with a special status, they can only be state property.
As reported by Ukrinform, in October, a plot of 5.5 hectares in the Kharkiv region, where the Sheermanivske settlement archeological monument is located, was returned to the state.