Key points:
- In 2025, 15 participants in the “Zemsky Cultural Worker” programme from the Russian Federation were brought to the occupied Kherson region.
- The cultural propagandists will work in institutions in the Henichesk, Kalanchak, Skadovsk and Kakhovka districts.
- The specialists came from several regions of Russia and the occupied Crimea and Sevastopol.
- According to the occupying authorities, the emphasis is on young personnel.
- Such actions are positioned as an attempt to ‘integrate’ the captured territories into the Russian cultural space.
- Similar deliveries of cultural workers are also taking place in the occupied Luhansk region.
In 2025, the Russian authorities brought 15 participants in the “Zemsky Cultural Worker” programme from several regions of the Russian Federation to the temporarily occupied areas of the Kherson region, according to ZMINA, citing the occupation “Minister of Culture” Artem Lagoy.
These specialists were employed by cultural institutions in the Henichesk, Kalanchak, Skadovsk, and Kakhovka municipal districts, which are currently under Russian control.
Among the propagandists brought in are representatives from Tatarstan, Khabarovsk Krai, Chelyabinsk, Kirov, Moscow and Orenburg regions, as well as from the occupied Crimea and Sevastopol.
According to the ‘minister,’ the focus is on attracting young people to work in cultural institutions.
The Russian administration positions such actions as the ‘integration’ of the occupied territories into its cultural space. Similar practices have been recorded in the occupied part of the Luhansk region, where 16 specialists have been brought in under the same programme since the beginning of 2025.
