Ukraine has created an electronic register of immovable monuments

Key points

• The government has approved the electronic system State Register of Immovable Monuments of Ukraine.
• The register will replace paper records with a digital database.
• The project will run for two years on a trial basis.
• The system will include monuments of national and local significance, historical areas and nature reserves.
• The new register will provide cartographic visualisation and object search capabilities.
• The records will be integrated with other state cadastres.

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved a resolution on the creation of an electronic system called the State Register of Immovable Monuments of Ukraine, which is to become the new standard for recording cultural heritage and replace paper records with a digital database.

The initiative was launched by the Ministry of Culture, and the experimental phase of the project will last two years from the date the resolution comes into force.

The State Register of Immovable Monuments of Ukraine will combine data on:

• cultural heritage sites of national and local significance;
• newly discovered monuments;
• world heritage sites and their buffer zones;
• historic areas of settlements;
• historical and cultural reserves and protected areas;
• monument protection zones.

The introduction of the register also provides for:

• the transition to digital accounting of immovable cultural heritage objects;
• the formation of a List of Cultural Heritage Objects in accordance with the Law of Ukraine “On the Protection of Cultural Heritage”;
• cartographic visualisation of the location of monuments and their protection zones with defined modes of use.

Data can be searched by coordinates, and the system will provide electronic information exchange with other state resources, particularly in the field of geospatial data.

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