13 April two Russian rockets hit in the middle of Sumy. They took away their lives 32 people. And damaged a lot of historic city buildings. Among them is the Nicanor Onatsky Regional Art Museum. This building is being destroyed for the first time. U 2023 the year during the Russian rocket attack by an explosive wave broke the roof of the building. This time the windows were taken out.
Despite the constant threat, which intensified after the start of the special operation of the Armed Forces in the surrounding Kursk region, The museum collection was not evacuated.
The museum now has over 17 a thousand work in the collection, Among them are the works of Mykola Pymonenko, Vasily Krichevsky, Grigory Gavrilenko, Archipa Quinji, Ivan Aivazovsky, Elijah Repin, Maria Primachenko and many other well -known Ukrainian artists.
Sumy city is located behind 30 kilometers from the Russian border. 9 April of the Commander -in -Chief of the Armed Forces Alexander Sirsky declared, that the Russians actually have already started an offensive in Sumy and Kharkiv region.
