Victor Vechersky

Victor Vechersky (born 15 August 1958) grew up in Kyiv, the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union and present-day Ukraine. He is a Ukrainian architect who graduated from the Kyiv State Institute of Art architectural department in 1981. He gained his PhD in architecture in 2001.

Awards, prizes, honorary titles: State Prize of Ukraine in the Field of Architecture in 1998 and 2007; I. Morgilevsky Architectural and Town-planning Prize in 1999; Honored Cultural Worker of Ukraine, 1995.

He is also a scientist (Deputy Head of the Institute of Monument Protection Research under the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine), and a teacher (Asst. Prof. National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture).

Victor Vechersky is the author of numerous architectural studies, including: Researches and Restoration: Movchansky Monastery in Putyvl (1981); Wooden Fortress in Putyvl (1986); Reconstruction of the House of Ukrainian Painter Mykola Pymonenko in the village of Maliutianka (1990).

Plans and projects of protection areas for historical cities: Hlukhiv (1984); Poltava (1984); Lebedyn (1985); Chernivtsi (1986, 2006); Chyhyryn (1987); Putyvl (1987); Romny (1987); Okhtyrka (1988); Trostianets (1989); Bilopillia (1990); Konotop (1991); Sumy (1993, 2011); Odessa (2007); Vasylkiv (2008); Kyiv (2009–2010).

Projects of creation state historical-architectural preserves: Putyvl (1986), Hlukhiv (1992), Sumy (1993). Rehabilitation and preservation of historical town-building formation in Hlukhiv (1997).

State program of preservation of historical town-building formation in Hlukhiv (1999).

Master plans of state historical-architectural preserves in Hlukhiv (2003), Putyvl (2006), Chernihiv (2008).

Documentaries: "The World of Ukraine":

"The Temples of Ukraine" (1996), "The Ukrainian Elite" (1997), "The Ukrainian Steppe" (1998), "The Crimea" (1999).

Books: Historical-Architectural Researches of Ukrainian Towns, Moscow, 1990; The State Register of the National Heritage (Monuments of Architecture and Urbanism), Kyiv, 1999; Architectural and Urbanistic Heritage of Hetmanate Period: Creation, Research, Preservation, Kyiv, 2001; The Lost Objects of the Architectural Heritage in Ukraine, Kyiv, 2002; The Old Urban Heritage: The Historical and Urbanistic Researches for Historic Preservation of Inhabited Sites in Ukraine, Kyiv, 2003; Hlukhiv, Kyiv, 2003; Ukrainian Heritage, Kyiv, 2004; The Lost Temples, Kyiv, 2004; Heritage of Architecture and Urbanism of Left-bank Ukraine: Recognition, Researches, Recording, Kyiv, 2005; Castles and Fortresses of Ukraine, Kyiv, 2005; A History of Architecture, Kyiv, 2006; A History of Architecture of Eastern Europe, Kyiv, 2007; Ukrainian Wooden Churches (Kyiv, 2007); Monasteries and Churches of Putyvl region (Kyiv, 2007), The Capitals of Ukraine in Hetmanate Period (Kyiv, 2008); Ukrainian Monasteries (Kyiv, 2008); The Historical and Urbanistic Researches of Odesa (Kyiv, 2008); The Historical and Urbanistic Researches of Chernivtsi (Kyiv, 2008); The Orthodox Churches of Sumy region (Kyiv, 2009); The Historical and Urbanistic Researches of Kyiv (Kyiv, 2011); The Historical and Urbanistic Researches: Vasylkiv, Vinnytsia, Gorlivka, Izmail (Kyiv, 2011); The historical-cultural preserves (Kyiv, 2011); The historical-cultural preserves: master plans (Kyiv, 2011); Fortresses and Castles of Ukraine, (Kyiv, 2011); Ukrainian Wooden Architecture (Kyiv, 2013); The Historical and Urbanistic Researches: Sumy, Myrgorod, Korets (Kyiv, 2013);