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On January 27, 2025, Yuri Yanchyshyn gave the Annual General Meeting Talk at the International Institute for Conservation in London, entitled Conservation in Wartime Ukraine - Context, Challenges, Opportunities. This presentation, given by an AIC Wooden Artifacts conservator, Fulbright Specialist, and Scholar to Ukraine before the war, introduced the attendees to the objects and dedicated individuals who cared for this heritage while providing an integral 20c historical context. It concluded by assessing the wartime situation today and outlined pathways for the future.
“Yuri Yanchyshyn, a conservator of wooden artifacts and a researcher and scholar, has been volunteering with the project. He recalled being “dumbfounded” the first time he entered a wooden tserkva. The churches are an example of vernacular, or folk architecture, he said, built by local parishioners and craftsmen. Many have no nails and are held together with either pegs or mortise and tenon joinery. “
On October 3, 2024, Yuri Yanchyshyn, Fulbright Specialist and Scholar, gave a Ukrainian language presentation on “An Introduction to the Microscopic Wood Identification of Works of Art” at the Lviv Polytechnic National University in Lviv, Ukraine. This lecture builds on the knowledge presented during his lecture on “The Structure and Properties of Wood” of February 4, 2024. A handout accompanying this talk is available here
A highly detailed wood identification report (in Ukrainian) of a period icon from the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv, outlining the step-by-step wood identification procedures involved, is available here