STATE POLICY IN THE FIELD OF CULTURAL HERITAGE PROTECTION (ON THE EXAMPLE OF MONUMENT PROTECTION ACTIVITIES IN VOLYN)

Abstract

The importance of the cultural heritage for the nation is difficult to overestimate, because the latter is a clear result of the spiritual and material development of the people, a sign of its cultural and mental separateness. It is through cultural heritage, monuments of architecture, archeology, art, books, manuscripts and scientific collections that the history of the people, the inseparable connection of generations, the formation of national identity are observed. Volyn is a special region in the history and culture of Ukraine, because these lands since the Galicia-Volyn state became not only the political but also the cultural center of Kievan Rus, and in the following centuries there were multiplied and developed traditions. In addition, Volyn is located on the border of Ukrainian and Polish lands and the mutual influences and interpenetration of cultures of two neighboring nations are especially noticeable here. That is why the purpose of this publication is to track and analyze the peculiarities of Volyn in terms of protection and preservation of historical and cultural monuments in the context of national policy in the field of cultural heritage protection. The process of preservation and protection of cultural heritage involves the coordination of purposeful domestic and foreign policy activities aimed at preserving, protecting and reproducing all that in modern international relations and law is contained in the generalized concept of "cultural heritage". Since the last decade of the twentieth century, Ukraine has laid the foundations of a nationwide regime of preservation and protection of cultural and natural monuments. At the present stage, the protection of cultural heritage in Ukraine is carried out on the basis of a number of legal acts and laws of Ukraine, which were developed in the second half of the 90s of the XX – the first decades of XXI century.