The petition concerning purchasing the car for the Preserve

Did you know that in autumn, 1930, the Administration of Lavra’s State Historical and Cultural Preserve – All-Ukrainian Museum Town, initiated the petition concerning purchasing the car for the museum institution? The petition was sent to the People’s Commissariat of Education that functioned as a direct governing body then.

Petro Kurinny, Director of the Preserve, stressed that All-Ukrainian Museum Town faced an “urgent” task – “to organize systematic anti-religious reports, lectures, film screenings, etc in the periphery regions”. Within the borders of the Kyiv region, this initiative could be realized if Preserve had its own transport.

In addition, the car could help transport various types of materials and packages from the city center or the railway station to the All-Ukrainian Museum Campus that was in a “very remote” area. The plans were to buy safe and reliable car.

The Administration wanted to spend 5,000 rubles from the special funds of the Preserve and buy the car. But representatives of the Research sector of the People’s Commissariat of Education decided that there was no need to buy any car for the All-Ukrainian Museum Town.

Anna Yanenko

Captions to illustrations:
1. Foreigners visiting Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra Preserve – All-Ukrainian Museum Town. Early 1930s (National Preserve “Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra”, inv. № KPL-N-1509)