CLASSIFICATION OF ARCHITECTURAL MONUMENTS OF TERRITORIAL COMMUNITIES OF THE CARPATHIAN REGION

Abstract

The article is devoted to studying ways to classify architectural monuments of territorial communities of the Carpathian region. The study’s relevance is due to the active development of the Carpathian region, which leads to an increase in the importance and need to preserve cultural heritage sites located on its territory. The article aims to classify the architectural monuments of the amalgamated territorial communities of Prykarpattia to preserve, study, and properly use them in the context of the active development of this region. To achieve this goal, we solved several tasks: defined the essence of the concept of ‘architectural monument’ and the most common ways of classifying architectural monuments; classified architectural monuments of the united territorial communities of Prykarpattia; determined the role of classification in the preservation, study, and proper use of architectural monuments of this region and the country as a whole. The study used general scientific methods of cognition: induction and deduction, analysis and synthesis, association and analogy. The study found that architectural monuments are classified by status, type, and purpose. The classification of architectural monuments of the territorial communities of Prykarpattia is essential for their preservation, protection, and determination of cultural and historical significance. To date, many of these sites are in unsatisfactory and close to critical condition and, therefore, require urgent emergency and conservation work. The implementation of these measures is complicated by problems existing in the state system of protection of cultural heritage sites. These problems include the imperfection of existing registers, reduced funding, and the lack of a comprehensive state program of action for the protection, preservation, maintenance, use, conservation, restoration, rehabilitation, and museumification of cultural heritage sites. Their classification can partially solve these problems. The practical significance of the study lies in the possibility of applying the results obtained to develop and improve strategies for the preservation, study, and proper use of architectural monuments of the communities of Prykarpattia. Keywords: architectural monument, united territorial community, cultural heritage, UNESCO, State Register of Immovable Monuments.