Non-invasive Archaeological Survey of the “Yevreyka Park” Area in Rivne, 2025
Topic: Local Economic Development
Implementation period: May 2025 – August 2025
Client: European Union
Partners: Center for Urban History
Details: Rivne is one of the three communities participating in the project “REHERIT 2.0: Common Responsibility for Shared Heritage”. Together with our partners, we are working on the urban revitalization of the Yevreyka Park in Rivne, rethinking its place in the city’s environment, and integrating it into the social life of Rivne. Until the 1950s, the park area was the space of historical cemeteries: Jewish, Orthodox, and Catholic. Today, it is an open urban memorial space in need of rethinking and restoration.
As part of the project, the Research Center “Protective Archaeological Service of Ukraine” studied the park territory using a non-invasive archaeological method, which involves field research without deep excavations. In this way, archaeologists analyzed the area’s vegetation, preserved matzevot, and archival materials, examined the topsoil, and conducted remote satellite sensing of the area. This helped localize all well-preserved parts of the cemetery and define the chronological boundaries of these zones.
The results, conclusions, and recommendations for further work with the territory were presented to the Centers in the Technical Report on the results of the non-invasive archaeological survey of the object: the “Yevreyka Park” area.
REHERIT 2.0 is the continuation of the ReHERIT project, which we implemented together with partners from 2018 to 2021. Project website, facebook page.
Project news on the PPV Economic Development Agency website.
"REHERIT 2.0: Common Responsibility for Shared Heritage" is implemented by the Center for Urban History and the Centre for Regional Development of the PPV Economic Development Agency. The project is funded by the European Union.
This publication was produced with the financial support of the European Union. Its contents are the sole responsibility of the partners of the "REHERIT 2.0" project and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.