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.

The historical study “Cemetery Hill in the Caucasus: The History of the Space of Three Cemeteries Near Lytovska Street in Rivne” describes key historical facts about the site and its surrounding areas. It will help take into account the complex social and historical background of this territory during the revitalization process.

Focus of the study:

• Ethnic borderland and the long early modern history of Rivne

• Emergence and evolution of the space of three cemeteries

• Residents of adjacent areas

• During World War II

• Postwar era: destruction of the three-cemetery space

• The "invention" of Yevreyka
   

You are welcome to access and read the full study via the following link.

Author of the document – Petro Dolhanov, PhD in History.

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.