Participants: Yevhen Nishchuk - Minister of Culture of Ukraine; Gennady Boryak - Chairman of the Working Group at the Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine on the Memorialization of Babyn Yar, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director of the Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Alexander Lysenko - Deputy Head of the Working Group, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of History of Ukraine during the Second World War of the Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Tetyana Pastushenko - Secretary of the Working Group, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Senior Researcher at the Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Vitaliy Nakhmanovich - Deputy Head of the Working Group, leading researcher at the Museum of the History of Kyiv, responsible secretary of the Public Committee to commemorate the victims of Babyn Yar; Boris Glazunov - Director General of the National Historical and Memorial Reserve "Babyn Yar".
The concept of complex memorialization of Babyn Yar with the expansion of the boundaries of the National Historical and Memorial Reserve "Babyn Yar" was developed by a working group at the Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine at the commission of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine and the National Historical and Memorial Reserve "Babyn Yar".
The concept provides for the creation of a holistic memorial complex, which will include: the memorial park "Babyn Yar - Dorogozhytsky necropolis"; Ukrainian Museum of the Holocaust; Memorial Museum in memory of victims of Babyn Yar; memorable sites, monuments and memorials related to Babyn Yar's history that are located outside the memorial zone.
As a pilot project, the concept considers the creation, on the basis of the previously developed Working Group concept, Memorial Museum in memory of victims of Babyn Yar in the historic building of the office of the former Jewish cemetery on the street. Melnikova 44.
