PECULIARITIES AND TRENDS IN THE FORMATION AND PLACEMENT OF MEMORIAL COMPLEXES IN THE POST-WAR PERIOD IN UKRAINE

The article is devoted to the analysis of the world experience of placing and arranging military memorials, the study of the development of forms of commemoration of the fallen defenders of Ukraine during the Russian-Ukrainian war in the period from 2014 to 2024 and the determination of the military memorials’ possible types, options for their placement in the settlements’ structure, their functional composition, forms of burials (traditional and/or urn), symbols that will be used. The article first examines the forms of spontaneous commemoration that arose in Ukraine during the Russian-Ukrainian war and were then partially institutionalized by decisions of local governments and central government bodies. The practice of dealing with existing Soviet military memorials is considered from the point of view of fulfilling the requirements of the laws of Ukraine aimed at decommunization and countering Russian imperial propaganda. The main possible options for placing memorial complexes in Ukraine, their functional composition and figurative and symbolic solutions are determined. It has been proven that such memorial complexes should become not only a place of remembrance symbols, but also museum and educational centres where one can learn about the country's history through the stories of the lives and deaths of individual people.