Kyiv’s Skovoroda Library damaged by Russian attack

Out of 452 aerial attack weapons launched overnight, one struck and damaged Kyiv’s Skovoroda Library between June 5 and 6. The building’s facade was damaged by the strike, and the explosion shattered its windows. No staff were injured, the library later reported, and the book collection remained intact.

Skovoroda Library has been operating since 1946. Its collection contains 55,800 items, and more than 6,000 users visit it annually.

The first literary evenings of Ukrainian literary classics took place within its walls — writers who, during their student years, lived in the dormitory at 4 Osvity Street: Ivan Drach, Borys Oliinyk, Vasyl Symonenko, Vasyl Stus, Valerii and Vasyl Shevchuk, Ivan Dziuba, Ivan Svitlychny, and others.

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After Russia’s full-scale invasion began, the library was renamed. From 1955 to 2023, it was named after the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky.

As reported earlier, a Russian missile strike in October 2022 damaged the Maksymovych Scientific Library of Taras Shevchenko National University and the National Scientific Medical Library of Ukraine.

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