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The library of the Faculty of Philosophy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens has been enriched with a facsimile copy of the Galician-Volyn Gospel (12th century)—one of the 12 books published so far within the "Returning the Cultural Heritage to Ukraine" project.

At the end of February, the founder of the project "Returning the Cultural Heritage to Ukraine", Hanna Horobets, and the project's PR manager, Olena Bashkatova, held a presentation in the city of Liuboml, Volyn region.

We continue our exploration of places where handwritten manuscripts were once kept. This time, we arrived in Liuboml, a town in the Volyn region.

On January 8, 2025, a regular meeting of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NAS of Ukraine) took place, during which we had the opportunity to present the project "Returning the Cultural Heritage to Ukraine" as part of the discussion on Ukrainian script from the 11th to the 14th century.

The year 2024 has passed—the third year of war that we have endured together. This year, the "Returning the Cultural Heritage to Ukraine" project participated in over 30 cultural events both in Ukraine and abroad.

On October 17th, 2019 a presentation of the facsimile edition of the Vienna Octoechos of the 13th century with the assistance of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation took place at the University of Vienna (Universität Wien). This facsimile edition was created as part of our project “Returning the Cultural Heritage to Ukraine”.

On November 29th on the UNIAN platform, the director of the Gorobets Publishers Ganna Gorobets, a project coordinator Diana Shamray, the Doctors of Historical Sciences Vyacheslav Kornienko and Lyudmila Gnatenko presented the facsimile edition of the Lauryshava Gospel of the 14th century.

The presentation of the facsimile publication “The Lauryshava Gospel, 14th century”, which was created as part of our project “Returning the Cultural Heritage to Ukraine”, took place in National Reserve “St. Sophia of Kyiv”. On the basis of the presentation a little documentary film with the name “The way of the Lauryshava Gospel of the 14th century home” was made. 

At 5 pm on November 21th, 2018 Gorobets Publishers with the assistance of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation as part of the project “Returning the Cultural Heritage to Ukraine” presented a facsimile copy of the Lauryshava Gospel, 14th century at the Mitropolich'i Palaty of the National Reserve “St. Sophia of Kyiv”.

On November 21st, at the national news agency Ukrinform, the Director of the Gorobets Publishers Anna Gorobets presented a facsimile edition of the Lauryshava Gospel of the 14th century, the original of which is stored in Krakow.

On November 20th, 2018 at the National Library of Ukraine Yaroslav the Wise, took place a presentation of facsimile edition of the Lauryshava Gospel of the 14th century, which saw the world in Gorobets Publishers” as part of our project “Returning the Cultural Heritage to Ukraine”, with the assistance of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.

On November 15th, 2018 a presentation of the Lauryshava Gospel of the 14th century, as part of our project “Returning the Cultural Heritage to Ukraine”, took place at the Museum of History of Religion in Lviv.

On November 18th, 2018 the Gorobets Publishers with the assistance of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation presented a facsimile copy of the Lauryshava Gospel of the 14th century at the Museum of Early Printed Books in Lviv.

The work on original manuscript of the Lauryshava Gospel is carried out by a Paleographer, a Doctor of Philological Sciences, a Senior Researcher of the Vernadsky National Library Lyudmila Gnatenko.

The presentation was held on December 8th, 2017 as part of the project “Kyiv Reads” with the assistance of the Kyiv City State Administration and Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko.