Opening of a memorial sign in honor of Metropolitan Vasyl Lypkivsky!

This is an event that we as a team have been looking forward to for a long time, and which was initiated by our friend Andriy Kovalev. It was a great honor for us to join the creation of a monument to the Metropolitan in Kyiv. We became sponsors together with Obolon company, who are an example of responsible Ukrainian business for us. This is our second joint project, of which we are proud, and we believe it will not be the last!

Thanks to people like Metropolitan Lipkivsky, we have a canonical and recognized OCU today! In August 1934, at the age of 73, Vasyl Lipkivsky was forcibly evicted to a stranger's house, away from the city center, because the Soviets considered him a danger to the rotten empire. For the last three years before his execution, the Metropolitan lived in Kyiv at 4 Hryhorii Kochur Street.

The house was demolished in the seventies. But Oleksandr Mykhailyk found the exact location of the house. We are grateful to Ksenia Semenova for helping to legitimize the place and supporting the initiative. We thank the sculptor of the monument Oleksandr Tkachuk. We were also grateful for the opportunity to meet the Orthodox bishops who consecrated the monument. It is very valuable that the event was attended by the community and representatives of the Ukrainian intelligentsia, including Taras Kompanichenko, Lesya Lokhvitska, Mykola Tymoshchuk, and Ivan Kolodnytsky.

Now Kyiv residents can honor the memory of one of the fighters for independence and a true Ukrainian church!
 
In the photo, you can see directly the consecration of the monument, the grandson of Vasyl Lypkivskyi, and all the caring citizens who attended the opening and honored the memory of the metropolitan!