CHEPURNOI Oleg Ivanovich

As Deputy Director for General Affairs of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, he cooperates with the occupation authorities in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, promotes the legitimisation of russia's occupation of Ukrainian territories and the integration of Ukrainian museums located in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine into the russian cultural space through the implementation of federal cultural and educational projects. Chepurnoi is actively involved in the opening of Children's Centres in the temporarily occupied territories. Thus, on 23 September 2024, Chepurnoi opened a children's museum centre in the temporarily occupied city of Mykhailivka, Zaporizhzhia region. The centre contains russian propaganda materials brought from Moscow.
Also, on 5 November 2023, Chepurnoi opened a children's centre in the Tokmak City Museum of Local Lore, where he "promised that trips to Moscow would be organised during the holidays for schoolchildren from Tokmak who would be actively involved in the children's centre".
In total, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts opened 7 children's rooms in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.