HQ84+8C Katerynivka, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine
One of the points of the Struve Arc is located near the village of Katerynivka in the Khmelnytskyi district of Khmelnytskyi region.
The Struve Arc, once known as the "Russian-Scandinavian Meridian Arc," is one of UNESCO's World Heritage monuments. The arc consists of 265 triangulation points, where measurements were conducted from 1816 to 1852 that allowed for determining the exact size and shape of the Earth.
The reference points of this triangulation network were marked in various ways on the ground: hollows carved into rocks, iron crosses, stone pyramids, or specially installed obelisks. Often, they were marked with sandstone bricks laid at the bottom of a pit; sometimes it was a granite cube with a cavity filled with lead, placed in a pit with cobblestones.
During the project work to include the Struve Arc on the UNESCO list, which lasted 8 years, special search and geodetic works were carried out in each country to locate the original points. All information from all the countries of the Struve Arc was collected, structured, and standardized.
Not all of the original points were found during the special search and geodetic works carried out in recent years with active cooperation from scientists of the interested countries, and many of them were heavily damaged. Therefore, only the best-preserved points—34 in total—were included in the World Heritage site.
In Ukraine, 4 such points out of 50 have been preserved.
– "Katerynivka," near the village of Katerynivka (Khmelnytskyi region) 49°33'57" N, 26°45'22" E (G)
– "Fel’shtyn," near the village of Hvardiiske (Khmelnytskyi region) 49°19'48" N, 26°40'55" E
– "Baranivka," near the village of Baranivka (Khmelnytskyi region) 49°08'55" N, 26°59'30" E
– "Staro-Nekrasivka," near the village of Stara Nekrasivka (Odesa region), 45°19'54" N, 28°55'41" E
The work was completed in 2004. Each national package of final documents was signed by a government representative. At that time, a special International Committee was created, representing a supranational management mechanism for the Struve Arc.
The four points of the Struve Geodetic Arc located on the territory of Ukraine are included in the State Register of Immovable Monuments of Ukraine and are protected in accordance with the Law of Ukraine "On the Protection of Cultural Heritage."
Sources:
http://monuments.top/punkt-dugi-struve-v-katerinovke/
