National cultural heritage is a key element of both culture and national identity of any nation, no matter how modernized. Therefore protection and actualization of national heritage should be among the pillars of a comprehensive modern public cultural policy.

Also, it is only on the base of well preserved national cultural heritage that several sectors of modern economy (creative industries, tourism, hotel business, and other services) can develop and flourish.

Heritage protection in contemporary Ukraine, despite numerous achievements and prolonged efforts to cope with its no less numerous problems, has the following priority tasks to be accomplished:

• elaborating a balanced and comprehensive heritage policy of the state in the rapidly changing socio-economic circumstances;
• creating a more effective system of public executive bodies of heritage protection;
• improving the existing system of public support to heritage protection, renovation, actualization of monuments, historic sites, other heritage objects.