Dr. Anna Yanenko is a Ukrainian historian and museum researcher with experience in academic research and heritage practice. She works in Kyiv at the National Preserve “Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra,” where she heads the Research Department of the History of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and collaborates closely with the Department of Collections Management on the institution’s collections. She is a board member of the Ukrainian Association of Archaeologists and ICOM Ukraine, a non-residential fellow at CEFRES (Prague), and a former fellow at TheMuseumsLab 2026 (DAAD).
Dr. Yanenko was a Research Fellow of the National Memorial to the Heavenly Hundred Heroes and Revolution of Dignity Museum (Maidan Museum). In addition, she co-founded and co-organizes the Research Seminar on the History of the Humanities in Ukraine (an initiative of ICOM Ukraine and the Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) and coordinates conferences on the history of humanities, archaeology, and museums in Ukraine. She also edits the scholarly journal “Chronicle of Archaeology and Art”. She has curated and coordinated several public history and exhibition projects, including one on the archaeological heritage stolen by Russia and another on Ukraine’s war-torn sacral architecture.