Acknowledgements

This atlas grew from decades of fieldwork, scholarship, and open cataloguing by people who refused to let Yugoslav memorial modernism disappear from public memory.

• Donald Niebyl / Spomenik Database

  Foundational monument profiles, site histories, and the research vocabulary that made a scattered landscape legible again.

• Yugopapir

  Yugoslav press and local-history archive — dedication reports, contemporary coverage, and site histories cited across many monument profiles in our dataset.

• Jan Kempenaers

  Photography in Spomenik: Monumental Art of Yugoslavia that brought international attention back to abstract memorial forms.

• Andrew Lawler, Sanja Horvatinčić, Gal Kirn, Vladimir Deskov & others

  Academic writing on Yugoslav monumentality, memory politics, and post-war heritage that informs our commentary and movement pages.

• National heritage registers

  Successor-state inventories and official heritage registers used in discovery, cross-checking, and attribution gaps.

Archival images on this site appear with permission or under courtesy arrangements noted on each figure.

• Archives of Yugoslavia

  Black-and-white construction and dedication photographs on our editorial pages.

• Amos Chapple / Radio Free Europe

  The photo essay The Birth Of Yugoslavia’s “Spomeniks” — rare field images that helped reopen the conversation.

Spomenik Society is a living atlas. Every correction, photograph, and field note strengthens the record.

• Submit information contributors

  Visitors who send condition updates, local history, photographs, and attribution corrections through the site form.

• On-site caretakers & volunteers

  Neighbours, heritage workers, and crews who maintain monuments, remove overgrowth, and document what institutions have not yet reached.

• Local historians & heritage offices

  Municipal archives, conservation institutes, and independent researchers who answered follow-up questions across successor states.