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On September 12, 2011, the Ukrainian Ministry of Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Communal Services awarded the Kyiv Ukraine Temple first place for the best religious building constructed in Ukraine in 2010. [13] In 2020, like all others in the church, the Kyiv Ukraine Temple was closed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. [14]
Withdrawing Soviet troops practiced the tactics of scorched earth and blew up all the Kyiv bridges over Dnieper as well as the main Khreshchatyk street and Kyiv Pechersk Lavra. [5] The destruction of the cathedral followed a pattern of Soviet disregard for cultural heritage, as they previously blew up the ancient St. Michael's Golden-Domed ...
History of Saint Volodymyr Cathedral, Kiev History website (in English) (in Ukrainian) Official website (in Russian) Sobory.ru — information about the cathedral; ukraine-gateway.org.ua — St. Volodymyr's (Volodymyrsky) Cathedral (in Ukrainian) Володимирський собор Archived 2007-11-02 at the Wayback Machine in Wiki ...
Kyiv, labelled Kiou, in a detail of Ortelius's 1562 map "Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio" (Description of Rus, Muscovy, and Tartary). Kyiv became a part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania after the Battle at Blue Waters in 1362, when Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania, beat a Golden Horde army. During the period between 1362 and 1471 ...
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Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, is an architectural monument of Kievan Rus'.The former cathedral is one of the city's best known landmarks and the first heritage site in Ukraine to be inscribed on the World Heritage List along with the Kyiv Cave Monastery complex.
Google has updated it's aerial maps of Ukraine for the first time since the start of Russia's attack - with images now revealing the full scale of devastation. The contrast is stark in Mariupol.
The first site listed was "Kyiv: Saint-Sophia Cathedral and Related Monastic Buildings, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra", in 1990. The most recent site listed was the Historic Centre of Odesa , in 2023. The site was immediately listed as endangered because of the 2022 Russian invasion , the sites of Kyiv and Lviv were added to the endangered list as well ...