Saint Sophia Cathedral, December 2023, Kyiv, Ukraine
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. In Ukrainian the cathedral is known as Sobor Sviatoi Sofii or Sofiiskyi sobor. The first foundations were laid in 1037 or 1011. According to one theory, Yaroslav the Wise sponsored the construction of the Saint Sophia Cathedral in 1037 to celebrate his decisive victory over the nomadic Pechenegs in 1036
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