Saint-Sophia Cathedral, Ukraine

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Kiev, also known as Kyiv, is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River.
Kiev Pechersk Lavra, also known as the Kiev Monastery of the Caves, is a historic Orthodox Christian monastery in Kiev, Ukraine. Since its foundation as the cave monastery in 1015 the Lavra has been a preeminent center of the Eastern Orthodox Christianity in Eastern Europe. Together with the Saint-Sophia Cathedral, it is inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.