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Tourist Attractions in Chernihiv

Chernihiv  is a green Ukrainian city with a history of about 1300 years. This city is famous for its ancient architecture. Beautiful cathedrals and churches built in 11-13 centuries attract a lot of tourists to Chernihiv.

If you visit Chernigov for the first time it is better to start with Chernihiv rampart (the Val, the Dytynets) It is located in the oldest part of the city in the spiritual center of Chernihiv. It is the historic and cultural heart of Chernihiv. Tourists can find here the greatest concentration of churches, cathedrals, historical buildings and museums.

Spaso-Preobrazhensky Sobor or Cathedral with its golden towers that resemble up-ended ice-cream cones was founded in 1024 and it is the oldest Orthodox church in Ukraine and in Russia. Only Constantinople Sofia, which is now located in Turkey is older than this cathedral.

Here you can also see Sts.  Borys and Hlib Cathedral which is famous for its “white stone” decorations (The burial place of the Chernigov princes), Chernihiv Collegium(the first educational institutions in the Left-Bank Ukraine), the History Museum, the monument to Taras Shevchenko (a famous Ukrainian poet) and of course twelve guns of various historical periods located on the Val.

St. Catherine's Church is one of the most beautiful churches in Ukraine. It is located opposite the Chernigov rampart.

Trinity Cathedral of Chernigov is also a very popular sightseeing with the tourists. This cathedral is famous for its beauty and is visible from all sides of the city.

Eletsky monastery has an unusual history. According to the legend it was founded on the place where St Antony Pechersky saw an icon of the Virgin that miraculously appeared in front of him

 on the top of a fir tree. It is believed that the monastery was called in honour of this fir (in Russian language fir pronounced as Iel’ so the monastery was called Eletsky).

Archeologists have found a lot of underground passages in Chernigiv. St. Anthony’s caves form an underground monastery, founded in 1069. There is a legend that Chernigov caves were connected with Kiev caves with an underground passage.

Chernihiv is worth visiting