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Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv: Then and Now

Cathedral founded by Yaroslav the Wise in 1037, keeping its 11th-century mosaics and frescoes; the exterior was later rebuilt in Ukrainian baroque style.

Historical view
Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv, historical view
M. Sazhin, St Sophia Cathedral (1840s). M. Sazhin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Today
Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv, today
Rbrechko, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Key facts

Country todayUkraine
StatusStanding
Date1037
Nearest city on the mapOdesa (about 442 km)
Location50.453° N, 30.514° E
Map showing Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv in 1000Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv
Border map for 1000. See Europe in 1000.

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Who ruled this place

Derived from the border maps; each row runs until the next recorded border change.

PeriodState
500 BC–199Milograd culture
200–399Unclaimed / no data
400–499Hunnic Empire
500–699Unclaimed / no data
700–799Severians
800–899Slavonic tribes
900–1099Kievan Rus'
1100–1199Kievan Rus'
1200–1299Principality of Kyiv
1300–1399Ryazan
1400–1649Poland-Lithuania
1650–1699Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
1700–1782Tsardom of Muscovy
1783–1919Russian Empire
1920–1929USSR
1930–1937White Russia
1938–1993USSR
1994–todayUkraine

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