Historic Centre of Tchernigov

[ ] was added in January, 2023

I initially visited Chernihiv (Chernigov in Russian) in winter 2017-18.

The provincial city of 300,000 people 100 miles north of Kyiv was surprisingly modern, well, at least the center was. It was filled with pleasant cafes and was completely devoid of the physical turmoil in the east of the country or the political one in Kyiv, at least to the eyes of this foreigner who stayed there only for 3 nights.

But this is a very historic city. In fact it's so much so that I'd call this city Ukrainian equivalent of Veliky Novgorod in Russia, which I have visited twice before. Indeed both cities played major roles in the formation of Kyivan Rus in the 9th century, which is the predecessor to both Ukraine and Russia of today, and come with the oldest church in both of these countries.

As such, all the main attractions of this city are religious edifices, the concentration of which also reminded me of Novgorod.

The UNESCO web page mentions only two of these edifices, but I'm assuming that the nomination covers all or part of the historic center, not just two churches.

Of the two churches the Cathedral of Transfiguration (top photo of this thread) in the Dytynets park (Chernihiv's former Kremlin) is regarded as the oldest church in Ukraine. The other church is the Borys and Gleb Cathedral in the same park. 

I also visited other main attractions, …