UNESCO World Heritage for Ukraine

UNESCO World Heritage Sites represent some of the best natural, cultural and historic attractions in world travel. Below are details of the 7 cultural, natural and mixed sites inscribed for Ukraine to date (a red World Heritage symbol denotes a site currently regarded as endangered). For more details of these properties, click on the links to the UNESCO website and the photographic galleries of these sites from OurPlace (where available).


1990 - Kiev: Saint-Sophia Cathedral and Related Monastic Buildings, Kiev-Pechersk Lavra
1998 - L'viv – the Ensemble of the Historic Centre
2005 - Struve Geodetic Arc
2007 - Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians
2011 - Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans
2013 - Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine
2013 - Ancient City of Tauric Chersonese and its Chora