Seven Wonders of Ukraine

National Historical and Architectural Reserve

"Kamenetz"National Historical and Architectural Reserve "Kamenetz" is located in Kamenetz-Podolsk, Khmelnytsky region.More March 23, 1928 in Kharkiv Council of People's Commissars issued a decree "On the declaration of the castle-fortress in the town of Kamenetz-Podolsk state historical and cultural reserve". According to this decree castle within its ancient walls and embankments with all the ancient fortifications, Russian and Polish gates, towers Stefan Batory was declared a state historical and cultural reserve and submitted with all the property that had historical and cultural importance in maintaining the Commissariat of Education Ukrainian SSR.

Kiev-Pechersk LavraKiev-Pechersk Lavra - one of the first of the founding of monasteries in the ancient Russian state. Founded in 1051 by Yaroslav the Wise monk Antony, a native of Lubech. The founders of the Cave Monastery was one of the first students Anthony - Theodosius and Byzantine Theophanes. Prince Svyatoslav II Jaroslawich gave the monastery a plateau above the cave where he later rose beautiful stone temples decorated with paintings, cells, towers and other buildings. From the monastery associated with the names of the chronicler Nestor (author of "The Tale of Bygone Years"), artist Alypy.

C 1592 till 1688 th was stavropegic Patriarch of Constantinople; since 1688 the monastery was granted the status of laurels and become "Stavropigion king and the patriarch of Moscow"; in 1786, Laura was subordinated metropolitan of Kiev, which became her svyaschennoarhimandritom.

In the Near and Far Caves Monastery lie incorrupt relics of the saints of God, as the abbey and burial of the laity (eg, the tomb of Peter Stolypin).Currently Lower Monastery is run by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), and the upper Lavra - administered by the National Kyiv-Pechersk Historical and Cultural Reserve.

Park SofiivkaNational arboretum "Sofiyivka" - Park, Research Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, located in the northern part of the city of Uman, Cherkasy region of Ukraine, on the banks of the Kamenka River. Nowadays it is a place of rest. Every year it is visited by approximately 500 thousand people. Area - 179.2 hectares.

"Sofiyivka" is a monument of landscape type of world landscape gardening art of the late XVIII - early XIX century. It grows more than 3323 taxa (species, forms, varieties, cultivars) of native and exotic trees and shrubs, among them: bald cypress, White Pine, tulip tree, sycamore, ginkgo, spruce, and many others. The staff of the park issued the catalog of plants in which there are 1994 taxa, of which 1220 trees and shrubs and 774 herbaceous plants, including 25 taxa hazel 24 - beeches, 41 - fir, 100 - lianas, 320 - Rose, 57 - Rhododendron 376 - groundcover and 98 - flowering plants. In 2007, the park includes a collection of plants in 2103 and 1212 taxa of woody travyanistyhistochnik.

Saint Sophia Cathedral (Kiev)

Hagia Sophia (St. Sophia Cathedral) - a temple built in the first half of the XI century in the center of Kiev, according to the Chronicle, Prince Yaroslav the Wise. At the turn of XVII-XVIII centuries was apparently rebuilt in the Ukrainian Baroque style. Inside the cathedral is preserved in the world's most complete ensemble of original mosaics (260 square meters) and the frescoes (3000 square meters) of the first half of the XI century and considerable fragments of frescoes XVII-XVIII centuries.

Was an active church until 1929, in 1934, became a museum - Sofia reserve. Now is the core of the National Reserve "Sophia of Kyiv", one of the largest museum centers in Ukraine, which also includes the Golden Gate in the XI., Cyril Church in XII. and St. Andrew's Church in the eighteenth century. Kiev and Sudak fortress with monuments VI-XV centuries. in the Crimea.

ChersonesosChersonese, or just Hersonissos - policy, based on the ancient Greeks Heracleian peninsula on the southwest coast of the Crimea. For two thousand years, Hersonissos is a major political, economic and cultural center of Northern Black Sea, where he was the only Doric colony. Now Chersonesos located on the grounds of the Gagarin rayona Sevastopolya is historical and archaeological reserve. In 2013, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

KhortytsyaKhortytsya - the largest island on the Dnieper River, located in the city Zaporozhye below DnieproGES, unique natural and historical complex. Stretches from the northwest to the southeast, length - 12.5 km, width - an average of 2.5 km.

There are several theories about the origin of the name "Khortytsya". It is believed that the island (chronicle Hrtich island) got its name from the nearby River Khortytsya where the noun to "-itsa" from hort- <hrt, that is "fast, fast." Thus, "Khortytsya" - a "Bistrica" fast water (hydronym "Bistrica" is not just found in the basins of the Dnieper, Dniester and others. Rivers of Ukraine).

Hotinskaya fortressHotinskaya fortress - Fortress X-XVIII centuries, situated in the city Hawtin, Ukraine. One of the Seven Wonders of Ukraine.Over V-X centuries strengthening used chronicles Tivertsy tribe, and looked like a typical Mysove mound.The biggest restructuring undergone in the 2 nd half of the XV century, being a part of the Moldavian principality. Castle greatly expanded southward, increasing the level of the yard.

worked on a presentation Vitaly Yakovenko