4 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Ukraine

There are seven UNESCO World Heritage Sites listed in Ukraine, six of which are cultural sites and one of which is a natural site. The sites are at various locations. Discover some of them worth knowing and visiting.

Saint Sophia Cathedral has already been in the historical center of ancient Kyiv for a thousand years. It is the most ancient Christian church that is fully preserved in the East Slavic area. It was the first Ukrainian location listed by UNESCO.

This site comprises undisturbed examples of temperate forests that demonstrate the postglacial expansion process of European beech. Six Ukrainian Carpathian forests were featured in the UNESCO list in 2007, and seven were consequently added in ten years' time. 

The ensemble of the Metropolitan Residence spreads over 12 hectares in the northwestern part of Chernivtsi. The residence, whose buildings are now part of Chernivtsi University, was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2011.

There are eight wooden churches in Ukraine built of horizontal wooden logs between the 16th and 19th centuries by communities of Orthodox and Greek Catholic faiths. The churches were added to the UNESCO list in 2018.