List of World Heritage Sites in Ukraine
Officially, there are seven World Heritage Sites in Ukraine.
World Heritage Sites
UNESCO lists sites under ten criteria; each entry must meet at least one of the criteria. Criteria i through vi are cultural, whereas vii through x are natural.Site | Image | Location | Year listed | Description | |
Kyiv: Saint-Sophia Cathedral and Related Monastic Buildings, Kiev Pechersk Lavra | Kyiv | 1990 | 527bis; i, ii, iii, iv | ||
L'viv – the Ensemble of the Historic Centre | L'viv | 1998 | 865bis; ii, v | ||
Struve Geodetic Arc* | 2005 | 865bis; ii, iv, vi | |||
Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe* | 2007 | 1133; ix | |||
Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans | Chernivtsi | 2011 | 1330; ii, iii, iv | ||
Ancient City of Tauric Chersonese and its Chora | Chersonesos | 2013 | 1411; ii, v | ||
Wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine* | Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Lviv Oblast, Zakarpattia Oblast | 2013 | 1424; iii, iv |
Tentative list
Ukraine has fifteen submissions on the tentative list. One of the submissions is an extension of the existing site of Kiev's historical monuments. Mykolayiv Astronomical Observatory has been submitted in 2007, but in 2008 it has been resubmitted as a part of Astronomical Observatories of UkraineNo. | Image | Name | Location | Time of creation | Time submitted | Reference | UNESCO Category | UNESCO Criteria |
1 | Historic Centre of Tchernihiv, 9th-13th centuries | Chernihiv Region | 907 | 1989 | 668 | Cultural | i, ii, iv | |
2 | Taras Shevchenko Tomb and State Historical and Natural Museum - Reserve | Cherkasy Region | 1861 | 1989 | 672 | Mixed | ? | |
3 | National Steppe Biosphere Reserve "Askaniya Nowa" | Kherson Region | 1874 | 1989 | 673 | Natural | x | |
4 | Cultural Landscape of Canyon in Kamenets-Podilsk | Kamianets-Podilskyi | 14th century | 1989 | 670 | Cultural | i, ii, iv | |
5 | Dendrological Park "Sofijivka" | Cherkasy Region | 1796 | 2000 | 674 | Mixed | ? | |
6 | Bakhchisaray Palace of the Crimean Khans | Crimea | 16th century | 2003 | 1820 | Cultural | i, iii, v, vi | |
7 | Archaeological Site "Stone Tomb" | Zaporizhia Region | 7th century BC | 2006 | 5075 | Cultural | iii, vi | |
8 | Complex of the Sudak Fortress Monuments of the 6th-16th centuries | Crimea | 6th century | 2007 | 5117 | Cultural | ii, iv, v | |
9 | Astronomical Observatories of Ukraine | Kiev, Mykolaiv, Odessa, Crimea | 18th century | 2008 | 5267 | Cultural | ii, iv, vi | |
10 | Historic Center of the Port City of Odessa | Odessa Region | 1794 | 2009 | 5412 | Cultural | i, ii, iii, iv, v | |
11 | St. Cyril's and St. Andrew's Church - | Kiev | 12th century – 1754 | 2009 | 5423 | Cultural | i, ii, iii, iv | |
12 | Genoese Trade Ports at the Black Sea | Crimea | 2010 | 5575 | Cultural | ii, iv |