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The archive
Nothing here is a render. These are scans of published plans and measured surveys, and photographs taken at the sites after the strikes.
How to read this
Most churches damaged in this war have no surviving original drawing. Where one exists, we publish it with its date, author and collection. Where it does not, we commission a measured survey before a single stone is touched.
The photographs are the condition record. They come from the State Emergency Service, the National Police, the Ministry of Culture and independent photographers, under open licences. We do not retouch damage.
Working drawings
Scanned at reference resolution. Dimensioned copies are available to donors and heritage bodies on request.
The earliest published plan of the 11th-century cathedral. We use it as the baseline for the north aisle geometry in the 2026 survey.
A measured plan of the 11th-century cathedral, used in the archive as a reference for the cross-domed plan type.
Reconstruction drawing showing the original volumes and galleries. A reference for reading later additions before any intervention.
Two plans from Grimm’s survey of the Byzantine basilica. Kept as a reference for the 19th-century reconstruction drawings of southern churches.
Archaeological plan of the 10th-century foundation, redrawn after the 1826 excavation. The earliest masonry church in Kyiv.
Measured elevation made during the 1880s restoration, when the 12th-century cathedral was recovered from later rebuilding.
Damage record
Eight records from the sites. Dates and places are as published by the services that took them.
Inside the Transfiguration Cathedral after the strike
The altar canopy, destroyed
Sviatohirsk Lavra after the 12 March 2022 bombing
St George’s Skete, Sviatohirsk Lavra
Sviatohirsk Lavra, October 2022
Church of Our Lady of the Joy of All Who Sorrow
Church of the Ascension, Lukashivka
Refectory and pilgrim hostel, Sviatohirsk Lavra
Photographs are used under CC BY 4.0 / CC BY-SA 4.0. Full credits on the credits page.