Mykhailivska Square

On the opposite side of the Saint Sophia Cathedral and Bohdan Khmelnitsky's monument there is a Mykhailivsky Cathedral. Its reconstruction has not been finished yet, but you can see the bell tower This picture was made in Summer 1998. Later that year the main part of the cathedral was finished. Right here, on the wall, you can see the pictures of Mykhailovsky Cathedral, and if you would come closer, you would see (first) , than read all its history. For several times Mykhailovsky Cathedral was destroyed by fire or by Barbarians.

Near the cathedral you can see a cross, it is a monument to Holodomor. In 1930-33 there was a big famine in Ukraine. The cross was build in memory of all who did not survive the disaster.

In the center of the square there is a monument to Queen Olga,