White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal

UNESCO World Heritage Site
White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal
Name as inscribed on the World Heritage List

Type	Cultural
Criteria	i, ii, iv
Reference	633-644
UNESCO region	Europe and North America
Inscription history
Inscription	1992 (16th Session)

The White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal in Russian Federation have been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site . The patrimony embraces eight medieval limestone monuments of Zalesye from the late 12th and early 13th centuries. They include Russian Orthodox churches and monastery, as well as a castle and gate:

The Church of Boris and Gleb in Kideksha (1152, with later modifications)
The Suzdal Kremlin with the Cathedral of the Nativity (1222-25, built into the 16th century)
The Monastery of Saint Euthymius in Suzdal (mostly 16th century)
The Assumption Cathedral in Vladimir (1158-60, 1185-89)
The Church of the Intercession on the Nerl in Bogolyubovo (1165)
The Golden Gate in Vladimir (1158-64, with later modifications)
The Cathedral of Saint Demetrius in Vladimir (1194-97)
The castle of Andrew the Pious in Bogolyubovo (1158-65, with later modifications)

This World Heritage Site does not include, for reasons unknown, several closely related white monuments of Zalesye:

Saviour Cathedral in Pereslavl-Zalessky (1152)
Cathedral of Saint George in Yuriev-Polsky (1230-34, with later modifications)
Cathedrals of the Knyaginin Convent in Vladimir
Intercession Convent in Suzdal (turn of the 15th and 16th centuries)

World Heritage Sites in Russia by federal district

	Central	Church of the Ascension in Kolomenskoye Moscow Kremlin and Red Square Novodevichy Convent Trinity Sergius Lavra White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal Historic Centre of Yaroslavl

	Southern	Western Caucasus

	Northwestern	Curonian Spit¹ Ferapontov Monastery Kizhi Pogost Virgin Komi Forests Historic Monuments of Novgorod and Surroundings Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Surroundings Solovetsky Islands Struve Geodetic Arc²

	Far Eastern	Lena Pillars Volcanoes of Kamchatka Central Sikhote-Alin Wrangel Island

	Siberian	Golden Mountains of Altai Lake Baikal Putorana Plateau Uvs Nuur Basin³

	Volga	Bolghar Kazan Kremlin

	North Caucasian	Citadel, Ancient City and Fortress Buildings of Derbent

¹ Shared with Lithuania ² Shared with nine other countries ³ Shared with Mongolia

Coordinates: 56°09′N 40°25′E / 56.150°N 40.417°E / 56.150; 40.417

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