petro burkovskyi was we are the head eh the executive director of the democratic initiatives foundation, i'm yaka kucherova, well, now we'll look at the story about the kiev-pechers lavra, the continuation of this conversation about the history of the kiev-pechers lavra, the modernity of this shrine, in a word, and let's talk a little more about the historical event, without exaggeration , what a-a hm epiphany the metropolitan served his beatitude a christmas service in the last ukrainian shrine, the name is a thousand-year-old shrine, the center of eastern european orthodoxy and one of the first ukrainian monuments included in the unesco world heritage list, all this about the kiev-pechersk lavra was founded in the 11th century. for 100 years before the appearance of moscow , there was a monastery here for centuries, but during the soviet rule, the lavra was turned into a museum, a reserve, the church returned here only in 1988, in 1991, the ukrainian orthodox church separated from the orthodox church, which preserved its spiritual and administrative connection with the moscow patriarc