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 patriarchate, at first it ow