Demolition Of St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery
The demolition of St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery by dynamite took place on 14 August 1937. The bell tower, the Economic Gate () and the monastery's walls were also destroyed. The Soviet authorities afterwards commissioned a competition how to best fill the empty plot. A new administration complex was planned, but only the building of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union), Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine was constructed, a building that now houses the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Ukraine), Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Proposals During the first half of the 1930s, various Soviet Union, Soviet publications questioned the known historical facts regarding the age of St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery. The publications stressed that the medieval building had undergone major reconstructions and that little of the original Byzantine-style cathedral was preserved. This wave of questioning sought to justify the demo ...
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