White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal

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White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal¹
UNESCO World Heritage Site

State Party	Russian Federation
Type	Cultural
Criteria	i, ii, iv
Identification	#633-644
Region2	Europe and North America
Inscription History
Formal Inscription:	1992 16th WH Committee Session
WH link:	http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/633
1 Name as officially inscribed on the WH List 2 As classified officially by UNESCO

The White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal is the name of a World Heritage Site in Russian Federation. The patrimony embraces eight medieval limestone monuments of Zalesye:

• Assumption Cathedral in Vladimir (1158-60, 1185-89);
• 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);
• The Church of the Intercession on the Nerl in Bogolyubovo (1165);
• The Suzdal Kremlin with the Nativity Cathedral (1222-25, built up in the 16th century);
• The Monastery of Saint Euthymius in Suzdal (mostly 16th century);
• The Church of Boris and Gleb in Kideksha (1152, with later mofifications).

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

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