English: St. Michael's Cathedral in Kiev. St. Michael's Monastery - built in the years 1108-1113 grandson of Yaroslav the Wise, Prince of Kiev Svyatopolk Izyaslavich at the St. Michael's Cathedral. Shestistolpny cross-dome church with three naves and a gilded dome. At the beginning of XX century temple - 7-dome (top photo). St. Michael's Cathedral was built with stones and bricks, lime-plinfy on tsem'yakovomu solution technique "mixed masonry" using holosnykiv in the axils of the vaults. The walls of the cathedral decorated mosaics and frescoes. He was one of the largest monasteries of ancient Kyiv. At the monastery is the Kyiv Orthodox Theological Academy and the Church of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian.