Dear friends!

This week we would like to acquaint you with one more selection of postcards with the images of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra made in the 1970s.

Nobody could imagine that our postcards’ story about Lavra of the 1970s will take several months and will be covered by 14 releases. Moreover, we found out that most part of Lavra’s photo images belong to that time period.

This release is the last one that will cover the life of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra in the 1970s. These will be the photos that were not included in the previous thematic stories, but, to some extent, reflect Lavra’s look fifty years ago. In addition to amateur photographs, today's selection includes professional photos that were to be included in a photo album planned for printing in the late 1970s. But these plans were not realized. Though, only thanks to the miraculously preserved film, we can see how Lavra’s monuments looked like then.

The next release of “Memories of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra” photo project will be devoted to the images of Kyiv-Pechersk Preserve in the 1980s.

Captions to the illustrations:

1. Cathedral Square of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. Memo photo “The tit is already in the hands while the crane is still in the sky”

2-3. Lavra in winter - the view on the Trinity Gate Church from the east

4. Economic street of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra with the view on the Church of All Saints

5. Gate of the main entrance of the Great Lavra Bell Tower

6. Refectory with the adjoining Church of Sts. Anthony and Theodosius of Pechersk

7. Bell Tower of the Near Caves

8. Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in the Near Caves

9. Fortress walls with a bastion near the Near Caves

10. Covered gallery passage from the Near to the Far Caves

11. Annozachatiivska Church - entrance to the Far Caves

12. Chapel over the Far Caves.

13. Landscape of the territory of the Far Caves seen from the Kovnir Bell Tower

14. Ivan Kushchnik Tower at the corner of Citadel and Sichnevoho Povstannya (now Lavrska) streets

15. Ivan Kushchnik Tower viewed from the side of the Monastery garden