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This is the list of architectural monuments completely destroyed (not just disfigured beyond recognition or half-demolished) by the Soviets. It does not include innumerable statues of Russian royalty and stately homes of Russian nobility which were likewise destroyed.

Cathedrals

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Monasteries

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  • Chudov Monastery in the Kremlin
    • Cathedral of the Miracle (1503)
    • Church of St. Alexis (1680-86)
  • Ascension Convent in the Kremlin
    • Ascension Cathedral (1580s)
    • Church of St. Michael Malein (1634, 1694)
    • Church of St. Catherine (1808-17, by Carlo Rossi)
  • Simonov Monastery
    • Assumption Cathedral (1546-49)- scheduled to be restored
    • Saviour Church over the Holy Gates (1591)- scheduled to be restored
    • Great belltower (1839, by Konstantin Thon)- scheduled to be restored
    • Four other churches- scheduled to be restored
  • Sretensky Monastery
    • Church of Mary of Egypt (from 1482 onward)
    • Church of St. Nicholas the Miracle-Worker (16th cent.)
  • Conception Convent
    • Cathedral of Nativity of Our Lady (1804-07, by Matvey Kazakov) - cathedral to be built on this site is designed in a different style
    • Church of Conception of St.Anne - restored 2005
  • Nikitsky Monastery
    • Cathedral of St. Nicetas (1536)
    • Church of St. Demetrius (17th century)
    • Great belltower (1861-68)
  • Strastnoy Monastery
    • Cathedral (1646, 1692)
    • Great belltower (1860s)
    • All other buildings
  • Chrysostom Monastery
    • Cathedral of St. John Chrysostom (1663)
  • Andronikov Monastery
    • Great belltower (1795-1803, by R. Kazakov)
  • Danilov Monastery
    • Belltower (1831-32) - restored

Parish churches

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Churches in the traditional Russian style

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  • Church of Our Lady of Grebnevo on Lubyanka Square (1520)
  • Church of the Presentation in Novinskoye (1565)
  • Church of St. Sabbas (1592)
  • Church of St. Nicholas on Arbat Street (1593)
  • Church of St. Irene (1627)
  • Church of St. Spiridon "na Kozyem bolote" (1639)
  • Church of St. John's Decapitation on Malaya Lubyanka Street (1643)
  • Resurrection Church "v Goncharakh" (1649)
  • Trinity Church on Zubovskaya Square (1653)
  • Church of St. John's Decapitation in Starokonyushenny Lane (1653)
  • Resurrection Church on Ostozhenka Street (1654)
  • Church of Sts. Cosmas and Damian "v Kadashakh" (1656)
  • Church of Sts. Cosmas and Damian "v Nizhnikh Sadovnikakh" (1657)
  • Church of Sts. Florus and Lauros on Myasnitskaya Street (1657)
  • Church of Mary's Nativity "v Stoleshnikakh" (1657)
  • Church of the Sign in Bely Gorod (1657)
  • Church of St. Nicholas "za Petrovskimi vorotami" (1660)
  • Church of St. Chariton "v Ogorodnikakh" (1662)
  • Church of St. Nicholas "v Stolpakh" (1669)
  • Assumption Church "v Kozhevnikakh" (1674)
  • Assumption Church "u Posolskogo dvora" (1675)
  • Church of Our Lady of Kazan in Troparevo (1677)
  • Church of Three Saints "u Krasnykh vorot" (1680)
  • Smaller Ascention Church (1680)
  • Church of St. Nicholas "na Kuryikh nozhkakh" (1681)
  • Church of St. Nicholas of the Streltsy (1682)
  • Church of St. Hermolaus "na Kozyem bolote" (1682)
  • Church of Sts. Joachim and Anna (1684)
  • Saviour Church "v Pushkaryakh" (1684)
  • Church of Our Lady of Iberia in Old Sushchevo (1685)
  • Church of St. Nicholas "v Drachakh" (1688)
  • Church of Sts. Adrian and Natalia in Meshchanskaya Street (1688)
  • Church of St. Nicholas "the Great Cross" in Kitai-gorod (1689)
  • Church of St. Sergius "v Pushkaryakh" (1689)
  • Church of St. Alexis the Metropolitan "v Glinishchakh" (1689)
  • Church of Our Lady of Kazan in Okhotny Ryad (1690)
  • Church of Our Lady of Smolensk on Plyushchikha Street (1691)
  • Church of Sts. Constantine and Helene in the Kremlin (1692)
  • Church of St. Nicholas "na Gostinoi gorke" (1693)
  • Church of Our Lady of Iberia "na Vorontsovom pole" (1693)
  • Church of Christ's Nativity "v Palashakh" (1693)
  • Church of Christ's Nativity "v Kudrine" (1693)
  • Church of the Glorification of the Theotokos "v Bashmakove" (1694)
  • Saviour Church "na Bozhedomke" (1696)
  • Annunciation Church "na Berezhkakh" (1696)
  • Church of St. Nicholas "na Pupyshakh" (1700)
  • Intercession Church "v Golikakh" (1702)
  • Church of St. Nicholas "na Koshelyakh" (1706)
  • Church of the Sign on Zubovskaya Square (1709)
  • Church of the Cross's Exultation in Bely gorod (1711)
  • Church of St. Nicholas "v Novoy Slobode" (1712)
  • Church of St. George "na Krasnoy gorke" (1714)

Churches in the Baroque style

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  • Assumption Church on Pokrovka Street (1696-99)
  • Church of Our Lady of Vladimir at the Kitai-gorod wall (1693-94)
  • to be written

Churches in the Neoclassical style

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  • to be written

Churches in the Russian Revival style

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  • to be written

Other buildings

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  • Trinity Church (1754-56, by Pietro Antonio Trezzini) - built in place of the oldest church in the city
  • Assumption Church on Sennaya Square (1753-65, by Andrey Kvasov)
  • Nativity Church on Ligovsky Prospekt (1781-98, by Pavel Yegorov)
  • Church of the Sign on Uprising Square (1794-1804, by Fyodor Demertsov)
  • Artillery Cathedral of St. Sergius on Liteiny Prospekt (1796-1800, by Fyodor Demertsov)
  • Intercession Church on Intercession Square (1798-1812, by Ivan Starov)
  • Church of St. Matthew on Sytny Market (1800-01)
  • Church of St. Catherine near Tuchkov Bridge (1811-23)
  • Moscow Triumphal Gates (1834-38, by Vasily Stasov) - restored
  • Catherinehof Church (1837-38, by Konstantin Thon)
  • Presentation Cathedral on Gorokhovaya Street (1843-49, by Konstantin Thon)
  • Annunciation Church on Annunciation Square (1843-49, by Konstantin Thon)
  • Church of St. Miron on the Obvodnoy Canal Embankment (1849-54, by Konstantin Thon)
  • Resurrection Church on Resurrection Square (1847-59, by Nikolay Efimov)
  • Greek Orthodox Church of St. Demetrius on Ligovsky Prospekt (1865-67)
  • Church of Sts. Zacharias and Elisabeth (1897-99, by Leon Benois)
  • Church of the Saviour on the Waters (1910-11, by Marian Peretiatkovich and Viktor Vasnetsov)

Suburbs of St. Petersburg

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  • St. Michael's Golden-Domed Cathedral (1108-14, 1740s) - restored
  • Military Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Pechersk (1690-96, by Osip Startsev)
  • Epiphany Cathedral of the Bratsky Monastery (1690-93, by Osip Startsev)
  • Church of the Three Saints (1183, rebuilt in the 1630s)
  • Church of Saint George (18th century, founded in 1021)
  • Church of Mary's Assumption (1131-35, rebuilt in the 1170s and 19th century)
  • Church of St. Nicholas the Kind (1800-07)
  • Church of Christ's Nativity (1809-14) - restored
  • Church of the Tithes (1828-42, by Vasily Stasov) - in place of the first Russian/Ukrainian church- scheduled to be restored
  • Trinity Cathedral (1709-65)
  • Archangel Monastery with St. Michael's Cathedral (1685-99)
  • Nativity Church (1692-1729)
  • Archangel Church (1742-43)
  • Assumption Church on the Dvina embankment (1742-44) - restored
  • Naval cathedral (1760-76)
  • Saviour Monastery in the Kazan Kremlin, with a church from 1560s and cathedral from 1598
  • Five-tier belltower of the Annunciation Cathedral (16th century)
  • Church of Sts. Cyprian and Justina (1595, in place of the oldest church in the city)
  • Assumption Cathedral of the Zilantov Monastery (from 1625 onward)
  • Istoma Lyapun's church of St. Nicholas (1695)
  • The Virgin's Convent, with a cathedral by Ivan Starov (1798-1808) and a 17th-century belltower
  • Cathedral of the Saviour's Resurrection (1890)
  • Assumption Cathedral (from 1560s onward) - scheduled to be restored
  • Church of the Holy Trinity (1650s)
  • Epiphany Cathedral (late 18th century)
  • Winter cathedral of the Ipatiev Monastery (18th century)- scheduled to be restored
  • Cathedral of the Virgin's Nativity (from 1560s onward)
  • Church of St. George (1651)
  • Church of St. Nicholas "Zaryadnaya" (1675-77)
  • Church of St. Nicholas of Mozhaysk (17th century)
  • Annunciation Cathedral and Archangel Church of the Belogostitsy Monastery (1657)
  • Cathedral of the Petrovsky Monastery (1682-84) - scheduled to be restored
  • Cathedral of the Varnitsy Monastery (1770) - restored

Five-domed churches

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  • Cathedral of the Monastery of the Holy Spirit (1650-54)
  • Church of St. John the Forerunner "v Dyudikovoy Pustyni" (1651-53)
  • Church of St. George "na Navoloke" (1675-90)
  • Church of St. Leonty of Rostov (before 1758)

One-domed churches

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  • Church of St. Theodore (1650s)
  • Church of St. Paraskebas (1690s)
  • Ascension Church (1698-1700)
  • Church of St. Blaise (1712-14)
  • Church of St. Nicholas on Hay Square (1713-77)
  • Assumption Cathedral in the Kremlin (1644-58) - scheduled to be restored
  • Church of St. Barbara (1651-58) with a winter church (1715)
  • Church of the Resurrection (1660)
  • Church of St. Blaise (1679)
  • Church of St. John the Baptist (1679, 1700)
  • Church of St. Cosmas and Damian (before 1686)
  • Church of the Ascension Monastery (1686)
  • Church of All Saints (1689) with a winter church (1697)
  • Church of St. Paraskebas at Vspolye (1689)
  • Church of the Holy Spirit (1690)
  • Church of Sts. Peter and Paul on the Volga (1691) with a winter church (1840)
  • Church of St. John Chrysostom in the Kremlin (1691)
  • Church of the Solovki Miracle-Workers (1693)
  • Church of St. Nicetas (1641)
  • Church of Mary's Nativity (1720)
  • Churches of St. Simeon and of Presentation (1723-38)
  • Church of St. Paraskebas "v Kalashnoy" (1739)
  • Church of Our Lady of the Don (1747)
  • A large part of the covered market (1820s)
  • Demidov Lyceum (1813-25)
  • Demidov Column (1834) - restored

Other locations

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  • Bryansk: Assumption Cathedral of the Svensky Monastery (1749-56, by Ivan Michurin)
  • Dzerzhinsky: Cathedral of the Ugreshsky Monastery (16th to 19th cent.) and three other churches
  • Gorodets: Trinity Cathedral (1673) and Church of Our Lady of Vladimir (1688)
  • Gryazovets: Presentation Cathedral and Resurrection Church of the Korniliev-Komelsky Monastery (1552-1604) and three churches of the Pavlo-Obnorsky Monastery (1518-21, 1536, 1542)
  • Kalyazin: Trinity Monastery with a cathedral (1654) and 16th-century refectory
  • Kamenny Monastery: 16th-century refectory and Saviour Cathedral (1481) - the oldest building in the Russian North- scheduled to be restored
  • Kholmogory: Saviour Cathedral (1685-91)
  • Kletsk: Trinity Cathedral (mid-16th century)
  • Krasnoyarsk: Cathedral of the Virgin's Nativity (1845-61, by Konstantin Thon)
  • Mologa: the whole town
  • Nesvizh: Bernardine monastery (1598, rebuilt 1802-22)
  • Nizhny Novgorod: ten churches, including Saviour Cathedral (1830) and Kazan Church (1661, restored)
  • Omsk: Cathedral of the Virgin's Assumption (1898, restored
  • Orsha: Intercession Cathedral (1758-74) and Nativity Church (1661, restored)
  • Pereslavl-Zalessky: Nikolsky Monastery Cathedral (1711) - restored to a new design
  • Pinsk: Jesuit cathedral (1635)
  • Polotsk: Smaller church of the Belchitsky Monastery (12th century) and Jesuit cathedral of St. Stephen (1738)
  • Suzdal: Trinity Cathedral of the Monastery of the Deposition of the Virgin's Robe (1700)
  • Sviyazhsk: Cathedral of the Virgin's Nativity (16th century)
  • Taganrog: Assumption Cathedral (1818-1938)
  • Tomsk: Cathedral of the Holy Trinity (1899)
  • Tver: Cathedral of the Saviour's Transfiguration (1689-96) - the oldest building in the city
  • Uglich: Intercession Monastery with Intercession Cathedral (1479-83) and Epiphany Church (1670s)
  • Ulyanovsk: Cathedral of the Holy Trinity (1827-41, restored)
  • Vitebsk: Annunciation Church (from 1140s onward) and Resurrection Church (1772-77) - both restored

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