Uspenskyi Cattedrale
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The wooden church in honor of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was known more of the 80-ies the XVII century. In those days the walls of the temple in 1687, meets Hetman detachment Samoilovych archpriest Ivan Velichkovsky, famous Ukrainian poet Baroque 2nd half of the XVII Century, former editor of the Chernigov printing. His son Paissy Velichkovsky, a native of Poltava, is the founder Illinskogo Skete on Mount Athos in Greece.