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CHUFUT- KALE, CRIMEA

 
  Uspenski monastery  
 

Uspenski monastery being reopened. The monastery is directly on the path up the valley to Chufut kale hill-top. It is against the cliff opposite the fortress town. It remained a center of Orthodox religion in Crimea even after the Tatar conquest.

 
   

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