Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ

The Cathedral of the Dormition of the Mother of God is a 12th-century Orthodox cathedral. Only the oldest lower parts of the temple come from the Old Russian period, and most of the present body of the building was created in 1900 as a reconstruction of the original appearance of the object. The first Orthodox church in this place was built by order of Prince Mstislav II of Kyiv in 1156-1160. In 1885, after the Polotsk Synod (incorporation of the Greek-Catholic Church into the Orthodox Church), work began on restoring the building. A special commission cleaned the territory of the ruined cathedral, which was then rebuilt according to the design of G. Kotov in the neo-Byzantine style.

Supposedly, the cemetery of Kysylyn emerged in the 18th century. It appears on Russian maps of the mid-19th century. The cemetery was destroyed during or after WWII. Nowadays it is overgrown with forest. At least one gravestone is present, though the exact number is not known due to dense vegetation.

Information on the cemetery’s establishment is unknown, but it was marked on maps of the 1880s and 1939. Presumably, the cemetery was operating in the second half of the 19th century. It can be supposed that it was demolished after WWII.