White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal

White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal*
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Image:Bogolyubovo.jpg
State Party	Image:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
Type	Cultural
Criteria	i, ii, iv
Reference	633-644
Region†	Europe and North America
Inscription history
Inscription	1992 (16th Session)
* Name as inscribed on World Heritage List. † Region as classified by UNESCO.

The White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal is the name of a World Heritage Site in Russian Federation. The patrimony embraces eight medieval limestone monuments of Zalesye:

Assumption Cathedral in Vladimir (1158-60, 1185-89);
The Golden Gate in Vladimir (1158-64, with later modifications);
The Cathedral of Saint Demetrius in Vladimir (1194-97);
The castle of Andrew the Pious in Bogolyubovo (1158-65, with later modifications);
The Church of the Intercession on the Nerl in Bogolyubovo (1165);
The Suzdal Kremlin with the Nativity Cathedral (1222-25, built up in the 16th century);
The Monastery of Saint Euthymius in Suzdal (mostly 16th century);
The Church of Boris and Gleb in Kideksha (1152, with later mofifications).

This World Heritage Site does not include, for reasons unknown, several closely related white monuments of Zalesye:

The Saviour Cathedral in Pereslavl-Zalessky (1152);
The Cathedral of Saint George in Yuriev-Polsky (1230-34, with later modifications);
The Cathedrals of the Knyaginin Convent in Vladimir and Intercession Convent in Suzdal (turn of the 15th and 16th centuries).