Sviatohirsk (Ukrainian: Святогірськ, IPA: [sʲwʲɐtoˈɦirsʲk]; Russian: Святогорск, romanized: Svyatogorsk, IPA: [svʲɐtɐˈɡorsk]), formerly Slovianohirsk (Ukrainian: Слов'яногірськ), is a city in the northern part of Donetsk Oblast in Ukraine. It stands on the banks of the Siverskyi Donets River, 30 kilometers (19 mi) from the city of Sloviansk. The population is 4,226 (2022 estimate). The 16th-century Sviatohirsk Lavra Monastery is located in the city.
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👉 Sviatohirsk in the context of Cave monastery
A cave monastery is a monastery built in caves, with possible outside facilities. The 3rd-century monk St. Anthony the Great, known as the founder of Christian monasticism, lived in a cave.
- Albania
- Qafthanë Cave Church, cave church near Urakë
- St. Mary's Church, cave church in Maligrad, an island in the Prespa lake
- Armenia
- Geghard cave monastery/fortress
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Aladzha Monastery
- Albotin Monastery
- Basarbovo Monastery
- Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo
- Cave monasteries of Krepcha
- Monasteries of Provadia
- Cave monasteries on the Plateau of Shumen
- Cave monasteries of Tervel
- Egypt
- St. Simon the Tanner Monastery
- Ethiopia
- France
- Georgia
- David Gareja monastery complex
- Vanis Kvabebi cave monastery/fortress, Javakheti Plateau
- Vardzia cave city and monastery
- Greece
- various cave hermitages at Meteora
- various cave hermitages at Mount Athos
- caves at Karoulia
- Monastery of Saint Mark, Petroussa
- Hungary
- Gellért Hill Cave chapels and monastery, Budapest
- Iraq
- Rabban Hormizd Monastery, Alqosh
- Mar Qayuma Monastery, Dooreh
- Israel
- Qumran Caves, once inhabited by the Essenes
- Montenegro
- North Macedonia
- Romania
- Russia
- Serbia
- Blagoveštenje
- Crna Reka
- Gornjak
- Kađenica
- Churches of Kovilje Monastery
- Church of Sts. Peter and Paul, also known as the Cave Church, 14th-century church in Lukovo
- Church of Sts. Peter and Paul, in Rsovci, where was painted a unique fresco of bald Jesus
- Hermitage of St. Peter Koriški
- Savina
- Thailand
- Wat Tham Khan, Sakon Nakhon province
- Tiger Cave Temple (Wat Tam Sua), Krabi
- Turkey
- Cappadocia cave monasteries
- Cave monastery of İnceğiz
- Church of Saint Peter
- Ukraine
A cell in the caves of the Kytaiv Monastery - Bakhchysarai Cave Monastery in Crimea
- Chelter-Koba in Crimea
- Chylter-Marmara in Crimea
- Inkerman Cave Monastery in Crimea
- Assumption Cave Monastery in Zymne, Volyn Oblast
- Bakota Cave Monastery in Bakota, Khmelnytskyi Oblast
- Kachi-Kalon in Crimea
- Kyiv Pechersk Lavra (Near and Far Caves) in Kyiv
- Kytaiv Monastery in Kyiv
- Shuldan in Crimea
- Sviatohirsk Lavra in Sviatohirsk, Donetsk Oblast
- Yeletskyi Monastery (Saint Anthony's Caves) in Chernihiv
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Sviatohirsk in the context of Eastern Ukraine offensive
Ukraine's easternmost regions, Donetsk, Luhansk, and Kharkiv, have been the site of an ongoing theatre of operation since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
The battle of Donbas was a major offensive in the eastern theatre that took place in mid-2022. By the culmination of the offensive in July 2022, Russian forces and their separatist allies had captured the cities of Sievierodonetsk, Lysychansk, Rubizhne and Izium. However, in early September, Ukraine launched a major counteroffensive in the east, which recaptured the cities of Izium, Balakliia, Kupiansk, Sviatohirsk and the strategic city of Lyman. The counteroffensive stalled east of the Oskil river, and a campaign in eastern Kharkiv Oblast and western Luhansk Oblast has continued since, though Donetsk Oblast has remained the most active area of the frontline.