Chernihiv
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Chernihiv is a city and municipality in northern Ukraine, which serves as the administrative center of Chernihiv Oblast and Chernihiv Raion within the oblast. Chernihiv's population is 282,747.
Троїцький монастир
Літній ранок у Чернігові
Адміністративний будинок в місті Чернігів
Будинок колишньої губернської земської управи
Principality of Chernigov
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The Principality of Chernigov or Chernihiv was one of the largest and most powerful states within Kievan Rus'. For a time the principality was the second most powerful after the Principality of Kiev.
Chernihiv
…was incorporated into the Rus' state, becoming its second most important city after Kyiv. Between the 11th and 13th century it served as the centre of an eponymous principality and a bishopric. Chernihiv's role as an important cultural and religious centre of Rus' is signified by numerous churches preserved from that era…
Principality of Chernigov in 1054–1132
Seal of Oleg, Prince of Chernihiv. (1094)
Territories of Chernigov in the 15th century