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Yuryevsky monastery, male, active, Veliky Novgorod, lake Ilmen, walk, artifacts, antiquity, monument, spring #182724679
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The monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church in honor of the great Martyr George, one of the oldest in Russia, in the Middle ages, the spiritual center of the Novgorod Republic and the richest spiritual feudal Lord. It is located on the southern outskirts of Veliky Novgorod on the Bank of the Volkhov river. Until 1918, it had the status of a first-class monastery. The monastic community was restored in 1995.