Transfiguration Cathedral, Dnipro
A cathedral founded in 1787 and built only in 1835; Yavornytsky saved it from demolition.
The foundation stone was laid on 20 May 1787 by Catherine II and the Austrian emperor Joseph II; the design by the Frenchman Claude Gerua envisaged a church larger than St Peter's in Rome. After Potemkin's death in 1791 construction stopped for 43 years, and in 1835 a far more modest cathedral was consecrated to a design attributed to Andreyan Zakharov: neoclassicism, a cruciform plan, 52 m high. The church was damaged by the earthquake of 1888 and by bombs in the Second World War. In 1930 the cathedral was closed; Dmytro Yavornytsky saved it from demolition by proposing to set up a museum — later it housed a publishing house's warehouse. In 1992 the building was returned to the church.
1 Soborna Square, next to the Yavornytsky Museum; a working church (Blik, 11.04.2026). Dnipro is under regular strikes: on 28.09.2026 russia hit a business centre in the city centre — 3 killed, 12 wounded (Slovo i Dilo, 28.09.2026); during an alert — straight to a shelter.