List of World Heritage Sites in the Soviet Union

During the existence of the Soviet Union, five objects on the territory of this country were included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. On October 12, 1988, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ratified the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage.[1] The first objects located on the territory of the USSR were listed in December 1990 at the 14th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee. Then five names of objects located in various cities and settlements of the USSR were added to the list. In subsequent years, it was planned to expand this list with other objects on the territory of a huge country, but after exactly a year, in December 1991, the Soviet Union finally collapsed.

#	Image	Name	Location	Year	No.	Criteria
1		Kiev: Saint-Sophia Cathedral and Related Monastic Buildings, Kiev-Pechersk Lavra	Ukrainian SSR Kiev	1990	527	i, ii, iii, iv
2		Historic Centre of Leningrad and Related Groups of Monuments	Russian SFSR Leningrad	1990	540	i, ii, iv, vi
3		Itchan Kala	Uzbek SSR Khiva	1990	543	iii, iv, v
4		Kizhi Pogost	Russian SFSR Kizhi Island	1990	544	i, iv, v
5		Moscow Kremlin and Red Square	Russian SFSR Moscow	1990	545	i, ii, iv, vi

Moscow Kremlin and Red Square

Kiev: Saint-Sophia Cathedral and Related Monastic Buildings, Kiev-Pechersk Lavra

Historic Centre of Leningrad and Related Groups of Monuments

Kizhi Pogost

Itchan Kala

Location of UNESCO World Heritage Sites within USSR
Legend: World Cultural Heritage site