St. Vladimir Cathedral

In an ever-increasing effort to get photos of my city before the gray of industrialized winter descends in a few months, I took advantage of the glorious Saturday weather today to journey to one of Lugansk's cathedrals, St. Vladimir's. From the looks of things, this is a fairly new-ish cathedral (the oldest surviving cathedral in Lugansk made it through the Soviet-era by becoming a theater...most others were destroyed), but nevertheless, still beautiful:

I love the mosaic works, especially since it means that people are still putting time and effort into large-scale undertakings of this beautiful art form: