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The '''Saviour's Transfiguration Cathedral''' ({{lang-uk|Спасо-Преображенський кафедральний собор}}) is the main [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox]] church of [[
The foundation stone was laid on {{OldStyleDate|20 May|1787|9 May}} by [[Catherine II of Russia]] and Austrian Emperor [[Emperor Joseph II|Joseph II]], during Catherine's [[Crimean journey of Catherine the Great|Crimean journey]].<ref name="sobor"/> The event is described in the memoirs of [[Louis Philippe, comte de Ségur|comte de Ségur]]. Prince [[Grigory Potemkin]] envisioned the church as one of the spiritual centres of [[New Russia]].<ref name="sobor">[http://gorod.dp.ua/history/article_ru.php?article=124 Gorod.dp.ua]</ref> [[Ivan Starov]] submitted to Potemkin his designs for a Roman-style [[basilica]], but construction was postponed until the end of the [[Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792)|Russo-Turkish War]].
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