Russia’s wooden architecture, especially its churches, was hardly a priority during Soviet times and now many of the unique old buildings are very close to total ruin.

In what appears like a retaliatory move, Ukrainian drone strike ignited a fire that destroyed a wooden church complex in west Russia’s Belgorod region, authorities said Thursday. The attack hit ...

The ensemble bears evidence of the highly developed carpentry skills of the Russian people. Nowadays it is the only ensemble with two multi-domed wooden churches preserved in Russia. The Church of the ...

Since the start of Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine ... and students are working to scan Ukraine’s unique wooden churches, creating permanent, 3D records of its cultural heritage, in ...

It happened in tiny Zavorychi, where a 19th-century wooden church was destroyed, its ice-blue facade and little steeple succumbing to flames. Russia’s invasion has systematically destroyed ...

The two-week Russian occupation left the village shattered ... An earlier building was destroyed by shelling during World War II. The small wooden church that replaced it was put to more workaday ...