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The Cathedral of the Assumption (Uspensky) is outside the bishop's kremlin and was built a 100 years or so before the kremlin. It was founded in 1214 and consecrated in 1230 but the present building was rennovated in the 15th and 16th centuries. Next to it is its famous belfry.

 
     

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