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- 1 2 3 "Venerable Abramius the lover-of-labor of the Kiev Near Caves", Orthodox Church in America
- ↑ Magocsi P.R. A History of Ukraine. University of Toronto Press: Toronto, 1996. p 98.
- ↑ КИЕВО-ПЕЧЕРСКАЯ ЛАВРА (Kiev Pechersk Lavra)in Russian Archived 2018-03-08 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 26 Feb 2018