Saint Michael's Square () is a square in

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. Located in the Shevchenkivskyi District of

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, the square lies in front of Saint Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery. It is located about northeast of Sophia Square, to which it is connected by , and about northwest of Maidan Nezalezhnosti, to which it is connected by . On the square is to Princess Olha,

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, and

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. There is to the victims of the

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in front of the monastery. Also, one of the monastery's external walls bordering the square serves as The Wall of Remembrance of the Fallen for Ukraine, a

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memorial. The square served as one of the fan zones during the

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. Since May 2022 it hosts destroyed Russian military equipment exhibition that features Russian military equipment captured and destroyed during the

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