Rubanivske

The Holy Intercession Church in the village of Rubanivske stands on the picturesque bank of a pond on the Solomchyna River. It used to be called the "Red Church" because of the color of the brick walls.

The temple was built in the middle of the 19th century by Kateryna Vasylenko, the widow of Ivan Vasylenko's court adviser. Later, returning from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, she decided to leave worldly life and build a Znamyansky women's monastery at her own expense in the name of the icon of the Mother of God "Sign".

The Znamyansky monastery was officially founded in 1906, and a year later its founder was elevated to the rank of abbess under the name of Yelyzaveta.

Having survived the persecution of the church during the Soviet era, the church still stands proudly above the village, impressing with its calmness, grandeur and amazing bell. In the Church of the Holy Intercession rest the relics of Abbess Yelyzaveta and the holy martyr Priest Oleksandr, tortured by the Bolsheviks in 1918. Near the church, the burials of priests and the founder of the village, the Cossack Ruban, have been preserved.

The house-museum of Ivan Manzhura, a famous Ukrainian folklorist and storyteller, poet and ethnographer, was opened in the village of Rubanivske near the Holy Intercession Church.

The temple was built by the Vasylenko family of philanthropists near their estate, where in the early 70s of the 19th century Ivan Manzhura worked as an usher at the invitation of the owners. Ivan Vasylenko, a descendant of the Zaporizhzhia Cossacks, a Zemstvo official from Katerynoslav, a man of advanced democratic views, took care of the talented Ivan Manzhura. The name of his ancestor, Hryhoriy Vasylenko, nicknamed Tromsyn, who was listed in the Zaporizhzhia Sich as a scribe of the Kodak transport, entered the history of the settlement of the Dnipro region at the end of the 18th century.

To his good friend, Ivan Manzhura dedicated the poem-tale "Tromsyn Bogatyr" about the brave Cossack knight - Tromsyn, a faithful and reliable defender of all the oppressed and disadvantaged. Thanks to the Vasylenkos, Manzhura traveled almost the entire southern steppe Ukraine, collecting pearls of folklore. This is how his books of fairy tales were born.

Memorial days and creative evenings of Ivan Manzhura are traditionally held in Rubanivske twice a year - in May and November.