The town-type village of Torchyn on the Serna River is located in the south of the Volyn region, between Lutsk and Volodymyr, 25 kilometers west of the regional center. Administratively, it is part of the Lutsk district of the Volyn region.
The founder of the settlement is considered to be the lieutenant of Prince David of Lutsk - Ioan Torch (Torchak), who probably came from the nomadic tribe of Tоrks, who in the 11th-13th centuries were in the service of the Ancient Rus princes.
In 1480, Pavlo Torch transferred the town to the property of the Lutsk Catholic Diocese, and since then Torchyn has been in the possession of the Lutsk bishops for three centuries. In 1540, bishop Jerzy (Yuriy) Khvalchevskyi built the Torchyn Castle, which had defensive ramparts with oak fortress wa ...
Historical Museum named after Hryhoriy Hurtovy
Museum / gallery
Torchyn People's History Museum bears the name of its founder - historian and local historian Hryhoriy Hurtovy.
This is the oldest museum in Volyn, which began to operate on a public basis - since 1957. The museum's holdings include more than 10,000 showpieces related to the history of Torchyn and the Volyn lands.
The local historian personally collected most of them in the surrounding villages. Among them are flint tools, a coin treasure of the beginning of the 16th century, Cossack weapons (in particular, an original mortar gun), fragments of ammunition of the soldiers of the two world wars, and a large ethnographic collection. A wardrobe and a mirror from the residence of the famous Polish writer Józef Ignacy Krashewski in nearby Horodok deserve special attention.
In 2009, the Torchyn Historical Museum named after Hryhoriy Hurtovyi took first place at the All-Ukrainian Museum Competition in the "History of the Native Territory" category.
Administrative status | urban village |
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Founded / first mentioned | 1093 |
Latitude | 50.766 |
Longitude | 25.00059 |
Area, sq. km | 10.52 |
Population | 4608 |
Postal codes | 45612 |
Region | Volyn |