Attractions of Sosnytsia

The wooden Church of the Holy Intercession is the only preserved church in Sosnytsia.

It was originally built in 1724 on the site of an ancient temple. It was completely rebuilt in 1847.

Made in the traditional forms of the Cossack temple. It looks archaic due to the unusual slope of the walls. Oil paintings on biblical subjects have been preserved in the interiors.

During Soviet times, the church was closed, the building housed a driving school, then a warehouse. In 1989, the service was resumed.

The Sosnytsia Museum of Local Lore is located in the house of doctor Shcherbakov (1869-1870), which later belonged to Prince Volkonsky, then to doctor Petro Oldenborher.

The museum in it was founded in 1920 by lawyer and historian Yuriy Vynohradsky. He discovered 50 Neolithic sites and 9 hillforts in Chernihiv Region. The archaeological collection of Vynohradsky became the basis of the exposition.

Currently, the museum's funds include 10,000 exhibits. Among the unique exhibits are neck hryvnias, a mammoth tusk with notches, several ancient documents.

Some things of the former owners of the Sosnytsia manor, the Poltoratsky nobles, who owned Sosnytsia in the 18th and 19th centuries, are also presented.

The museum is named after Yuriy Vynohradsky.

The Literary Memorial Museum of Oleksandr Dovzhenko was opened in the film director's homeland in Sosnytsia.

He was born in 1894 in a large rural family in the village of Vyunishche within the current urban-type settlement of Sosnytsia. From there he went to study at the Hlukhiv Teacher's Institute, then to Zhytomyr and pre-revolutionary Kyiv.

His complex biography included service in the troops of the Ukrainian People's Republic, detention in a Bolshevik concentration camp, joining the Communist Party, Polish captivity, work at the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, etc.

Dovzhenko gained worldwide fame as the founder of the Ukrainian National School of Cinematography after the release of his famous films "Zvenyhora" and "Zemlya", the latter of which is now included in the lists of the best films of all times and nations.

Creation of the director's museum in Sosnytsia began in 1957, after his death. Dovzhenko's parental house has been preserved, in which the atmosphere that surrounded him in his youth is reproduced. Collections of his short stories and film stories are presented in the literary exhibition.

An impressive, expressive monument to Dovzhenko (1974, sculptor Anatoliy Fuzhenko, architect Anatoliy Ihnashchenko) was installed in the courtyard of the estate.