Attractions of Kupyansk

Kupyansk Museum of Local Lore is located in a building that was part of a complex of buildings destroyed during the Soviet era of the Intercession Cathedral (XIX century).

The museum was opened in 1972. Its funds number more than 1 thousand items. Here are stored historical documents and rare photographs, exhibited archaeological, ethnographic, numismatic collections that fully reflect the history of Kupyansk.

On April 25, 2023, the Russian occupiers launched a rocket attack on the center of Kupyansk and hit the building of the local lore museum with a S-300 missile. Two practitioners of the museum perished after the Russian attacks on the museum in Kupyansk.

Saint Nicholas Cathedral in Kupyansk was built in 1852 on the site of a wooden church founded in 1705. The construction was carried out at the expense of the funds donated by the landowner Aparshyn and on the donations of the parishioners.

During the Soviet rule, in 1932, part of the temple was destroyed (the entire dome and bell tower).

In 1991, the temple was restored to its original form. In 2012, the church was granted cathedral status. There is a Sunday school at the church.

On September 26, 2022, during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the territory of the Saint Nicholas Cathedral was destroyed due to shelling by Russian troops - the Sunday school and the church store burned down as a result of the shelling.