Attractions of Kotelva

The 200-year-old Trinity Church, which adorns the center of Kotelva, is an architectural monument.

It was built in 1812 on the site of a burned down wooden temple, founded in the 17th century. The stone church became the fourth after the three wooden ones that were there before it.

The authorship of the church project in the style of classicism is attributed to Kharkiv architect Petro Yaroslavskyi. In 1835, a stone belfry was added. On the eastern side, a brick fence with openwork metal gates and wickets has been preserved. The interiors are decorated with paintings of the 19th century.

The church has a library of spiritual literature, and a Sunday school.

Kotelva Museum of Local Lore is temporarily housed in the building of the House of Culture in the center of Kotelva.

An ethnography room has been set up here for the re-exposition.

The museum exposition presents archeological finds from the Scythian settlement of Bilsk, which is located near Kotelva. This is not only mass household products, especially utensils, but also works of art of ancient and local Scythian masters (gold ring, mirror, cruciform plates, etc.). In particular, the museum presents items from the unique "Blazhkiv treasure" of the Slavic era.

The exposition also tells about the development of the region in the times of the Cossacks.

The Kotelva People's Museum of Sydir Kovpak was opened in 2007 for the 120th anniversary of the birth of the hero of the partisan movement in his homeland in Kotelva.

Sydir Kovpak became famous as the commander of the legendary partisan unit, which went through the entire Second World War from Putivl in Sumy Region to the Carpathians in western Ukraine.

The Kovpak Museum is located in the school where he once studied (now Kotelva Gymnasium No. 1 named after Sydir Kovpak). The first section of the museum "Kotelva region - homeland of Sydir Kovpak" tells about the history of the region. The second section presents the hero's personal belongings, including clothes and weapons.

Samples of weapons from the Second World War are kept here.