Attractions of Obukhiv district

The wooden Church of the Assumption in Vilkhovets was built in the 19th century on the site of the old Saint Michael's Church, known since 1700.

The church is nine-rubble five-headed, with a complex composition of volumes, which is rare for the Kyiv region. The top is made in the pseudo-Byzantine style, which makes the church similar to the temples of the princely period. Ancient paintings in the interior have been partially preserved.

On the territory is the grave of Kolotnovska, the wife of a local priest.

The Church of the Assumption of Saint Anna in the center of the village of Sloboda was built in 1852 by Major General Andriy Troshchynskyi, the heir of the Minister of Justice Dmytro Troshchynskyi.

The temple in the style of late classicism is cruciform in plan, crowned with a hemispherical dome on a cylindrical drum. There are large semicircular windows on the western, northern and southern facades. The facades are finished with triangular gables.

Remains of the thematic paintings of the 19th century have been preserved in the interior.

The Baker Synagogue in Vasylkiv was built at the beginning of the 20th century on the site of a wooden Jewish prayer house.

The two-story brick building of the synagogue has characteristic features of a Jewish religious building, richly decorated using elements of medieval architecture.

In 1927, the "Baker" synagogue was closed, the building was handed over to the South-Western Railway and rebuilt under the "Vasylkiv-2" railway station.

Currently, the building is in communal ownership, until recently several families lived in it.

The Burty Village Local Lore Museum was opened in 1977 in the premises of the old school. The exposition in 5 rooms tells about the history of the village and the daily life of its inhabitants.

The ethnographic section presents household items, clothes, embroidered towels, work tools (loom, spinning wheel). The historical exhibition tells about the events of the Ukrainian revolution, collectivization and the Holodomor, the participation of the villagers in the Second World War, post-war reconstruction, the Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian war.

A separate exposition is devoted to the development of education in Burty.

Castle Hill in Lisnyky is one of the hills above the village on which a medieval castle was located in the 16th century.

It was built by Prince Yukhym Koretsky, who in 1596 bought Foresters from Adam Bohohval. The prosperity of the village is connected with the activities of the prince and his wife Anna. The further fate of the castle is unknown, but ruins were still visible on the mountain in the 19th century.

Until recently, Castle Hill was a wasteland. Currently, the plateau is being actively built up with private cottages. A memorial sign in the form of a cross is installed at the entrance.

The Cathedral of Anthony and Theodosius in Vasylkiv is an example of Ukrainian Baroque architecture.

The cathedral in honor of Saints Anthony and Theodosius was built in the middle of the 18th century by the serf of the Kyiv-Pecherska Lavra, Stepan Kovnir, by order of the Lavra Archimandrite (according to legend, an underground passage was laid from the Vasylkiv Cathedral to the Lavra).

From the outside, it resembles the Kozelets Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin. Gables with cornices of double curvature are considered a characteristic detail of architecture (sculptor Talyanets).

Paintings by Vasyl Bibibkov have been preserved in the interior. The main shrine is the miraculous icon of the Three-Handed Mother of God.

The Cherniakhiv Museum of Local Lore was opened on the initiative of local educators in 2023 - almost half a century after its predecessor ceased to exist. It is located in the premises of the Cherniakhiv Village House of Culture.

The exposition tells about the ancient history of Cherniakhiv, the modern life of the village and its prominent residents. In particular, the archaeological section presents items of the Cherniakhiv culture from the stock of the Kaharlyk Museum of History and Local Lore.

The interior of a Ukrainian house of the 19th century has been recreated, where you can see ancient agricultural and household relics, embroidery, ceramics, vine and wood products. In the corner of household items of the mid-20th century, old radios, record players and typewriters are exhibited.

The oldest administrative building of Vasylkiv is the County Present Place, built at the beginning of the 19th century. The headquarters of the Chernihiv regiment, which on January 10, 1826, joined the Decembrist uprising against the Russian autocracy and for the abolition of serfdom, was located here.

The uprising of the Chernihiv regiment, organized by the Southern Society of Decembrists, was led by lieutenant colonel Serhii Muravyov-Apostol and battalion commander Mykhailo Bestuzhev-Ryumin. The uprising was crushed within a week, and the organizers were later convicted and executed. A monument to the Decembrists was erected on the square opposite the building.

The building of the headquarters of the Chernihiv regiment is two-story, brick, plastered. The facade is typical of Russian classicism. The building was rebuilt several times. It housed the places of attendance, then the district police headquarters.

The local history department of the "Decembrists in Vasylkiv region" museum, which covered the activities of the Vasylkiv administration of the Southern Society (now under renovation), still worked in the two rooms. In particular, the cell in which Serhii Muravyov-Apostol and Mykhailo Bestuzhev-Ryumin were kept after the arrest was preserved.

The Museum of Cossack Era in Hermanivka is located in the building of the manufacturing bench, erected in 1904, next to the Picture Gallery.

The museum illuminates the historical and socio-political processes of the development of the village of Hermanivka in the context of the general history of Ukraine through archaeological and ethnographic monuments of antiquity from the Bronze Age to the present.

The museum is divided into two halls. Exhibits from the Bronze Age to the end of the 19th century are exhibited in the first hall, and exhibits from the beginning of the 20th century are displayed in the second hall.

The Cossack Era Museum Museum and the Picture Gallery in Hermanivka are branches of the Kyiv Regional Archaeological Museum.

Divych-hora (Devich-hora, Divocha hora, Divych-Hill) is a high hill above the Dnipro in the center of the village of Trypillia. The name is probably connected with the ancient Slavic cult of a female deity - the progenitor goddess, the goddess Virgo (Diva).

On the top of Divych-hora, a settlement and burial ground of the Zarubinetska culture (II century BC), as well as an ancient Slavic temple (VI century) were discovered. There is an assumption that there was a sanctuary of a pagan virgin goddess. The altar consisted of nine hemispherical recesses in which ritual food was cooked.

From the top of Divych-hora, a wonderful panorama of Trypillia, the Dnipro and the surrounding hills opens up.

Family goat farm with cheese dairy "Dooobra Farm" was founded in 2011 by the family of former advertising artist Taras Lozhenko. It is located in the village of Ivky on the outskirts of Bohuslav. Excursions and tastings are held here.

About 400 goats are kept on the farm, of which 230 are milking. Cheese is cooked three times a week. About 100 kilograms of cheeses are produced in one day. The farm is equipped with a modern technological line.

Today, "Doobra Farm" produces 12 different types of cheese. In particular, 4 types of goat's cheese: soft cream cheese, semi-hard "Yangol", aged "Bikoz" and "Shedevr" with white mold. From cow's milk, the cheeses "Rankovy", "Legend", "Seven Tastes", "Starets", "Kosychka", "Suluhuni" and others are produced. The farm also offers cheese, sweet and salty cottage cheese, butter, cream, kefir, meat products and honey.

The farm hosts the Cheese Museum, which exhibits items related to cheese production, collected by the farm's owners during their travels in Europe. In particular, samples of rare European cheeses, advertising leaflets of Ukrainian cheeses from 1961 in French, records of unique cheese recipes, an engraving of the oldest cheese market in Holland, a collection of cheese knives are presented.

The excursion program includes a tour of the goat farm and tea plantation, a detailed story about the cheese factory, a visit to the Cheese Museum and a cheese tasting.

The Cheese Museum in Kyiv also operates as a branch of the family cheese factory "Dooobra Farm".

Only the remains of the park and wonderful views of the Dnipro remained from the "Lypky" manor of the Dolhoruky-Fadyeyevs family estate in Rzhyshchiv.

In the 18th century, the manor belonged to Lieutenant General Adolphe Franzovich de Bandre du Plessis. His daughter Henrietta de Brande y Plessis married Major General Prince Pavlo Dolhoruky, who retired at the beginning of the reign of Paul I. After the Franco-Russian war in 1812, the future Decembrists Bestuzhev-Ryumin, the Muravyov-Apostol brothers, Prince Trubetsky visited the Rzhyshchiv estate of the Dolhorukys.

Princess Olena Dolhorukova, who married Andriy Fadyeyev, was born here. For some time they lived in Rzhyshchiv. Their grandchildren are the statesman Serhii Witte and the writer-theosophist Olena Blavatska (Blavatsky's mother, the writer Olena Fadyeyeva-Han, was born in Rzhyshchiv).

On a high cliff above the Dnipro, a part of the manor park "Lypky" with an old linden avenue has been preserved. This place is great for picnics.

The tombstone on the grave of the local priest Fedir Hrushevsky in Lisnyky was installed in 1894 by his grandson Mykhaylo Hrushevsky, a great historian and public figure.

Fedir Hrushevskyi served in the local Transfiguration Church, he founded a high school in Lisnyky. After World War II, the tombstone was used to decorate the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Kruhlyk. Returned to the site in 2001.

A monument to Mykhaylo Hrushevsky was erected next to the school. You can get acquainted with the history of the village in the school lobby, where there is a local history exhibition.

Bohuslav granite outcropping is a geological monument of nature. Rocks 10-12 meters high are located along the bed of the Ros River in the central part of Bohuslav.

In the valley of the river, granite blocks embedded in the ground are spectacularly scattered along its slopes. The age of the Bohuslav granites is 2 billion years. Picturesque rapids are formed in the place where Ros washes the granite island with two branches.

One such place with a deep bath overhanging a high rock is called "The Yama" by the locals.

The Art gallery in the village of Hermanivka is located in the former store building, built in 1904 by the entrepreneur Patlakh, next to the Cossack Era Museum.

The official opening of the art gallery took place in 2005.

The museum presents paintings by artists whose lives were connected with Hermanivka, as well as works of art by the inhabitants of the village.

The Cossack Era Museum Museum and the Picture Gallery in Hermanivka are branches of the Kyiv Regional Archaeological Museum.