Attractions of Obukhiv district

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.

The Karapyshi Village Historical and Local Lore Museum was founded in 1984 on the initiative of local activists-historians Oleksiy Hura and Mykhaylo Peretyatko. They were helped by their fellow villagers in collecting local material.

The exposition in five halls tells about the history of the village of Karapyshi from the earliest records to the present day, as well as about the culture and lifestyle of its inhabitants.

In particular, the "Certificate of Settlements" signed on April 25, 1896, when Karapyshi belonged to the Kyiv Governorate of Kaniv County, is presented. Also on display are samples of men's and women's clothing of the beginning of the 20th century, an ancient loom and other tools, peasant household items, and weapons from the Second World War.

The Church of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God in Makedony was founded in 1729.

At first it was wooden. At the beginning of the 20th century, it was dismantled, and a new stone Intercession Church was built on the same place. The church was built with the assistance of priest Victor Solukha, who was a member of the State Duma for a while. In 1911, the church was consecrated in honor of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God. The temple was built in the then fashionable "brick" style.

Services were held until 1964, after which the church was closed and turned into a warehouse. In the 1970s, the dome collapsed and was never restored. The temple is still in poor condition, but restoration has begun.

The wooden Church of the Holy Intercession was built in Krenychi in 1761 by order of the abbess of the Theological Convent of Ksanfiya Protanska.

The simple and archaic architecture of the temple goes back to the oldest examples of Ukrainian wooden architecture of the "house" type. The three-log church on a stone foundation is covered with a pitched roof with a barely protruding dome above the center. Nearby is the same archaic two-story bell tower.

Around the Intercession Church is a picturesque area reminiscent of mountains.

The Holy Trinity Church was built in Bohuslav in the 19th century on the site of an old church. Most of the funds for the construction were allocated by Oleksandra Branytska.

The temple is made in the style of late classicism. An architectural monument of national importance.

Belongs to the community of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Holy Trinity Church in Rzhyshchiv was built in 1853-1860 on the site of an old wooden church known since the 17th century.

The initiator of the construction of the stone temple was Countess Dzyalynska from the ancient Rzhyshchiv family of Voronychi.

In the architecture of the Trinity Church, the style of classicism is consistent with the features of the so-called diocesan architecture of the second half of the 19th century.

On the northern wall, frescoes from the 19th century have been preserved.

The Holy Trinity Church in Kaharlyk was restored on the same place where it was built in 1800 at the expense of landowner Dmytro Troshchynskyi.

The temple stood directly opposite the Troshchynskyi palace, from which the park surrounding it has been preserved. The rector of the church was the writer Vasyl Kapnist for some time. The famous artist Volodymyr Borovykovskyi painted the "Last Supper" icon for her.

During the Soviet era, the church was destroyed. In 1998, the first stone in the foundation of the new Trinity Church was consecrated. Currently, the construction of the temple, which was carried out with donations from entrepreneurs, organizations and residents of the city, has been completed.

The museum of the outstanding writer and philosopher of Ukraine Ivan Franko was opened in the village of Khalepya in 2009 in the building of the former school of literacy.

The exposition of the museum is dedicated to the journey of Ivan Franko to Taras Shevchenko through the Dnipro, whose grave the outstanding Ukrainian figure always wanted to visit.

In the same year, in the premises where the Ivan Franko Museum was already located, the museum of the pioneer of Tryrillya archaeological culture, Vikentiy Khvoyka, and the local history museum were opened.

The Ivan Franko Museum is a branch of the Kyiv Regional Archaeological Museum.

The memorial house-museum of Ivan Soshenka in Bohuslav was opened in 1973 in the house of the artist's father, in which he was born in 1807.

The exhibition is housed in three rooms. In the first room, materials are exhibited that tell about Ivan's childhood and youth. The exposition of the next room highlights the artist's stay in St. Petersburg and studies at the Academy of Arts (1832-1838). The third room tells about Ivan Soshenko's meeting with Taras Shevchenko, the artist's work as a drawing teacher.

The museum presents photo reproductions of numerous sketches and drawings of the artist, as well as photocopies that tell about Ivan Soshenko's activities as a teacher, about the last years of his life.

A monument to Ivan Soshenko (sculptor Ida Kopayhorenko, architect Voldemar Bohdanivskyi) was installed on the territory of the museum.

The tract of Ivan-hora (Ivan-hill ) is located on the bank of the Dnipro on the southeastern outskirts of Rzhyshchiv, to the right of the pier.

On the top of the 174-meter-high mountain, an ancient Rus settlement of the 11th-13th centuries was discovered in the 19th century, identified with the historical fortress city of Ivan (mentioned in the Ipatiev Chronicle in 1151). Remains of wooden fortifications were found.

In the 16th century, a Polish fortress was built on Ivan-hora, which in 1663 was used by the troops of King Yan Kazymyr as a bridgehead for the invasion of the Left Bank (according to one version, the mountain bears the name of King Yan (Ivan).

After the construction of the Kaniv HPP, the process of erosion and washing of the mountain by the waters of the Kaniv Reservoir began.

Rzhyshchiv Museum of Fine Arts named Ivan-Valentyn Zadorozhny is located in an administrative building in the center of Rzhyshchiv.

The permanent exhibition presents works by contemporary artist-monumentalist, a native of Rzhyshchiv Ivan-Valentyn Zadorozhny. He is the author of 24 monumental works located throughout Ukraine. These are stained-glass windows in the author's technique of cast glass, mosaics, carvings, concrete reliefs.

The artist's creative work also includes tapestries of hand weaving, sculptures, graphic illustrations to Taras Shevchenko's "Kobzar" and children's fairy tales.

Visitors to the museum can see the author's works, historical and documentary photographs, read excerpts from the artist's diary. The Rzhyshchiv Museum of Art also holds thematic exhibitions and other events.

The Kaharlyk Historical and Local Lore Museum

has been located in a spacious room where there was once a reading room of the City Library for Children. Earlier, the museum was in a small house in the center of the Kagarlyk, built at the end of the eighteenth century, where there was once a guest yard, then a post office.

The museum was founded in 1974. Of the 33,000 storage units, about 1.5 thousand exhibits were exhibited in the museum's exposition hall.

The museum exposition covers a wide time period - from the first settlements in Kagarlychyna to the present. The section of nature introduces to the flora and fauna of Kagarlychyna. The archeology section presents excavations on the territory of the region. The ethnographic department presents collections of embroideries, towels, scarves, pottery. You can also get acquainted with weapons, sculptures, banknotes of different times, historical documents and ancient books.

In the Kamyanytsya tract in the north-western part of Rzhyshchiv, the remains of a Cossack guard fortress have been preserved: ramparts, a ditch and an underground passage.

According to legend, during a long siege, the last defenders of the fortress left alive - three brothers - hid the regimental treasury in the Vyhadka well, which has also survived to this day.

Mountain Krasukha rises 189 meters above sea level in the northeastern part of the Vytachiv village. Archaeological studies indicate that the top of the mountain is an artificial mound of the 2nd-4th centuries, probably from the times of the Ant kingdom.

There is a popular version that the barrow was built in 375 at the place of death of the famous Gothic king Ermanaric by order of his successor Vithimiris, which gave rise to the village of Vytachiv.

Archeological research discovered objects of the Chernyakhiv culture of the 2nd-3rd centuries, artifacts from the time of the Huns (5th century) and the remains of a pagan temple from the 6th-8th centuries on the mountain. The mountain was probably used as a burial place at all times.

Now there is also a village cemetery on Krasukha Mountain, so it is considered the oldest active necropolis in Kyiv region. Adherents of esoteric teachings consider the mountain a "place of power".

To the west of the mountain is the historical area of Okip, where there is a settlement of the ancient Rus city of Vytychiv of the 10th-13th centuries. Remains of ramparts and ditches can still be seen among private estates there.

The former building of the order's consistory, the only surviving building of the monastery of the Catholic order of the Trinitarians, is called the "Ksyondz's house" in Rzhyshchiv.

The Trinitarian monastery-fortress was founded in Rzhyshchiv in 1740 to resist Tatar raids and anti-Polish uprisings of the local residents, which became more frequent. It was a powerful fortification structure with two-meter-thick walls, watchtowers and loopholes, which served as Rzhyshchiv's citadel. The main building and architectural dominant of the entire city was the Church of the Holy Trinity. Three underground passages connected the basement of the church with the cells of the Trinitarian monastery inside the fortress, the Horyanshchyna area outside the fortress and the Polish cemetery nearby. The monastery housed the consistory of the order, as well as the Polish customs and border administrations.

During Soviet times, the monastery was closed, the church was destroyed by an explosion in 1984. The two-story building of the consistory ("Ksyondz's house") now houses the secondary school No. 2.