Attractions of Obukhiv district

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 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.

The Kyiv Regional Archaeological Museum in Trypillia is mainly dedicated to the Trypillia archeological culture, which was named after this village in the Kyiv region, where the first archeological excavations were carried out.

The dark constructivist building of cubic shape is located on Posadova Hill, on the site of the ancient settlement of Trepol. According to architect Anatoliy Ihnashchenko, the chest building symbolizes the wealth of Ukraine, and located around the stone - a piece of land.

The Kyiv Regional Archaeological Museum was established to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Trypillia culture by Vikentiy Khvoyka on the basis of the former Museum of Komsomol Glory. The exposition presents 34 thousand exhibits. The most interesting of them are exhibited in the Trypillya hall, which is stylized as a church of Trypillia: ceramics, jewelry, models of Trypillya residents, etc. In total, about 200 products of various shapes, sizes, applications and ornaments.

In two more halls there are exhibits of other epochs, starting from the Stone Age and ending with the XVIII century. Souvenirs imitating Trypillia ceramics are for sale. The most popular is the original binocular ritual utensils of Trypillya.

A bronze bust of Vikentiy Khvoyka, the first archeological monument in Ukraine, has been erected on a pedestal next to the museum building. In front of the monument there is a "Table of Harmony", in the center of which is a metal cylinder - the axis of the earth with the inscription "Dialogue of Cultures" in Ukrainian and English, symbolizing the intertwining of cultures on this land, the transition from one to another. Around the "Table of Harmony" placed historical exhibits of stone, created by ancient man. In front of the facade of the museum there are large blocks of sandstone, which are over 70 million years old - a gift from the National Historical and Ethnographic Reserve Pereyaslav.

The branches of the Kyiv Regional Archaeological Museum are the Archaeological and Local Lore Museum in the village of Kopachiv, the Historical and Local Lore Museum in the village of Sosnova, the Anatoliy Solovyanenko Museum in the village of Kozyn, the Military History Museum in the village of Trypillia, the Vikentiy Khvoyka Museum and the Ivan Franko Museum in the village of Halepya, the Cossack Era Museum and Picture Gallery in the village of Hermanivka.

The landscape reserve of local significance "Vasylkivski Carpathians" is located east of Vasylkiv, between the villages of Velyka Buhaivka and Roslavychi. It got its name due to the steep hilly relief, reminiscent of Carpathian landscapes.

The reserve with an area of ​​226.8 hectares was created in 1999 on the basis of a large stream with adjacent ravines, at the bottom of which flows the Krushynka River and several nameless streams flowing into the Buhaivka River. The fragmented log-beam landscape has artificial pine plantations in the upper reaches and natural broad-leaved forest in the lower part, including a floodplain aspen forest. Some pine trees have been preserved on the slopes of the stream.

The main value of the "Vasylkivski Carpathians" is the natural meadow-steppe herbage preserved on the slopes of the ravines, which have never been used by humans for agricultural purposes. In summer, the slopes are full of flowers, filling the air with honeyed aromas of wild chicory, meadow sage, alpine clover and other meadow herbs. Among the rare plants there is hard fiber flax and half-moon bunchgrass (key-grass), which is listed in the Red Book of Ukraine.

According to the Department of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Kyiv Regional State Administration, the "Vasylkivski Carpathians" are home to deer, roe deer, roe deer, wild boars, hares, partridges, and moose, which is listed in the Red Book of Ukraine. More than 30 species of birds nest.

You can enter the territory of the reserve from the T-1006 road on a dirt road that starts opposite the turn to the Gvozdoff ski complex. There is a place for picnics.

On the opposite side of the village of Velyka Buhaivka, there is another truss-beam system "Kazkovy yar", which is often confused with the "Vasylkivski Carpathians".

The memorial in honor of the heroes of the military offensive operation "Bukryn bridgehead" (1943), built on the site of the ancient Rus settlement of Chuchyn, which was first mentioned in chronicles in the 11th century.

In princely times, there was a fortress here that controlled the surroundings, and a port on the Dnipro. Remains of shafts up to 4 meters high have been preserved, partial reconstruction has been carried out. A monument to Boyan - the author of "Words about Igor's campaign" was erected.

In 1943, during the operation to liberate Kyiv, the Soviet troops, at the cost of terrible losses, forced the Dnipro in this area and captured an 11-kilometer bridgehead, twice tried to launch an attack on Kyiv, but failed both times. The conditions of the terrain, which complicated the offensive actions of the troops, especially the tank army, were not taken into account. Losses in manpower were colossal.

According to the most modest estimates, 250 thousand soldiers of the Soviet Army died. This episode is considered one of the bloodiest in the entire Second World War.

The exemplary military-historical museum of the village of Trypillia was opened in 2001 in the premises of the Trypillia Lyceum as a museum of military glory.

The main exposition tells about the events that took place in the village and its surroundings during the Second World War, and about the villagers who defended their homeland from the invaders. In particular, materials are presented about the "Rozkopana" tract, which is popularly called "Obuhiv's Babyn Yar", where the Nazis shot more than 700 civilians on the night of July 1, 1943.

An improvised soldier's trench has been set up in the hall, which stores the remains of weapons that were found on the battlefields in the vicinity of the village.

Separate stands tell about the citizens of Trypillia who took part in the war in Afghanistan and in the liquidation of the consequences of the accident at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant.

The "Russian-Ukrainian War" section is constantly replenished with new exhibits. Here you can learn about the residents of the village who have been defending Ukraine at the front since 2014, as well as about the work of the volunteer staff of the Trypillia Lyceum and other local volunteer organizations.

The Trypillia Military History Museum is a branch of the Kyiv Regional Archaeological Museum.

The monument to Decembrists was installed in the center of Vasylkiv, on the square in front of the city council.

In 1825, an uprising of the Chernihiv regiment began in Vasylkiv, led by the Decembrists Serhiy Muravyov-Apostol and Mykhaylo Bestuzhev-Ryumin. The uprising was organized by the Southern Society after the performance of the Decembrists on Senate Square in St. Petersburh. The Decembrist nobles, who opposed serfdom, tried to overthrow the autocracy by force. In Vasylkiv, the rebel troops seized weapons and the regimental treasury, after which they marched on the Bila Tserkva, on the approaches to which they were defeated by government troops. The instigators of the uprising were later executed.

The memorial sign in Vasylkiv depicts the profiles of five executed Decembrists: Pavlo Pestel, Kindrat Ryleev, Serhiy Muravyov-Apostol, Mykhaylo Bestuzhev-Ryumin, Petro Kakhovsky. Authors of the monument: sculptor Makar Vronskyi, architect Vasyl Hniezdilov.