Attractions of Vyshhorod district

A memorial sign in the form of a stele with an eagle at the entrance to the "Yerevansky quarter" was installed in honor of builders from Armenia.

Brigades from many republics of the former USSR took part in the construction of Slavutych in 1989, which is reflected in the architecture and city monuments.

The stele with the eagle was created by the Armenian architect Levon Khachatryan.

The "Egg of Life" monument was installed in 2000 at the exit from Ivankiv in the direction of Ovruch, near the bus station.

An unusual concrete sculpture in the form of a huge egg was presented to the village by the German architect Armin Koelbli as a symbol of the life and fertility of the earth, which should be revived after the severe "Chornobyl disease".

A memorial to the heroes of Chornobyl was erected in 1988 on Slavutych central Square.

Architects - Hotalskyi, Belyk, Aptukova. The composition consists of a pylon, in which a bell is installed, and two slabs on which 30 photos of Chornobyl NPP workers and firefighters, who received a critical dose of radiation in the first hours of liquidation of the accident, were placed.

A traditional place for laying flowers during celebrations.

30 rose bushes named "Slavutych" were planted near the monument. This completely new variety was created for the 30th anniversary of the Chornobyl tragedy by the French company "Meilland".

The "Mezhyhirya" national significance park-monument of landscape gardening art was officially created in 2023 on the basis of the Mezhyhirya government residence - a former suburban residential complex in Novi Petrivtsi near Kyiv, which gained scandalous fame during the tenure of the ex-president Viktor Yanukovych and became the most famous symbol of corruption in Ukraine.

The residence was founded in 1935 on the site of the ancient Mezhyhirya Transfiguration Monastery, founded in the 12th century. During Soviet times, all monastic buildings were demolished, and in their place a recreation complex with the country house of the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, popularly known as "Dacha Shcherbytskoho", was placed.

In 2002, "Mezhyhirya" became the residence of Viktor Yanukovych, who was then the Prime Minister of Ukraine. After becoming president, Yanukovych privatized the residence with an area of 137 hectares and launched large-scale construction here through the use of false structures. The complex includes: the club house "Khonka" (the main palace), the old house of Yanukovych, a guest house ("Putin's House"), the "Galeon" landing stage, a sports complex, a spa center, a golf club, a yacht club, a garage with a collection cars, a zoo, a dog center, a huge park with artificial lakes, and more.

After the overthrow of the Yanukovych regime and the ex-president's flight to Russia in 2014, access to the "Mezhyhirya" residence was open to all. For almost ten years, the object was in an uncertain status. It was cared for by volunteers of the public organization "NPU Mezhyhirya", and they set a fee for visits and excursions. In 2023, the Verkhovna Rada passed a law on the creation of "Mezhyhirya" national significance park-monument of landscape gardening art.

On the territory of the park there are walking tours with a visit to "Khonka" and the health center, sightseeing tours on electric cars. Bicycles can be rented. For an additional fee, you can visit the canine center, where more than 70 dogs are kept, and the retro car museum, where about 40 pieces of machinery (cars, trucks, military equipment, motorcycles) are presented. La petite Ecurie Equestrian Club offers horse riding lessons and carriage rides. There are barbecue and coffee shops on the territory.

The Bell Well in Novi Petrivtsi is an ancient spring in the Mezhyhirya tract, the only surviving object of the Kyiv-Mezhyhirya Savior-Transfiguration Monastery.

According to legend, the monks set up a whole system of bells above the spring, which rang melodiously, hence the name (according to another version, church bells were cast here).

The founding of the monastery is attributed to Prince Volodymyr the Great or Prince Andriy Boholyubsky, although Mezhyhirya is first mentioned in the documents of the XV century as a Cossack monastery. Hetmans Petro Sahaidachnyi and Bohdan Khmelnytskyi looked after him. A military hospital and a shelter for veterans were maintained at the expense of the Cossacks. In 1843. Taras Shevchenko visited here, describing Mezhyhirya in the poem "Chernets" (the Shevchenko oak has been preserved - 4.4 meters in girth).

In 1935, the monastery was blown up, in its place was created a closed country village of the party elite (the so-called "Scherbytsky's dacha", later - the residence of Viktor Yanukovych "Mezhyhirya"). It was possible to preserve only the spring, which is famous for the taste and healing properties of iron-rich water. In 2005, a small chapel was built, then a bathhouse, and in 2011, the wooden church of the Transfiguration of the Lord Mezhyhirya was consecrated (services are held on weekends and holidays at 12:00).

The Church of Saints Borys and Hlib in Vyshhorod was rebuilt in the 19th century on the site of an ancient Rus hillfort on Hill Olha.

The first church was founded here by Prince Volodymyr. In 1030, on the site of the burnt church, Yaroslav the Wise built a temple-tomb in honor of Saints Borys and Hlib, where the relics of the holy martyrs were transferred, and in 1115 Yaroslav's grandsons built a stone cathedral.

The temple, destroyed by the Tatar-Mongols, was revived by archpriest Mykhaylo Sikachynskyi according to the project of the architect Kostyantyn Ton.

During Soviet times, the Church of Saints Borys and Hlib in Vyshhorod was turned into a museum. Now the temple is active. Nearby are the ramparts of the hillfort.

On June 17, 2023, the community voted for the transfer of the Church of Saints Borys and Hlib to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. On September 5, a service in the Ukrainian language was held for the first time in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in honor of Borys and Hlib.

The historical exposition of the Vyshhorod Historical and Cultural Reserve is presented in the ancient "Klyukva House".

This is a two-storey residential building, which was built in 1905 by Corporal Ivan Shkolnyi, nicknamed Klyukva. According to legend, at the end of the XIX century Klyukva began to collect various antiquities, which were then often found in the Vyshhorod region. Later, this house was used as a village council, school, dormitory. Since 1995, it belongs to the Vyshhorod Historical and Cultural Reserve.

The basis of the exposition of the historical museum are the materials of archeological excavations on the settlement of Ancient Vyshhorod. In the archeological exposition you can see the oldest Easter egg in Ukraine (XI century), the seal of Prince Izyaslav Yaroslavych of the XI-XII centuries, a folding encolpion cross of the X century, fragments of a Scandinavian fibula of the first half of the X century.

The wall panel "Ancient Vyshhorod of the XII-XIII centuries", made by the honored artist of Ukraine Henry Yahodkin, gives a clear idea of the medieval city. Classic methods of museum (showcase) display are complemented by innovative museum technologies: 3D-modeling, interactive maps, QR-codes.

The brick temple of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin in Novy Petrivtsi was built at the beginning of the 20th century in the Rus-Byzantine style.

During Soviet times, the church was closed. From 1990 to 1993, the diorama "Liutizh Bridgehead" was exhibited in the premises.

Now the temple is active. There is a monument to the Liutizh Bridgehead nearby.

Ivankiv Local History Museum is located in the city park, on the site of an ancient Rus settlement of the X-XIII centuries.

The exposition presents samples of fauna and flora of the region, collection of antique household items, reconstruction of the interior of the Ukrainian house of Polissya region.

The exhibition "Ivankiv and Munster in the Second World War - Ukrainian-German research project" tells about the life of the town during the Nazi occupation and deportation of residents to forced labor in Germany.

The exposition "Chornobyl is our pain" tells about the accident at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant and the elimination of its consequences.

The pride of the museum is an exhibition of paintings by the People's Artist of Ukraine Mariya Prymachenko, who lived in the neighboring village of Bolotnia.

At the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion in February 2022, when Ivankiv came under fire, the Ivankiv History and Local History Museum burned down. But the employees managed to save all the paintings of Mariya Prymachenko. The restoration of the museum is planned.

Kyiv HPP - the upper stage of the cascade of hydroelectric power stations on the Dnipro, the first HPP in the USSR, built from prefabricated reinforced concrete structures with the use of horizontal capsule hydro units, which allowed to design the HPP building combined with the spillway part

Construction continued from 1960 to 1968. Structures: HPP building (440 MW), a concrete spillway dam with 20 spillways, a shipping lock, earth dams, structures of a hydraulic storage station with an upper reservoir. The construction of the dam and the city of energy workers created a modern industrial architectural appearance of the ancient Vyshhorod.

According to legend, during the design of the Dnipro Cascade in the 1930s, Joseph Stalin demanded that if the Kyiv Hydroelectric Dam was destroyed in the event of a war, the water shaft would also destroy all other dams and bridges downstream, thus creating a natural water barrier. This legend, as well as concerns about the technical condition of the dam, constantly cause discussions about the threat to Kyiv from the station.

The local history museum of the city of Slavutych and Chornobyl NPP presents expositions dedicated to the nature, history and culture of the Polissya region.

The main place is occupied by materials on the history of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant and the construction of the city of Prypyat, the accident of 1986 and the liquidation of its consequences at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant and in the 30-kilometer exclusion zone, the construction of the "Ukryttya" facility and the new confinement.

The museum's funds include more than 10,000 exhibits. In particular, the exhibition hall "History of the construction of the city of Prypyat and the accident at the Chornobyl NPP" displays documents, photos of the station, stands dedicated to the liquidation of the consequences of the accident, as well as a model of the station's industrial site with the "Ukryttya" facility.

The exhibition "Construction of the city of Slavutych" presents sketches of artistic and architectural solutions, author's projects for the development of neighborhoods and recreation areas, for which a group of architects led by Fedir Borovyk received the State Prize of Ukraine.

In the "Ethnographic Light" hall, ancient Ukrainian towels, embroidered by craftsmen from the villages of Chernihiv and Ripkinsky districts, and other items of traditional life are exhibited. You can also see things that Prypyat residents used before the Chornobyl accident.

The Museum of Pottery of the Vyshhorod Historical and Cultural Reserve introduces the Vyshhorod region as a leading historical center of the traditions of pottery in Kyivan Rus.

The large pottery center of Ancient Vyshhorod was discovered in the middle of the XX century during the construction of the Kyiv HPP infrastructure. According to archaeologists, in the XI century. on the territory of 5-6 hectares there were about 250-300 pottery kilns. Probably, measuring utensils for taxation were made here. Most of the finds were destroyed during the construction of residential buildings in the city of power engineers.

An exposition pavilion was built over the only surviving medieval pottery kiln. Nearby, in a village house of the middle of the XX century, there is an exposition of archeological finds on the territory of Vyshhorod pottery center, a collection of products of the Mezhyhirya porcelain and faience factory, an exhibition of works by modern masters.

The Museum of Ancient Rus Pottery regularly holds various events and celebrations. Masters of pottery invite you to master classes, during which everyone can make a souvenir for themselves.

National Museum-Reserve of Ukrainian Military Achievements (former State Museum-Reserve "Battle for Kyiv 1943") in Novi Petrivtsi recreates the situation of the famous Liutizh military operation to liberate the capital of Ukraine from Nazi invaders in 1943-1944.

Defensive structures, dugouts, military equipment, and an exhibition of uniforms and weapons have been preserved on an area of 9 hectares.

Impressive diorama "Battle for Kyiv. Lyutizh bridgehead. 1943." opened in 1980.

Every year before the Day of Remembrance and the Day of Liberation of Kyiv, theatrical performances take place on the territory of the museum, which recreate the battles for Kyiv.

In 2022, a new exhibit - the Russian Mi-35N helicopter - appeared in the exposition of the National Museum-Reserve of Ukrainian Military Achievements. It was on February 24, the first day of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, that a Russian Mi-35N helicopter (RF-13024) was shot down by a soldier of the National Guard of Ukraine over the Kyiv Reservoir. The helicopter was part of an air attack on the military airfield in Gostomel, Kyiv region. In May 2022, the downed helicopter was raised from the bottom of the Kyiv Sea.

The territory of the National Nature Park "Dniprovsko-Teterivskyi" designed on the basis of the Dniprovsko-Teterivske State Forestry Farm is located in the Vyshhorod district, in the north of the Kyiv region, near the village of Sukholuchchia.

Today, the Dniprovsko-Teterivske State Forestry Farm management protects the typical landscapes of Polissya within the flooded floodplain of the Teteriv River and the coast of the Kyiv Reservoir. The area of the farm is almost 37.9 thousand hectares, their water bodies - 9.3 thousand hectares. About half of the area consists of forests, widespread meadows, many marshes and lakes. Pine and oak-pine forests predominate, aspen and birch forests in some areas.

The hunting fauna characteristic of Polissya is moose, red deer, roe deer, wild boar, fox, hare, raccoon dog, beaver, otter. Birds include grouse, gray partridge, teals, ducks, woodcocks, snipe, etc. The muskrat has been acclimatized, and work is underway to introduce the pheasant. Birds that were not here before began to nest: gray goose, gray crane. There are also black storks, peregrine falcons, white-tailed eagles, and snake-eaters, which are listed in the Red Book.

Until 2014, two hunting residences of the ex-president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, were located on the territory of the Dnipro-Teteriv reserve in the tracts "Ostriv" and "Akatia": hunting palaces, aviaries with wild animals, a helipad, piers with hangars, boats and yachts.

Currently, the development of the "Project for the creation of the Dniprovsko-Teterivskyi National Nature Park" is underway.

Pillbox (DOT) 578 of Battalion District No. 21 of Kyiv Ukrain District (KyUR) is located on the edge of the forest and rises above the floodplain of the Irpin River.

The structure is a two-gun artillery semi-cabinet intended for conducting flank artillery fire.

Pillbox was blown up, but some premises were preserved. In particular, one of the gun casemates.