Attractions of Brovary district

Aquapark "Terminal" in Brovary is the only waterpark in Ukraine with a sliding transparent roof, which allows you to sunbathe in the warm season.

There are 5 swimming pools, a jacuzzi, a SPA area, saunas, 9 slides, a large children's area, bars and restaurants, recreation areas on 4 floors. Equipment from the Canadian manufacturer Whitewaters is used. The longest and fastest slide "Master Blaster" is 200 meters long. Other slides: "Virage", "Tsunami", "Snake", "Cosmic Vortex" and "Multislide" (total length 1 kilometer). Wave pool with an area of 550 square meters.

The shopping and entertainment complex "Terminal" also includes a karting center, a bowling alley, an ice arena, a fitness center, a cinema, bars and restaurants.

Since 1977, the Baryshivka Local Lore Museum has been operating in the former residential building of the landowner Hladysh, built in the 19th century. Later, a school was located here, where from 1920 to 1923, one of the most prominent neoclassical poets, Mykola Zerov, worked as a teacher.

The collection of the Baryshivka Local Lore Museum includes more than 4,000 exhibits, including tools of the Stone and Bronze Ages, ceramic fragments of the Trypillia culture, and other archaeological finds. A collection of women's clothing and embroidered towels of the 18th-20th centuries is presented.

A separate exhibition highlights the participation of the residents of Baryshivka in the events of the Second World War, the war in Afghanistan and the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Products of local folk craftsmen are exhibited: painting, embroidery, wickerwork, etc.

The Berezan Museum of Local Lore is located in an original building with elements of folk architecture in the center of the town of Berezan in the Kyiv region. It was founded in 1975 on the initiative of local historian Halyna Ryh.

Today, the exposition of the Berezan Museum of Local Lore has nine sections: nature, traditional life, Cossacks, history of the Second World War, numismatics, folk art, etc.

The exhibition "Shevchenko's Room" is dedicated to Taras Shevchenko's stay in the city, in particular, a facsimile edition of his work "The Plundered Grave" is presented , written in 1843 in Berezan.

In the hall of the 1930s, you can learn about the tragic events of collectivization and the Holodomor in the Berezan region.

A bust of Taras Shevchenko is installed in front of the museum building.

The Brovary Museum of Local Lore is located in a modern building in the center of the city.

6 exhibition halls present collections that tell about the nature of the region, its history and ethnography.

The historical and archeological exposition tells in particular about the times of Kozachchyna and about the stay of the poet Taras Shevchenko in Brovarshchyna.

Among the events of the 20th century, the liberation struggle of Ukrainians from 1917 to the end of the Second World War is covered in detail.

Separate showcases are devoted to the period of collectivization, the Holodomor of 1932-1933, the work of the outstanding teacher Anton Makarenko in Brovary Children's Labor Colony No. 5 in 1936-1937.

The works of local artists, models of destroyed brewery temples are also exhibited.

The private museum of historical weapons and armor of collector Yevhen Hredunov opened in 2020 on the territory of the Talisman enterprise in Brovary.

The exposition presents weapons of different times and peoples. In addition to samples of Ukrainian and European weapons, the stands also include weapons from India, China, Japan, as well as African, Polynesian and pre-Columbian weapons. Historical weapons of the Horde, Crimean Tatars, and Polovtsians are also presented.

The most valuable exhibit is a Polynesian dagger made from the human tibia.

The wooden church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin in the village of Podillia was built in 1874 at the expense of the landowner Tomachynskyi.

The Intercession Church is an architectural monument of local importance.

The ancient burial mound of the Cossack times, described by Taras Shevchenko in the poem "The Plundered Grave", was restored on the outskirts of the city of Berezan in 2007 on the initiative of the modern Cossacks of the Berezan hundred.

The poem "The Plundered Grave" was written by Shevchenko on October 9, 1843 in Berezan, when he was visiting the local landowner Platon Lukashevych. The poet saw a picture of the excavations of the burial mound by Russian soldiers in the fields near Berezan. This metaphorical image of uprooting the historical memory and national self-awareness of the Ukrainian people became the leading one in Shevchenko's most famous anti-imperial poem.

Local expert Halyna Ryh was able to establish the location of the excavated mound in the landing near the railway track based on the stories of old residents. In 1989, on the initiative of the local branch of the People's Movement, the first memorial sign with a memorial plaque was installed here, and later the local Cossacks restored the destroyed mound and installed a stone figure of the Cossack Mamai on it.

The mound "Plundered Grave" (Rozryta Mohyla, Diggered Grave) is located on the eastern outskirts of the city of Berezan, at the exit towards Yagotyn, in the area of the railway crossing, 500 meters to the right of the highway along the railway track.

The Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in the village of Hoholiv is mentioned in "Journey of Antiochian Patriarch Macarius to Russia" by Pavlo of Aleppsky (1656), but it has not survived to this day.

The current wooden Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin was built in 1827 on the site of the old Cossack church. The church was rebuilt several times: in 1861, a bell tower was added to the architectural ensemble, in 1880, reconstruction was carried out and the five-part church became a nine-part one.

During the Soviet rule, the church remained active for a long time, it was closed only in the 1960s. In 1988, divine services were resumed, and in 1995, the church was handed over to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

Among the features: on the porch from the side of the bell tower, the All-Seeing Eye looks down on the parishioners.

The wooden church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin in Peremoha (Yadlivka) was built in 1892 with donations from local residents.

Probably, the church is located on the site of the ancient Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin, which was mentioned by Paul of Aleppo in the 17th century in "Journey of the Antiochian Patriarch Macarius to Russia": "We drove another half a mile and arrived at a small bazaar with a beautiful fortress, named Yadloka (Yadlivka ). It has a beautiful church in the name of the Nativity of the Virgin..."

The temple was pentagonal with a bell tower above the vestibule.

In 1934, the church was closed, its premises were not used for their intended purpose. In August 1944, the village of Yadlivka was completely burned down, the church was the only structure that survived.

In 1992, the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin was handed over to the church community of the village. On January 21, 2019, the parish community decided to join the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

An architectural monument of local importance.

The wooden church of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker in Bziv was built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries on the site of the older Nicolas church.

In July 2023, after a heavy downpour, the central dome of the Church of Saint Nicholas collapsed due to old age.

It belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

A beautiful three-throne church in honor of the Resurrection of Christ was built in Zazymya in 1875 on the site of a wooden church that was moved to a nearby village.

The initiator of the construction was Archbishop Pavlo (Subotivskyi), who bequeathed all his funds to the construction of a new church in his native village. The stone building is decorated with figured masonry of yellow brick.

In 1937, the Church of the Resurrection was closed and converted into a granary, but during the Second World War, services were resumed and did not stop.

Belongs to the community of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Savior and Transfiguration Monastery in Kniazhychi was founded in the 12th century by Saint Mykola Svyatosha, Prince of Chernihiv.

Soon the monastery was burned by the Tatars. It was later restored, but in 1917 it was again destroyed by the Bolsheviks. In the 1980s, the restoration of the temple began, monastic life was restored.

In the monastery there are icons of the Mother of God of Pochaiv and All Sorrowful Joys.

There are two monuments on the territory of the monastery: to the liberating soldiers and to the villagers who died in 1942-1943.

The Transfiguration Monastery is part of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

A new format of recreation and training is offered by the Cultural and Educational Center "Svitlytsya" in Brovary.

It was created in 2019 to acquaint visitors with interesting facts from the life and work of Taras Shevchenko, as well as with the history of Brovary city. This uses modern computer technology, including augmented and virtual reality.

There are also workshops for children, parties, literary and musical evenings, activities, competitions and quests.

The Taras Shevchenko Literary Museum in Baryshivka was created in 1987 on the initiative of Ukrainian historian, writer and statesman Vasyl Kostenko. It was his private collection of various editions of the works of the outstanding Ukrainian poet that formed the basis of the museum exposition.

The reason for founding the museum was the fact that Taras Shevchenko was in Baryshivka, which he mentions in the story "A walk with pleasure and not without morals". Here Shevchenko visited the family of Tymofiy Boryspolets, the father of Platon Boryspolets, his fellow student at the Academy of Arts. According to various sources, he could visit Baryshivka one or more times between 1843 and 1846. It was during this period that the poet visited the nearby Berezan, where he wrote the well-known poem "The Plundered Grave".

The main part of the collection consists of more than 500 editions of "Kobzar", including contemporary editions. Drawings and illustrations of the poet's works with gift inscriptions by artists, a collection of stamps, commemorative badges, ceramics with a portrait of Kobzar are presented. One of the four posthumous masks of Taras Shevchenko is kept in the museum.

A monument of garden and park art, the Zhurivsky Arboretum was created in the 19th century by Kyiv vice-governor Arkadiy Kochubey for his wife Sofiya Vyazemska.

The manor had a 40-room palace with a hall of mirrors and a library. A picturesque avenue led from the palace to the pond. 382 species of trees and shrubs grew in the park. In particular, cedar, larch, oak, and Manchurian walnut were imported from East and South Asia.

Currently, 150 species of trees remain, including larch, thuja, suga, rubber tree. A 400-year-old giant oak and an age-old black pine in the form of a lyre, as well as a trident pine, have been preserved. Of the manor buildings, only the kennel building has survived.