Attractions of Brovary district

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.

A private greenhouse in Rozhny near Kyiv is called a banana farm, where local farmer Anatoliy Patiy grows exotic indoor fruit plants.

To create an optimal microclimate, he uses thermos greenhouses of his own invention. In addition to bananas, pineapples, lemons, pomegranates, tangerines, figs and others ripen on the farm even in winter.

At the Patiy banana farm, tours are held, many exotic plants can be seen, and seedlings for apartments, private houses and winter gardens can be purchased.

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.

The wooden church of Archangel Michael was built in Lukashi in 1892-1896 on the site of the old Michael's Church, known since the 17th century.

The five-domed temple has architecture typical for those times.

In 1931, the Bolsheviks closed the church, the premises were used as a granary. During the German occupation, worship services were resumed, and the church has not been closed since then.

The parish of Saint Archangel Michael belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Church of the Ascension of the Lord in Lukyanivka is a wooden church with one spherical dome and a bell tower above the vestibule.

Founded in 1758, rebuilt in its present form in 1879. According to church documents, the first rector of the church was priest Hryhoriy Favorskyi.

From 1930 to 1941, the Ascension Church was closed by the Soviet authorities. During the German occupation, Archpriest Ihnatiy Tune, who died in 1946 and was buried near the church, served in the Lukyanivka church. Since then, the Church of the Ascension remained active.

Russian-Ukrainian war

On March 25, 2022, at 4 o'clock in the morning, after the liberation of the village by the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the Russian invaders, the latter completely destroyed the church - a Russian tank fired four shots at the Church of the Ascension.

The dome and icons of the Ascension Church became exhibits of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War.

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 entrance gate (propylae) of Brovary Airport "Kyiv" was preserved from the first Kyiv airport, which was opened in 1935 as the main airport of the capital of the Ukrainian SSR.

In September 1935, military aviation training was held here. In this connection, General Luazo, Yona Yakir, Heorhiy Zhukov, Semen Budonniy, Stanislav Kosior, Pavlo Postyshev visited Brovary.

In 1940, 50 planes took off from the airport every day and 50,000 passengers were served a year.

On June 25, 1941, the German-fascist aviation completely destroyed the airport. Only an arch with a colonnade, which was located at the entrance, remained from the architectural complex. There is a memorial plaque on it.

Currently, the shooting ranges of the "Sapsan" shooting complex and several residential buildings are located on the territory of the former airport.

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 remains of an ancient stone temple in honor of the Holy Trinity have been preserved in Hostroluchchia. The ruins can be found a little outside the center of the village.

The Holy Trinity Church can be considered Cossack, because it was built in the 80s of the 18th century at the expense of the Cossack registry colonel Hryhoriy Ivanenko. There is no other information about the temple.

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.

Built in 1808 in the Pukhivka village, the Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin was rebuilt several times during its existence.

In the 1930s, the Intercession Church was almost completely destroyed by the Bolsheviks. It was restored in 2005 and belonged to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.

In 2024, the religious community of the parish of the Intercession of the Mother of God by a majority vote joined the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

"Yosyp Kansky's Slavic Brewery" in Berezan is a unique brewery building with a malt house built in 1879.

The brewery was built according to a German project by the entrepreneur Ilarion Butovych, and after his death it was sold to the Czech entrepreneur Yosyp Kansky. The enterprise produced high-quality malt (100 pods per day) and brewed beer and kvass (about 120,000 buckets per year). But despite such a large number of products, the brewery was served by only six workers.

The Kansky brewery operated until the Bolshevik coup of 1917, and then, during the nationalization of lands and enterprises, the entire Kansky family was destroyed by the Bolsheviks.

During the Second World War, the premises of the brewery housed a hospital, then the building was converted into a grain storage warehouse.

Currently, the building of the Slavic Brewery is in private ownership, a project is underway to restore beer production with the opening of a pub and a motel.

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.