Attractions of Brovary district

The wooden church of Saint Great Martyr George was built in the village of Selyshche in 1910-1914 at the expense of Cossack landowners.

A sample of Cossack cult architecture of the beginning of the 20th century. Five domes give the unusual strength and fundamentality of the building, and the four auxiliary ones are almost as large as the main one.

In Soviet times, a granary was located here. Officially, the Church of Saint George does not belong to the monuments of architecture.

The Church of Staint Nicholas was built in Hostroluchchia in 1832 at the expense of local landowners Kateryna and Karl Lauzberg. It was consecrated in 1836 by Bishop Gedeon of Poltava and Pereyaslav. An architectural monument of local importance.

The stone church has one main dome and four additional decorative ones. A bell tower is connected to the church by a long gallery, topped by a high spire. The building is made in a classic style.

Restoration is currently underway. Divine services are held. It belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

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.

VIP Ostrich Farm was opened near Kyiv in 2001. The main activity of the farm is the breeding of African ostriches for the further sale of young animals and the breeding of an adult herd. Technologies of ostrich farms in the USA and Canada are used, which are adapted to Ukrainian conditions.

According to previous agreements, informative and entertaining tours of the farm territory are held. You can also buy commemorative souvenirs made of feathers and eggshells of African ostriches, take pictures with the birds and get a commemorative photo of the ostrich.

The building of the former Zemsky school of the late 19th and early 20th centuries is located in the central part of the village of Hostroluchchia, next to the ruins of the Holy Trinity Church.

Today, a village secondary school is located in the premises of the former Zemsky school.

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.