Attractions of Bila Tserkva district

The Memorial Museum-Manor of Ivan Kozlovsky is located in the village of Maryanivka near Vasylkiv, where the outstanding Ukrainian tenor was born in 1900.

At the age of seven, Ivan went from here to Kyiv to study at a church school at the Saint Michael Monastery. He sang in Saint Sophia Cathedral.

His wonderful voice and the combination of folk motifs with classics in his work brought Kozlovsky world fame.

The singer visited his homeland many times. In a small house under a thatched roof, photographs, personal belongings, film materials, gramophone records with Kozlovsky's concerts are kept.

On the bank of the river, next to the house, there is a cozy park where mallows, apple trees, oaks, lindens, thuja and sycamores grow.

The memorial of Hetman Ivan Mazepa was created in the village of Mazepyntsi, where he was born in 1639.

It was here in 1994 that the first monument to Mazepa in Ukraine and Europe was opened (sculptor - Yevhen Horban.). The monument was built on the initiative and at the expense of Ukrainian philanthropist Mariyan Kots, who lives in the USA.

The memorial complex also included the wooden church of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker (2007) and the Park of Cossack Glory (2009). Tree saplings were planted on the territory of the future park, a small museum was opened, and a cross was erected in honor of the Ukrainian Cossacks.

The Roman Catholic Church of John the Baptist was built in Bila Tserkva in 1812-1813 by Count Ksaveriy Branytskyi on Castle Hill, where the nursery was located during the princely times.

According to one of the versions, an ancient church stood on this place, which gave the city its name. Branytskyi built the church in memory of his son Oleksandr, who died in childhood.

In the plan of the building lies the Latin cross, traditional for Catholic architecture, stretched on the east-west axis. The interior of the church is decorated with ornamental moldings with openwork rosettes complex in terms of plot and technique. The church is painted with monumental paintings by unknown masters. A white marble stele in memory of Kateryna Branitska-Sanhushko has been preserved on one of the walls.

In 1990, the organ of the Czech firm Rieger-Kloss was established. Today, the Church of John the Baptist is the Bila Tserkva city organ and chamber music hall with a 300-seat hall.

The landscape park in Buky, Kyiv region, was laid out on the banks of the Rostavitsa River in 1996 at the expense of the Skvyra entrepreneur Ivan Suslov.

On his initiative, the clogged riverbed was cleared, the dam was restored, and the old water mill was reconstructed and converted into a mini hydroelectric power station. The picturesque rapids and rocky shores of Rostavitsa were transformed into a landscape park with many bridges, gazebos and various sculptures.

The buildings of the Suslov family manor house are successfully incorporated into the landscape: a residential building with a family chapel, a "watchtower", a hunting lodge, a carpentry workshop, and others. In the decoration of buildings, you can often find the number "7", which Ivan Suslov considers his lucky number (his initials form the Ukrainian word "SIM", he is the seventh child in the family, etc.).

In the mini-zoo you can see lions, bears, deer, ponies, and peacocks.

Recently, a "Fairy Tale Lawn" was opened on the territory of the park with figures of heroes of fairy tales and a playground for children of the family-type orphanage, which contains the Suslovs.

Buky Park is available for visiting in the warm season, entrance to the territory is free, excursions to the mini-zoo and to the "Fairytale Lawn" are paid. Embroidery, souvenirs, ice cream and soft drinks are sold at the entrance. There is a restaurant and a mini-hotel.

The Roman Catholic Church of Saint Mary Magdalene in Tarashcha was built in the 1890s in the pseudo-Gothic style.

The construction of the church began in 1886. Count Branytsky collected money for it. An organ was installed in the church, the pointed windows were decorated with stained glass.

During the time of the Soviet authorities, they intended to open a pasta factory in the premises, but this was prevented by the Second World War. During the German occupation, the church became an Orthodox temple, and in the 1960s it was divided into 2 floors, making small classrooms on the first floor, and a large assembly hall on the second floor - the church became a music school.

Currently, the Church of Mary Magdalene is one of the decorations of Tarascha, it still houses the Tarascha Music School named after Mykola Lysenko. You can come in and inspect the premises during working hours.

The building of the men's gymnasium in Skvyra was built in 1909 at the expense of a patron, the engineer of the All-Russian Railways Petro Suvchynsky.

The construction was carried out according to the project of the Ukrainian architect Oleksandr Kobelev, the author of the buildings of the State Bank and the Commercial Institute in Kyiv.

The Skvyra City Men's Gymnasium was classified as one of the gymnasiums that had the best facilities in the territory of the Russian Empire. Ivan Rosoptovskyi became the first director of the educational institution in 1909, but soon he was replaced by Ivan Hryhorovych.

In 1917, a museum of local history was opened by Karl Bolsunovsky at the Skvyra Men's Gymnasium.

Now it is the Skvyra Academic Lyceum.

The sculptural composition "Naked Attack" was installed in the village of Mala Vilshanka during the Soviet era in memory of the textbook propaganda Soviet history, which tells about the heroism of the Red Army men Hryhoriy Kotovsky.

Kotovsky once stood with his headquarters in nearby Volodarka, and the musicians of his orchestra were invited to Vilshanka to play at a wedding. In the morning, it became known that the White Guards were approaching Vilshanka, and the musicians, having abandoned their instruments, fled to their relatives in Volodarka. After learning that all the instruments, including his favorite drums, had fallen to the enemy, Kotovsky immediately ordered the signal for battle to be sounded. The fighters jumped out of bed, who was wearing what, got on their horses and rushed to rescue the drums. True, there were no White Guards in Vilshanka at that time, but the "naked attack" made an indelible impression on local residents.

A monument to dead bikers was opened near the checkpoint at the entrance to Bila Tserkva from the Kyiv side in 2007.

The bronze sculpture of a flying motorcyclist (sculptor Anton Maslyk) is located at a height of 7 meters on a concrete support 11 meters high. The vertical support and outstretched arms of the motorcyclist form a cross. Another small cross is on top of the monument.

Funds for the creation of the monument were collected by the charity fund "Memory of the dead bikers".

The monument to Yaroslav the Wise in Bila Tserkva was erected in 1983 on the observation deck of Castle (Zamkova) Hill. In the 11th-13th centuries, the ancient Rus city of Yuryev, founded by Yaroslav in 1032, was located at this place.

Between the monument and the building of the Local Lore Museum are preserved remains of the foundation of the later Saint George's Church, which gave the city its current name.

In 2011, on the initiative of the Kostyantyn Yefimenko Charitable Foundation, the construction of a new church of Saint George, stylized according to ancient Russian architecture, began on the territory of Castle Hill, in connection with which the monument was moved a little to one side.

The Museum of Electrical Communication in Bila Tserkva is located in the premises of the Ukrtelecom Telecommunications Center.

The exhibition tells about the history of communication and post. Devices used to transmit messages at different times, the first television, and more are presented.

The Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin in Rokytne was built in 1897-1901 in the then popular "brick" style.

An architectural monument of local importance.

The Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin in Kovalivka was opened in 1997.

Architect Anatoly Antonyuk and a group of artists led by Vugar Mamedov took part in the construction.

The temple is built in the form of a ship on the shore of the lake in the center of the village. Paintings of the temple and icons are done in a highly professional manner. The main shrines are icons of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, Saint Sergius of Radonezh.

The large stone church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin in the village of Kivshovata was built in 1886.

In Soviet times, the temple was closed, the premises were used as a warehouse.

Currently, the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin is functioning again, restoration has been carried out. In the interior you can see a luxurious carved iconostasis.

The Natural History Museum "Porossya Pearls" in Tarashcha has been operating at the Center for Extracurricular Education "Veselka" since 2008. The museum was created on the initiative of the local historian Valeriy Romanyuk with the participation of the famous archaeologist Svitlana Bessonova.

The exposition presents archaeological materials collected on the outskirts of Tarashcha by activists of the Nevryda archaeological club.

In particular, you can see a considerable collection of bronze products of various functional purposes from the Scythian era, early Scythian ceramic dishes, fragments of molded ceramics from other eras.

Household items from the times of Kyivan Rus, household items from the Lithuanian and Polish era, Cossack weapons are also presented.

The complex of buildings of the postal station arose in Bila Tserkva in the 19th century, when a regular connection between Moscow and Odesa was established.

The premises of the post office (functioning as intended), the hotel (Taras Shevchenko stayed here), the inn, the carriage yard, the forge and the stables are made in a classical style, the architectural integrity and original layout of the complex has been preserved.

The Fellini restaurant is located in one of the premises.