Attractions of Bila Tserkva district

The Choral (Central) Synagogue was built in the 19th century at the expense of the Jewish community of Bila Tserkva. The building is made in the eclectic style.

At the age of 16, the cantor Pinkhas Minkovsky began his career here, about whom Babel wrote in one of his stories about Benya Kryk: "Yosyp's funeral will be in the first order: six horses, like six lions, two chariots with wreaths, a choir from the Brody Synagogue, Minkovsky himself will come to mourn your late son."

During the Soviet era, the synagogue was closed, now the building belongs to the Technological and Economic College of the Bila Tserkva National Agrarian University.

The complex of Present Places in Tarashcha was designed by the imperial architect, professor of the architectural class of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, Andreyan Zakharov.

It was built in 1803-1817 after Tarashcha became a county town.

Official county offices, a prison, a wing of the Zemstvo court, the treasury, and the city administration have been preserved. Under the complex is a network of underground tunnels, through which prisoners from the Zemstvo prison were taken to the construction of the cathedral (destroyed in the 1930s).

Now one of the buildings houses a labor exchange, the others are used as residential buildings

The Tower fire station was built in Tarasha in the middle of the 19th century according to the project of architect Andreyan Zakharov.

It is an architectural monument of local importance. In satisfactory condition, located next to the fire station. The entrance is closed.

The medieval park "Gyurgiv Fortress" was created in 2022 on an island in the middle of the river Ros in Bila Tserkva.

This is an entertainment complex based on a stylized wooden medieval fortress modeled on the architecture of Kyivan Rus. A wooden bridge across the strait of Ros is built to the fortress. The entrance gate with the gate tower leads to the territory surrounded by a fence with watchtowers. The territory is equipped with a stage, a melting pot, fair canopies, paved wooden paths.

The fortress hosts concerts, international and national competitions in medieval warfare, festivals of historical reconstruction and more.

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.

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 wooden church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin with an attached bell tower was built in Berezna in 1890 on the site of the old Cossack temple of the 17th century.

The church building is five-domed: around the main dome there are four small ones. Cornices are richly decorated with wooden carvings.

The blue temple looks especially elegant against the background of winter snow.

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 grandiose temple complex in the village of Buky was built in 2000 at the expense of the Skvyra businessman Ivan Suslov according to the project of the architect Yuriy Babych.

The dominant feature of the complex is the church of Saint Eugene the Great Martyr with five gilded baths. During the construction of the temple, the historical canons of Ukrainian architecture were combined with modern architectural forms.

The complex also includes the chapels of Saint Oleksandr and Saint Nicholas, the bell tower of Saint Daniel.

In 2007, the temple complex in Buky was awarded the State Award in the field of architecture. In 2008, the National Bank of Ukraine issued a jubilee silver coin with a denomination of 10 hryvnias, which depicts the church of Saint Eugene in Buky.

In 2011, the Friendship of Peoples fountain, which used to stand on Independence Square in Kyiv, was opened on the square in front of the church.

The wooden church of Saint Joseph the Betrothed in Zhytni Hory was founded in 1756. At first, the church was three-story.

The church acquired its modern appearance in 1854, when a vestibule was added to it. There is one light and two decorative domes with extensions. Domes, completed with capitals, cover the log cabins of the temple, and peculiar vaulted ceilings - side aisles and vestibule.

Paintings of the 19th century have been preserved in the interior.

The Church of Saint Joseph the Betrothed in Zhytni Hory belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The wooden church of Saint Michael was built in Savyntsiin 1882 at the expense of the parishioners.

Previously, the village of Savyntsi was assigned to the parish of Zhytni Hory. Later, the village grew, and it needed its own temple.

The pretty church of Archangel Michael with the bulb on the bell tower has been perfectly preserved, but it is not an architectural monument.