Attractions of Berdychiv district

The "Chornorudka" railway station was opened in 1870. The station building was probably built between 1870 and 1889.

Today it is an architectural monument of local importance.

The three-story commercial school building in Berdychiv is a vivid example of provincial modernism.

It was built in 1908 at the expense of Berdychiv merchants. Bricks of different texture and color are used in the decoration, which gives the building a general yellow-gray tone. Densely placed window openings provide excellent lighting.

Since 1923, pedagogical courses began to work here. Today it is the Berdychiv Pedagogical College.

The granary in Verkhivnia was built in 1913. It is an architectural monument of local importance. A warehouse of agricultural tools of that time has been preserved nearby.

The Empire-style palace with antique motifs in the decor was built in Verkhivnia in 1800, according to the project of the Italian architect Blerio, by Count Vatslav Hansky, who inherited the Verkhivnia  estate from his father Yan Hansky.

The manor with a palace and outbuildings, a large landscaped park and a church-burial church was presented by the count to his young wife Evelina from the Rzhevusky family, who was considered one of the first beauties of Poland. From here, Evelina began a secret correspondence with Honore de Balzac, signing under the pseudonym "Foreigner". Soon their first meeting took place in Switzerland, but only 15 years later, when Evelina's husband died, the writer was able to come to Verkhivnia.

In Balzac's study, which has survived, on the second floor of the palace, there is a table at which he wrote "Deputy of Arcy", "Petite Bourgeois", "Theatre as it is" and the drama "The Stepmother". The interior of Balzac's bedroom has not been preserved - there are exhibited portraits of the novelist made by his contemporaries. These rooms house the Literary and Memorial Museum of Honore de Balzac.

Other premises of the palace are occupied by the Agricultural College, restoration is underway.

The Church of the Holy Body and Blood of Jesus Christ in Ruzhyn was built by Count Kalynovsky in 1815.

According to legend, the church is connected by an underground passage to the landowner's estate.

During the Soviet rule, the shrine was closed, the dome was demolished, and the building was converted into a car repair shop.

In 2000-2008, restoration was carried out at the expense of the Zhebrivskyi family. Currently, the Church of the Holy Body and Blood of Jesus Christ is functioning and is under the guardianship of the Pauline Fathers.

The wooden Church of the Holy Intercession is located in the center of the village of Zarubyntsi, it is an architectural monument of local importance.

It was built in the second half of the 19th century on the site of an older temple mentioned in 1746.

The temple underwent several reconstructions, but preserved its original forms.

The Holy Trinity Parish in Berdychiv was founded in the middle of the 18th century, and the first wooden Trinity Church was built in 1759.

Prince Mykola Radzivill, one of the owners of the city, is considered to be the founder of the parish. In 1834-1836, archpriest Sylvester Lipsky built a stone, cross-domed church with a bell tower. The old wooden church was dismantled, and the wood from it was used to fire bricks for the new church.

During the Soviet rule, the Trinity Church was closed. Its premises housed offices, warehouses, living quarters and even a stable. After the liberation of Berdychev from the German-fascist occupiers in 1945, the Holy Trinity parish resumed work, the church was handed over to the Orthodox religious community. Since then, it has been open for religious services.

The stone church of the Holy Trinity was built in 1803 by the landowner Konopatskyi, who owned the village of Topory since 1800.

During the Soviet rule, there was a library and a cultural center here. For this purpose, the interior space was divided into 2 floors, with half-height ceilings.

Now the church building is in a dilapidated state.

The wooden Holy Trinity Church in Bilylivka is made in the style of folk architecture, cruciform in plan, and is a landmark of local architecture.

It currently belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate, banned in Ukraine.

A monument to the French writer Honore de Balzac was opened in 2011 in Berdychiv in front of the entrance to the office complex named after the writer.

The "Honore de Balzac" complex was built by a French investor in the center of Berdychiv, opposite the church of Saint Barbara, where Balzac married the landowner Evelina Hanska from Verkhivnia in 1850.

On the 3rd floor of the complex, there is a French cultural center, in which a corner of Balzac has been opened (a museum is planned).

The grandiose Jewish necropolis is located in Berdychiv near the city center, just behind the crossing. Thousands of tombstones with Yiddish inscriptions have been preserved.

Here is the grave of tzaddik Levi Itskhak Berdychevsky - a place of pilgrimage for Hasids from all over the world.

A two-story Kamyanytsya (house) with buttresses was built in the center of Yaropovychi in the 19th century, probably at the expense of the sugar factory Tereshchenko.

It is not known exactly for what purpose it was used. According to some sources, it was an industrial facility. There is also an opinion that there was a Zemstvo school in it.

Until recently, the building was used as a primary school, but after a new school was built in the village, this building is empty.

The Joseph Konrad Regional People's Museum was opened in the village of Terekhove near Berdychiv in 1987.

The museum bears the name of the outstanding English writer of Polish-Ukrainian origin Joseph Theodore Konrad Kozhenovskyi, better known as Joseph Konrad, who was born in Terekhove in 1857. Several museum rooms are dedicated to the life and work of this classic of world literature. They tell about the writer's childhood and youth, family and personal life, about his almost 20-year sea voyages. The literary work of the writer is presented.

The museum also has a local history exposition, which presents items from the Neolithic era, Trypillyan and Chernyakhiv cultures, Ukrainian antiquities, materials from the Second World War and post-war reconstruction.

The stone church of Saint George in Bilylivka was built in 1826-1832 on the site of a small, older church of the same name, which was destroyed by the Mongol-Tatars.

The temple was built in the style of classicism under the direction of the architect Vasyl Syerikov, known for his works in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.

Saint George's Church is an architectural monument of local importance.

Saint Nicholas Cathedral, the main Orthodox church of Berdychiv, was built on the site of the wooden church of Saint Nicholas, which was built in 1748 by the efforts of the owner of the city, Varvara Zavish.

The church kept an ancient icon of Nicholas the Wonderworker, which was considered miraculous.

The stone temple in the late baroque (rococo) style was built and consecrated in 1908. The interior is richly decorated with paintings. In 1996, Berdychiv's Saint Nicholas Church received the status of a cathedral.