Attractions of Zhytomyr district

The Museum of Local Lore in Cherniakhiv was founded in 1967.

The exposition is located in six halls and tells about the nature and history of Cherniakhiv region from the Paleolithic to today. It has 6 thematic sections: "Nature", "Archaeology", "Ethnography", "Soviet period", "Second World War" and "Modern history".

The People's Museum of the Composer Borys Lyatoshynsky was opened in 2013 in the premises of the Zhytomyr Music School No. 1, which bears the name of this classic of Ukrainian music of the 20th century, who was born in Zhytomyr in 1894.

The exhibition contains materials about the life and work of the artist and his family, which had Polish roots. Personal belongings of the composer, family photos, archival documents are presented.

A separate exhibition is devoted to the history of the Zhytomyr Music School since 1905 and its outstanding graduates.

The Roman Catholic Concafedral Church of Saint Sophia with a bell tower 26 meters high is considered one of the main architectural monuments of Zhytomyr thanks to a successful combination of late Renaissance and Baroque styles.

The church was built in the 18th century on Zhytomyr's Castle Square on the initiative of Bishop Samiylo Ozhyha, and was reconstructed in the 19th century using classicism techniques. The thickness of the brick walls reaches 2 meters. The facade is divided into two tiers, the house is topped by towers with sharp spiers. One of the pylons of the building is decorated with a bas-relief created by the famous pianist and composer Yuliush Zarembskyi.

The rich interior decoration - stucco and wall paintings - has been preserved. Currently, it is an active Catholic cathedral of the parish of Saint Sophia.

In 2011, a monument to Pope John Paul II was erected in front of the Saint Sophia Cathedral.

The monument to the memory of the participants of "Koliyivshchyna", executed in Kodnia, is erected at the exit from the village in the direction of Andrushivka.

In 1768, a mass punishment of captured Ukrainian rebels who fought against Polish rule during the Cossack-peasant uprising led by Maksym Zaliznyak and Ivan Gonta took place at this place. Russian troops suppressed the uprising together with the Poles. About 300 people were executed in Kodnia. Under the leadership of the Polish military commander Yuzef-Habriel Stempkovskyi, the rebels were beheaded, impaled, quartered.

To mark the 200th anniversary of the tragedy, a memorial monument to the participants of the "Koliyivshchyna" was erected on the Cossack mound-grave, surrounded by a dense ring of trees.

On the track, the turn is marked with the sign "Cossack grave".

Separate buildings of the manor of the ancient count family Olizars, to whom Korostyshiv belonged since 1565.

The palace and park complex was founded in Korostyshiv in the 19th century by the outstanding poet and public figure Gustav Olizar. An excellent picture gallery was collected in the palace, the library consisted of several thousand volumes.

The service wing, part of the colonnade has been preserved.

An Alley of Glory was built in the manor park during Soviet times, and in the lower part you can see a collection of granite sculptures.

The monument of Eternal Glory in honor of the soldiers who liberated Zhytomyr was installed on one of the highest points of the city and is visible from afar.

The monument is a tall massive cylindrical column carved from Zhytomyr labradorite, on which a sculptural composition is installed - a soldier of the Soviet Army, a partisan and a patriot woman. A flag flies above them. The sculptural composition is cast from bronze. The names of the units of the Soviet Army, partisan units and units, underground organizations, names of military commanders, partisan commanders, leaders of the party underground are carved on the granite pedestal. The Eternal Flame burns near the monument.

From the foot of the monument there is a wonderful view of the city, its surrounding forests, the dam that forms the Zhytomyr Reservoir.

The two-story baroque mansion on the southern outskirts of Zhytomyr belonged to Zhytomyr notary, lawyer Ivan Filipov.

Originally, the house, built in 1886, was wooden. Filipov reconstructed it in 1903, turning it into a luxurious mansion.

Currently, the building houses 3 state organizations: the Department of Justice, the Department of Culture, and the Palace of Happiness.

Filipov's mansion is an architectural monument of local importance, one of the little-known architectural gems of Zhytomyr.

The Museum of Fire Protection in Zhytomyr is located in the premises of the fire tower, which was built in 1894.

The fire tower is still in operation and is an architectural monument of local importance.

The history of the formation of the fire extinguishing system and fire equipment is presented in the museum, and a movie about the causes of fires is shown on a movie projector.

The Franciscan church and monastery in Chudniv was founded in the 17th century by Prince Sangushko, the stone temple was built in 1760 by the vicar bishop of Horchynskyi.

In 1787, the last Polish king, Stanislav Avhust Ponyatovsky, visited the church on his way to Kaniv to meet the Russian empress Catherine II.

In 1832, the monastery was liquidated, and during Soviet times, the church was also badly damaged.

Now the church belongs to the Catholic parish of the Finding of the Holy Cross, restoration is underway.

A large flooded granite quarry is located in the village of Nova Rudnia, near Tryhirya.

Picturesque shores overgrown with pine forest are surrounded by steep granite rocks.

The place is little known and sparsely populated, so far it is clean.

SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler's camp "Hegewald" (Hegewald - protected forest) was built in 1941 in the village of Huiva near the military airfield "Skomorokhy".

The construction was carried out by Soviet prisoners of war under the supervision of the SS. The headquarters of the military leadership was located in a two-story building that was the House of Culture before the war. In case of bombings, a light ground reinforced concrete bunker was built, the walls of which were 3 meters thick.

In 1942. In "Hegewald" there was a meeting of the highest ranks of the police and the commanders of the SS units, at which Himmler read the famous "Ost" plan, which provided for the colonization of the occupied eastern territories.

Unlike Hitler's and Goering's bunkers, which were located nearby, Himmler's bunker was not blown up when the German troops retreated.

Currently, the building with the adjacent plot of land is in private ownership. The entrances are closed by armored doors with a thickness of 5 centimeters. German fire hydrants in operation have also been preserved.

Ribbentrop's bunker is located nearby, on the opposite side of the Zhytomyr - Vinnytsia highway, on the closed territory of the military unit.

The building of a water mill on the Myka River on the southern outskirts of Radomyshl was built at the end of the 19th century (according to other sources in 1904) on the foundations of a paper factory founded in 1606 by Archimandrite Yelysey Pletenetsky to provide paper for the printing house of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.

The factory was destroyed during the Cossack uprisings. Built on the ruins of a neo-Gothic mill building, it looks like a medieval castle. The building has three wings from 3 to 5 floors, connected by an 8-story tower in the center. A spiral staircase with 158 steps leads to the bell tower.

The mill functioned until the 1960s, then it was abandoned for a long time. In 2011, on the initiative of the Bohomolets-Sheremetyevy family, the historical and cultural complex "Radomysl Castle" was opened in the restored building.

In authentic interiors of the 17th-19th centuries, an exposition of the "Museum of Ukrainian Home Icon" and antiques is exhibited. 5,000 icons of the 17th-21st centuries from all regions of Ukraine from the private collection of Olha Bohomolets are presented, including the works of folk artists who most often gave the images vivid human features and emotions. The pearl of the collection is the icon of Nicholas the Wonderworker carved on stone.

Also in the museum you can see unique old photographs, a collection of old cards in the Dining Hall, a collection of old irons and household utensils, old wooden sculptures, antique chandeliers, paintings and furniture.

In addition, the manual paper-making process has been restored at "Radomysl Castle". The paper factory (paper mill) has all the equipment used by monks in the 17th century, as well as a printing press for applying text to finished sheets. Those who wish can attend a master class and make a sheet of paper with their own hands.

The castle has a 150-seat concert hall, a grand ceremonial hall for celebrations, an ancient refectory with a large castle oven and a 60-liter cauldron on an open fire.

There is a landscape park next to the castle.

The synagogue in Pavoloch was built in 1772, when there was a large Jewish community in the village.

In 1993, the historical and local lore museum of the village of Pavoloch was opened in the premises of the former synagogue.

The exposition of the museum is placed on two floors in 14 halls. There are equipped halls for meetings or conferences.

The Historical Museum named after Ivan Ohiyenko in Brusyliv was founded in 1960 on public grounds in several rooms of the current office building of the "Renaissance" newspaper.

The organizer and first director of the museum was Yakiv Halaychuk. In the mid-1980s, the museum received a separate building, which it occupies to this day.

In 2009, the public museum became a department of the Zhytomyr Regional Museum of Local History and was named after a native of Brusyliv, Ivan Ohiyenko (Metropolitan Hilarion) - an outstanding scholar-historian, linguist and literary critic, poet and prose writer, editor and publisher, political scientist and theorist of canon law, public-political and church figure, translator of the Bible into the Ukrainian language. On August 21, 2010, in front of the museum, the first monument in Ukraine to Ivan Ohiyenko by the sculptor Anatoliy Burdeyny was opened.

The museum exposition is housed in two halls. One of them reflects the main stages of Ivan Ohiyenko's life and social activities. The exposition presents numerous works of Metropolitan Hilarion on the history of Ukraine, the history of the Ukrainian church, and the history of the Ukrainian language, which were published in Canada in the 1950s-1970s; a copy of the 1962 London edition of the Bible translated by Metropolitan Hilarion with a gift inscription to his daughter Lesia; photographs by Ivan Ohiyenko; family closet - dowry of Ivan Ohiyenko's wife; the interior of a Ukrainian house in the Kyiv province of the beginning of the 20th century, which helps to recreate the environment in which Ohiyenko himself lived.

The second hall presents materials that tell about the history of the Brusyliv region and the town of Brusyliv. The exposition presents a collection of solid coins (first half of the 16th century), which were found on the territory of the region; copy of "Gospel" from 1753, tools and products of Brusyliv craftsmen, household items; agricultural implements, traditional Ukrainian men's and women's clothing; photos, documents, books of famous people of Brusyliv region.

The Holy Dormition Bishop's Cathedral is located in one of the oldest historical districts of Zhytomyr - in Podil, which is why it is also called the Podilska Church.

The church is an architectural monument of local importance.

It belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.