Attractions of Zhytomyr district

The tall and slender Holy Exaltation of the Cross Cathedral is located in the historical heart of Zhytomyr on Castle Hill.

The Byzantine-style church was built in 1900 on the site of the wooden Trinity Church, which had existed since the 17th century.

In the 1930s, the temple was closed by the Soviet authorities, later transferred to the regional museum of local history. In 1987, it housed the exposition of the Museum of Nature, the geological collection of which was founded by Volyn Governor Mykhaylo Chertkov back in the 19th century.

After long discussions regarding the return of the Cathedral of the Exaltation of the Cross to Orthodox believers, in 2011 it was handed over to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate and consecrated in 2014.

The Holy Transfiguration Tryhirya Male Orthodox Monastery was founded in 1583 by Prince Volodymyr Zhytomyrsky.

For the holy abode, the prince identified a secluded place in the middle of a thick forest on the highest bank of the Teteriv River. In the 18th century, the monastery passed to the Uniates, but in 1839 it was returned to the Orthodox Church.

The monastery is compact and cozy, consisting only of the laconic Church of the Transfiguration (1854-1873) and the cell building (1782). The main shrine is the icon of the Mother of God of Trihir.

The fence offers a spectacular view of the Teteriv canyon, filled with water from the reservoir, with high rocky banks covered with mixed forest.

The half-ruined cell building of the Jesuit monastery is the oldest architectural monument of Zhytomyr.

The monastery on Castle Hill was built in the 18th century by Jesuit monks, who were invited to the city by the castellan of Kyiv, Yan Kazymyr Stetskyi. Possible architects include Pavlo Hizhytskyi, Paolo Fontana, Domeniko Fontana.

A three-class school operated at the monastery. The Polish king Avhust II, by his privilege, transferred the adjacent lands under the jurisdiction of the monastery, excluding the Jesuit Jurisdiction, a kind of "city within a city", from the control of the city self-government.

The Jesuit church was destroyed by Russian hussars and Don Cossacks in 1769. From the entire monastery complex, only the ruins of the two-story cell building have survived to this day. Restoration is planned.

Khoroshiv People's History Museum was opened in 1988 in the town center.

Currently, the museum's collection includes more than 1.5 thousand exhibits. Including - tools of ancient people (stone hammers, axes, chisels, scrapers, etc.); wooden household items of Polishchuks (loom, spinning wheel, ruble, combs for combing flax, etc.); peaches, samovars; maps, land merchants, bills, paper and metal money; home-woven towels, shirts; military awards during the Second World War and more.

Noteworthy is the "Geometric Plan" (1906) on the sale by the landlady Trubetska to the peasant Gefka of three tenths of land in the village of Horoshky (old name Khoroshova).

The museum also has an exposition "Kutuzov and Horoshki", dedicated to the commander's stay on his estate in Horoshki.

The Korostyshiv People's Historical Museum was founded in 1965. The museum is located in the Korostyshiv House of Culture.

Its funds include more than 6,000 storage items. The exposition in three halls tells about the history of the region from ancient times to the present, about the foundation and development of Korostyshiv, about the prominent residents of the city. In particular, the finds of Trypil culture and Ancient Rus from archaeological excavations in the village of Horodske, household items and clothing of local residents of the 19th - early 20th centuries, personal belongings of Zhytomyr partisans from the Second World War are presented.

A separate section is devoted to the Holodomor of 1932-1933.

The pearl of the artistic part of the exposition is a selection of paintings by the People's Artist of Ukraine, the outstanding landscape painter Mykola Maksymenko, originally from Zhytomyr region.

The Lutheran Church in Zhytomyr was built in 1896 near the complex of the Zhytomyr Male Gymnasium.

The land for the construction of the Lutheran church was allocated for the Lutheran community of Zhytomyr by the widow of the German colonist Vilhelm Knaak. The project of the church in the style of modernized Gothic was developed by the architect Arnold Yensh.

The building is made of red brick. The architect managed to achieve excellent plasticity and harmony of architectural forms.

Daniyil Rikhter, the grandfather of the famous pianist Svyatoslav Rikhter, who was born in Zhytomyr in 1915 and lived in a small house next to the church, played the organ in the kirsha.

In Soviet times, a gym was placed in the building.

Since 1996, the church belongs to the "Christmas" Independent Church of Evangelical Baptist Christians. Restoration was carried out, Sunday school was opened. The organ has not yet been restored - it is being replaced by a mock-up.

The luxurious two-story town hall building on Castle Hill in Zhytomyr was built for the magistrate in the 18th century.

Made in Neo-Renaissance forms, it is distinguished by durability and strictness of architectural forms. Although the building was badly damaged during the Second World War, it was completely restored in 1951. For some time, residential apartments were located in the premises of the former magistrate.

In 2021, to the 30th anniversary of Ukraine's Independence, the capital reconstruction of the magistrate's building was completed. Later, it is planned to place the natural and historical expositions of the regional museum of local history here. The museum space will be filled with a three-dimensional archive of the natural world and human relations with the environment. A small museum garden will be laid out in the courtyard with an experimental plot where children can plant a plant and then watch it grow.

The memorial house-museum of Academician Serhiy Korolov in Zhytomyr is a part of the Museum of Cosmonautics named after Korolov, located opposite the main building of the exhibition "Space".

The first museum in the apartment, where the future rocket scientist, a leading designer of Soviet space rockets, was born in 1907, opened in 1970. 7 years later, the memorial part was supplemented by a new exposition about the life and career of the general designer.

The museum recreates the atmosphere of the apartment in which the Korolov family lived at the beginning of the XX century. The exposition includes many materials, documents, personal belongings, which were donated to the museum by relatives and colleagues of Korolov.

Photographs, utensils, interior items belonging to the Queen's family, notes and drawings made by the genius designer, his costume and even a strand of hair from the very first haircut - all this can be seen during a tour of the museum.

The Kmytiv Museum of Fine Arts named after Yosyp Bukhanchuk presents a unique collection of paintings in the style of socialist realism.

Opened in 1974 on the initiative of art critic and collector Yosyp Buhanchuk, who taught in the 1960s at the Leningrad Art Institute.

The museum building was designed in 1985 under the leadership of Professor Ihor Fomin. Bukhanchuk provided the museum with his own painting collection, which included 600 exhibits. In the future, the collection was replenished from state funds, many Soviet artists donated their works to the museum, and soon the collection already included 3 thousand originals.

In particular, the paintings of national artists of Ukraine Tetyana Yablonska, Mykola Hlushchenko, Mykola Maksimenko are presented. The works of St. Peterburg sculptor Nikiforova are fascinating with the filigree technique.

Photography in the halls is prohibited.

The National Museum of Cosmonautics named after Serhiy Korolov was opened in 1970 in Zhytomyr, where in 1907 the future founder of the practical development of outer space was born.

The memorial part of the museum is located in a small house in which the Korolov family lived at the beginning of the 20th century. The interiors were restored according to his mother's memories.

The exposition of the space pavilion, opened in 1991, presents the originals and models of spacecraft, spacesuits and other equipment of astronauts. Among them are a technological sample of the Soyuz spacecraft, a model of the Lunokhod-2, and the original of the Soyuz-27 spacecraft, which has been in space. One of the most valuable exhibits is a capsule with the soil of the Moon, donated by NASA.

The museum actively uses modern museum technologies and innovative methods of working with the audience. In particular, during the children's excursions, a robot-assistant guide Mekkanoid is used, who recognizes voice commands, moves, jokes and even dances. In the museum you can book an interactive tour "Star Aeneas", which uses equipment such as simulators to train professional pilots. With the help of virtual reality glasses, visitors can visit the Moon or Venus.

Zhytomyr Museum of Cosmonautics provides a high level of accessibility. There is a ramp at the entrance, there are no thresholds and stairs in the exposition rooms, adapted excursions and an inclusive toilet are available.

The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the high bank of the Teterev River in Chudniv looks spectacular from the Zhytomyr-Khmelnytskyi highway.

It was built in 1772 at the expense of the city's Orthodox community.

A hundred-year-old oak with spreading branches in the forest near Vyshpol is called the Oak "Chudodiy" (Miracle Oak).

According to legend, the "Chudodiy Oak" has the miraculous power to heal those who touch it with the words: "I touch you, I gain health."

Located at the entrance to Chudodiyevo Park Hotel.

The estate of the Orzhevsky nobles was built in the center of Nova Chortoryia at the beginning of the 19th century in the Baroque style and reconstructed in the pseudo-Byzantine style at the end of the 19th century.

Unique mirrors and stained-glass windows of Byzantine masters, hand-made forging, and stained oak decoration have been preserved in the palace. Currently, it is an agricultural technical school.

The church-burial of the Orzhevsky with a painting by the artist Mykhaylo Nesterov has also been preserved. He also wrote images of the iconostasis.

The estate is surrounded by a picturesque park with a pond, where 160-170-year-old trees of local breeds grow.

The People's History and Local Lore Museum of the village of Kryve in Zhytomyr region was founded in 2003 on the initiative of local historians.

The museum is located on the territory of the Kryve Gymnasium named Yosyp Yurkevych. The gymnasium bears the name of its founder, the famous doctor and public figure Yosyp Yurkevych, who was born in Kryve in 1853.

The main part of the museum exposition is also dedicated to the Yurkevych family and their friends and neighbors of the Rylskys, who lived nearby in Romanivka. In particular, personal belongings and documents handed over to the museum by the descendants of Yosyp Yurkevych are presented.

The People's Museum of the Kodnia Village History was founded in 1976 and is located in the local House of Culture.

In the museum, you can learn about the history of the village of Kodnia from ancient times, get acquainted with archaeological finds, Cossack artifacts, and archival documents.

The main exhibition is devoted to the events of the "Koliivshchyna" uprising in Haydamac. As you know, after the defeat of the rebel units led by Maksym Zaliznyak and Ivan Honta by Polish and Russian troops, more than 200 Zaporozhians and Haydamaks were executed by the decision of the Polish court in Kodnia.

The exposition presents copies of documents related to the Haydamak movement in Ukraine, maps, samples of Cossack weapons, ancient tools of peasant work and life, materials about the history of Kodnia.