Attractions of Zviahel district

"Baranivka" porcelain factory was opened in 1802 by the entrepreneur Mykhaylo Mezer, having bought the land for it from the Lyubomyrsky-Valevskyi magnates.

The raw material was clay mined nearby. The dishes made at the factory decorated the palaces of nobles and emperors.

Having changed several owners, the Baranivka porcelain factory continued to operate in Soviet times and remained the country's leading enterprise of this profile until the early 2000s. Currently, the enterprise is not working, but private mini-factories for the production of porcelain are operating in the city.

Since 1952, a museum has been operating at the Baranivka factory, which exhibits samples of products whose age exceeds one hundred years.

The Literary and Memorial Museum of Lesya Ukrayinka in Zviahel was created in the small house where the future poetess was born in 1871.

In 1870, the simple one-story house of the burgher Okruzhko was rented by the Kosach family: the head of the assembly of justices of the peace Petro Kosach and his wife Olha, who is known under the literary pseudonym Olena Pchilka. Little Larysa spent the first two years of her life here, after which the family moved.

In the surviving interiors of Lesya Ukrayinka's parents' house, the furnishings of the children's room and her father's office have been restored, in other rooms there are relics of the Kosach family, including Lesya Ukrayinka's personal belongings.

A transitional gallery leads to the neighboring building (former farm), where a literary and memorial exposition is displayed.

There is a bust of Lesya Ukrayinka in the yard.

Since 2023, Lesya Ukrayinka Literary Memorial Museum has been a communal institution of the Zviahel community. It has a branch - the Museum of the Kosach-Drahomanov family.

The Hillfort of the historic Drevlyany city of Zviahel (Vzviahel, Vozviahel) is located 5 kilometers north of the current center of Zviahel, next to the road bridge over the Sluch River, 500 meters north of the highway.

Vozviahel was first mentioned in 1257 in the Ipatiyiv Chronicle in connection with the campaign of Prince Danylo Halytskyi on the Bolokhiv land controlled by the Tatars. The city was then completely destroyed, and a new settlement later arose on the site of the current center of the city of Zviahel.

The northern hillfort is an oval earthen fortification with ditches and ramparts on the steep bank of the Sluch River.

The estate of the Myezentsev family in Zviahel is located on the right bank of the Sluch River, opposite the ruins of the Zviahel fortress.

In 1865, the Myezentsevs became owners of Novy Zviahel, which was then a suburb of Zviahel. At the end of the 19th century, colonel Serhiy Myezentsev began the reconstruction of the manor, which previously belonged to the Lubomyrskyi princes, then to the Uvarovs. The construction was completed in 1903 by the colonel's son Boris Myezentsev. Perhaps the architect was Oleksandr Palshau.

The palace was built in the then fashionable historicism style, representing an eclectic mix of Renaissance, Baroque and Classicism forms. In the stylized form of the building with two towers, the image of the palace of the medieval castle is romantically interpreted. The layout of the main forms of the palace coincides with the outline of the north-eastern wall of the Zviahel castle.

A large arboretum was laid by the Uvarovs at the beginning of the 19th century.

In the 1920s, the Myezentsev palace housed an agricultural technical school. Then the manor passed into the hands of the military, the fortifications of the "Stalin Line" were placed on the territory of the park. Currently, it is the headquarters of the 30th separate mechanized brigade. Access to the territory is closed.

Fragments of the fortress walls and the reconstructed defense tower of the Zviahel fortress are located on the high bank of the Sluch River in the very center of the city.

The construction of the castle was started in the 16th century by Prince Kostyantyn Ostrozky on the eastern borders of his Volyn domains. In 1600, a church was built nearby (now the Palace of Culture named after Lesya Ukrayinka is in its place). The castle was destroyed in 1648 during the Liberation War of the Ukrainian people.

During Soviet times, the territory of the castle was turned into a recreation area, the reconstructed fragments of defensive structures have nothing to do with the original. The foundations of the preserved walls can be seen from the river side.

The Baranivka People's Museum of History and Local Lore is located in the premises of the Anatoly Pashkevych city cultural center.

The museum in Baranivka was opened in 1970. The main exposition is built on the materials of archaeological research of the urban areas beyond the banks of the Sluch and Dushnivka rivers. Stone tools, pottery, antique household items, clothes, shoes, furniture, stove, women's jewelry are presented.

The second exhibition highlights the fate of Baranivka residents during the Holodomor, repressions and World War II. Also in the museum you can find out how the fates of Lesya Ukrainka, Anatoliy Pashkevych, Ivan Stepanyuk and other prominent Ukrainians are connected with Baranivka.

The exhibition "Forever in our hearts" tells about the modern heroes of the Russian-Ukrainian war.

The museum premises are partially adapted for the needs of visitors with reduced mobility.

The departments of the Baranivka People's Museum of History and Local Lore are the Baranivka Porcelain Museum and the "Poliska Khata" museum in Polianka.

Horodnytsia Saint George Monastery Monastery was founded in 1891 at the wooden Saint George's Church, built in 1744.

Initially, the monastery was for women. In 1903, a new stone Saint George's Church was built, and the old church was renamed in honor of Reverend Symeon Stovpnyk.

In 1923, the monastery was closed, the wooden temple was destroyed. Since 1945, the cathedral has operated as a parish cathedral. In 1979, he unofficially began the revival of the monastery, which consisted of men's and women's communities. In the late 1980s, an altar chapel of the same name was built on the site of Saint Symeon's church. In 1994, the monastery received stauropygia. In 1997, a warm temple was created in one of the buildings of the monastery in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Sooth my sorrows".

It belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

"Hulsk mine" is one of the key fortifications of the Zviahel (Novoрrad-Volynskyi) fortified district, built in 1932-1939.

A group of pillboxes is located on the right bank of the Sluch River in the area of ​​the village of Hulsk. It was one of the most powerful supporting nodes of the so-called "Stalin Line". The fortified group, consisting of pillboxes Nos. 417, 418, 419, 420, 422, was inferior in size and firepower only to the fortifications of the Mohyliv-Podilskyi fortified area. The total length of the group's underground communications reached 515 meters. Armament consisted of two 76.2 millimeter guns of the 1902 model on caponier carriages of the 1932 model and ten Maxim machine guns.

It was in the Hulsk region, after the hasty retreat of the RSPA field units, that the Zviahel (Novoрrad-Volynskyi) fortified area was breached by German troops already on July 5, 1941.

The house-museum of the Kosach-Drahomanov family was opened in Zviahel in 1999 in the reconstructed house of the Zavadsky family, in which Lesya Ukrayinka's literary family lived for 6 years.

The exhibition is based on the lifetime editions of Olena Pchilka (Lesya Ukrayinka's mother), Mykhaylo Drahomanov (Lesya Ukrayinka's uncle), and Lesya Ukrayinka herself.

A music school is also located in the premises.

The Museum of Military Fortification "Pillbox (DOT) - Artillery Semi-Capon" was created on the basis of one of the fortifications of the Emilchyne Battalion Defense District (BDD) of the Korosten fortified area (KoFA), which was preserved on the outskirts of the urban-type village of Yemilchyne.

Yemilchyne BDD is a system of long-term fortifications built in 1931-1939 as part of the KoFA to cover the rear of the Novograd-Volyn fortified district located to the southwest. It consisted of 25 DOTs (pillboxes), including 6 artillery semi-caponiers built in 1938-1939, each of which was designed for two 76-millimeter cannons.

In 2010, one of the semi-caponirs, ASC No. 25, was cleared and turned into a museum dedicated to the defense of Emilchyne region in the summer of 1941 by the forces of enthusiasts. The exposition presents the remains of the equipment, weapons and military equipment of the garrison of the fortified area, a map-scheme of the KoUR and a separate Yemilchyne BDD.

Museum "Pillbox - artillery semi-capon" is a department of Yemilchyne People's Museum of Local Lore.

The Museum of Ukrainian Life "Poliska Khata" in the village of Polianka near Baranivka in Zhytomyr Region is a department of the Baranivka People's Museum of History and Local Lore.

The private ethnographic museum was founded in 2004 by a local resident, Mykola Kobylansky, after purchasing an authentic Polissya house from 1905 next to the family home. In the house, the interior of a century ago has been reproduced. The exposition consists of objects of peasant life collected in Polianka and surrounding villages, the oldest of which is about 250 years old. In particular, you can see a wooden machine for making postronks (an element of horse harness), a loom, tools for working with flax, a potter's wheel, etc. Most of the tools are in working condition, you can try to use them during the tour. An ancient collection of bricks from a local factory with stamps of various European cities is also presented. A model of a windmill is installed in the yard.

Upon prior reservation, the hosts treat visitors to traditional Polissya dishes and organize folk holidays.

The Roman Catholic Church of Saint Stanislav Kostka was built in the city of Baranivka thanks to the efforts of the future bishop Father Stanislav Shyrokoradyuk.

The temple was consecrated in 1994, and in 1997, the house of the Franciscan novitiate was rebuilt near the Catholic shrine. The church of Saint Stanislav Kostka belongs to the Franciscan-Bernardine order (the order of Friars Minor).

The monument to the poet Taras Shevchenko on Panska Hill in Hulsk was opened for the 200th anniversary of Kobzar.

Previously, there was a memorial sign at this place, which indicated that in 1846, during the expedition of the Kyiv Archeographic Commission, Taras Shevchenko visited the village of Hulsk. His story "Varnak" takes place in these places.

Yemilchyne People's District Museum of Local Lore was founded in 1973 on the initiative of local historians. It is located in the former premises of the House of Children's Creativity next to the central park.

The exposition tells about the nature of Polissya, the history of the region from the earliest times, ethnography and the life of the Polishchuks. In particular, the stone tools of primitive people, clay products of ancient archaeological cultures, iron items from the times of Ancient Rus, objects of peasant life of the 19th century, materials about the events of the Ukrainian revolution, the Holodomor, the Second World War, post-war reconstruction, the Russian-Ukrainian war are presented.

Among the unique exhibits are original certificates and acts of ownership of land plots and other archival documents from the second half of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century. In 2015, a museum room dedicated to the work of People's Artist of Ukraine, Hero of Ukraine Nina Matviyenko, who was born in 1968 in the village of Nedilishche near Yemilchyne, was opened.

A branch of the Yemilchyne People's District Museum of Local Lore is the Museum of Military Fortification "Pillbox (DOT) - Artillery Half-Capon", which tells about the history of the Yemilchyne Battalion Defense District of the Korosten Fortified District.

The Zviahel Museum of Local Lore was created on the basis of the Museum of Military Glory, which has been operating since 1975.

A separate section is devoted to the history of ancient Zviahel in the XIII-XVIII centuries. The museum has a rich collection of written documents and ancient books. The basis of the numismatic collection is Roman coins, money of the Cossack era, and royal coins.

The ethnographic department presents a collection of towels, embroidery, household items of the Polissya region.

In the future, it is planned to move the exposition to the premises of the former prison (XIX century; 52 Voli Street).