Attractions of Kyiv region

The museum of the outstanding Ukrainian artist Mykola Pymonenko was opened in Maliutianka in 1997 at the place where his workshop used to be.

At the age of 11, Mykola helped his father, an icon painter, to paint churches in Maliutianka and neighboring Boiarka.

Pymonenko studied at the icon-painting school at the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, then at Mykola Tereshchenko's Kyiv Art School, and in 1882 was enrolled at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg.

From 1888 to 1911, Mykola Pymonenko and his family spent every summer in Maliutianka, where he created more than 100 of his famous canvases in the style of realism, which are now exhibited in museums in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, St. Petersburg, Paris and other European cities. Among the main ones: "Divination on Christmas Eve", "Home", "Wedding in the Kyiv province", "Matchmakers", "Divination", "On the river", "Ford", "Geese, go home".

Part of the exposition of Mykola Pymonenko's museum was made up of unique exhibits from the family collection, which were given to the museum by the artist's great-grandson.

Today, it is a branch of the Boiarka Museum of Local Lore.

By prior agreement, the Mykola Pymonenko Museum conducts tea-party tours.

The Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of the Middle Dnipro Region in Pereyaslav is the first and one of the largest open-air museums in Ukraine. It was founded in 1964 on the initiative of historian and ethnographer Mykhailo Sikorskyi. It is a part of the National Historical and Ethnographic Reserve "Pereyaslav".

The building of the museum imitates the planning of a classic Ukrainian village with a square in the middle. There are about 300 exhibits in the picturesque park area of 25 hectares on the outskirts of Pereyaslav. Almost half of them are authentic wooden temples, peasant houses and windmills of the XVII-XIX centuries, transported here from different parts of the region. 20 peasant yards with residential and farm buildings represent the life of representatives of various professions and segments of the population of Middle Dnipro Region - from the house of a poor peasant to the hunting lodge of Count Horchakov. The interiors feature more than 20,000 exhibits: works of folk artists, tools, household items, archaeological materials, documents, photographs.

Among the most valuable architectural monuments: the Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin (early XVII century) and the bell tower (mid-XVIII century) from the Right Bank Kyiv region; the Church of Saint George (mid-18th century) from the Pereyaslav region, immortalized by Taras Shevchenko in the sepia "Andrusha"; forest border - a house of forest protection (late XIX century) from Kyiv Polissia; inn (early XIX century.) from the city of Pereyaslav.

There are 13 thematic museums in some monuments and exposition pavilions: Museum of the History of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts of the Kyiv Region, Museum of Ukrainian Rites, Museum of the Ukrainian Towel, Museum of the History of Forestry in the Middle Dnipro Region, Museum of the History of Beekeeping in the Middle Dnipro Region, Museum of Bread, Museum of the Post Station, Museum of the History of Folk Land Transport in the Dnipro Region, Museum of space, Mykola Benardos Museum, Sholom Aleichem Classics of Jewish Literature Museum, the Polissya District Memorial Museum.

The archeological department exhibits reconstructions of dwellings of the Late Paleolithic, Cherniakhiv culture, Ancient Kyiv, Cossack era, as well as lapidary with stone stelae and burial structures of different epochs.

The decoration of the Folk Architecture and Life Museum of the Middle Dnipro Region is the natural landscape of the Tatar mountain, with skillfully inscribed in it artificial ponds, streets, courtyards, gardens, orchards and pastures, which give it vitality and special comfort.

A popular natural photo location between Vasylkiv and the village of Velyka Buhaivka is called "Kazkovy yar" (Fairy Yar) or "Ukrainian Iceland".

This is quite typical for the Vasylkiv region, but an incredibly picturesque truss-beam system with steep slopes, the height of which sometimes reaches 30 meters.

It often serves as a location for filming and professional photo shoots. In particular, Vasylkiv landscapes can be recognized in the films "Toloka" and "Zakhar Berkut", the TV series "And there will be people". Jamala and Pianoboy's music video for the song "Endorphins" was filmed directly in the "Kazkovy yar".

The tract does not have a nature conservation status, but on the slopes of the ravines in some places the typical typchakovo-kovila steppe vegetation has been preserved, wild animals live. The hunting grounds of the Vasylkiv region Hunting and Fishing Club are located on the territory of the "Kazkovy yar".

The location is to the right of the road from Vasylkiv to Velyka Buhaivka, a dirt driveway leads to it.

On the opposite side of the village of Velyka Buhaivka, there is another raft and beam system - the landscape reserve of local importance "Vasylkivski Carpathians", with which the "Kazkovy yar" is often confused.

The majestic complex of the Ascension Monastery was built in 1700 in the center of Pereyaslav at the expense of Hetman Ivan Mazepa. It is a part of the National Historical and Ethnographic Reserve "Pereyaslav".

The monumental Ascension Cathedral is considered a model of Ukrainian national architecture due to its complex construction and rich Baroque stucco.

On the territory of the monastery there is a two-storey building of the former monastery school and the dormitory of bursaks. In 1776, a three-tiered bell tower in the Ukrainian Baroque style, 48 meters high, was built, which served as the second entrance to the monastery.

In Soviet times, a museum-diorama "Battle for the Dnipro and the creation of the Bukrin bridgehead in the autumn of 1943" (canvas length 28 meters, height 7 meters) was opened in the cathedral, which recreates the events of September 21-22, 1943, when Soviet troops Dnipro on the Bukryn bridgehead near Pereyaslav.

The Mausoleum of Eternal Glory is located in the basement, where the names of Pereyaslav residents who died in the Second World War are immortalized on the walls.

The Museum of the History of the Bohuslav Region is considered to be one of the most creative historical museums in small towns of Ukraine.

It is located in Bohuslav in a two-story building of the former ministerial school in 1907.

The exposition presents an interesting collection of archaeological finds from the Paleolithic era, household items of Scythians and ancient Slavs, ancient Rus jewelry, Cossack relics, photographs and documents from the period of the Ukrainian Revolution, related to the Medvyn Uprising.

The original is decorated with exhibition halls in the spirit of its time. First, visitors enter a cave of the Stone Age, then go from the Scythian burial to the wooden frame of Bohuslav Castle, then find themselves in the interiors of a village house and a burgher house, where the iron stairs fall into the era of industrialization.

The branches of the Museum of the History of the Bohuslav Region are the Museum of Modern Decorative and Applied Arts, the Ivan Soshenko Memorial Museum-Estate, and the Marko Vovchko Memorial Museum-Estate.

Boryspil State Historical Museum was founded in 1967 on the initiative of local historian Viktor Yova.

Now the museum's collection includes more than 13 thousand exhibits, all collected in a stylized building on the ancient architecture of the Kyivskyi Shlyakh Street, built specifically for the museum in the 1980s.

The exposition tells, in particular, about famous Boryspil residents: Cossack families of Sulymas and Bezborodkos, poet Ivan Nekrashevych, ethnographer Pavlo Chubynskyi.

The exposition also presents materials of Trypillya culture, a diorama "Construction of the Letky Synagogue", a fragment of a Polovtsian stone woman, a large number of weapons, tools, jewelry and household utensils, the interior of a peasant house.

Separate expositions tell about Boryspil during the period of Tatar captivity and Polish rule, about the economic development of the city, about the historical events of the liberation struggle of 1917-1921, the Second World War, the Holodomor, the post-war revival, the present.

The Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts in Bohuslav is a department of the Museum of the History of the Bohuslav Region.

It is located in the oldest civil building in the city, which locals call "Kamyanytsya". This archaic massive two-storey building with external wooden stairs was erected in the XVIII century for the Jewish religious school. The thickness of its walls reaches 1.2 m, the building has deep basements.

During the Second World War, the Gestapo was located here, then the Museum of Komsomol Glory.

Now in the restored "Kamyanytsya" there is an exhibition of modern local decorative and applied art - the work of Dybynets potters and masters of artistic weaving. In particular, the longest woven towel in Ukraine with a length of almost 105 m, created in 2017 in honor of the 985th anniversary of the founding of Bohuslav, is on display.

To view the exhibit, visit the nearby Bohuslav History Museum.

The Geological Museum of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv is located in the premises of the Institute of Geology of KNU.

The museum was founded in 1834 as the Mineralogical Office of the Department of Mineralogy and Geognosy of the University of Saint Volodymyr. The materials of the liquidated Volyn Lyceum, Lutsk Gymnasium and Vilnius University became the initial foundation for it. After the paleontological collection was added in 1997, the current Geological Museum was created.

The exposition is located on an area of 880 meters. The Geological Museum has departments of general geology and geological processes, history of the Earth and paleontology, mineralogy and petrography, geology and minerals of Ukraine.

The exposition of the museum demonstrates the position of the Earth in outer space, the peculiarities of its structure and development, the evolution of the organic world. About 10,000 samples of minerals, rocks, precious and decorative stones, fossilized remains of fauna and flora, among which many are unique, are exhibited.

The country house of Countess Nataliya Uvarova in Vorzel was built at the beginning of the 20th century by the manufacturer Karl Septer.

Countess Uvarova (in maidenhood Tereshchenko) liked the then fashionable architecture of the building with a romantic tower and weather vane. After buying it, the countess decorated her possessions with various rare plants and trees of valuable breeds. A fountain was installed near the house, gravel paths were laid.

After the February Revolution in 1917, the Uvarovys and the entire Tereshchenko family emigrated to England. In Soviet times, a school was opened in the house of the countess, where the Ukrainian writer Valeryan Pidmohylny studied.

Today it is the Museum of History and Culture "Uvarov House", the exhibition hall is open. Concerts are held on weekends.

The greatest treasury of Ukrainian antiquities of all time is the National Museum of History of Ukraine (NMHU), located in the historic heart of Kyiv, on the ramparts of the Kyiv Dytynets (Citadel).

The museum was founded in 1899 and officially opened in 1904 as the Kyiv Art, Industry and Science Museum. It was originally housed in a museum building built by architect Vladyslav Horodetsky, which is now occupied by the National Art Museum. The first museum department of archeology was headed by the discoverer of Trypillya and Chernyakhiv cultures, a prominent Ukrainian archaeologist Vikentiy Khvoyka.

After the Second World War, the historical museum moved to the current building in the style of classicism, which was built on Starokyivska Hill in 1937-1939 for the art school. Today, the National Museum of History of Ukraine is one of the leading museums in Ukraine in terms of the number and importance of collections. Its stock collections number about 850 thousand exhibits. These are world-famous archeological and numismatic collections, ethnographic collections, collections of weapons, monuments of decorative and applied arts, manuscripts, old prints, paintings and graphics, relics of the Ukrainian national liberation movement of the twentieth century. They are located in 33 halls and reflect the history of Ukraine from ancient times to the present.

In particular, you can see the mysterious binoculars of Trypillya vessels, an anthropomorphic idol of pit culture, an iron Scythian sword with a golden handle from the Bielsko settlement. The diorama "Kyiv of the X-XIII centuries" gives a clear idea of the medieval city. The grand royal carriage of Empress Elizabeth Petrivna, which she presented to Kyiv Metropolitan Raphael Zaborovskyi, impresses with its luxury. The pride of the National Museum of History of Ukraine is the holographic exhibition "Golden Treasury of Ukraine", where you can see in detail the hologram of the famous golden Scythian pectoral. The largest numismatic collection of the museum in Ukraine has 120 thousand units.

In addition to classic tours, the National Museum of History of Ukraine offers author's themed tours, theatrical tours with a deep immersion in the atmosphere of the era, interactive children's tours and quests. The museum shop offers historical publications, postcards, souvenir plates, magnets, etc.

Admission to the museum is free every last Monday of the month.

The Pereyaslav Collegium was opened at the Ascension Monastery in Pereyaslav in 1738. Its main purpose was to train the Orthodox clergy to fight against the union and Catholicism on the Right Bank.

The school had six classes: two grammars, one each - rhetoric, poetics, philosophy and theology. The term of study was six years. Children of the clergy, Cossack officers, burghers, and peasants studied here.

From 1750 to 1751, the outstanding Ukrainian philosopher-humanist, poet and educator Hryhorii Skovoroda taught poetry at the Pereyaslav Collegium. To commemorate the 250th anniversary of his birth, a memorial museum was established in the reconstructed building. The atmosphere of the library, classroom, teacher's room is recreated. The atmosphere of the era is conveyed by antique furniture and interior items - cabinets, chairs, secretary, astronomical globe, ancient musical instruments. A copy of the Peresopnytsia Gospel, which was kept in the collegium until 1862, is presented.

In the art department you can see a portrait of Hryhoriy Skovoroda by an unknown artist of the XVIII century, a sculptural portrait of the philosopher Ivan Kavaleridze, rare folk paintings: "Cymbalist", "Near the house".

The Hryhoriy Skovoroda Memorial Museum is part of the National Historical and Ethnographic Reserve "Pereyaslav".

The memorial museum-manor of the famous people's artist Kateryna Bilokur was created in a village hut in Bohdanivka, where she lived almost her entire life - from 1909 to 1961.

Here she began to paint in her unique, unique style. The lack of a high school diploma did not allow her to receive an art education, but it was replaced by natural talent, perseverance and love of art. She independently mastered the technique of painting and compositional skills, finding herself in the genre of still life. Bilokur's paintings have been exhibited at many regional and national exhibitions.

The estate-museum of Kateryna Bilokur preserves the interiors, presents the artist's personal belongings, numerous photographs and documents, as well as some paintings.

A monument to Kateryna Bilokur has been erected in front of the house.

The Museum of Kobzar Art in Pereyaslav is located in an old house, where in the early XX century there was a shop of the Pereyaslav merchant Arkhyp Marchenko. It is a part of the National Historical and Ethnographic Reserve "Pereyaslav".

About 250 exhibits tell about the history of the origin and development of Kobzar Art, about the life of the most famous Ukrainian bards, as well as about modern trends in kobzar art - traditional folk and folklore and stage-academic.

The oldest exhibits are authentic ancient Rus musical instruments: whistles, tambourines and harps. A special place in the exposition is occupied by the traditional Ukrainian kobza - a lute-like string plucked musical instrument, which was an indispensable companion of the Zaporozhzhian Cossacks.

In addition to the Cossack kobza, the museum exhibits lute, zither and bagpipes, as well as 26 banduras, which are more modern and sophisticated musical instruments. In particular, there are banduras that belonged to a prominent kobzar of the XIX century. Hnat Honcharenko and the famous master Oleksandr Korniyevskyi.

The museum hosts concerts of Pereyaslav kobzars and other events.

The back side of the building is decorated with artistic ceramic tiles on historical subjects, which tell about the princes and bishops of Pereyaslav.

The National Academic Drama Theater named after Ivan Franko is the most popular in Kyiv.

The theater building was built in 1898 on Mykolayivska Square, which appeared on the site of a filled-in pond, which was located in the estate of the Kyiv professor Mering.

The theater premises were built by architects Eduard-Ferdynand Bradtman and Heorhiy Shleifer for Mykola Solovtsov's Society of Dramatic Artists theater, which later became the basis of the troupe of another Kyiv theater named after Lesya Ukrainka. The audience hall is decorated in Rococo style.

In 1919, the Solovtsov Theater was nationalized and transformed into the Second Lenin Theater of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1926, the theater building became a permanent stage for the theater group named after Ivan Franko. The theatrical season of 1926 in the renamed theater opened with the production "Eyelashes" based on the work of Mykola Hohol and adapted by Ostap Vyshnya.

People's Artist of the USSR and Ukraine Bohdan Stupka was the artistic director of the Ivan Franko Theater for a long time.

The most successful productions from the modern repertoire are considered to be "Natalka Poltavka", "The Konotop Witch", "Stolen Happiness", "Kaydash Family", and "Tevye-Tevel".

The National Museum of Natural History at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is located in the center of Kyiv, in an old building with original neoclassical architecture.

Founded in 1966. Now it is a large museum complex that unites 5 museums: archaeological, geological, paleontological, zoological, botanical.

In 24 halls on an area of 8,000 square meters, more than 30,000 exhibits are collected, which tell about the origin of the Earth, its structure and evolution, plant and animal life, as well as the history of the material culture of the tribes and peoples who inhabited the territory of Ukraine in ancient times.

A prominent place is occupied by a complex of dioramas - about 30 landscape expositions and biogroups. In particular, in the paleontological exhibition you can see the dioramas "Paleozoic Sea", "Northern Black Sea Coast at the end of the Miocene" and "The site of primitive man in the Kyik-Koba cave", skeletons of a Deinatherium, a mammoth, a hairy rhinoceros and a giant deer, reconstructions of settlements from Paleolithic sites in Mezyn and Mezhyrich.

The Archaeological Museum of the Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences is located on the basement floor. In particular, a set of painted Upper Paleolithic mammoth bones from the Mezyn Paleolithic site, interpreted as the world's oldest musical instruments, is presented here.