Attractions of Kyiv region

In the Kamyanytsya tract in the north-western part of Rzhyshchiv, the remains of a Cossack guard fortress have been preserved: ramparts, a ditch and an underground passage.

According to legend, during a long siege, the last defenders of the fortress left alive - three brothers - hid the regimental treasury in the Vyhadka well, which has also survived to this day.

"Yosyp Kansky's Slavic Brewery" in Berezan is a unique brewery building with a malt house built in 1879.

The brewery was built according to a German project by the entrepreneur Ilarion Butovych, and after his death it was sold to the Czech entrepreneur Yosyp Kansky. The enterprise produced high-quality malt (100 pods per day) and brewed beer and kvass (about 120,000 buckets per year). But despite such a large number of products, the brewery was served by only six workers.

The Kansky brewery operated until the Bolshevik coup of 1917, and then, during the nationalization of lands and enterprises, the entire Kansky family was destroyed by the Bolsheviks.

During the Second World War, the premises of the brewery housed a hospital, then the building was converted into a grain storage warehouse.

Currently, the building of the Slavic Brewery is in private ownership, a project is underway to restore beer production with the opening of a pub and a motel.

The museum of the famous folk artist Kateryna Bilokur was created in a village house in Bohdanivka, where she lived almost all her 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 interiors of the house-museum are preserved, the artist's personal belongings, numerous photographs and documents, as well as some paintings are presented.

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

The National Museum of Arts named after Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko in Kyiv presents the world art of Europe, Asia and the Ancient World in Ukraine.

The exposition is based on the artistic collection of the Khanenko family - prominent Ukrainian entrepreneurs, collectors and philanthropists of the XIX-XX centuries. The museum is located in their family mansion, built in the late XIX century in the style of historicism using artistic features of Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo.

The Khanenko Museum represents about 4,000 years of art development in different parts of the world, more than 1,000 works in a permanent exhibition. Western European art of the XIV-XVIII centuries is represented by the works of such masters as Francois Boucher, Peter Paul Rubens, Jacques-Louis David, Giovanni Bellini and others. Among them are two masterpieces of Spanish painting - "Still Life with a Chocolate Mill" by Juan Surbaran and "Portrait of Infanta Margarita" by Diego Velázquez. The Khanenkos themselves valued the painting "Venus Dedicates Bacchanalia in the Secret of Love", which was attributed to Titian, but modern researchers have concluded that it is only an imitation of the master of an unknown Venetian artist of the XVII century.

The museum also has a huge collection of art from the Middle and Far East: Japanese Nets, Chinese porcelain, Persian rugs and Tibetan bronze sculptures. A small collection of artifacts from South America and Africa is presented.

Khreshchaty Park on the hill near the beginning of Volodymyrsky descent in Kyiv is also called Kupetsky (Merchant's) Garden. Initially, this area was part of the Tsarsky (City) Park, until the Kyiv merchants leased from the city a corner of the garden adjacent to the building of the Merchants' Assembly (now the National Philharmonic of Ukraine).

In 1982, in honor of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the USSR, a sculptural composition consisting of the Arch of Friendship of Peoples and two sculptural groups below it was installed on the Dnipro Creek behind the Philharmonic. In 2022, during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the sculptural part of the monument was dismantled, and the arch was renamed the Arch of Freedom of the Ukrainian People.

A picturesque panorama of the Dnipro opens from here. The Water Museum is located nearby in the water tower (1877). The building next to it, resembling a fairy-tale castle, is the new premises of the Kyiv Academic Puppet Theater (2005).

Khreshchaty Park is connected to the City Garden by a 60-meter Park Bridge (1912) - one of the most romantic places in Kyiv. Also known as the Bridge of Lovers (according to tradition, lovers leave inscriptions and ribbons here) or the Devil's Bridge (the unlucky often chose this place to settle scores with their lives).

Khreshchatyk is the main street of Kyiv, the most popular place for city walks from the 19th century to the present day.

The name comes from Khreshchaty Yar, from which the street began in the area of the current Yevropeyska (European) Square. In turn, the name of the ravine is associated with the baptism of Rus or with the word "christened" - cross-shaped.

For a long time it was a wasteland, the first houses appeared in the 18th century. Due to its favorable location between the Upper Town, Podil and Pechersk, Khreshchatyk quickly became the central and most fashionable street of the city. Most of the old building was destroyed in 1941, after the war it was rebuilt in the "Stalinist" style.

The street starts from the Yevropeyska Square, which is dominated by the modern building of the Ukrainian House. The square tower above the House of Trade Unions became a business card of Kyiv thanks to the electronic clock light board installed in 1981 (now it is replaced by plasma panels). The oldest building on Khreshchatyk is the Kane Hotel (1874), which now houses the Central Deli. Expensive shops and restaurants can still be found in Passage (1914) and on Arkhitektor Horodetsky Street. The street ends at Bessarabian Square, where the oldest indoor Bessarabian Market in Kyiv (1910-1912) is located.

On weekends and holidays, Khreschatyk turns into a pedestrian zone. Concerts and other mass events take place here.

Khutir Mlynok appeared near Vepryk in the 17th-18th centuries, when miller Demyan Tsukrenko built a water mill here on the Kyrsha River at its confluence with Irpin.

However, settlements in this place have existed since ancient times, starting with the Neolithic (XII-X centuries BC), as evidenced by archaeological findings. The fortifications of the later Scythian settlement of the VI-V centuries BC have been preserved. A rampart 1.5 kilometers long, 5 meters high, up to 25 meters wide with a 2-meter-deep moat protects an area of ​​about 40 hectares. This is one of the largest Scythian settlements in Kevshchyna. In section, the shaft can be seen right at the entrance to the farm, next to the original wooden gate and watchtower.

A chapel of the Immaculate Image of Jesus Christ and Theodore Icon of the Mother of God was built on the bank of the reservoir.

The Museum of Sports Achievements of the Klitschko Brothers was organized on the initiative of the sportsmen's official fan club. It is located on the territory of the "Olimpiyskyi" National Sports Complex in Kyiv.

The Klitschko brothers donated about 70 of their exhibits for the exhibition, including their championship belts, robes, boxer briefs, medals, cups and other trophies of honor. Vitaliy Klitschko also handed over his Hero of Ukraine star and order to the museum.

Museum visitors are shown a film that tells about the most outstanding episodes of the career of the Klitschko brothers. With the help of modern multimedia equipment, visitors to the exhibition can feel the atmosphere of boxing matches.

The Knyshovy memorial park complex in Boryspil was created in 2007 on the territory of the historical cemetery, where many famous people are buried: ethnographer-folklorist and author of the words of the national anthem of Ukraine Pavlo Chubynsky, Decembrist Vasyl Lukashevych, hero of the Soviet Union Mykhaylo Babkin.

During the Holodomor of 1932-1933, people who died of starvation were buried here. In 1934, the Knyshova Church and Chubynsky's grave were destroyed.

Currently, the territory of the park has been cleaned and arranged, and the creation of a memorial complex is underway. Saint Nicholas Church was rebuilt.

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.

Koncha-Zaspa is a resort area on the banks of the Dnipro, an elite country village within Kyiv.

Covers the forest park area between the Stolychny Shose and the Dnipro to the village of Kozyn. The name comes from the Koncha tract and Zaspa farm, which were located here. Before the revolution, it belonged to the Vydubychsky and Introduction monasteries.

After the transfer of the capital of Ukraine from Kharkiv to Kyiv, Koncha-Zaspa was turned into a closed reserve, a departmental sanatorium and a town of government dachas were built. Now it is the most prestigious suburb of Kyiv, where representatives of the top political and business elite live.

This house was designed and built in Kyiv by the architect Pavlo Alyoshin by order of the official on special orders of Kovalevsky.

Made in the style of a medieval castle, with a huge predominance of Romanesque style elements in the decoration of the facades. When designing the mansion, the architect faced a difficult planning task: to place a manor house with a stable, a cowshed, a garage and a garden on a small plot measuring 46 by 35 meters. The architect even had to use the underground space - under the paving of the yard there was a cellar with a glacier and a shed for firewood and coal.

Interesting features - a faceted tower with a helmet-shaped dome hides the fact that the building is built at an angle of 78 degrees, at which the streets adjoin each other; drain pipes are hidden in the wall so that their shadow does not visually break the facade; and on the bas-relief from the side of Shovkovychna Street, the architect is depicted in his own person in the form of a cat.

Mountain Krasukha rises 189 meters above sea level in the northeastern part of the Vytachiv village. Archaeological studies indicate that the top of the mountain is an artificial mound of the 2nd-4th centuries, probably from the times of the Ant kingdom.

There is a popular version that the barrow was built in 375 at the place of death of the famous Gothic king Ermanaric by order of his successor Vithimiris, which gave rise to the village of Vytachiv.

Archeological research discovered objects of the Chernyakhiv culture of the 2nd-3rd centuries, artifacts from the time of the Huns (5th century) and the remains of a pagan temple from the 6th-8th centuries on the mountain. The mountain was probably used as a burial place at all times.

Now there is also a village cemetery on Krasukha Mountain, so it is considered the oldest active necropolis in Kyiv region. Adherents of esoteric teachings consider the mountain a "place of power".

To the west of the mountain is the historical area of Okip, where there is a settlement of the ancient Rus city of Vytychiv of the 10th-13th centuries. Remains of ramparts and ditches can still be seen among private estates there.

The former building of the order's consistory, the only surviving building of the monastery of the Catholic order of the Trinitarians, is called the "Ksyondz's house" in Rzhyshchiv.

The Trinitarian monastery-fortress was founded in Rzhyshchiv in 1740 to resist Tatar raids and anti-Polish uprisings of the local residents, which became more frequent. It was a powerful fortification structure with two-meter-thick walls, watchtowers and loopholes, which served as Rzhyshchiv's citadel. The main building and architectural dominant of the entire city was the Church of the Holy Trinity. Three underground passages connected the basement of the church with the cells of the Trinitarian monastery inside the fortress, the Horyanshchyna area outside the fortress and the Polish cemetery nearby. The monastery housed the consistory of the order, as well as the Polish customs and border administrations.

During Soviet times, the monastery was closed, the church was destroyed by an explosion in 1984. The two-story building of the consistory ("Ksyondz's house") now houses the secondary school No. 2.

An incredibly beautiful building in the shape of a fairy-tale castle is located in Khreshchaty Park near the European Square.

The Puppet Theater was founded in Kyiv in 1927, until now it occupied several different premises. The current building was built according to the original project of the architect Vitaly Yudin in 2005 on the site of the children's stereo cinema "Dnipro". 2 auditoriums: large (300 seats) and small (110 seats), there is also a "Throne Hall" and an aquarium with rare sea creatures.

There is an exhibition-museum of dolls at the theater. Excursions "Getting to know the puppet theater" are conducted (by prior order).

Nearby is the light and music fountain "Thumbnail".