Attractions of Kyiv region

The first museum of Apple products in Ukraine opened in 2023 in the center of Kyiv. Located in the basement of the Yabluka chain store, specializing in the sale of Apple products.

The exhibition demonstrates the company's innovation in consumer electronics technology and design at various stages of market development. More than a hundred devices of the brand are presented, starting with the personal computer Apple II Plus of 1979. Among the exhibits are computers of the Apple III, Lisa, Macintosh, Power Macintosh, iMac, MacBook, PowerBook, etc. lines, the very first iPods and iPads, the full line of iPhone smartphones, Marshall speaker systems, keyboards, mouses, other peripherals and accessories.

The most valuable exhibits of the Apple Museum are gadgets with autographs of the company founders.

Aquapark "Terminal" in Brovary is the only waterpark in Ukraine with a sliding transparent roof, which allows you to sunbathe in the warm season.

There are 5 swimming pools, a jacuzzi, a SPA area, saunas, 9 slides, a large children's area, bars and restaurants, recreation areas on 4 floors. Equipment from the Canadian manufacturer Whitewaters is used. The longest and fastest slide "Master Blaster" is 200 meters long. Other slides: "Virage", "Tsunami", "Snake", "Cosmic Vortex" and "Multislide" (total length 1 kilometer). Wave pool with an area of 550 square meters.

The shopping and entertainment complex "Terminal" also includes a karting center, a bowling alley, an ice arena, a fitness center, a cinema, bars and restaurants.

With the beginning of the full-scale military invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation, the Aquapark "Terminal" had to be closed for security reasons.

The Archaeological and Local Lore Museum of the Kopachiv village is a branch of the Kyiv Regional Archaeological Museum. It is located in two halls on the second floor of the former Kopachiv village council.

The first hall of the museum presents local archaeological finds: mammoth bones, ceramics of the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture, fragments of Kyivan Rus' dishes. The gem of this exhibition is the Trypillia binocular vessel.

In the second hall, a fragment of the interior of a traditional Ukrainian house is reproduced. Local antiquities and other exhibits representing the history, life, and art of Kopachiv from the past to the present are presented here.

The remains of one of the oldest settlements of primitive people in Ukraine in the late Paleolithic era (10,000 BC), found in the village of Dobranychivka during the construction of the road in 1952, are now exhibited in the Archaeological Museum "Dobranychivka settlement", which is a branch of Yahotyn historical museum.

Archaeologists have found here four household complexes around the central square.

The exposition pavilion of the "Dobranychivka settlement" Museum was erected directly above the excavation site of the largest of the household complexes. You can see the foundation of housing from the bones of mammoths and animal skulls, pits, fires and places of production of tools made of bones and flint.

The exposition presents products made of stone and bone, as well as two large panoramic canvases depicting scenes of the original mammoth hunt and the life of the inhabitants of "Dobranychivka settlement".

The wooden Michael's Church in Pidhirtsi near Kyiv was built in 1742 on the initiative of the abbess of the Florivsky Monastery on the site of the destroyed Peter and Paul Church in honor of the Miracle of Archangel Michael. A bell tower was added in the 19th century.

Due to the almost identical dimensions of the log cabins united under a common roof, the church resembles the oldest Klitschian type of wooden temples, characteristic of the princely era. The main feature of this is the location at the base of the building of the simplest wooden structure - a cage, that is, a log cabin formed by crowns of logs laid one on top of another.

Paintings and carvings of the 19th century have been preserved in the interior of Church in honor of the Miracle of Archangel Michael. The ensemble of the church and bell tower is a typical example of Ukrainian wooden architecture of the 19th century, an architectural monument of national importance.

The temple in honor of the Miracle of Archangel Michael in Pidhirtsi belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The history of the Church of Saint Archangel Michael in Shandra dates back to 1755, when a wooden Greek-Catholic church was built here.

In 1768, during the Koliyivshchyna, priest Andriy Kuschevych supported the Haydamaks and converted to Orthodoxy, for which he was executed.

In 1811, the wooden Michael Church burned down. In its place, the current stone was laid in 20 years.

The Church of Archangel Michael is cruciform in plan, has one large dome on an octagonal drum and an attached bell tower. From the hill where the church stands, there are wonderful views: on one side a deep gully, on the other - the valley of the Shevelyuha River with a pond overgrown with reeds and willows.

The wooden church of Archangel Michael was built in Lukashi in 1892-1896 on the site of the old Michael's Church, known since the 17th century.

The five-domed temple has architecture typical for those times.

In 1931, the Bolsheviks closed the church, the premises were used as a granary. During the German occupation, worship services were resumed, and the church has not been closed since then.

The parish of Saint Archangel Michael belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The museum-workshop of famous Ukrainian sculptors Ada Rybachuk and Volodymyr Melnichenko is located in the very center of Kyiv, in the blocks between Volodymyrska Street and Nezavisimosti Square. It works with the support of the ARVM fund, which takes care of the preservation of the cultural heritage of artists.

The creative tandem of Ada Rybachuk and Volodymyr Melnichenko is known for the design of the Palace of Children's Creativity in Pechersk, the Central Bus Station in Demiivka, and the Wall of Memory at Baikove Cemetery, which was barbarically destroyed by the Soviet authorities. The workshop on Malopodvalnaya was founded by them back in 1972. According to the artists' plan, it should always be open to visitors and at the same time serve as a museum of their work.

The museum presents numerous works by Ada Rybachuk and Volodymyr Melnichenko, created from 1957 to 2000, during almost the entire period of their creativity, including unfinished works. Some of the sculptures are exhibited in the open air yard. The building is decorated with mosaics.

The Church of the Ascension of the Lord in Lukyanivka is a wooden church with one spherical dome and a bell tower above the vestibule.

Founded in 1758, rebuilt in its present form in 1879. According to church documents, the first rector of the church was priest Hryhoriy Favorskyi.

From 1930 to 1941, the Ascension Church was closed by the Soviet authorities. During the German occupation, Archpriest Ihnatiy Tune, who died in 1946 and was buried near the church, served in the Lukyanivka church. Since then, the Church of the Ascension remained active.

Russian-Ukrainian war

On March 25, 2022, at 4 o'clock in the morning, after the liberation of the village by the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the Russian invaders, the latter completely destroyed the church - a Russian tank fired four shots at the Church of the Ascension.

The dome and icons of the Ascension Church became exhibits of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War.

The wooden Church of the Assumption in Vilkhovets was built in the 19th century on the site of the old Saint Michael's Church, known since 1700.

The church is nine-rubble five-headed, with a complex composition of volumes, which is rare for the Kyiv region. The top is made in the pseudo-Byzantine style, which makes the church similar to the temples of the princely period. Ancient paintings in the interior have been partially preserved.

On the territory is the grave of Kolotnovska, the wife of a local priest.

The healing spring is located on a meadow in a forest grove on the eastern outskirts of the village of Rizhky.

According to legend, the spring was discovered at the end of the 19th century. They began to regard him as a saint after one of the local residents saw the phenomenon of the Virgin bathing as the source.

Before the Bolshevik coup of 1917, the source of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was a place of mass pilgrimage, as the fame of the healing properties of its water spread. Eyewitnesses said that after praying and drinking this water, people regained their sight, "revived" their legs, etc. During Soviet times, the source was repeatedly tried to be destroyed, but local residents restored it each time.

The water from the spring is extremely clean and saturated with silver, as it breaks through rare siliceous-silver rocks.

On holidays and Sundays, religious services are held near the Rizhky spring.

The Church of the Assumption of Saint Anna in the center of the village of Sloboda was built in 1852 by Major General Andriy Troshchynskyi, the heir of the Minister of Justice Dmytro Troshchynskyi.

The temple in the style of late classicism is cruciform in plan, crowned with a hemispherical dome on a cylindrical drum. There are large semicircular windows on the western, northern and southern facades. The facades are finished with triangular gables.

Remains of the thematic paintings of the 19th century have been preserved in the interior.

The Astronomical Museum in Kyiv operates at one of the oldest university astronomical observatories of Ukraine, founded in 1845, shortly after the university was founded in Kyiv.

The first director of the astronomical observatory was the outstanding astronomer Vasyl Fedorov.

Over a century and a half, many scientific discoveries have been made here in the field of astrometry, solar physics and forecasting of solar activity, meteor astronomy, and observations of artificial Earth satellites. The observatory has several ancient instruments in its arsenal: a meridian circle, 8" and 10" Repsold refractors, a Zeiss astrograph, and a library with rare editions of the 16th-18th centuries.

The building of the astronomical observatory, designed by the architect Vikentiy Beretti, is an architectural monument of the 19th century.

Baikove cemetery is one of the oldest and most beautiful in Kyiv.

It was opened in 1834 on Baikova Hill, named after General Serhiy Baikov, a participant in the Franco-Russian War of 1812 and the Russian-Turkish War of 1828-1829, who lived here after his retirement.

On the territory of the cemetery there are about 20 old crypts of various architecture, some of them designed by famous architects Vladyslav Horodetsky, Volodymyr Nikolaev and others.

The Baikovo cemetery is actually a Ukrainian pantheon, many prominent people are buried there: Mykhaylo Hrushevsky, Lesya Ukrayinka, Vyacheslav Chornovil, Mariya Zankovetska, Amvrosiy Buchma, Mykhaylo Stelmakh, Pavlo Zahrebelny, Vasyl Stus, Yevhen Paton, Mykola Amosov, Oleksandr Shalimov, Valeriy Lobanovsky, Roman Ratushny and many others.

Since 1977, the Baryshivka Local Lore Museum has been operating in the former residential building of the landowner Hladysh, built in the 19th century. Later, a school was located here, where from 1920 to 1923, one of the most prominent neoclassical poets, Mykola Zerov, worked as a teacher.

The collection of the Baryshivka Local Lore Museum includes more than 4,000 exhibits, including tools of the Stone and Bronze Ages, ceramic fragments of the Trypillia culture, and other archaeological finds. A collection of women's clothing and embroidered towels of the 18th-20th centuries is presented.

A separate exhibition highlights the participation of the residents of Baryshivka in the events of the Second World War, the war in Afghanistan and the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Products of local folk craftsmen are exhibited: painting, embroidery, wickerwork, etc.