Attractions of Kyiv region

Dream Island Aquapark in Kyiv is the largest indoor water park in the CIS and one of the largest indoor water parks in Europe (25,000 square meters). Its capacity is up to 4 thousand people.

Located in the "Dream Town" shopping and entertainment center.

The creators of the water park call it the "Jurassic Aquapark" because it is designed in the style of the Lost World: an island with blue lagoons, wild plants and prehistoric animals.

The arsenal of the "Dream Island" water park includes 14 slides, 2 wave pools, 3 pools with current, a lagoon with an aqua bar for 55 seats, a jacuzzi, all types of baths, as well as a children's area with an area of about 700 square meters. Animation for children and adults.

The SPA-zone "Banny world" presents the bath cultures of different peoples of the world: Roman steam room, Indian, Moroccan, Russian bath, Turkish hammam, Finnish or Egyptian sauna, hydromassage showers, etc.

On weekends, aqua parties with exotic cocktails are held in the "Dream Island" water park. There is a tent town where you can stay for the night.

Currently, the "Dream Island" water park is closed for reconstruction.

The Kaharlyk Historical and Local Lore Museum

has been located in a spacious room where there was once a reading room of the City Library for Children. Earlier, the museum was in a small house in the center of the Kagarlyk, built at the end of the eighteenth century, where there was once a guest yard, then a post office.

The museum was founded in 1974. Of the 33,000 storage units, about 1.5 thousand exhibits were exhibited in the museum's exposition hall.

The museum exposition covers a wide time period - from the first settlements in Kagarlychyna to the present. The section of nature introduces to the flora and fauna of Kagarlychyna. The archeology section presents excavations on the territory of the region. The ethnographic department presents collections of embroideries, towels, scarves, pottery. You can also get acquainted with weapons, sculptures, banknotes of different times, historical documents and ancient books.

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 Borshchahivka Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God "Living Source" was founded in the middle of the 17th century, immediately after the founding of the village of Bratska Borshchahivka (now a district of Kyiv) on lands donated to the Kyiv Bratskн Epiphany Monastery by the Cossack hetman Ivan Petrazhytsky-Kulaha.

The main shrine was the miraculous image of the Mother of God of Borshchahivka, which, according to legend, was found by a blind monk next to an ancient well.

The current stone building of the Church of the Living Source in the pseudo-Byzantine style was built in 1872. The church is cruciform in plan, five-naped, with a large central dome and a three-tiered bell tower. Later, two side porches were added.

During Soviet times, the church was closed and used as a granary. In 2002, the revived temple of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God "Living Source" was consecrated by Patriarch Filaret of Kyiv and All Rus.

The landscape park of the estate of Varvara Khanenko, the wife of the famous sugar factory Bohdan Khanenko, was preserved in the village of Olenivka, which belonged to the Khanenko family at the beginning of the 20th century.

This is an arboretum with three ponds, with spruce-oak-hornbeam groves, a section of the cultural elite garden and the "Amur" spring, which was once decorated with a bronze figure of Amur. Today, only a stone catchment remains from the spring, and from the estate only the old water tower - a monument of technology of the beginning of the 20th century.

In 2017, a rosary was planted in the park in honor of Varvara Khanenko. It is planned to include the Khanenkiv park in the landscape reserve of local importance "Khanenko-Olenivka Paradise".

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.

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.

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 famous naval engineer, lieutenant general, designer of the famous cruiser "Aurora" Ksaveriy Ratnik was born in Mykolaiv. After the defeat of the Russian fleet in 1905 in the Battle of Tsushima, in which the "Aurora" participated, Ratnik was accused of corruption by the leadership of the Russian Empire's navy, retired and began to live permanently on the outskirts of the then Borova farm and Motovyliv dachas, on the hills of the right high bank of the Stuhna River, where he purchased a plot of land and in 1907 built a three-story manor house in the shape of a ship. The rooms were considered cabins, and the large balcony was called the captain's bridge.

After the death of the owner in 1924, the manor house was given over to a sanatorium, then the office of the Kyiv Vegetable and Potato Research Station was located in Ratnik's former house.

Currently, the house-ship is abandoned and is slowly collapsing. Through the efforts of enthusiasts and Ksaveriy Ratnik's great-grandson, Oleh Ratnik, a memorial plaque to Ksaveriy Ratnik was installed on it in the early 2010s, and the designer's grave was also discovered and arranged. The plans include the creation of a Cultural and Historical Center based on the house-museum.

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.

Kyiv HPP - the upper stage of the cascade of hydroelectric power stations on the Dnipro, the first HPP in the USSR, built from prefabricated reinforced concrete structures with the use of horizontal capsule hydro units, which allowed to design the HPP building combined with the spillway part

Construction continued from 1960 to 1968. Structures: HPP building (440 MW), a concrete spillway dam with 20 spillways, a shipping lock, earth dams, structures of a hydraulic storage station with an upper reservoir. The construction of the dam and the city of energy workers created a modern industrial architectural appearance of the ancient Vyshhorod.

According to legend, during the design of the Dnipro Cascade in the 1930s, Joseph Stalin demanded that if the Kyiv Hydroelectric Dam was destroyed in the event of a war, the water shaft would also destroy all other dams and bridges downstream, thus creating a natural water barrier. This legend, as well as concerns about the technical condition of the dam, constantly cause discussions about the threat to Kyiv from the station.

The Kyiv Municipal Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet for Children and Youth "Kyiv Opera" on Podil in Kyiv is better known as the Music Theater.

It is this name that is still preserved on the facade of the building, erected in 1933 in the style of Soviet constructivism according to the project of the famous architect Mykola Shekhonin as the "Kharchovyk" workers' club of the trade union of workers of the meat-canning industry.

For some time, the building was called "Slavutych" Palace of Culture.

Today, the auditorium of the Kyiv Opera has 436 seats, including the balcony. In 2016, a chamber stage was opened in the Round Hall for performances and concerts.

Currently, the repertoire of the theater includes about 60 plays. The most popular children's show is the musical "The Adventures of Buratino" by Oleksandr Bilash. The comic opera "Les mamelles de Tirésias" by Francis Poulenc and the modern production of Giuseppe Verdi's opera "La Traviata" received high marks from the audience and critics.

Availability information:
- the entrance to the theater is equipped with a ramp, the width of the doorway at the entrance allows unobstructed access for people in wheelchairs
- men's and women's restrooms located on the first floor of the theater, equipped with cabins for people with disabilities
- the ground floor of the theater is accessible to people in wheelchairs: the entrance to the hall has no stairs, wide aisles between the rows.

The Kyiv Regional Archaeological Museum in Trypillia is mainly dedicated to the Trypillia archeological culture, which was named after this village in the Kyiv region, where the first archeological excavations were carried out.

The dark constructivist building of cubic shape is located on Posadova Hill, on the site of the ancient settlement of Trepol. According to architect Anatoliy Ihnashchenko, the chest building symbolizes the wealth of Ukraine, and located around the stone - a piece of land.

The Kyiv Regional Archaeological Museum was established to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Trypillia culture by Vikentiy Khvoyka on the basis of the former Museum of Komsomol Glory. The exposition presents 34 thousand exhibits. The most interesting of them are exhibited in the Trypillya hall, which is stylized as a church of Trypillia: ceramics, jewelry, models of Trypillya residents, etc. In total, about 200 products of various shapes, sizes, applications and ornaments.

In two more halls there are exhibits of other epochs, starting from the Stone Age and ending with the XVIII century. Souvenirs imitating Trypillia ceramics are for sale. The most popular is the original binocular ritual utensils of Trypillya.

A bronze bust of Vikentiy Khvoyka, the first archeological monument in Ukraine, has been erected on a pedestal next to the museum building. In front of the monument there is a "Table of Harmony", in the center of which is a metal cylinder - the axis of the earth with the inscription "Dialogue of Cultures" in Ukrainian and English, symbolizing the intertwining of cultures on this land, the transition from one to another. Around the "Table of Harmony" placed historical exhibits of stone, created by ancient man. In front of the facade of the museum there are large blocks of sandstone, which are over 70 million years old - a gift from the National Historical and Ethnographic Reserve Pereyaslav.

The branches of the Kyiv Regional Archaeological Museum are the Archaeological and Local Lore Museum in the village of Kopachiv, the Historical and Local Lore Museum in the village of Sosnova, the Anatoliy Solovyanenko Museum in the village of Kozyn, the Military History Museum in the village of Trypillia, the Vikentiy Khvoyka Museum and the Ivan Franko Museum in the village of Halepya, the Cossack Era Museum and Picture Gallery in the village of Hermanivka.