Attractions of Kyiv region

The Memorial estate-museum of Kyrylo Stetsenko was opened in the village of Vepryk in the Fastiv region, where the composer spent the last years of his life - from 1920 to 1922.

Stetsenko, who turned to the church during the revolution, responded to the invitation of the community of Vepryk, which wanted to have a Ukrainian priest. In the village, the composer created two folk choirs: village and children's. In the spring of 1922, Kyrylo Stetsenko fell ill with typhus and died, just short of his 40th birthday. He was buried in Vepryk, the residents take care of his grave.

The museum stores the composer's belongings, a grand piano, as well as ethnographic and everyday items that help to recreate the environment in which Kyrylo Stetsenko lived and worked.

The landscape reserve of local significance "Vasylkivski Carpathians" is located east of Vasylkiv, between the villages of Velyka Buhaivka and Roslavychi. It got its name due to the steep hilly relief, reminiscent of Carpathian landscapes.

The reserve with an area of ​​226.8 hectares was created in 1999 on the basis of a large stream with adjacent ravines, at the bottom of which flows the Krushynka River and several nameless streams flowing into the Buhaivka River. The fragmented log-beam landscape has artificial pine plantations in the upper reaches and natural broad-leaved forest in the lower part, including a floodplain aspen forest. Some pine trees have been preserved on the slopes of the stream.

The main value of the "Vasylkivski Carpathians" is the natural meadow-steppe herbage preserved on the slopes of the ravines, which have never been used by humans for agricultural purposes. In summer, the slopes are full of flowers, filling the air with honeyed aromas of wild chicory, meadow sage, alpine clover and other meadow herbs. Among the rare plants there is hard fiber flax and half-moon bunchgrass (key-grass), which is listed in the Red Book of Ukraine.

According to the Department of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Kyiv Regional State Administration, the "Vasylkivski Carpathians" are home to deer, roe deer, roe deer, wild boars, hares, partridges, and moose, which is listed in the Red Book of Ukraine. More than 30 species of birds nest.

You can enter the territory of the reserve from the T-1006 road on a dirt road that starts opposite the turn to the Gvozdoff ski complex. There is a place for picnics.

On the opposite side of the village of Velyka Buhaivka, there is another truss-beam system "Kazkovy yar", which is often confused with the "Vasylkivski Carpathians".

Kyiv City Art Gallery "Lavra" is one of the leading exhibition venues in the capital of Ukraine.

The gallery opened in 1996 in the historical building of the provision store of the Kyiv-Pechersk fortress, built in 1843-1844, next to the preserved fragment of the fortress rampart.

The exhibition space with an area of 650 square meters is used for presentations of Ukrainian artists, photo exhibitions, musical evenings, fashion shows, educational lectures and meetings with famous creative personalities.

Festivals, fairs and open-air concerts take place in the courtyard of the gallery.

The monument to actor Leonid Bykov on the slopes of the Dnipro in Kyiv is dedicated to military pilots of the Second World War who died during the liberation of Ukraine.

The famous Ukrainian actor, theater and film director, People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR Leonid Bykov starred in many popular films, but the most memorable for the audience was his portrayal of the squadron commander Captain Oleksiy Tytarenko nicknamed "Maestro" from the movie "Only Old Men Go to Battle". In this stage image, he is depicted in the sculpture, which is installed in Slavy Park near the Eternal Glory Memorial on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (between Slavy Square and Askold's Grave).

The sculptors are Volodymyr Shchur and Vitaliy Sivko.

A monument to Les Kurbas in Kyiv was erected in 2002 on Prorizna Street - near the building of the "Young Theater" founded by him.

The outstanding Ukrainian actor and theater director Les Kurbas devoted his whole life to reforming the Ukrainian theater. In 1922, he founded the "Berezil" theater in Kyiv, where he focused on finding new stage means and avant-garde forms of representation of revolutionary ideas, which was accepted by the authorities. Kurbas was accused of bourgeois nationalism and mischief, repressed, and only in 1953 was he rehabilitated.

The authors of the monument to Les Kurbas are sculptor Mykola Rapay and architect Vyacheslav Dormydontov.

The local history museum of the city of Slavutych and Chornobyl NPP presents expositions dedicated to the nature, history and culture of the Polissya region.

The main place is occupied by materials on the history of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant and the construction of the city of Prypyat, the accident of 1986 and the liquidation of its consequences at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant and in the 30-kilometer exclusion zone, the construction of the "Ukryttya" facility and the new confinement.

The museum's funds include more than 10,000 exhibits. In particular, the exhibition hall "History of the construction of the city of Prypyat and the accident at the Chornobyl NPP" displays documents, photos of the station, stands dedicated to the liquidation of the consequences of the accident, as well as a model of the station's industrial site with the "Ukryttya" facility.

The exhibition "Construction of the city of Slavutych" presents sketches of artistic and architectural solutions, author's projects for the development of neighborhoods and recreation areas, for which a group of architects led by Fedir Borovyk received the State Prize of Ukraine.

In the "Ethnographic Light" hall, ancient Ukrainian towels, embroidered by craftsmen from the villages of Chernihiv and Ripkinsky districts, and other items of traditional life are exhibited. You can also see things that Prypyat residents used before the Chornobyl accident.

The local lore museum of the Kuliabivka village in the Kyiv region is named after the Ukrainian scientist and statesman Petro Neporozhnyi. The main exposition of the museum, which opened in 2012, is dedicated to him.

Petro Neporozhnyi was born in 1910 in the Tuzhyliv farm near Kuliabivka, graduated from the local school and the Pereyaslav Factory Apprenticeship School, and later from the Leningrad Institute of Water Transport Engineers. He was engaged in the construction of hydroelectric power stations. From 1954 he worked in government positions in the Ukrainian SSR, and from 1965 to 1985 he held the position of Minister of Energy and Electrification of the USSR. For more than 30 years, he headed the Department of Energy at the Odesa and Moscow Polytechnic Institutes.

The four exhibition halls of the museum present materials about the life and activities of Petro Neporozhnyi: documents, photographs, portraits, etc. Ethnographic exposition is also presented.

The Luhansk Regional Museum of Local Lore is one of the oldest museums in Donbas.

In March 2015, the museum was moved from Luhansk to the Ukrainian-controlled territory of the city of Starobilsk. The museum is located in the premises of the former craft school, built in 1895 at the expense of the noblewoman Domna Demenkova, and is an architectural monument of the 19th century.

With the beginning of the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the Luhansk Regional Museum of Local Lore found shelter in Lviv and operated for two years on the basis of the Memorial Museum of Totalitarian Regimes "Territory of Terror". Now the museum has moved to Kyiv to the "My Luhansk Region" Humanitarian Hub, where it will be working for the near future. Unfortunately, the museum does not have its own premises and exhibition spaces for the full restoration of museum activities.

The Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is located on the territory of the Holosiyivsky forest, on the southern outskirts of Kyiv.

It was built in 1944-1948 on the initiative of the outstanding Ukrainian astronomer Oleksandr Orlov, who became the first director of the observatory. The construction was carried out according to the project of the famous architect Oleksiy Shchusev.

The first telescopes were Wanschaff's vertical circle and Tepfer-Steingel's double long-focus astrograph. Now the observatory also has a station for laser observation of artificial satellites of the Earth, a horizontal solar telescope АТСУ-5, a reflector AZT-2, a double wide-angle Zeiss astrograph, a meridian axial circle and other instruments.

The Museum of the History of the Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences is located in the tower of the double long-focus Tepfer-Steingel astrograph. Visitors are greeted by a poster announcing that minor planet No. 15675 was named Goloseevo in honor of this institution.

On the four floors of the tower, numerous photographic materials about the history of the institution, personal belongings of prominent astronomers, the first astrometric instruments and measuring devices are presented. A collection of antique clocks is presented in the time room.

Excursions with amateur astronomical observations are held by prior appointment for organized groups.

The Makariv Historical and Local Lore Museum is located in the Pansky Park on the ramparts of the Makariv Castle in the center of the town of Makariv. It was opened in 1967 on the initiative of local historian and public figure Herman Chereshnyov.

The exposition tells about the history of Makariv since the Middle Ages, about the Haydamak movement in the Kyiv region, about the events of the Ukrainian Revolution and the Second World War, as well as about the post-war life of the town.

A separate exhibition is dedicated to the soldiers of the 14th separate mechanized brigade named after Prince Roman the Great, who in February-March 2022 liberated the Makariv hromada from the Russian invaders in fierce battles.

The Kyiv Literary and Memorial Museum of Maksym Rylsky was opened in 1966 in the building next to the Holosiyivsky Park in Kyiv, where the outstanding Ukrainian poet lived the last 13 years of his life, from 1951 to 1964.

It was here that he wrote his most famous poetry collections "Roses and Grapes", "Winter Notes", "Evening Conversations".

The living room, office and library of Maksym Rylsky have been preserved in the building. In three more halls, there is a biographical exposition that illuminates the life and creative path of the poet.

In total, the museum's funds include more than 10,000 items. It is possible to listen to recordings of the poet's voice.

The house is surrounded by a garden and flower beds, created by the hands of Maksym Rylsky. A monument to the poet has been installed in front of the house.

The manor of the Malynovsky landowners was built in Hryhorivka in the 19th century, next to the sugar factory opened in 1845 by the previous owner of the village, Fedir Milevskyi.

Carved Doric triglyphs on the frieze under the cornice have been preserved. The original interiors were lost after the Bolshevik coup of 1917. The manor house is wooden, but it is covered with bricks, which can lead to its destruction.

Currently, part of the estate is occupied by an outpatient clinic with a polyclinic, the other part is occupied by residential apartments.

Medvyno Safari Park with an area of ​​over 3,000 hectares, in which all the conditions as close as possible to wild nature have been created, is located near the village of Strakholissia.

Medvyno Safari Park is the largest deer farm in Ukraine, which has about 500 individuals of three species of deer on 170 hectares of land. Spotted and noble deer live harmoniously with other animals in the same territory.

In addition, llamas, camels, bears, bison, ostriches, roe deer, goats, sheep, ducks, and rabbits live here. The complex also includes an arboretum with an area of ​​100 hectares and an eco-farm.

Medvyno Safari Park conducts group and individual excursions to the safari park, deer farm and eco-farm by visitors' cars, ATVs or buggies. The eco-farm offers a tasting of craft cheeses from a local cheese factory, which can be purchased to take away. There is a cafe with dishes of Polissya cuisine and game. Houses for rent.

Visiting the Medvyno Park is possible only with a prior reservation.

The Church of the Meeting of Lord was built in Sulymivka in 1905. The initiator of the construction was a resident of the village Pylyp Kyryk, who collected donations for the temple throughout the country. Yelyzaveta Dzevonovska allocated the land for the temple. She ordered a gilded iconostasis from the workshops of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra.

The Streeten church was built in the Cossack architectural style traditional for this area. Master Kabanov supervised the works. It is a typical temple of that time with one head and an attached bell tower.

An architectural monument of local importance.

The Church of the Meeting of Lord is often confused with the Church of the Holy Intercession of the village of the same name Sulymivka in the same district.

The memorial in honor of the heroes of the military offensive operation "Bukryn bridgehead" (1943), built on the site of the ancient Rus settlement of Chuchyn, which was first mentioned in chronicles in the 11th century.

In princely times, there was a fortress here that controlled the surroundings, and a port on the Dnipro. Remains of shafts up to 4 meters high have been preserved, partial reconstruction has been carried out. A monument to Boyan - the author of "Words about Igor's campaign" was erected.

In 1943, during the operation to liberate Kyiv, the Soviet troops, at the cost of terrible losses, forced the Dnipro in this area and captured an 11-kilometer bridgehead, twice tried to launch an attack on Kyiv, but failed both times. The conditions of the terrain, which complicated the offensive actions of the troops, especially the tank army, were not taken into account. Losses in manpower were colossal.

According to the most modest estimates, 250 thousand soldiers of the Soviet Army died. This episode is considered one of the bloodiest in the entire Second World War.