Attractions of Kyiv region

The Contemporary Art Center "Ivan Marchuk Museum" is planned to be opened in the former premises of the US Embassy in Kyiv. The artist personally developed the project of reconstruction of the administrative building into a modern museum and exhibition center.

Ivan Marchuk is People's Artist of Ukraine, laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine, Knight of the Order of Freedom, recipient of the "National Legend of Ukraine" award of the President of Ukraine, member of the Golden Guild of the Roman Academy of Modern Art. In 2007, he was included in the rating of "Top 100 living geniuses", according to The Daily Telegraph.

The Ivan Marchuk Museum and Cultural Center of Contemporary Art was created in 2021 by decree of the President of Ukraine.

The creative work of the master includes about 5,000 paintings, which are exhibited in museums on all continents of the world. Some of them are kept in the National Art Museum of Ukraine, a branch of which is the Contemporary Art Center "Ivan Marchuk Museum".

Exhibitions of Ivan Marchuk's paintings from the museum's collections are currently being held at other venues.

The memorial house-museum of Ivan Soshenka in Bohuslav was opened in 1973 in the house of the artist's father, in which he was born in 1807.

The exhibition is housed in three rooms. In the first room, materials are exhibited that tell about Ivan's childhood and youth. The exposition of the next room highlights the artist's stay in St. Petersburg and studies at the Academy of Arts (1832-1838). The third room tells about Ivan Soshenko's meeting with Taras Shevchenko, the artist's work as a drawing teacher.

The museum presents photo reproductions of numerous sketches and drawings of the artist, as well as photocopies that tell about Ivan Soshenko's activities as a teacher, about the last years of his life.

A monument to Ivan Soshenko (sculptor Ida Kopayhorenko, architect Voldemar Bohdanivskyi) was installed on the territory of the museum.

The Ivan Soshenka Memorial House-Museum is a branch of the Bohuslav Region History Museum.

The tract of Ivan-hora (Ivan-hill ) is located on the bank of the Dnipro on the southeastern outskirts of Rzhyshchiv, to the right of the pier.

On the top of the 174-meter-high mountain, an ancient Rus settlement of the 11th-13th centuries was discovered in the 19th century, identified with the historical fortress city of Ivan (mentioned in the Ipatiev Chronicle in 1151). Remains of wooden fortifications were found.

In the 16th century, a Polish fortress was built on Ivan-hora, which in 1663 was used by the troops of King Yan Kazymyr as a bridgehead for the invasion of the Left Bank (according to one version, the mountain bears the name of King Yan (Ivan).

After the construction of the Kaniv HPP, the process of erosion and washing of the mountain by the waters of the Kaniv Reservoir began.

Ivankiv Local History Museum is located in the city park, on the site of an ancient Rus settlement of the X-XIII centuries.

The exposition presents samples of fauna and flora of the region, collection of antique household items, reconstruction of the interior of the Ukrainian house of Polissya region.

The exhibition "Ivankiv and Munster in the Second World War - Ukrainian-German research project" tells about the life of the town during the Nazi occupation and deportation of residents to forced labor in Germany.

The exposition "Chornobyl is our pain" tells about the accident at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant and the elimination of its consequences.

The pride of the museum is an exhibition of paintings by the People's Artist of Ukraine Mariya Prymachenko, who lived in the neighboring village of Bolotnia.

At the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion in February 2022, when Ivankiv came under fire, the Ivankiv History and Local History Museum burned down. But the employees managed to save all the paintings of Mariya Prymachenko. The restoration of the museum is planned.

Ivankiv Museum of Local Lore is located on the 2nd floor of the House of Culture.

The exposition presents a large number of weapons of different epochs, tools and household items of the Ukrainian village of the XIX century, a large number of printed publications and documents of the Soviet-Ukrainian war, the period of collectivization and the Second World War.

The Jellyfish Museum in Kyiv was opened in 2018 by a team of professional aquarists under the leadership of Oleksandr and Yana Yanovsky. The institution is located in the very center of the city, on Maydan Nezalezhnosti.

About 20 types of live jellyfish are presented in the exposition. Among the exhibits are fire jellyfish, Atlantic aurelia, "cannonball", Cassiopeia jellyfish, Amakusa jellyfish, spotted Australian jellyfish, "lion's mane" jellyfish and others.

During the tour, you can find out, in particular, how many species of jellyfish known to mankind inhabit the Earth, which of them are deadly poisonous, and which jellyfish is the only immortal creature on the planet.

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.

The Resurrection Church in the village of Voskresenske near Pereyaslav was built in the 18th century at the expense of the landowner Kanevsky.

The temple in the style of classicism is built in the form of a rotunda, which is rare for Orthodoxy. On the western side, there is a two-story vestibule with a balcony and a triangular pediment, on the frieze under which there is a row of Maltese-type crosses, which may indicate that the former owners of the estate belonged to a Masonic lodge.

"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 Local Lore Museum of the village of Kapustyntsi was created on the initiative of the local history teacher Andriy Kulinsky. The first exhibition of exhibits collected by him was exhibited in the village House of Culture starting from the 50s of the last century. In 1986, the museum received a separate building.

The museum's exposition reflects the life of peasants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the events of the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917-1922, the period of collectivization, the Holodomor of 1932-1933, and the history of education and medicine in the region.

The archaeological collection of the museum presents unique finds from the Late Paleolithic era and information about the excavations of the dwellings of primitive people at the Dobranychivska site, located near the village.

The new exposition is dedicated to the events of the Revolution of Dignity and honoring the Heroes of the Russian-Ukrainian War.

The Karapyshi Village Historical and Local Lore Museum was founded in 1984 on the initiative of local activists-historians Oleksiy Hura and Mykhaylo Peretyatko. They were helped by their fellow villagers in collecting local material.

The exposition in five halls tells about the history of the village of Karapyshi from the earliest records to the present day, as well as about the culture and lifestyle of its inhabitants.

In particular, the "Certificate of Settlements" signed on April 25, 1896, when Karapyshi belonged to the Kyiv Governorate of Kaniv County, is presented. Also on display are samples of men's and women's clothing of the beginning of the 20th century, an ancient loom and other tools, peasant household items, and weapons from the Second World War.

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".