Attractions of Kyiv region

The building of the men's gymnasium in Skvyra was built in 1909 at the expense of a patron, the engineer of the All-Russian Railways Petro Suvchynsky.

The construction was carried out according to the project of the Ukrainian architect Oleksandr Kobelev, the author of the buildings of the State Bank and the Commercial Institute in Kyiv.

The Skvyra City Men's Gymnasium was classified as one of the gymnasiums that had the best facilities in the territory of the Russian Empire. Ivan Rosoptovskyi became the first director of the educational institution in 1909, but soon he was replaced by Ivan Hryhorovych.

In 1917, a museum of local history was opened by Karl Bolsunovsky at the Skvyra Men's Gymnasium.

Now it is the Skvyra Academic Lyceum.

The MIA of Ukraine Museum opened in 2004 in the premises of the National Academy of Internal Affairs in Kyiv. The exposition tells about the activities of law enforcement agencies of Ukraine from the times of Kyivan Rus to the present day.

In particular, in the museum you can learn about the work of the General Secretariat of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian People's Republic during the time of the Central Council, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian State under Hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyi, law enforcement agencies of the Soviet period and the modern Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

Photographs, documents and personal belongings of famous law enforcement officers are presented; the most important legal acts related to the creation, organization and activity of law enforcement agencies; awards of the Ministry of Internal Affairs; samples of weapons and uniforms of different historical periods.

Collections of cold and firearms seized from criminals, counterfeit money and documents, as well as the tools used to make them, materials of high-profile criminal cases, physical evidence, etc. are exhibited.

There is a separate hall dedicated to the participation of units of the MIA of Ukraine in the Russian-Ukrainian war.

The exemplary military-historical museum of the village of Trypillia was opened in 2001 in the premises of the Trypillia Lyceum as a museum of military glory.

The main exposition tells about the events that took place in the village and its surroundings during the Second World War, and about the villagers who defended their homeland from the invaders. In particular, materials are presented about the "Rozkopana" tract, which is popularly called "Obuhiv's Babyn Yar", where the Nazis shot more than 700 civilians on the night of July 1, 1943.

An improvised soldier's trench has been set up in the hall, which stores the remains of weapons that were found on the battlefields in the vicinity of the village.

Separate stands tell about the citizens of Trypillia who took part in the war in Afghanistan and in the liquidation of the consequences of the accident at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant.

The "Russian-Ukrainian War" section is constantly replenished with new exhibits. Here you can learn about the residents of the village who have been defending Ukraine at the front since 2014, as well as about the work of the volunteer staff of the Trypillia Lyceum and other local volunteer organizations.

The Trypillia Military History Museum is a branch of the Kyiv Regional Archaeological Museum.

The Miniland Railway Miniature Museum is the largest railway model in Ukraine, which opened in 2022 in the Blockbuster shopping center in Kyiv.

On an area of 87 square meters, exact moving copies of dozens of trains, hundreds of real buildings and natural objects of Ukraine, as well as about 1,500 figurines of people are presented. All objects on the model are made as realistic as possible on a scale of 1:87. In particular, you can see models of Olesko Castle, Ivano-Frankivsk Railway Station, Buky Canyon, Trypillia TPP, etc. The model has a system of automatic regulation of train movement and dynamic lighting that simulates day and night conditions.

The Miniland Museum is constantly replenished with new exhibits, which are mini-copies of real objects from all over Ukraine.

Monitor "Zheleznyakov" - a legendary warship of the Second World War, which became famous during the fighting on the Danube, the Black Sea and the Sea of ​​Azov. It went through the entire war, receiving the nickname "elusive" among the people.

Monitors are low-sided armored artillery ships designed for combat operations in shallow water. Monitor SB-37 was built in 1934 at the Kiev shipyard. Named by the Soviet authorities in honor of the Russian anarchist and rebel Anatoliy Zheleznyakov.

Monitor "Zheleznyakov" met the Second World War as part of the Danube Flotilla and fought until victory.

In 1965, it was installed on a pedestal on Rybalsky Island, immediately behind the Havansky Bridge.

The sculptural composition "Naked Attack" was installed in the village of Mala Vilshanka during the Soviet era in memory of the textbook propaganda Soviet history, which tells about the heroism of the Red Army men Hryhoriy Kotovsky.

Kotovsky once stood with his headquarters in nearby Volodarka, and the musicians of his orchestra were invited to Vilshanka to play at a wedding. In the morning, it became known that the White Guards were approaching Vilshanka, and the musicians, having abandoned their instruments, fled to their relatives in Volodarka. After learning that all the instruments, including his favorite drums, had fallen to the enemy, Kotovsky immediately ordered the signal for battle to be sounded. The fighters jumped out of bed, who was wearing what, got on their horses and rushed to rescue the drums. True, there were no White Guards in Vilshanka at that time, but the "naked attack" made an indelible impression on local residents.

The monument to the heroes of the cartoon "There once was a dog", based on the Ukrainian folk tale "Sirko" by director Eduard Nazarov, is located in the center of Kyiv near Peyzahnna Alley.

The author of the work, Vinnytsia sculptor Volodymyr Zayets, depicted the Wolf and the Dog sitting under a festive table with a bottle of moonshine, the inscription "Many years" and a thigh. The sculpture is carved from linden, varnished and treated with special wood protection solutions that protect it from atmospheric influences.

The sculptural composition "There once was a dog" complements a number of works located on Peyzahnna Alley.

The monument to tank soldiers on Shulyavka in Kyiv is better known among Kyivans simply as the "tank monument".

The legendary T-34 tank of the Second World War was installed on a pedestal in 1968 in honor of the 3rd Guards Tank Army, which liberated Kyiv from fascist occupiers during the Second World War.

The monument is a 43-meter-long concrete strip (a symbol of front-line roads), at the end of which is a T-34-85 medium tank with serial number 111, which participated in the liberation of Kyiv. It is interesting that a combat vehicle with a full crew and a calculation of paratroopers on board reached the place of eternal parking and climbed the pedestal on its own.

In 1982, the monument to the tankers was supplemented with stelae with soil from the hero cities of the USSR.

On April 10, 2022, immediately after the de-occupation of Kyiv Region during the Russian-Ukrainian war, activists and security forces of Kyiv removed the names of Belarusian and Russian hero cities, which received this title after the Second World War, from the ceilings near the monument. Instead, the names on the steles were replaced with the names of the hero cities of Ukraine: Kharkiv, Kherson, Chernihiv, Mykolaiv, Volnovakha, Okhtyrka, Bucha, Irpin, Hostomel and Mariupol.

The ancient burial mound of the Cossack times, described by Taras Shevchenko in the poem "The Plundered Grave", was restored on the outskirts of the city of Berezan in 2007 on the initiative of the modern Cossacks of the Berezan hundred.

The poem "The Plundered Grave" was written by Shevchenko on October 9, 1843 in Berezan, when he was visiting the local landowner Platon Lukashevych. The poet saw a picture of the excavations of the burial mound by Russian soldiers in the fields near Berezan. This metaphorical image of uprooting the historical memory and national self-awareness of the Ukrainian people became the leading one in Shevchenko's most famous anti-imperial poem.

Local expert Halyna Ryh was able to establish the location of the excavated mound in the landing near the railway track based on the stories of old residents. In 1989, on the initiative of the local branch of the People's Movement, the first memorial sign with a memorial plaque was installed here, and later the local Cossacks restored the destroyed mound and installed a stone figure of the Cossack Mamai on it.

The mound "Plundered Grave" (Rozryta Mohyla, Diggered Grave) is located on the eastern outskirts of the city of Berezan, at the exit towards Yagotyn, in the area of the railway crossing, 500 meters to the right of the highway along the railway track.

The Taras Shevchenko Memorial Building-Museum on Priorka in Kyiv, a department of the Shevchenko National Museum, is called "House at Priorka".

The poet lived here for some time in 1859, during his last stay in Kyiv, waiting for permission to leave for St. Petersburg.

The museum exposition recreates the life of the Kyiv suburbs of the second half of the 19th century. Most of the things exhibited in the house were handed over by residents of Priorka, descendants of those people who personally met Shevchenko.

A 400-year-old oak still grows near the house, under which, according to contemporaries, the poet liked to sit.

The "Literary and Artistic Pliuty" Museum was opened in 1975 as the Literary and Memorial Museum of playwright Oleksandr Korniychuk and his wife, writer Vanda Vasylevska, on the territory of their country house in Pliuty.

Now the architectural and artistic complex "Literary and Artistic Pliuty" is a department of the Central State Archive-Museum of Literature and Art of Ukraine.

Korniychuk built a two-story country house on the bank of the Kozynka River in 1954 according to the project of his friend, architect Volodymyr Zabolotny. In the post-war period, many Ukrainian and Russian writers, actors and directors often visited his house and neighboring country houses. After Korniychuk's death, the dacha was turned into a house-museum.

The environment of the writer's office has been preserved. Books, paintings and personal belongings of Korniychuk and Vasylevska are stored in the museum.

Every year on the territory of the manor, on the writer's birthday, the literary and artistic festival "Spring in Pliuty" is held.

The Museum "Mansion at Kudryavka" (the former Pushkin Museum) was opened in Kyiv in the two-story building of 1816, where the writer Mykhaylo Bulhakov lived as a child.

The interiors of the residence reproduce the atmosphere and represent the life and everyday life of the city in the first half of the 19th century. Here you can see furniture, fabrics, porcelain, glass, beaded embroideries, engravings of the 18th-19th centuries and other things characteristic of the life of the nobility of that time.

The exhibition was based on the "Pushkinian" collection of the researcher Yakiv Berdychevsky, who donated it to the city in 1987. In total, more than 1,200 exhibits are presented. The pearl of the collection is a copy of the magazine "Contemporary" (1836, volume two) with a censorship permit signed by the censor Krylov. No less valuable are the poet's lifetime publications, such as separate sections of the novel in verse "Yevheniy Onyehin", which were published as so-called "notebooks" for seven years before the publication of the full text of the work in March 1833.

Currently, the team of the museum "Mansion at Kudryavka" is working on the development of the structure and the filling of the new exposition, in part, repair and restoration works are being carried out, which the museum premises desperately need.

"Mansion at Kudryavka" is a branch of the Kyiv History Museum.

The Museum of Electrical Communication in Bila Tserkva is located in the premises of the Ukrtelecom Telecommunications Center.

The exhibition tells about the history of communication and post. Devices used to transmit messages at different times, the first television, and more are presented.

The Museum of Ukrainian Diaspora, which tells about the fate of Ukrainian immigrants, is located in an ancient Kyiv mansion of the 19th century.

Here are presented documents, photographs and some personal belongings that once belonged to Ukrainian artists, writers, and musicians who at various times were forced to leave their homeland.

Several halls of the museum are dedicated to the work of immigrant artists: Lyudmyla Morozova, Oleksa Bulavnytsky, Vadym Dobrolizh and others. The largest exposition is dedicated to the life and work of the famous ballet master and dancer Serzh Lyfar.

The "Museum of One Nation on Poshtova Square" in Kyiv is a public initiative to preserve and popularize the archaeological site of Ancient Kyiv - the remains of the medieval coastal quarter in the underground space of Poshtova Square.

According to historians, it was at this place, by order of Prince Volodymyr Svyatoslavych, that pagan idols were thrown into the Dnipro River, and it was here in 988 that the mass baptism of the people of Kyiv took place.

In the spring of 2015, during the construction of an underground shopping and entertainment center on Poshtova Square, a street from the time of Kyivan Rus (XI-XII centuries) was excavated. Found parts of wooden houses and workshops, remains of the customs house, old stockades, fragments of ceramic dishes, princely seals, weapons, jewelry, etc. Separately, a wooden fortification building of the 17th century was found - the remains of the Khreshchatyk gate tower.

The construction of the shopping center was stopped, and archaeological research and conservation of the monument began. In 2019, the archaeological site "Section of the Coastal City Quarter of Medieval Kyiv" received the status of a monument of national importance. Discussions about museification are still ongoing.

"Museum on Poshtova Square" was founded in 2019 as an open-air historical museum by members of the initiative group of the public movement, which came out in defense of the monument of archeology and history of national importance on Poshtova Square in June 2018 for the preservation and development of the monument. In February 2022, it was registered as the Public Organization "Museum of One Nation on Poshtova Square".

Activists of the public organization "Museum of One Nation on Poshtova Square" conduct regular tours of the underground space. Here you can see the remains of the medieval coastal quarter, visit the exhibition "Kyiv History of Bricks" and the photo exhibition "De-Occupied" by the famous photographer Victoria Skuratovska.

Pre-registration is required to get on the tour. The entrance to the location is opposite the funicular, to the left of the entrance to the Church of the Nativity of Christ.