Attractions of Kyiv region

The Natural History Museum "Porossya Pearls" in Tarashcha has been operating at the Center for Extracurricular Education "Veselka" since 2008. The museum was created on the initiative of the local historian Valeriy Romanyuk with the participation of the famous archaeologist Svitlana Bessonova.

The exposition presents archaeological materials collected on the outskirts of Tarashcha by activists of the Nevryda archaeological club.

In particular, you can see a considerable collection of bronze products of various functional purposes from the Scythian era, early Scythian ceramic dishes, fragments of molded ceramics from other eras.

Household items from the times of Kyivan Rus, household items from the Lithuanian and Polish era, Cossack weapons are also presented.

The Aviation Museum of the National Aviation University in Kyiv was opened in 1972. Its exposition is dedicated to the history and achievements of the educational institution, includes rare old prints, photographs, models of aviation equipment and much more.

There are 28 exhibition stands in a cozy hall with an area of 350 square meters.

The historical part of the exposition tells about the activities of the Kyiv Aviation Society, the work of the first Kyiv aircraft designers, record flights of Ihor Sikorsky, the opening of regular air traffic on the route Kharkiv - Kyiv, the creation of the first Soviet passenger plane K-1 and other events of socio-economic life in Kyiv to open a higher educational institution of aviation profile. The following stands cover the activities of the school in different periods.

The aviation training hangar of the museum houses aircraft of a wide range of design schemes, from different periods of development and operation. Here you can see airplanes, helicopters and gas turbine engines, which reflect the various stages of the development of domestic aviation.

The complex of buildings of the Nicholas Artillery College was built in Kyiv in 1915-1917 by the architect Dmytro Zaytsev, who used elements of the Romanesque-Gothic style in his project.

The school had time to prepare 5 graduations. In 1919, the Kyiv Artillery Courses were opened on its base, then the Kyiv Artillery School, the Kyiv Artillery College, and the Kyiv Higher Anti-Aircraft Missile Engineering College.

Until 2013, it was the main building of the National Defense University of Ukraine. Since 2013, it has housed the Higher Specialized Court of Ukraine for consideration of civil and criminal cases, and since 2017, the Civil Court of Cassation of the Supreme Court of Ukraine has been located there.

With the beginning of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the issue of returning the building of the former Nicholas Artillery School to the National University of Defense of Ukraine for the purpose of full-fledged training of officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be raised for general consideration.

The wooden church of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker in Bziv was built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries on the site of the older Nicholas church.

In July 2023, after a heavy downpour, the central dome of the Church of Saint Nicholas collapsed due to old age.

It belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The 43-meter obelisk "Kyiv Hero City" was installed in 1982 on Halytska Square (formerly Peremohy Square, Yevbaz), where two of the most beautiful highways of the capital of Ukraine diverge - Taras Shevchenko Boulevard and Beresteyskyi Avenue.

On September 15, 2023, the elements that were subject to the Law on Decommunization were removed from the obelisk - the Soviet stars on the sides of the high marble stele and the annotation board in Russian were removed, and the inscription "1941" was changed to "1939", the year when the Second World War began war.

The open observation deck of the "Oleksandrivskiy" residential complex is located on the roof of a 25-story high-rise building.

From a height of 100 meters, a large-scale panorama of the entire right-bank part of Kyiv opens.

The observation deck is equipped with chairs and binoculars. Visitors are provided with free Wi-Fi, coffee/tea, blankets.

The observation deck "Red Yard" was opened in one of the botanical gardens named after Hryshko - on the place where in the 11th century there was a country residence of the great prince of Kyiv Vsevolod, son of Yaroslav the Wise.

The Red Yard fortress was built in 1071, 25 years later it was burned down by the Polovtsy, but it was soon restored and still served the grandson of Vsevolod - Yuriy Dolhoruky.

The observation deck "Red Yard" is stylized as a fortress from the time of Ancient Rus: wooden gates, palisade, watchtower, wooden platforms and a path. From here there is a wonderful view of the Dnipro, the Potona Bridge, the left bank, the Vydubytskyi Monastery and the Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War.

Entrance through the territory of the botanical garden named after Hryshko.

The Obukhiv Museum of History and Local Lore is located in a modern library building in the city center. It bears the name of its founder - sculptor, artist and local historian Yuriy Domotenko.

Of the 11th halls, the most interesting is the archaeological one, where the sights of the archaeological cultures researched by the archaeologist Vikentiy Khvoyka are exhibited - Trypillya, Pidhirtsi, Zarubyntsi, and Chernyakhiv.

The exposition of the hall of the Cossacks is interesting, because all Ukrainian hetmans visited the territory of the present Obukhiv region. The diorama "Obukhiv fair of the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century" with an area of 30 square meters is impressive. Also interesting is the diorama "Trypillya in 1919", which reproduces an episode of the struggle of peasant units against Bolshevik aggression.

The hall of the Second World War has the largest area. There is a diorama that recreates the defense of the Trypillya bridgehead in 1941. The epic of forcing the Dnipro in the fall of 1943 is widely presented.

In 2024, the Memorial Hall of fallen heroes who gave their lives for Ukraine in the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war was opened.

A monument to the poet Andriy Malyshko was erected in front of the museum.

The Obukhiv People's Art Center opened in 2019 in the premises of a former department store in the center of Obukhiv on the initiative of the city's creative community. Its main purpose is the collection and preservation of household antiquities, research and popularization of local traditional clothing.

The basis of the exposition was antiquities from the private collections of famous Obukhiv masters Halyna Kucher, Mykola Mayko, local historians Nataliya Lyubychenko, Olena Artyushenko and other local residents. 40 types of embroidered shirts, more than 200 towels, icons, household items and much more are presented.

Exhibitions, concerts, and excursions are held on the basis of the Obukhiv People's Art Center.

The Museum of Occupation of Kyiv was founded in 2008 and is located on the territory of the Partisan Glory Park of Culture and Recreation. Covers the most dramatic periods of the city's life - from the beginning of the Ukrainian Revolution in 1917 to the restoration of Ukraine's independence in 1991, when the country was under occupation by various states. The exposition reveals the themes of ideologies of different occupation regimes, their policy of occupation terror against citizens, their purposeful destruction of the urban environment. Photographs and documents, personal belongings of the direct participants in the events, leaflets and newspapers of different periods of occupation, samples of weapons and military equipment of those times, maps and diagrams are presented.

Visitors are also invited to view the interactive VR-exhibition "Babyn Yar".

The Museum of the Occupation of Kyiv is a branch of the City History Museum.

The aquarium of the Ocean Plaza shopping mall in Kyiv is considered to be the largest in Ukraine.

The giant artificial reservoir with acrylic windows has a volume of 360 thousand liters. All the main galleries of the shopping complex have access to the 16-meter panorama of the aquarium.

Visitors can watch sharks, stingrays, moray eels, groupers, starfish and other inhabitants of the underwater world free of charge.

Kyiv Oceanarium "Sea Tale" (Morska kazka) in Darnytsia opened in 2012 in the shopping center "Children's World".

In the first gallery in the form of a sunken wooden ship there is an exposition of the coral complex. An underwater tunnel at a depth of 2 m leads to the second hall - all underwater life takes place in front of visitors. In the next hall you can see corals of acropolis, jellyfish, flocks of chrysipters, fish-surgeons, as well as an aquarium with more than 20 species of clownfish. The next gallery is home to fish-thinkers, several species of dangerous moray eels, seahorses, and a green sea turtle.

One of the pearls of the aquarium is the outdoor pool with starfish and stingrays, which can be touched by hand.

The Office of the President of Ukraine is the main government institution of the country.

The austere building in the style of classicism was built for the headquarters of the Kyiv Special Military District on the basis of two buildings of the 19th century. After the war, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine was located here.

Since 1991, the building has served as the residence of the President of Ukraine. Until 2005, it was called the Administration of the President. During the reign of Viktor Yushchenko, the Administration was renamed the Secretariat, then returned its name. During the administration of Volodymyr Zelenskyi, the Administration was renamed again - to the Office of the President of Ukraine.

The name of Bankova Street, where the Office is located, has become synonymous with the center of supreme power. The street is open for free passage, but is closed during official events.

Excursions can be organized. Opposite is the famous "House with chimeras".

The museum of the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Film Studio invites you to get acquainted with the work of the legend of Ukrainian cinema - film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko.

On the territory of the film studio, the setting of the director's personal office is reproduced: a table under a green cloth, an old telephone, an openwork lamp. The exposition presents Dovzhenko's personal belongings, rare posters of his films, declassified documents from party archives.

Group and individual tours are available.

The branch of Oshchabank in Vorzel is located in a one-story brick building with a wooden veranda - the former dacha of the Russian nationalist and monarchist, anti-Semite and Ukrainophobe Vasyl Shulhin, which was built at the beginning of the 20th century.

In 1917, Shulhin was a member of the Temporary Committee of the State Duma, accepted the abdication of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II. He was one of the ideologues of the creation of the White Guard, one of the founders of the Volunteer Army, as well as the author of memoirs "Days", "1920", "Three capitals", "Letters to emigrants" and others.

The interior of Shulhin's house is partially preserved.