Attractions of Kyiv region

"Vysotsky" Gallery is the first museum of the poet, singer and actor Volodymyr Vysotskyi in Ukraine.

It is located on Vozdvyzhenka in Kyiv, next to Andriyivskyi Uzviz. Valuable exhibits, as well as unique memories of Vysotsky's contemporaries are collected here. In particular, rare photos of Arkadiy Hershman's work, books with poems by and about Vysotsky, discs with films in which Vysotsky starred are presented.

There is a cafe "Tahanka", where recordings of Vysotsky's songs are constantly played. In memory, you can buy souvenir products - t-shirts, mugs, etc.

WARNING! Since the beginning of 2020 due to quarantine, and since 2022 due to martial law, the museum exposition has been temporarily closed.

The Vytachiv Museum of Local Lore was opened in 2008. It is located in the premises of the Vytachiv village club.

A small ethnographic collection and works of local masters of folk art are presented.

The large complex of water mill buildings in the village Horodyshche-Pustovarivske is a unique monument of industrial architecture.

It was built in the second half of the 19th century by the landowner Ivan Pidhorsky, who owned the Horodyshche-Pustovarivske sugar factory.

The complex consists of two buildings separated by a dam across the Ros River. On the right bank there is a three-story building, which is now partially destroyed (part of it is equipped for a residential building). On the left bank, there is a large four-story building preserved in good condition.

It is still used for its intended purpose - it is a functioning mill (although it is now electric) with working equipment from a century ago.

The picturesque picture is complemented by ledges of granite on the banks of the river and a metal suspension bridge.

The water mill on the Ros River in Bila Tserkva is currently not working. A complex of mill buildings and dams blocking the river has been preserved.

The mill offers a picturesque view of the Ros River and the Church of Saint Mary Magdalene.

The Water Information Center "Water Museum" was organized in 2003 in the premises of ancient water towers and reservoirs on a hill in the City Garden (formerly the Tsar's Garden) in Kyiv.

The exposition of the Water Museum acquaints visitors with the nature of the water cycle, water intake technology, water supply and sewerage. You can take a trip along the sewer to the treatment facilities of the Bortnychy aeration station, observe the melting of glaciers, the formation of rain and the eruption of the geyser.

For children there is an opportunity to change the course of the river, play with soap bubbles, check the power on the water pump, as well as touch live fish.

The writer's building of the "Worker of Literature" cooperative (Rolit) at the intersection of Bohdana Khmelnytskoho Street and Mykhaylo Kotsyubynskoho Street is the "most memorable" building in Kyiv. 29 memorial plaques have been installed on its facade - a kind of record.

The building in the style of constructivism and classicism, designed by Vasyl Krychevskyi, was built in 1934 by the housing cooperative of the Union of Writers. At different times, about 130 writers and other artists lived here, including Oles Honchar, Pavlo Tychyna, Maksym Rylskyi, Volodymyr Sosyura, Mykola Bazhan, Oleksandr Korniychuk, Andriy Malyshko, Ostap Vyshnya and others. Oles Honchar's "Cathedral" was created here and Andriy Malyshko's "Song about a Towel" was written.

The writer's house is also mentioned in several literary works and memoirs of writers.

In 1970, the Rolit building was declared a historical monument.

The Yahotyn Historical Museum is located in a complex of ancient buildings of the industrial town of the distillery (19th century) in the very city center.

In 14 rooms, there are collections of archaeological finds belonging to the most ancient times of the Neolithic era, Trypillya culture, Slavic times, the period of Kyivan Rus, the Cossack era, as well as household items, household tools, jewelry of the XVII-XVIII centuries, products of applied art of the XIX - the beginning of the 20th century.

The collection includes 5,000 exhibits.

The two-story building, in which the Zemstvo administration of Pereyaslav was located, stands out with features of late classicism. Now it houses school No. 2.

Opposite is the elegant, skillfully decorated building of the former women's gymnasium (now also the building of school No. 2), which is compositionally connected with the building of the Zemstvo administration into a single architectural whole.

The Zhukivtsi History and Local Lore Museum bears the name of its founder, teacher and local historian Petro Topchiy. It was on his initiative that the original two-story museum building was erected in Zhukivtsi in 1984.

Today, the exposition in four halls includes more than 8,000 exhibits covering the entire historical heritage of the village. In particular, the materials of Trypillia and Chernyakhiv cultures, as well as a large ethnographic collection, are presented.

Near the museum building, in 1990, the Shevchenko`s Milestone was erected in memory of Taras Shevchenko's stay in Zhukivtsi on the way from Bohuslav to Trypillia in 1845. A T-74 tractor was installed in the yard in honor of the farmers work.

The Zhukivtsi History and Local Lore Museum named after Petro Topchiy is a branch of the Obukhiv Local Lore Museum.

A monument of garden and park art, the Zhurivsky Arboretum was created in the 19th century by Kyiv vice-governor Arkadiy Kochubey for his wife Sofiya Vyazemska.

The manor had a 40-room palace with a hall of mirrors and a library. A picturesque avenue led from the palace to the pond. 382 species of trees and shrubs grew in the park. In particular, cedar, larch, oak, and Manchurian walnut were imported from East and South Asia.

Currently, 150 species of trees remain, including larch, thuja, suga, rubber tree. A 400-year-old giant oak and an age-old black pine in the form of a lyre, as well as a trident pine, have been preserved. Of the manor buildings, only the kennel building has survived.

Archangel Michael Zvirynets cave monastery is an ancient Rus underground abode founded in the 10th-11th centuries on the territory of Zvirynets - the country hunting grounds of Prince Vsevolod of Kyiv.

The monastery was destroyed by the Polovtsy in 1096-1097. The caves were opened in 1888 by the Ukrainian artist Dmytro Zaychenko.

The internal arrangement of the complex is similar to the caves of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra. A small cell was discovered near the entrance to the caves, to the left of it - a straight underground corridor with 40 burial niches. A cave church was also discovered. In the caves, cypress boards from tombs, slate slabs and plinths, remains of felt and leather shoes, ceramics and other things were found. Old Rus drawings and inscriptions have been preserved on the walls, including the famous Zvirynets Cross, which became the most popular Orthodox symbol of the Moscow Patriarchate in Kyiv.

At the end of the 19th century, the monastery was partially restored as a hermitage of the Saint Jonas Monastery with the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin. Today it is an independent Archangel Michael monastery in Zvirynets.