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 mill in the village of Syniava in the Kyiv region was built in the middle of the 19th century, when the village was owned by Count Oleksandr Branytskyi. At the same time, a sugar factory was built in the village. In 1904, the mill was rebuilt, significantly increasing in size.

The four-story brick building of the mill is located next to the dam near the threshold on the Ros River. An architectural monument of local importance.

In 2015, the Stary Mlyn hotel and restaurant complex opened in the reconstructed building.

The water mill was built in Shamraivka in the 19th century. In 1907, the three-story building of the mill was reconstructed, and an oil mill was completed.

The complex still works as intended, the original equipment has been preserved.

The massive stone water mill in the village of Pivni was built on the right bank of the Unava River in 1909. Located on the outskirts of the village near the central road.

From a distance, the mill building resembles a small castle. Despite some damage, the mill still works, but no longer as a water mill.

The water mill on the Berezanka River in Antoniv was built by Polish magnates Pidhirski, who owned the village since the end of the 18th century.

The mill is still used for its intended purpose. The object is in satisfactory condition.

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 pedestrian bridge from Natalka Park to Obolonskyi Island in Kyiv is also known as the "Wave Bridge" due to the characteristic shape of the supports, which resembles five waves. According to the idea of ​​the architect Andriy Myrhorodskyi, the waves symbolize the dynamics and movement of the Dnipro River - the main water artery of the capital.

The wave bridge was built between 2021 and 2024 at the expense of patrons, including the Metropolis of Greater Paris and the government of Taiwan. About 300 tons of metal for the bridge were manufactured at the Azovstal plant on the eve of a full-scale Russian invasion.

The length of the bridge is 176 meters, the width of the new bridge is 3.5 meters. It is designed taking into account accessibility for the movement of people with limited mobility and does not interfere with the passage of small vessels to Obolon Bay.

Together with the construction of the bridge, the recreation area "Obolonskyi Island" was arranged. Pedestrian and bicycle paths were laid here, benches were installed, children's playgrounds were arranged, and public toilets were opened. New trees and bushes were planted on the island, including decorative apple trees, pink acacia and lilac.

The island has an equipped beach with changing rooms, coffee and ice cream outlets.

The House of Creativity of the Union of Writers of Ukraine in Irpen is located on the territory of the former house of the head of the Kyiv merchant assembly, yeast manufacturer Mykola Chokolov, after whom the Kyiv district of Chokolivka was named.

The build, built at the beginning of the 20th century in the neo-modern style, resembles a fairy-tale house.

In 1936, on the initiative of the poet Ivan Honcharenko, the "Irpin" House of Creativity of the Writers' Union of Ukraine was opened on the territory of Chokolov's house. Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Pavlo Tychyna, Mykhaylo Stelmakh, Mykola Bazhan, Ostap Vyshnia, Oles Honchar, Maksym Rylsky and others worked and rested here.

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 building of the former Zemsky school of the late 19th and early 20th centuries is located in the central part of the village of Hostroluchchia, next to the ruins of the Holy Trinity Church.

Today, a village secondary school is located in the premises of the former Zemsky school.

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.