Attractions of Pryluky district

The Savior and Transfiguration Church in Ichnia is located on the bank of a picturesque pond, where a wooden church stood as early as the 18th century.

In 1804, it burned down, and 7 years later, at the expense of the parishioners, a new stone Transfiguration Church with a bell tower and two domes was built in its place.

The wooden iconostasis was created in 1830, the icons are made in the style of Greek painting. The main shrine is a copy of the icon of the Rusty Mother of God.

The Transfiguration Church in Ichnia successfully survived the Soviet period and now belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

A residential building in the Art Nouveau style with Neo-Gothic elements, stylized as a romantic castle, was built in Pryluky by the state councilor Volodymyr Shkuratov - an educator, a descendant of the ancient Cossack family of the time of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi.

The planning of the building is free, asymmetrical. Volumes of different heights create a contrasting composition, the center of which is a faceted tower. The central element of the interior layout is the staircase, around which the rooms are arranged.

In Soviet times, the building housed school No. 4. Currently, the Shkuratov building is in a state of disrepair. Restoration is planned.

The museum complex of Mykola Cherep's private agro-tourism complex "Sokolyny Khutir" in Petrushivka consists of several museums: historical and ethnographic, the Museum of the History of Liberation Struggles in Chernihiv region, the open-air Museum "Time Machine", the Taras Shevchenko Art Gallery and the Mint Museum.

The historical and ethnographic museum of the estate "Sokolyny khutir" is dedicated to the history of this region from the times of Trypil culture to the Second World War. Cossack weapons, a loom of the 18th century, Ukrainian embroidery and other items of everyday life and cultural heritage of the Ukrainian people are presented.

A special place in the exhibition is devoted to the Cossack period of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, as well as Hetman Ivan Mazepa, who once owned the farm.

For entertainment, there are stables, a forge, a mini-zoo, a Cossack shooting range, summer and winter hams, a Cossack bathhouse, an aqua zone with boats and catamarans. Theatrical Cossack performances are held.

The Stretenia Cathedral of the Hustynia monastery on Galaganivska Street is a notable architectural building of old Pryluky.

It was built in 1889 in honor of the fallen Russian Emperor Oleksandr II. Most of the funds for the construction were donated by the then mayor Ivan Dedin.

A rare for Ukrainian architecture, a three-nave basilica-like building with three domes (only one - the central one - has survived to our time), made of rare red brick and painted with brown paint.

From 1929 until recently, the temple housed a local history museum. Currently, the exposition has been dismantled, and work is underway to restore the temple.

The sugar factory in Parafiivka was founded in 1846 by landowner Hryhoriy Tarnovsky, who lived in the family estate in nearby Kachanivka.

In 1852, the enterprise came into operation and already in the first season of operation produced granulated sugar, molasses and pulp worth about 500,000 roubles. In the second half of the 19th century, the plant was one of the most powerful sugar processing enterprises in the Chernihiv province, which used advanced technologies at that time - steam engines.

In 1897, the Tarnovsky estate in Kachanivka together with the Parafiivka sugar factory was bought for a million rubles by the "sugar king" Pavlo Kharytonenko. In 1903-1904, the plant was completely reconstructed and expanded: new office premises, a factory village for workers were built, electric traction was installed, equipment was improved and partially replaced. In 1898, a brick factory was built specifically for the reconstruction of the factory, which is still in operation. In honor of Kharytonenko's eldest daughter, the plant was named Olenivskyi.

In March 1919, Kharytonenko's farm together with the Parafiivka sugar factory was nationalized by the Soviet authorities.

The plant in Parafiivka remained one of the leading enterprises of the Ichnyan district until recently, but since 2011 it has stopped its work.

In 2020, the new owners completely demolished the Parafiivka sugar factory - an industrial monument of the 19th century.

The ancient five-bathroom Transfiguration Cathedral is the main architectural landmark of Pryluky.

It was built at the beginning of the 18th century at the expense of Colonel Hnat Galagan. It was located on the territory of the Pryluky fortress, on the site of the burnt wooden Savior's Church of the middle of the 17th century.

The stone temple was built by folk craftsmen in the restrained forms of the late baroque, characteristic of Cossack temples. Reconstruction was carried out in 1834.

Inside the cathedral, its founder, Colonel Galagan, is buried in a deep crypt. The main shrine is the icon of the Sorrowful Mother of God.

Nearby is the massive two-story church-bell tower of Saint Nicholas. A monument to Saint Yoasaf of Belhorod, who was born in Pryluky, was erected between them.

Trostianets Arboretum is one of the most beautiful landscape parks of Ukraine. It was created in the 19th century by a representative of the ancient Hetman family, Ivan Skoropadskyi (grandson of Hetman Ivan Skoropadskyi, grandfather of Hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyi).

The Trostianets Park project was developed by gardener Karl Schlinhlof. Artificial mountains (up to 30 meters high) reminiscent of the Alps were piled on a flat piece of land. The pits formed during the removal of soil for the mountains have been turned into ponds. At first, trees of local species were planted: pine, spruce, birch, oak. Then exotic species were planted in the artificially created landscape: Weymouth pine, Siberian spruce, Siberian cedar, black pine, hemlock, juniper and others. In total - 623 species.

Work continued until Skoropadsky's death in 1887. He is buried in the grounds of the park, the words are carved on the monument: "Any passer-by! The garden in which you walk was planted by me; it served me as a comfort in my life. If you see a disorder that leads to its destruction, then say about this to the master of the garden: you will do a good deed."

Currently, the Trostianets Arboretum is subordinate to the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and tours are held.

Two outbuildings have been preserved from the complex of manor buildings, which are currently being restored to create a museum and a hotel.

The Varva Historical and Local Lore Museum was founded in 1990.

Today, the museum has more than 1,000 exhibits. The exposition in seven halls tells about the history of the village from the first chronicle mention of Varva in 1079 to the present.

Materials about the outstanding Ukrainian Slavik philologist, historian, folklorist Osyp Bodyansky, who was born in Varva and was well acquainted with Taras Shevchenko, are exhibited.

The exposition "Not to be Forgotten", dedicated to the Holodomor of 1932-1933, continues to be replenished with eyewitness accounts.

The museum regularly holds exhibitions of works by folk craftsmen of the Varva region.

The original one-story building of the Zemska school was built in Varva in 1915 (according to other sources, in 1913) according to the project of the architect Opanas Slastion, who at the beginning of the 20th century designed a number of schools for the Lokhvytsya zemstvo, which then included the modern Varva region.

All of them were made using reinterpreted forms of Ukrainian folk architecture. The artist and ethnographer Opanas Slastion used the architectural details of a number of classic examples of Ukrainian architecture: trapezoidal window openings, box arches, multi-slope tent coverings with ledges in the form of pyramids, central turrets.

The Varva school has an uncharacteristic portico with a triangular pediment on four columns - the result of later reconstruction and expansion.

The building is still used for its intended purpose - Varva Lyceum No. 1 is located here. It is an architectural monument of local importance.