Attractions of Kodnia

The monument to the memory of the participants of "Koliyivshchyna", executed in Kodnia, is erected at the exit from the village in the direction of Andrushivka.

In 1768, a mass punishment of captured Ukrainian rebels who fought against Polish rule during the Cossack-peasant uprising led by Maksym Zaliznyak and Ivan Gonta took place at this place. Russian troops suppressed the uprising together with the Poles. About 300 people were executed in Kodnia. Under the leadership of the Polish military commander Yuzef-Habriel Stempkovskyi, the rebels were beheaded, impaled, quartered.

To mark the 200th anniversary of the tragedy, a memorial monument to the participants of the "Koliyivshchyna" was erected on the Cossack mound-grave, surrounded by a dense ring of trees.

On the track, the turn is marked with the sign "Cossack grave".

The Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin was built in Kodna in 1841 at the expense of the then owner of the village, Mykhaylo Korzhenevskyi, on the site of a burnt wooden church.

The temple is made in the style of classicism. On the walls of the facade of the church there is a massive portal with four columns, and the upper part is decorated with a round dome of slightly flattened shape. Due to its four large columns and rectangular shapes, the church resembles the traditional temples of Ancient Greece and Rome, but it is still closer to the temples of the latter, because it has a Tuscan architectural order.

The three-tier bell tower was built at the expense of the parishioners in 1865. Decorative paintings from the beginning of the 20th century have been preserved in the interior of the church.

Together with the bell tower, the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin has the status of an architectural monument of national importance.

The People's Museum of the Kodnia Village History was founded in 1976 and is located in the local House of Culture.

In the museum, you can learn about the history of the village of Kodnia from ancient times, get acquainted with archaeological finds, Cossack artifacts, and archival documents.

The main exhibition is devoted to the events of the "Koliivshchyna" uprising in Haydamac. As you know, after the defeat of the rebel units led by Maksym Zaliznyak and Ivan Honta by Polish and Russian troops, more than 200 Zaporozhians and Haydamaks were executed by the decision of the Polish court in Kodnia.

The exposition presents copies of documents related to the Haydamak movement in Ukraine, maps, samples of Cossack weapons, ancient tools of peasant work and life, materials about the history of Kodnia.