Attractions of Zhytomyr region

The monument of Eternal Glory in honor of the soldiers who liberated Zhytomyr was installed on one of the highest points of the city and is visible from afar.

The monument is a tall massive cylindrical column carved from Zhytomyr labradorite, on which a sculptural composition is installed - a soldier of the Soviet Army, a partisan and a patriot woman. A flag flies above them. The sculptural composition is cast from bronze. The names of the units of the Soviet Army, partisan units and units, underground organizations, names of military commanders, partisan commanders, leaders of the party underground are carved on the granite pedestal. The Eternal Flame burns near the monument.

From the foot of the monument there is a wonderful view of the city, its surrounding forests, the dam that forms the Zhytomyr Reservoir.

The two-story baroque mansion on the southern outskirts of Zhytomyr belonged to Zhytomyr notary, lawyer Ivan Filipov.

Originally, the house, built in 1886, was wooden. Filipov reconstructed it in 1903, turning it into a luxurious mansion.

Currently, the building houses 3 state organizations: the Department of Justice, the Department of Culture, and the Palace of Happiness.

Filipov's mansion is an architectural monument of local importance, one of the little-known architectural gems of Zhytomyr.

The Museum of Fire Protection in Zhytomyr is located in the premises of the fire tower, which was built in 1894.

The fire tower is still in operation and is an architectural monument of local importance.

The history of the formation of the fire extinguishing system and fire equipment is presented in the museum, and a movie about the causes of fires is shown on a movie projector.

The Franciscan church and monastery in Chudniv was founded in the 17th century by Prince Sangushko, the stone temple was built in 1760 by the vicar bishop of Horchynskyi.

In 1787, the last Polish king, Stanislav Avhust Ponyatovsky, visited the church on his way to Kaniv to meet the Russian empress Catherine II.

In 1832, the monastery was liquidated, and during Soviet times, the church was also badly damaged.

Now the church belongs to the Catholic parish of the Finding of the Holy Cross, restoration is underway.

A large flooded granite quarry is located in the village of Nova Rudnia, near Tryhirya.

Picturesque shores overgrown with pine forest are surrounded by steep granite rocks.

The place is little known and sparsely populated, so far it is clean.

The manor of the family of the famous traveler and ethnographer Mykola Myklukho-Maklay is located in the Hamarnya tract on the western outskirts of Malyn.

Myklukho-Maklay's mother bought the Hamarnya manor at the beginning of the 19th century from the Shcherbakov princes, the scientist himself visited it several times.

Since 1931, the Malyn Forestry Technical College has been located near the estate. Of particular value is the park, which has many rare trees 500-600 years old. A house with Neo-Gothic elements, built by Myklukho-Maklay, has been preserved - now it is part of one of the college buildings.

In 1986, a small museum exposition dedicated to the scientific activity of the researcher was opened in it. In 2015, the Myklukho-Maklay Museum was opened. A bust of the scientist and a commemorative plaque were installed.

The Empire-style palace with antique motifs in the decor was built in Verkhivnia in 1800, according to the project of the Italian architect Blerio, by Count Vatslav Hansky, who inherited the Verkhivnia  estate from his father Yan Hansky.

The manor with a palace and outbuildings, a large landscaped park and a church-burial church was presented by the count to his young wife Evelina from the Rzhevusky family, who was considered one of the first beauties of Poland. From here, Evelina began a secret correspondence with Honore de Balzac, signing under the pseudonym "Foreigner". Soon their first meeting took place in Switzerland, but only 15 years later, when Evelina's husband died, the writer was able to come to Verkhivnia.

In Balzac's study, which has survived, on the second floor of the palace, there is a table at which he wrote "Deputy of Arcy", "Petite Bourgeois", "Theatre as it is" and the drama "The Stepmother". The interior of Balzac's bedroom has not been preserved - there are exhibited portraits of the novelist made by his contemporaries. These rooms house the Literary and Memorial Museum of Honore de Balzac.

Other premises of the palace are occupied by the Agricultural College, restoration is underway.

SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler's camp "Hegewald" (Hegewald - protected forest) was built in 1941 in the village of Huiva near the military airfield "Skomorokhy".

The construction was carried out by Soviet prisoners of war under the supervision of the SS. The headquarters of the military leadership was located in a two-story building that was the House of Culture before the war. In case of bombings, a light ground reinforced concrete bunker was built, the walls of which were 3 meters thick.

In 1942. In "Hegewald" there was a meeting of the highest ranks of the police and the commanders of the SS units, at which Himmler read the famous "Ost" plan, which provided for the colonization of the occupied eastern territories.

Unlike Hitler's and Goering's bunkers, which were located nearby, Himmler's bunker was not blown up when the German troops retreated.

Currently, the building with the adjacent plot of land is in private ownership. The entrances are closed by armored doors with a thickness of 5 centimeters. German fire hydrants in operation have also been preserved.

Ribbentrop's bunker is located nearby, on the opposite side of the Zhytomyr - Vinnytsia highway, on the closed territory of the military unit.

The building of a water mill on the Myka River on the southern outskirts of Radomyshl was built at the end of the 19th century (according to other sources in 1904) on the foundations of a paper factory founded in 1606 by Archimandrite Yelysey Pletenetsky to provide paper for the printing house of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.

The factory was destroyed during the Cossack uprisings. Built on the ruins of a neo-Gothic mill building, it looks like a medieval castle. The building has three wings from 3 to 5 floors, connected by an 8-story tower in the center. A spiral staircase with 158 steps leads to the bell tower.

The mill functioned until the 1960s, then it was abandoned for a long time. In 2011, on the initiative of the Bohomolets-Sheremetyevy family, the historical and cultural complex "Radomysl Castle" was opened in the restored building.

In authentic interiors of the 17th-19th centuries, an exposition of the "Museum of Ukrainian Home Icon" and antiques is exhibited. 5,000 icons of the 17th-21st centuries from all regions of Ukraine from the private collection of Olha Bohomolets are presented, including the works of folk artists who most often gave the images vivid human features and emotions. The pearl of the collection is the icon of Nicholas the Wonderworker carved on stone.

Also in the museum you can see unique old photographs, a collection of old cards in the Dining Hall, a collection of old irons and household utensils, old wooden sculptures, antique chandeliers, paintings and furniture.

In addition, the manual paper-making process has been restored at "Radomysl Castle". The paper factory (paper mill) has all the equipment used by monks in the 17th century, as well as a printing press for applying text to finished sheets. Those who wish can attend a master class and make a sheet of paper with their own hands.

The castle has a 150-seat concert hall, a grand ceremonial hall for celebrations, an ancient refectory with a large castle oven and a 60-liter cauldron on an open fire.

There is a landscape park next to the castle.

The synagogue in Pavoloch was built in 1772, when there was a large Jewish community in the village.

In 1993, the historical and local lore museum of the village of Pavoloch was opened in the premises of the former synagogue.

The exposition of the museum is placed on two floors in 14 halls. There are equipped halls for meetings or conferences.

The Historical Museum named after Ivan Ohiyenko in Brusyliv was founded in 1960 on public grounds in several rooms of the current office building of the "Renaissance" newspaper.

The organizer and first director of the museum was Yakiv Halaychuk. In the mid-1980s, the museum received a separate building, which it occupies to this day.

In 2009, the public museum became a department of the Zhytomyr Regional Museum of Local History and was named after a native of Brusyliv, Ivan Ohiyenko (Metropolitan Hilarion) - an outstanding scholar-historian, linguist and literary critic, poet and prose writer, editor and publisher, political scientist and theorist of canon law, public-political and church figure, translator of the Bible into the Ukrainian language. On August 21, 2010, in front of the museum, the first monument in Ukraine to Ivan Ohiyenko by the sculptor Anatoliy Burdeyny was opened.

The museum exposition is housed in two halls. One of them reflects the main stages of Ivan Ohiyenko's life and social activities. The exposition presents numerous works of Metropolitan Hilarion on the history of Ukraine, the history of the Ukrainian church, and the history of the Ukrainian language, which were published in Canada in the 1950s-1970s; a copy of the 1962 London edition of the Bible translated by Metropolitan Hilarion with a gift inscription to his daughter Lesia; photographs by Ivan Ohiyenko; family closet - dowry of Ivan Ohiyenko's wife; the interior of a Ukrainian house in the Kyiv province of the beginning of the 20th century, which helps to recreate the environment in which Ohiyenko himself lived.

The second hall presents materials that tell about the history of the Brusyliv region and the town of Brusyliv. The exposition presents a collection of solid coins (first half of the 16th century), which were found on the territory of the region; copy of "Gospel" from 1753, tools and products of Brusyliv craftsmen, household items; agricultural implements, traditional Ukrainian men's and women's clothing; photos, documents, books of famous people of Brusyliv region.

The Church of the Holy Body and Blood of Jesus Christ in Ruzhyn was built by Count Kalynovsky in 1815.

According to legend, the church is connected by an underground passage to the landowner's estate.

During the Soviet rule, the shrine was closed, the dome was demolished, and the building was converted into a car repair shop.

In 2000-2008, restoration was carried out at the expense of the Zhebrivskyi family. Currently, the Church of the Holy Body and Blood of Jesus Christ is functioning and is under the guardianship of the Pauline Fathers.

The Holy Dormition Bishop's Cathedral is located in one of the oldest historical districts of Zhytomyr - in Podil, which is why it is also called the Podilska Church.

The church is an architectural monument of local importance.

It belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The tall and slender Holy Exaltation of the Cross Cathedral is located in the historical heart of Zhytomyr on Castle Hill.

The Byzantine-style church was built in 1900 on the site of the wooden Trinity Church, which had existed since the 17th century.

In the 1930s, the temple was closed by the Soviet authorities, later transferred to the regional museum of local history. In 1987, it housed the exposition of the Museum of Nature, the geological collection of which was founded by Volyn Governor Mykhaylo Chertkov back in the 19th century.

After long discussions regarding the return of the Cathedral of the Exaltation of the Cross to Orthodox believers, in 2011 it was handed over to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate and consecrated in 2014.

The wooden Church of the Holy Intercession is located in the center of the village of Zarubyntsi, it is an architectural monument of local importance.

It was built in the second half of the 19th century on the site of an older temple mentioned in 1746.

The temple underwent several reconstructions, but preserved its original forms.