Attractions of Zhytomyr region

The Holy Transfiguration Tryhirya Male Orthodox Monastery was founded in 1583 by Prince Volodymyr Zhytomyrsky.

For the holy abode, the prince identified a secluded place in the middle of a thick forest on the highest bank of the Teteriv River. In the 18th century, the monastery passed to the Uniates, but in 1839 it was returned to the Orthodox Church.

The monastery is compact and cozy, consisting only of the laconic Church of the Transfiguration (1854-1873) and the cell building (1782). The main shrine is the icon of the Mother of God of Trihir.

The fence offers a spectacular view of the Teteriv canyon, filled with water from the reservoir, with high rocky banks covered with mixed forest.

Horodnytsia Saint George Monastery Monastery was founded in 1891 at the wooden Saint George's Church, built in 1744.

Initially, the monastery was for women. In 1903, a new stone Saint George's Church was built, and the old church was renamed in honor of Reverend Symeon Stovpnyk.

In 1923, the monastery was closed, the wooden temple was destroyed. Since 1945, the cathedral has operated as a parish cathedral. In 1979, he unofficially began the revival of the monastery, which consisted of men's and women's communities. In the late 1980s, an altar chapel of the same name was built on the site of Saint Symeon's church. In 1994, the monastery received stauropygia. In 1997, a warm temple was created in one of the buildings of the monastery in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Sooth my sorrows".

It belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The half-ruined cell building of the Jesuit monastery is the oldest architectural monument of Zhytomyr.

The monastery on Castle Hill was built in the 18th century by Jesuit monks, who were invited to the city by the castellan of Kyiv, Yan Kazymyr Stetskyi. Possible architects include Pavlo Hizhytskyi, Paolo Fontana, Domeniko Fontana.

A three-class school operated at the monastery. The Polish king Avhust II, by his privilege, transferred the adjacent lands under the jurisdiction of the monastery, excluding the Jesuit Jurisdiction, a kind of "city within a city", from the control of the city self-government.

The Jesuit church was destroyed by Russian hussars and Don Cossacks in 1769. From the entire monastery complex, only the ruins of the two-story cell building have survived to this day. Restoration is planned.

The museum of the English writer Joseph Conrad (Yuzef Kozhenovsky), a native of Berdychiv and a Pole by origin, was opened in 2015 in the complex of the Monastery of the Barefoot Carmelites.

The exhibition materials were shared by the Adam Mitskevych Museum of Literature (Warsaw), the Jagiellonian Library (Krakow), the Beineke Library (Yale University), the Central Maritime Museum (Gdansk), and the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich (England). Professor Zdzislav Nayder (Poland) also provided materials from his own archive.

The main exhibit is a fragment of the hull of the ship Otego, captained by Joseph Conrad. Interactive technologies are widely used in the exhibition.

The visit is free.

Khoroshiv People's History Museum was opened in 1988 in the town center.

Currently, the museum's collection includes more than 1.5 thousand exhibits. Including - tools of ancient people (stone hammers, axes, chisels, scrapers, etc.); wooden household items of Polishchuks (loom, spinning wheel, ruble, combs for combing flax, etc.); peaches, samovars; maps, land merchants, bills, paper and metal money; home-woven towels, shirts; military awards during the Second World War and more.

Noteworthy is the "Geometric Plan" (1906) on the sale by the landlady Trubetska to the peasant Gefka of three tenths of land in the village of Horoshky (old name Khoroshova).

The museum also has an exposition "Kutuzov and Horoshki", dedicated to the commander's stay on his estate in Horoshki.

The Kopyshche Village History Museum is part of the memorial complex of the Kopyshche Tragedy, located in the Memorial Park in the center of the village.

On July 13, 1943, with the help of partisan units, the Nazi invaders shot and burned 2,887 villagers alive, only a few survived. The central element of the museum exposition is the diorama "The Tragedy of Kopyshche".

The ethnographic section presents items of traditional life of Polishchuk, folk clothes, embroidered towels.

The modern exposition of the Korosten Museum of Local Lore was opened in 1987 in the premises of the former headquarters of the Korosten Fortress.

Here is a history of the region from ancient times based on the results of archaeological research conducted in the 1990s.

The most valuable exhibits are samples of minerals, weapons of the XIII-XIX centuries, tools of Polishchuks, objects of folk decorative and applied art.

A special place in the exhibition is occupied by the canvas-diorama "Princess Olha near the walls of ancient Iskorosten" (artist Oleksandr Turansky, 1982), which recreates the picture of the arrival of the widowed princess of Kyiv to the walls of the rebellious city.

The room-museum of the history of the Korosten porcelain factory has been operating in the city's cultural center since 2012.

Here is a part of the exposition, which was previously located in the lobby of the main building of the enterprise, which is now closed.

Local residents also helped in creating the exposition. Today, the number of unique items in the museum room is about 500 items.

For many years, the enterprise "Korosten Porcelain Factory" was one of the largest manufacturers of porcelain tableware in Ukraine.

The Korosten Porcelain Factory was founded in 1904 by the Polish entrepreneur Tymofiy Przhybylskyi. During the Second World War, the plant was destroyed, it was put into operation again in 1944.

In Soviet times, the company specialized in the production of porcelain products for cultural and household purposes: dining, tea, and coffee sets, headsets of various configurations, custom-made souvenirs.

The exhibition of the best samples of the plant's products could still be seen in the lobby of the main building. The company is currently closed. Part of the exposition is presented at the porcelain exhibition in the Korosten House of Culture.

The Korostyshiv People's Historical Museum was founded in 1965. The museum is located in the Korostyshiv House of Culture.

Its funds include more than 6,000 storage items. The exposition in three halls tells about the history of the region from ancient times to the present, about the foundation and development of Korostyshiv, about the prominent residents of the city. In particular, the finds of Trypil culture and Ancient Rus from archaeological excavations in the village of Horodske, household items and clothing of local residents of the 19th - early 20th centuries, personal belongings of Zhytomyr partisans from the Second World War are presented.

A separate section is devoted to the Holodomor of 1932-1933.

The pearl of the artistic part of the exposition is a selection of paintings by the People's Artist of Ukraine, the outstanding landscape painter Mykola Maksymenko, originally from Zhytomyr region.

The house-museum of the Kosach-Drahomanov family was opened in Zviahel in 1999 in the reconstructed house of the Zavadsky family, in which Lesya Ukrayinka's literary family lived for 6 years.

The exhibition is based on the lifetime editions of Olena Pchilka (Lesya Ukrayinka's mother), Mykhaylo Drahomanov (Lesya Ukrayinka's uncle), and Lesya Ukrayinka herself.

A music school is also located in the premises.

The Literary and Memorial Museum of Lesya Ukrayinka in Zviahel was created in the small house where the future poetess was born in 1871.

In 1870, the simple one-story house of the burgher Okruzhko was rented by the Kosach family: the head of the assembly of justices of the peace Petro Kosach and his wife Olha, who is known under the literary pseudonym Olena Pchilka. Little Larysa spent the first two years of her life here, after which the family moved.

In the surviving interiors of Lesya Ukrayinka's parents' house, the furnishings of the children's room and her father's office have been restored, in other rooms there are relics of the Kosach family, including Lesya Ukrayinka's personal belongings.

A transitional gallery leads to the neighboring building (former farm), where a literary and memorial exposition is displayed.

There is a bust of Lesya Ukrayinka in the yard.

Since 2023, Lesya Ukrayinka Literary Memorial Museum has been a communal institution of the Zviahel community. It has a branch - the Museum of the Kosach-Drahomanov family.

The Museum of the Locomotive Depot of the Korosten Station tells about the history of the development of railway transport and the construction of the Kyiv-Kovel Railway.

Construction of the Korosten station began in 1902. Today, this complex railway junction is one of the most important in the country.

The collection of rarities for the Locomotive Depot Museum was collected by enthusiasts from among its employees.

The continuation of the exposition can be considered a complex of production facilities.

The Luhyny People's Museum of Local Lore was opened in 1980 on the initiative of local teacher Zoya Sulska.

The museum is located next to the House of culture and has 8 exhibition halls. The exposition tells about the ancient history of the region, about the foundation and development of the town of Luhyny, about the traditional life of local residents, as well as about the nature of Polissya.

In particular, stone tools, axes and a sword from the times of Ancient Rus, household items of Polishuks from the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century, embroidered towels, women's and men's clothing, and carpets are presented.

A table with hollow bowls attracts special attention.

The Lutheran Church in Zhytomyr was built in 1896 near the complex of the Zhytomyr Male Gymnasium.

The land for the construction of the Lutheran church was allocated for the Lutheran community of Zhytomyr by the widow of the German colonist Vilhelm Knaak. The project of the church in the style of modernized Gothic was developed by the architect Arnold Yensh.

The building is made of red brick. The architect managed to achieve excellent plasticity and harmony of architectural forms.

Daniyil Rikhter, the grandfather of the famous pianist Svyatoslav Rikhter, who was born in Zhytomyr in 1915 and lived in a small house next to the church, played the organ in the kirsha.

In Soviet times, a gym was placed in the building.

Since 1996, the church belongs to the "Christmas" Independent Church of Evangelical Baptist Christians. Restoration was carried out, Sunday school was opened. The organ has not yet been restored - it is being replaced by a mock-up.