Attractions of Zhytomyr region

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 stone Holy Ascension Church in Andrushky was built in 1850-1859. Currently, it is being restored, in particular with patronage funds of the sugar factory.

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 lore. 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 Holy Intercession Church underwent several reconstructions, but preserved its original forms.

The Holy Spirit Men's Monastery was created near the village of Horodske after Archbishop Izyaslav of Zhytomyr and Ovruch got into a car accident here in 2000.

A wooden church, a refectory, cells and utility rooms were built on the shore of the lake in a pine grove. The monastery preserves the relics of Saints Panteleimon the Healer, Nina, and Varvara.

The "Ukrainian Calvary" memorial complex dedicated to the victims of the genocide of the Ukrainian people and repression against the Orthodox clergy was created on the territory of the Holy Spirit Monastery.

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.

The stone church of the Holy Trinity is located in the center of the village of Stara Chortoryia. The temple was built at the beginning of the 20th century. A new bell tower was recently added to the church.

The Trinity Church is an active church. It belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The Holy Trinity Parish in Berdychiv was founded in the middle of the 18th century, and the first wooden Trinity Church was built in 1759.

Prince Mykola Radzivill, one of the owners of the city, is considered to be the founder of the parish. In 1834-1836, archpriest Sylvester Lipsky built a stone, cross-domed church with a bell tower. The old wooden church was dismantled, and the wood from it was used to fire bricks for the new church.

During the Soviet rule, the Trinity Church was closed. Its premises housed offices, warehouses, living quarters and even a stable. After the liberation of Berdychev from the German-fascist occupiers in 1945, the Holy Trinity parish resumed work, the church was handed over to the Orthodox religious community. Since then, it has been open for religious services.

The stone church of the Holy Trinity was built in 1803 by the landowner Konopatskyi, who owned the village of Topory since 1800.

During the Soviet rule, there was a library and a cultural center here. For this purpose, the interior space was divided into 2 floors, with half-height ceilings.

Now the church building is in a dilapidated state.

The wooden Holy Trinity Church in Bilylivka is made in the style of folk architecture, cruciform in plan, and is a landmark of local architecture.

It currently belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate, banned in Ukraine.

A monument to the French writer Honore de Balzac was opened in 2011 in Berdychiv in front of the entrance to the office complex named after the writer.

The "Honore de Balzac" complex was built by a French investor in the center of Berdychiv, opposite the church of Saint Barbara, where Balzac married the landowner Evelina Hanska from Verkhivnia in 1850.

On the 3rd floor of the complex, there is a French cultural center, in which a corner of Balzac has been opened (a museum is planned).

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.

"Hulsk mine" is one of the key fortifications of the Zviahel (Novoрrad-Volynskyi) fortified district, built in 1932-1939.

A group of pillboxes is located on the right bank of the Sluch River in the area of ​​the village of Hulsk. It was one of the most powerful supporting nodes of the so-called "Stalin Line". The fortified group, consisting of pillboxes Nos. 417, 418, 419, 420, 422, was inferior in size and firepower only to the fortifications of the Mohyliv-Podilskyi fortified area. The total length of the group's underground communications reached 515 meters. Armament consisted of two 76.2 millimeter guns of the 1902 model on caponier carriages of the 1932 model and ten Maxim machine guns.

It was in the Hulsk region, after the hasty retreat of the RSPA field units, that the Zviahel (Novoрrad-Volynskyi) fortified area was breached by German troops already on July 5, 1941.