Attractions of Zhytomyr region

The majestic Transfiguration Cathedral is considered a symbol of the city of Zhytomyr, one of the largest Orthodox churches in Ukraine.

It was built in 1866-1874 by the architect Karl Rahau as the main Orthodox church in Volyn on the site of the Basilian Church. Made in Byzantine-Rus style with characteristic features of Ancient Rus architecture of the 11th-12th centuries. The height of the towers reaches 53 meters.

The interior is richly decorated using local granite and labradorite.

A monument to the Trident, the coat of arms of Ukraine, was installed in a small square at the Korosten railway station.

It was here in 1918, in the headquarters car of the government train of the heads of the Ukrainian People's Republic, that the trident - the coat of arms of Prince Volodymyr the Great - was approved as the national emblem of the country.

The author of the trident project was the artist and architect Vasyl Krychevskyi, who was commissioned by the Chairman of the Central Council, Mykhaylo Hrushevskyi, to develop the state symbols.

The monument was built at the expense of local businessman Volodymyr Kozarenko. On the granite ceiling is a plaque with the inscription: "Here on February 12, 1918, the Small Council (Presidium of the Central Council of Ukraine) in the city of Korosten approved the trident as the coat of arms of the Ukrainian People's Republic, the basis of the modern coat of arms of Ukraine."

A beautiful neo-Renaissance manor house with Gothic elements in Turchynivka belonged to the Tereshchenko family of rich sugar millers and patrons.

The construction was started in 1899 by Fedir Tereshchenko, as the date on the facade reminds us. The construction was completed in 1901 by Nataliya, the daughter of a sugar factory, who married Count Serhiy Uvarov, a leader of the Berdychiv County nobility.

The building is made of terracotta bricks, almost all decorative elements are also brick. The facade is decorated with the coat of arms of the Uvarov family with the letter U. The interiors are decorated with moldings.

The palace is located in an old park on the bank of a pond (XIX century), which remained from the previous owners of the estate. Nearby is a utility building with an elegant tower.

Since Soviet times, the palace has housed the Turchynivka Vocational Lyceum, thanks to which the building is kept in good condition.

The Velyki Korovyntsi Local Lore Museum of the Chudniv City Council was founded in 1961 by the efforts of teachers and students of the local school.

His exposition tells about the past and present of Velyki Korovyntsi.

A separate exposition is dedicated to the family of Ukrainian industrialists and patrons of Tereshchenko, to whom the village belonged since 1870. Fedir Tereshchenko built a sugar factory, a hospital, two schools, a church, a railway station and other infrastructure facilities.

The Ivanovychi Village History Exemplary Museum was opened in 1991 and is located in three rooms of the Ivanovychi Lyceum.

About 500 exhibits highlight the main stages of the development of the Ivanovychi village from the 17th century to the present day, as well as the features of the folk life of its inhabitants at different times. A model of a traditional peasant house is presented.

The exhibitions "From plant to fabric" and "From grain to bread" tell about ancient methods of farming, weaving technology and other folk crafts.

Separate expositions highlight the events of the Holodomor of 1932-1933, the Second World War, the Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian war.

The Zhytomyr Literary and Memorial Museum of Volodymyr Korolenko was opened for the 120th anniversary of the outstanding writer and public figure in the building where he spent his childhood and youth.

Korolenko became famous as an active member of the populist movement and the author of many literary works, the most famous of which are: "The Forest is Roaring", "Blind Musician", "In a Bad Society", "Doomsday", "Speechless", "Children of the Dungeon".

The exposition is arranged in seven halls according to the chronological principle, and includes 10,000 exhibits: personal belongings, lifetime editions of Korolenko and contemporary writers, works of graphics, painting, sculpture, and applied art.

The three-story building of the water mill in Pavoloch is located near the dam on the Rostavytsia River. The mill was built in the 19th century, when a large Jewish community lived in the village.

Yemilchyne People's District Museum of Local Lore was founded in 1973 on the initiative of local historians. It is located in the former premises of the House of Children's Creativity next to the central park.

The exposition tells about the nature of Polissya, the history of the region from the earliest times, ethnography and the life of the Polishchuks. In particular, the stone tools of primitive people, clay products of ancient archaeological cultures, iron items from the times of Ancient Rus, objects of peasant life of the 19th century, materials about the events of the Ukrainian revolution, the Holodomor, the Second World War, post-war reconstruction, the Russian-Ukrainian war are presented.

Among the unique exhibits are original certificates and acts of ownership of land plots and other archival documents from the second half of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century. In 2015, a museum room dedicated to the work of People's Artist of Ukraine, Hero of Ukraine Nina Matviyenko, who was born in 1968 in the village of Nedilishche near Yemilchyne, was opened.

A branch of the Yemilchyne People's District Museum of Local Lore is the Museum of Military Fortification "Pillbox (DOT) - Artillery Half-Capon", which tells about the history of the Yemilchyne Battalion Defense District of the Korosten Fortified District.

The Zhytomyr Regional Literary Museum is located in an ancient two-story building in the Art Nouveau style, built at the beginning of the 20th century.

The exhibition consists of four sections: French writer Honore de Balzac, Zhytomyr theater artist Ivan Shevchenko, poet-translator Borys Ten and the family of composer Mykhaylo Skorulskyi.

The ancient mansion built in the 19th century on Castle Square for the head of the Zhytomyr Catholic Diocese is called the Bishop's House in Zhytomyr.

Currently, the Zhytomyr Regional Local Lore Museum is located here, founded back in 1865, when Volyn Governor Mykhaylo Chortkov exhibited his collection of samples of 48 minerals and rocks in the public library.

Then the exhibition was supplemented by the coin collection of the leader of the Zhytomyr nobility, Symonych, materials of the Volyn Diocesan Antiquities, nationalized art collections of Counts Ilinsky-Stetsky from Romanov and Baron Ivan de Shoduar from Zhytomyr.

Currently, the funds of the Zhytomyr Museum of Local Lore include 150,000 monuments of history and culture, but the exposition presents only a small part, which relates to the historical events of the first half of the 20th century. The main exhibition space is occupied by the art department of the museum, where a unique collection of works of fine art by Italian, Dutch, French, Polish and Russian masters of the 16th-20th centuries is presented.

The historical exhibition is planned to be opened in the magistrate's house.

The building of the regional state philharmonic named after Svyatoslav Richter was built in Zhytomyr in 1858 as a city theater on the initiative of the Polish playwright and public figure Yuzef Ihnatsiy Krashevski, who was also the theater's artistic director.

At that time, the theater building was considered one of the best in Ukraine.

Currently, the Zhytomyr Philharmonic Hall is an architectural monument of local importance.

Zhytomyr State University named after Ivan Franko is located in the center of the city in a complex of buildings of the former male gymnasium.

Construction of a gymnasium for boys began in Zhytomyr in 1862. For many years, it was the largest and most authoritative educational institution not only in Zhytomyr, but also in the whole of Volyn. First, the main building was built, later two auxiliary buildings were added on the sides - for the gymnasium teachers' apartments and for the library. In front of the main entrance was a front garden with rare trees and a fountain in the center. A large garden adjoined the houses.

Until now, the complex has been completely preserved, but the educational building of the gymnasium was reconstructed after a pedagogical institute was opened in it in 1919.

Today it is Zhytomyr State University named after Ivan Franko.

The manor in Ruzhyn was built in the 19th century by the landowner Chelishchev. In 1856, it was bought from the hammer by landowner Antoniy Zlotnytskyi.

The palace was characterized by contemporaries as magnificent, but now its appearance is greatly spoiled by later reconstructions.

On the territory of the Zlotnytsky manor is the board of the Ruzhyn agricultural cooperative.

According to legend, the manor house is connected to the church by an underground passage.

The Zviahel Museum of Local Lore was created on the basis of the Museum of Military Glory, which has been operating since 1975.

A separate section is devoted to the history of ancient Zviahel in the XIII-XVIII centuries. The museum has a rich collection of written documents and ancient books. The basis of the numismatic collection is Roman coins, money of the Cossack era, and royal coins.

The ethnographic department presents a collection of towels, embroidery, household items of the Polissya region.

In the future, it is planned to move the exposition to the premises of the former prison (XIX century; 52 Voli Street).