Attractions of Zhytomyr region

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 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 Kypyache Monastery of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God was founded in 1917 in the Kypyache tract on the right bank of the Irsha River near Chopovychi.

According to legend, in 1911 there was a fiery icon of the Kazan Mother of God, and the water of the local spring boiled and became healing. Initially, the monastery was named in honor of the Transfiguration of the Lord, and the people called it the Kypyache monastery.

The monastery lasted only 17 years and was closed by the Bolsheviks, the wooden Kazan church was dismantled. The Kypyache Men's Monastery of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God was restored in 2002. The temple of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, the monastery building, the spring and the bathhouse have been restored.

After the opening of the men's monastery, several women began to live nearby, choosing the monastic life. In 2002, the development of the female stauropygial monastery in honor of the Athos icon of the Mother of God begins, the temple is laid on twelve Athos stones brought from the holy mountain. Today, the church in honor of the Athos icon of the Mother of God has several unique shrines - it is a part of the girdle of the Mother of God, the relics of 24 elders from Athos, the miraculous icon of Three Hands.

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.

The wooden building of the Lutheran church in the center of Korostyshiv bears little resemblance to a church. The church was built in the 19th century by German settlers who worked at local industrial enterprises.

Today, there is a prayer house of Evangelical Baptist Christians.

The Metropolitan Chambers were built in Radomysl in the 17th century, when the city came under the ownership of Bishop Anastasiy Sheptytskyi and soon became the residence of the Uniate Metropolitans.

After the transition of Radomyshl under Russian rule, the metropolitan chambers were not used for some time and fell into disrepair. The tsarist government intended to use the former metropolitan building for a public school, but the city's Catholic community managed to get the building back. The metropolitan chambers were first rebuilt into a chapel, and later, in 1804, a Roman Catholic church was opened at the expense of Princess Tsetsyliya Radzyvill.

During the Soviet rule, the church was rebuilt beyond recognition - the bell tower was removed, a portal with columns was installed in front of the entrance, and the building of the former metropolitan chambers and the church acquired the typical features of Soviet monumental classicism, losing all signs of an architectural monument of the 18th century. Since 1954, the House of Culture has been located here.

The Ovruch historical and local history museum "Drevlyans Sources" has been operating since 2006 at the Center for Children's and Youth Creativity of the Ovruch City Council.

In the ethnographic hall, items from the traditional life of Polishchuks are presented, including unique towels-curtains with Drevlyans patterns. A prominent place is occupied by icons, one of which was made in 1904 in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.

The next exposition introduces the ancient Polissya crafts - needlework and linen weaving. In particular, a real shipboard and shipboard equipment, as well as an ancient loom, are presented.

The last museum room contains materials about schooling in Ovruch region from the time of Kyivan Rus to the present day, as well as about prominent people of the region. The interiors of the classroom and pioneer room are reproduced here, old textbooks are presented, including the 1861 primer by Taras Shevchenko.

The only monument in Ukraine to the scientist and traveler Mykola Myklukho-Maklay was erected in Malyn, where his mother's estate was and where he himself lived for some time.

A descendant of an ancient Cossack family, Myklukho-Maklay is known in the world as an outstanding ethnographer, researcher of the peoples of Southeast Asia, Australia and Oceania. He spent many years traveling the world, but at the end of his life he returned to Malyn - he studied the life and traditions of the Polischuks here, and was interested in the origin of the Drevlyans.

Monuments to the scientist were also erected in Australia, New Guinea and Russia.

The monument in the center of Malyn was opened in 1986 in honor of the celebration of the 140th anniversary of the birth of Myklukho-Maklay. The author of the monument is the sculptor Petro Stepakov.

The People's Museum of Local Lore in the urban-type village of Narodychi was founded in 1990. The exposition in three rooms tells about the history of Narodychi region from the most ancient times to the present day.

The archaeological section presents the tools of primitive people. The ethnographic collection includes many household items of the Polishchuks, as well as icons, embroidered towels, etc.

Products of folk craftsmen are demonstrated.

A separate exposition is devoted to liquidation of the accident at the Chornobyl NPP.

The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the high bank of the Teterev River in Chudniv looks spectacular from the Zhytomyr-Khmelnytskyi highway.

It was built in 1772 at the expense of the city's Orthodox community.

The Stavropygian Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin Mary was founded in Lugyny at the beginning of the 19th century.

It is one of the most interesting examples of the classical style in the monumental wooden architecture of Polissya.

It belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

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.