Attractions of Lebedyn

The Lebedyn Museum of Local Lore was established in 1996 on the basis of the Public Museum of the History of the Lebedyn Region.

There are about 10 thousand exhibits that tell about the settlement of the region, significant historical events, economic and industrial development of the region.

Permanent exhibitions: "From the history of the region", "Musical heritage" (materials about composers Oleksandr Steblyanko and Serhiy Rakhmaninov, singers Ivan Steshenko and Borys Hmyrya), "Under the black brand" (exhibition dedicated to the Holodomor 1932-1933) etc.

The Lebedyn city art museum named after Borys Rudnev is located in an old building in the center of the city.

The beginning of the creation of the art museum in Lebedyn was laid in 1918 by Borys Rudnev, a technological engineer from Kharkiv. The exposition was created on the basis of the nationalized collections of local landowners, in particular from the Strohaniv estate in Khotin near Sumy.

Currently, there are about 2,000 rarities in the exposition. Among them are good collections of Ukrainian portraits of the 18th century, works of artists Dmytro Levytskyi, Vasyl Polenov, Serhiy Vasylkivskyi, Hryhoriy Myasoedov, Valentina Serova, the Krychevskyi family, etc.

The Ascension Church in Lebedyn was built in 1858 on the site of the wooden church of the same name, known since 1692.

The new brick temple was made cubic, four-columned, with a semicircular altar apse. There is a bell tower above the entrance.

In the architecture of this building, classicism and baroque are well combined with the local flavor.

The one-bath stone church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin was built on the western outskirts of Lebedyn in the 18th century.

The exact date of construction is unknown, but archival documents show that in 1777 it was already under repair.

In 1875, the Intercession Church was rebuilt according to the project of architect Fedir Danylov.

During the Soviet era, the temple was closed and abandoned. Restoration is currently underway.

The building of the city administration (town hall) with a tall clock tower was built in Lebedyn at the beginning of the 20th century.

Made in the forms of rationalist modernism as an architectural dominant of the city center.

In Soviet times, a fire brigade was placed in the building, and the tower was converted into a fire hydrant.

The Church of the Resurrection in Lebedyn is a rare wooden church on the territory of Slobozhanshchyna, which has been preserved since the 18th century, although it has been rebuilt many times.

At first there was a five-chamber, cross-shaped plan, five-headed. Outside, it is sheathed with vertically placed boards with fasteners.

In the 1930s, the Church of the Resurrection was closed, the bells were removed, the belfry was destroyed, and the iconostasis was burned. Restoration has recently begun.

The imposing Saint Nicholas Church in Lebedyn, which combines the Byzantine style with the Renaissance in its architectural image, is a vivid example of the possibilities of the so-called "brick style" common in the XIX-XX centuries in Ukraine.

Nicholas Church was built in 1890 according to the project of the architect Volodymyr Nemkin. The author decorated the walls of the temple with intricate cornices, arches and other complex elements.

A small one-story manor house in Lebedyn was built in the first half of the 19th century by the Zalesky brothers.

In 1859, Taras Shevchenko stayed at the Zalesky estate.

Until the end of the 20th century, a local history museum was located here. Now the building is empty, restoration is needed.