Attractions of Bohuslav

Bohuslav granite outcropping is a geological monument of nature. Rocks 10-12 meters high are located along the bed of the Ros River in the central part of Bohuslav.

In the valley of the river, granite blocks embedded in the ground are spectacularly scattered along its slopes. The age of the Bohuslav granites is 2 billion years. Picturesque rapids are formed in the place where Ros washes the granite island with two branches.

One such place with a deep bath overhanging a high rock is called "The Yama" by the locals.

The Holy Trinity Church was built in Bohuslav in the 19th century on the site of an old church. Most of the funds for the construction were allocated by Oleksandra Branytska.

The temple is made in the style of late classicism. An architectural monument of national importance.

Belongs to the community of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The manor-museum of the writer Marko Vovchok is a branch of the Museum of the History of Bohulavshchyna.

Prominent Ukrainian writer Mariya Vilinska, who entered the literature under the pseudonym Marko Vovchok, lived in the Bohuslav region for almost 8 years (first in the city, and then in the house of Count Branytsky in neighboring Khokhitva). She came here with a man who was appointed forester. The story "Sly Khayimka" was written on Bohuslav motives.

The only museum in Ukraine, Marko Vovchok, was opened in half of the house where she lived. In the exposition - original things of the writer, embroidery, letters.

The monument to Marusya Bohuslavka, the heroine of Ukrainian folklore, was erected in 1981 on the rocky shore of the Ros River in the central part of Bohuslav.

Marusya entered the national memory as a symbol of loyalty to the Motherland and her people in popular thoughts and songs. According to legend, Marusya, the daughter of the priest of the Intercession Church, was captured by the Tatars during the Tatar raid and was sold to the harem of the Turkish Pasha. As the Pasha's beloved wife, Marusya managed to organize the escape of seven hundred Ukrainian Cossacks from a Turkish prison.

The monument to Marusya Bohuslavka was erected on the place where, according to legend, the Holy Intercession Church stood.

The Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts in Bohuslav is a department of the Museum of the History of the Bohuslav Region.

It is located in the oldest civil building in the city, which locals call "Kamyanytsya". This archaic massive two-storey building with external wooden stairs was erected in the XVIII century for the Jewish religious school. The thickness of its walls reaches 1.2 m, the building has deep basements.

During the Second World War, the Gestapo was located here, then the Museum of Komsomol Glory.

Now in the restored "Kamyanytsya" there is an exhibition of modern local decorative and applied art - the work of Dybynets potters and masters of artistic weaving. In particular, the longest woven towel in Ukraine with a length of almost 105 m, created in 2017 in honor of the 985th anniversary of the founding of Bohuslav, is on display.

To view the exhibit, visit the nearby Bohuslav History Museum.

The Museum of the History of the Bohuslav Region is considered to be one of the most creative historical museums in small towns of Ukraine.

It is located in a two-story building of the former ministerial school in 1907.

The exposition presents an interesting collection of archaeological finds of the Paleolithic era, household items of Scythians and ancient Slavs, ancient Rus jewelry, Cossack relics, photographs and documents of the Ukrainian Revolution.

The original is decorated with exhibition halls in the spirit of its time. First, visitors enter a cave of the Stone Age, then go from the Scythian burial to the wooden frame of Bohuslav Castle, then find themselves in the interiors of a village house and a burgher house, where the iron stairs fall into the era of industrialization.

The branches of the Museum of the History of the Bohuslav Region are the Museum of Modern Decorative and Applied Arts, the Ivan Soshenko Memorial Museum-Estate, and the Marko Vovchko Memorial Museum-Estate.

A creative workshop-museum was opened in Bohuslav by the famous Ukrainian carpet maker and member of the National Union of Folk Art Masters of Ukraine, Valentyna Tkach. Her carpets, which preserve ancient traditions, are in private collections all over the world - from China to the USA.

Valentyna Tkach calls carpet weaving her life's work. Her grandfather was also engaged in this, her father was the director of the Peremoha art products factory in Bohuslav, the craftswoman's mother worked at the factory as a weaver and developed her own carpet sketches. After the factory closed, Valentyna bought a dozen looms, rented premises and, together with her mother and other weavers of the factory, is reviving and developing weaving in Bohuslav.

Valentyna Tkach considers the weaving school, which she opened on the basis of her workshop, to be one of her most important projects. There, the craftswoman holds master classes for guests, during which anyone can try making their own product on a mini-machine.

The memorial house-museum of Ivan Soshenka in Bohuslav was opened in 1973 in the house of the artist's father, in which he was born in 1807.

The exhibition is housed in three rooms. In the first room, materials are exhibited that tell about Ivan's childhood and youth. The exposition of the next room highlights the artist's stay in St. Petersburg and studies at the Academy of Arts (1832-1838). The third room tells about Ivan Soshenko's meeting with Taras Shevchenko, the artist's work as a drawing teacher.

The museum presents photo reproductions of numerous sketches and drawings of the artist, as well as photocopies that tell about Ivan Soshenko's activities as a teacher, about the last years of his life.

A monument to Ivan Soshenko (sculptor Ida Kopayhorenko, architect Voldemar Bohdanivskyi) was installed on the territory of the museum.

The residential building of the merchant Pokras in the center of Bohuslav was built in 1887.

At that time, it was the most imposing building in the city. Pokras was a successful businessman, and at the beginning of the 20th century he became the owner of the Bohuslav cloth factory, which previously belonged to the landowner Yuzefov.

Currently, the Pokras building houses the Bohuslav City Council.

In 2009, a monument to Prince Yaroslav the Wise, the founder of Bohuslav, was erected in the park next to it. The sculpture is bronze, height - 2.6 meters. On the granite pedestal, the ornament of the sarcophagus of Yaroslav the Wise, which is kept in Sophia of Kyiv, is reproduced.

The Saint Nicholas Monastery is located in Bohuslav on a hill on the bank of the Ros River.

Founded in the 16th century near Tarascha, during Tatar raids it was moved by monks near Bohuslav. Twice it was handed over to the Uniate Basilians, but it was returned to Orthodoxy. The stone buildings were built in the 19th century.

The Church of the Resurrection (1866), the premises of the theological school, which housed an orphanage and a dormitory in Soviet times, have been preserved.

It currently belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Slaven Oak, over 300 years old, grows in the courtyard of the estate of the State Enterprise "Bohuslav Forestry", next to its administrative building in Bohuslav. Its height is 21 meters, and the trunk circumference is 450 centimeters.

This tree is considered one of the oldest oaks in the Kyiv region, it has important ecological and historical significance. The Slaven Oak could already be an adult when the Bohuslav region was at the epicenter of the Cossack uprisings led by colonels Semen Paliy and Samiylo Samus, the campaigns of Hetman Pylyp Orlyk and the Haidamak movement in the Kyiv region.

Since 2024, the Slaven Oak has had the status of a natural monument of local importance, which guarantees it protection from damage and destruction.