Attractions of Chernihiv region

The museum of the historian Mykola Kostomarov was created in the former manor of the landowner Mark Kysil in Didivtsi near Pryluky, where Kostomarov vacationed every summer from 1874 to 1884.

The outstanding historian, writer, ethnographer, folklorist and publicist Mykola Kostomarov came to Didivtsi for the first time at the invitation of his future wife Alina Krahelska, who at that time was already the widow of Mark Kysil, and the following year they got married here.

Here Kostomarov worked on the works "Autobiography", "Ruin", "Ellina Tavrida", "Mazepa" and others. In Didivtsi estate, Kostomarov hosted writers Vasyl Horlenko, Danylo Mordovets, artist Kateryna Junge, and kobzar Ostap Veresay.

In 2016, the Mykola Kostomarov Museum was opened in Didivtsi. The exposition was designed by the Chernihiv monumentalist artist Borys Dedov. The five rooms present the history of Didivtsi village, stories about Kostomarov's life and activities, his feelings for Alina Krahelska, the social and political situation at that time, and the Kyrylo-Mefodiyivske Society.

The memorial museum of the revolutionary-populist and inventor Mykola Kybalchych was opened in Korop in the house of the priest in which he was born in 1853.

Even in his youth, Kybalchych, who was fond of chemistry, became an underground revolutionary, working in the so-called "hell laboratories" where explosives were made. At the same time, he developed a diagram of the world's first jet aircraft, the drawing of which was scratched on the wall of a prison cell. In 1881, he was executed for an attempt to assassinate the Russian Tsar Oleksandr II.

A family of local artists - Olena Lukash and Mykola Hara-Zhuk - stood near the sources of the creation of the Kybalchych Museum in Korop. In particular, the museum exposition presents a model of the Kybalchych rocket.

The Nativity of Holy Virgin Cathedral was built in Pryluky on the site of two ancient Pryluky churches that burned down during a fire in 1781.

Fundraising for the stone temple was announced immediately after the fire, but the construction was completed only after the city received funding from the royal treasury in 1802, as evidenced by a copper plaque with a commemorative inscription.

A new church with three thrones in honor of the Nativity of the Holy Mother of God, Varvara the Great Martyr and Saint Oleksandr Nevsky was consecrated in 1817. It was built by a craftsman from Chernihiv region Fedir Zabolotskyi. Remains of oil painting from the beginning of the 19th century have been preserved inside.

Near the central portal stood a stone two-story bell tower, built in the best forms of late classicism (not preserved). Until recently, the building housed the department of the Chernihiv Regional State Archives.

In 2005, the Nativity of Holy Virgin Cathedral was returned to the parishioners of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin Mary was built in Kolychivka near Chernihiv in 1778, completed in 1885.

A five-story wooden building with a vestibule and a two-story belfry. A three-tiered iconostasis with icons of the 18th century has been preserved. Inside the bell tower you can see ancient inscriptions.

The Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Virgin is a little-known example of the wooden monumental architecture of the Sivershchyna at the end of the 18th century.

The wooden church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin Mary is located in the village of Zahrebellia, a suburb of Sosnytsia ("behind the board").

The single-domed, cruciform church forms a whole with a three-tiered belfry. The carved five-tier altar in the Baroque style was created in the 19th century. Paintings of the beginning of the 20th century, which were worked on by artists Mykhaylo Havrylenko, Yakiv Tymoshenko, Mykola Ovdiyenko, Yevhen Bazylevych, Hryhoriy and Yefym Velychkovsky, have been preserved.

The church is surrounded by water - you can drive up by car only in dry weather.

The brick one-story church of Nicholas the Wonderworker is located on the outskirts of Pryluky - Sorochyntsi district.

The temple was built in the middle of the 19th century in the style of Ukrainian Art Nouveau.

Separate buildings that were part of the citadel complex of the Nizhyn fortress in the 17th-19th centuries have survived on the territory of the current central city market.

The fortress in Nizhyn was built during Polish rule on the site of early fortifications, reconstructed in 1749 according to the Western European model. The citadel was surrounded by an earth rampart with 4 gates, 11 wooden towers and bastions. However, after a great fire at the beginning of the 19th century, the ramparts were torn down, and the territory was set aside for a bazaar.

The castle Church of the Epiphany (1721), a powder cellar (13th century), as well as a two-story ostrog (prison) building, which now houses an ambulance station (Bazarna Street, 18), have been preserved. The remains of the northern rampart of the fortress are visible from the river side.

Currently, the territory of the fortress is occupied by the Nizhyn Market with 19th-century shophouses. In particular, you can buy the famous homemade Nizhny cucumbers here.

Nizhyn Museum of Local Lore named after Ivan  Spasky is located in an old house that belonged to the merchant Dyachenko in the XIX century.

The funds have 30,000 exhibits that tell the history of the city from ancient times to 1945. An interesting collection of archaeological finds obtained during excavations in the old part of the city, things of the Cossack era (cold steel and firearms, hetman's universals), exhibits characterizing the multinational nature of Nizhyn (including the history of the Greek community).

Of particular interest is the numismatic collection, the collection of orders and medals, the philatelic collection.

The first Soviet HTZ tractor was installed in the yard of the Nizhyn Museum of Local Lore.

The "Post Office" department of the Nizhyn Museum of Local Lore named after Ivan Spasky was opened in 1986 in a complex of buildings of the post office of the XVIII century, which is almost completely preserved.

Post offices in Kyiv, Nizhyn and Baturyn were established after the decree of Moscow Tsar Oleksiy Mykhaylovych on regular postal services between Moscow and Kyiv in 1669.

In 1787, a private estate built in the center of Nizhyn in the second half of the 18th century was converted into a post office. The complex consisted of a two-story post office building with the apartment of the Nizhyn postmaster and hotel rooms, two symmetrical outbuildings, a stable and a carriage.

At the beginning of the XIX century Nizhyn post office was one of the largest in the Left Bank of Ukraine. Mykhaylo Lomonosov, Hryhoriy Skovoroda, Oleksandr Pushkin, Mykola Hohol, Taras Shevchenko, Marko Vovchok and others stayed at the local hotel.

The exposition of the museum "Post Station" is located in the preserved wing of the station supervisor. The interior of the waiting room has been restored, where you can see a map of the postal tracts of the Russian Empire in 1793, copies of "travelers" by Mykola Hohol (1851) and Taras Shevchenko (1859).

The exhibition also presents a collection of historical postage stamps of Ukraine and Russia, 30 old postcards with photos of Nizhyn streets, a layout of the post office in its original form.

The house of the notary Oleksandr Popov was built in the city of Semenivka in 1912 in the style of classicism. This is the most beautiful pre-revolutionary building in the city.

In Soviet times, a police station and a polyclinic were located here. Today it is a house of creativity of children and youth.

Obyrok Art Island is an eco-settlement near Baturyn, open for cultural and health events, master classes, schools, retreats, exhibitions, camps and meetings.

The art village was founded by director and traveler Leonid Kanter in 2007 on the site of the abandoned Obyrok farm. In 2018, Leonid Kanter committed suicide. His wife Diana announced the continuation of the village's artistic activities.

The settlement consists of three tiny hamlets with 30 houses, which are located at a fairly large distance from each other. "House of the Sun" is a restored hundred-year-old mud house with an earthen floor. The dining room has several tables and benches under a canopy and a sink. Nearby is the "Kinosaray", where film screenings, discussions and presentations are held. There is also an old club for 100 people on "Obyrok Island".

The old spruce alley, more than 100 years old, is a protected object (botanical monument of nature of local importance).

Today, there are 79 thirty-meter trees that surround the road to the monastery caves on both sides.

The museum of Oleh Koshovy is dedicated to the memory of the head of the underground organization "Young Guard" in Chervonodon, who was born in Pryluky.

It is located in the former house of the Koshovy family.

The exposition includes more than 450 exhibits: household items, dishes, an overcoat, weapons and other personal belongings of Oleh, documents, letters.

In 1979, a monument to Koshovy was opened in the courtyard of the museum.

The Literary Memorial Museum of Oleksandr Dovzhenko was opened in the film director's homeland in Sosnytsia.

He was born in 1894 in a large rural family in the village of Vyunishche within the current urban-type settlement of Sosnytsia. From there he went to study at the Hlukhiv Teacher's Institute, then to Zhytomyr and pre-revolutionary Kyiv.

His complex biography included service in the troops of the Ukrainian People's Republic, detention in a Bolshevik concentration camp, joining the Communist Party, Polish captivity, work at the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, etc.

Dovzhenko gained worldwide fame as the founder of the Ukrainian National School of Cinematography after the release of his famous films "Zvenyhora" and "Zemlya", the latter of which is now included in the lists of the best films of all times and nations.

Creation of the director's museum in Sosnytsia began in 1957, after his death. Dovzhenko's parental house has been preserved, in which the atmosphere that surrounded him in his youth is reproduced. Collections of his short stories and film stories are presented in the literary exhibition.

An impressive, expressive monument to Dovzhenko (1974, sculptor Anatoliy Fuzhenko, architect Anatoliy Ihnashchenko) was installed in the courtyard of the estate.

The local history museum of the city of Oster is located in the former mansion of Lieutenant General Volodymyr Solonyna, a representative of the Cossack-Starshin family.

The first director was the well-known public figure Anatoliy Rozanov.

Currently, the museum has more than 16,000 exhibits. In 9 halls there are expositions dedicated to the nature, history and culture of Prydesennya.

Museum employees also conduct tours of the territory of the ancient Rus settlement with a visit to the Yuryeva Bozhnytsia.