Attractions of Chernihiv region

The sugar factory in Parafiivka was founded in 1846 by landowner Hryhoriy Tarnovsky, who lived in the family estate in nearby Kachanivka.

In 1852, the enterprise came into operation and already in the first season of operation produced granulated sugar, molasses and pulp worth about 500,000 roubles. In the second half of the 19th century, the plant was one of the most powerful sugar processing enterprises in the Chernihiv province, which used advanced technologies at that time - steam engines.

In 1897, the Tarnovsky estate in Kachanivka together with the Parafiivka sugar factory was bought for a million rubles by the "sugar king" Pavlo Kharytonenko. In 1903-1904, the plant was completely reconstructed and expanded: new office premises, a factory village for workers were built, electric traction was installed, equipment was improved and partially replaced. In 1898, a brick factory was built specifically for the reconstruction of the factory, which is still in operation. In honor of Kharytonenko's eldest daughter, the plant was named Olenivskyi.

In March 1919, Kharytonenko's farm together with the Parafiivka sugar factory was nationalized by the Soviet authorities.

The plant in Parafiivka remained one of the leading enterprises of the Ichnyan district until recently, but since 2011 it has stopped its work.

In 2020, the new owners completely demolished the Parafiivka sugar factory - an industrial monument of the 19th century.

The Korop synagogue was built in the 19th century, when about half of the town's population was Jewish. The project was developed by the architect Luka Shmihelsky.

A Jewish school operated at the synagogue.

Until recently, the synagogue building was used as a warehouse. The premises are now abandoned.

A monument to the People's Artist of Ukraine Tetyana Yablonska was installed on the territory of the House of Artists' Creativity "Sedniv", which has been operating for over 40 years.

The artist created many of her paintings here.

Now, every year in September, the festival of literature and arts "Sedniv Autumn" takes place here.

The Church of the Three Saints in Lemeshi, clearly visible from the highway, was built in 1755 by the Rozumovsky brothers on the grave of their father - Hryhoriy Rozum.

The architectural details of the facades of the church indicate a gradual departure from the baroque style and the predominance of classicism. In 1865, a two-story belfry was added to the church, which was connected to it by a one-story building.

On the walls of the Church of the Three Saints, a fragment of painting from the 18th-19th centuries has been preserved.

The ancient five-bathroom Transfiguration Cathedral is the main architectural landmark of Pryluky.

It was built at the beginning of the 18th century at the expense of Colonel Hnat Galagan. It was located on the territory of the Pryluky fortress, on the site of the burnt wooden Savior's Church of the middle of the 17th century.

The stone temple was built by folk craftsmen in the restrained forms of the late baroque, characteristic of Cossack temples. Reconstruction was carried out in 1834.

Inside the cathedral, its founder, Colonel Galagan, is buried in a deep crypt. The main shrine is the icon of the Sorrowful Mother of God.

Nearby is the massive two-story church-bell tower of Saint Nicholas. A monument to Saint Yoasaf of Belhorod, who was born in Pryluky, was erected between them.

The Church of the Transfiguration in Kyriivka was built in 1904 in the classical style of the monumental wooden architecture of Ukraine at the beginning of the 20th century.

The single-domed temple stands on a stone foundation, the three-tiered belfry is attached to the nave and topped with a tent with a lantern and an onion crown. The height of the bell tower to the top of the cross is approximately 25 meters.

The church is bright because it has 19 large rectangular two-meter windows in the lower part and 8 of the same windows on the dome. The log house is made of oak and pine beams. The outer walls are sheathed with boards facing each other: below the level of the windows - vertically, above - horizontally.

There are similar temples in the villages of Kobyzhcha and Ploske, Chernihiv region.

The Trinity Church in Troitske was built at the expense of the Cossack elders in 1772-1774, similar to the Ascension Church in Korop.

The type is a tetraconch. Four lower exedras with facades topped by triangular pediments adjoin the central cubic volume topped by a dome.

During the entire period of its existence, the temple was never expanded. Until recently, its condition was depressing, but it was recently restored.

The Trinity Church is located in the Greek quarter of Nizhyn. The single-domed stone church in the Baroque style was built in 1733.

In 1888, it was thoroughly rebuilt, as a result of which it acquired features of classicism. In particular, the shape of the dome was completely changed, a two-tier bell tower with a spire was added on the western side. The church yard was surrounded by a wrought-iron fence at the end of the 19th century. There is an original inscription on the fence with the date of the last reconstruction and the name of its initiator.

For a long time, the Trinity Church was closed, the premises of the church were used as an archive. Currently, the Nizhyn City Council has started the process of returning the Trinity Church to the city community and has adopted a corresponding decision.

The Trinity Church was built in Bihach in 1831 for the Keykuatovys landowners.

The majestic stone temple in the style of classicism is an architectural monument of national importance. The side facades are decorated with four-column porticoes of the Tuscan order with triangular pediments.

To this day, the Trinity Church has not been preserved in its original form - the open gallery and bell tower, which were adjacent to the church, have been lost. Currently, the temple is not in use and needs urgent capital restoration and restoration.

The symbolic Triumphal Arch was erected in 1787 on the occasion of the passage of Empress Catherine II through Novhorod-Siverskyi.

The construction was financed by local nobles and merchants. On the pylons between the columns are placed shields with the coats of arms of ten districts of the Novhorod-Siversky Governorate.

The Triumphal Arch in Novhorod-Siverskyi is a unique memorial building of the High Classicism style on the Left Bank of Ukraine. Needs restoration.

Trostianets Arboretum is one of the most beautiful landscape parks of Ukraine. It was created in the 19th century by a representative of the ancient Hetman family, Ivan Skoropadskyi (grandson of Hetman Ivan Skoropadskyi, grandfather of Hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyi).

The Trostianets Park project was developed by gardener Karl Schlinhlof. Artificial mountains (up to 30 meters high) reminiscent of the Alps were piled on a flat piece of land. The pits formed during the removal of soil for the mountains have been turned into ponds. At first, trees of local species were planted: pine, spruce, birch, oak. Then exotic species were planted in the artificially created landscape: Weymouth pine, Siberian spruce, Siberian cedar, black pine, hemlock, juniper and others. In total - 623 species.

Work continued until Skoropadsky's death in 1887. He is buried in the grounds of the park, the words are carved on the monument: "Any passer-by! The garden in which you walk was planted by me; it served me as a comfort in my life. If you see a disorder that leads to its destruction, then say about this to the master of the garden: you will do a good deed."

Currently, the Trostianets Arboretum is subordinate to the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and tours are held.

Two outbuildings have been preserved from the complex of manor buildings, which are currently being restored to create a museum and a hotel.

The Museum of Ukrainian-Czech-Slovak Friendship in Svitanok was opened in 1973, in Soviet times it was called the Museum of Soviet-Czechoslovak Friendship.

This place was chosen for the museum in connection with the events of 1943, when an echelon with Czechoslovak soldiers moving to the Soviet-German front was hit by a German airstrike near the Yakhnivka station. As a result, 54 soldiers died - stele and marble slabs with the names of the dead were installed on their mass grave.

The exposition of the museum is placed in 4 halls. The first hall tells about the history of the region from the times of Kyivan Rus. In the center of the exposition about the Second World War is a diorama that shows the events at the Yakhnivka station. There are documents about the participation of the Czechoslovak hero Ludvik Svoboda, who took part in the territory of Chernihiv region, first in the Soviet-Ukrainian war against the Bolshevik Red Army, then in battles against the Germans during the Second World War. The "Friendship" hall tells about friendly relations with the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Every year on Victory Day over Nazism in the Second World War and on October 14, military attachés of the Czech Republic come here to honor the memory of the fallen.

"Uzruyivski Springs" - a hydrological monument of nature since 1964. Numerous non-freezing springs flow from the bottom of the lake in the middle of the swamp massif along the Smyach River.

According to the legend, previously the springs that beat the fountain were connected by an underground river with a large dyke on the Desna, which once threatened shipping in the area of the village of Lenkiv.

In 2004, a recreation area of the Novhorod-Siverskyi forest farm with gazebos and a banquet house with a fireplace was equipped here. The presidents of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus rested here in nature during the meeting in Novhorod-Siverskyi in 2004.

The Varva Historical and Local Lore Museum was founded in 1990.

Today, the museum has more than 1,000 exhibits. The exposition in seven halls tells about the history of the village from the first chronicle mention of Varva in 1079 to the present.

Materials about the outstanding Ukrainian Slavik philologist, historian, folklorist Osyp Bodyansky, who was born in Varva and was well acquainted with Taras Shevchenko, are exhibited.

The exposition "Not to be Forgotten", dedicated to the Holodomor of 1932-1933, continues to be replenished with eyewitness accounts.

The museum regularly holds exhibitions of works by folk craftsmen of the Varva region.

The manor of Chernihiv colonel Vasyl Dunin-Borkovsky, general of the Hetmanshyna, was located on the outskirts of Chernihiv, in the village of Bobrovytsia (now a microdistrict of the city).

On the basements of the one-story colonel's house, built in the 1680s and 1690s, there is now a two-story house built later in the classicism style.

The facility is located on the territory of a military unit, access is limited.