Attractions of Chernihiv region

The Snovsk Historical Museum was opened in 1939 as a memorial museum of Mykola Shchors in the house where the future Red Commander, whose image was heroized in Soviet literature and cinema, spent his childhood and youth.

Shchors was born in 1895 in the village of Korzhivka in Chernihiv Region (now the city of Snovsk) in the family of a railway mechanic. Currently, the exposition of the home furnishings and personal belongings of the Shchors family, located in their wooden house built in 1894, is the memorial department of the Snovsk Historical Museum and presents the life of the railway worker's family at the end of the 19th century.

In 1961, the historical department of the museum was opened in a separate building with a local history exposition from ancient times to modern history. The exposition presents objects that tell about the first human settlements on the territory of the region, folk crafts and crafts, ethnographic features of the area. The decoration of the exhibition is a collection of towels from the Snovsk district and samples of regional costumes.

The museum also exhibits archaeological finds: objects of labor, remains of ancient animals, ceramic and glass products, Cossack cradles, railway products made at medieval mines, historical and household items of the late 19th - early 20th centuries.

The museum complex of Mykola Cherep's private agro-tourism complex "Sokolyny Khutir" in Petrushivka consists of several museums: historical and ethnographic, the Museum of the History of Liberation Struggles in Chernihiv region, the open-air Museum "Time Machine", the Taras Shevchenko Art Gallery and the Mint Museum.

The historical and ethnographic museum of the estate "Sokolyny khutir" is dedicated to the history of this region from the times of Trypil culture to the Second World War. Cossack weapons, a loom of the 18th century, Ukrainian embroidery and other items of everyday life and cultural heritage of the Ukrainian people are presented.

A special place in the exhibition is devoted to the Cossack period of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, as well as Hetman Ivan Mazepa, who once owned the farm.

For entertainment, there are stables, a forge, a mini-zoo, a Cossack shooting range, summer and winter hams, a Cossack bathhouse, an aqua zone with boats and catamarans. Theatrical Cossack performances are held.

The Sosnytsia Museum of Local Lore is located in the house of doctor Shcherbakov (1869-1870), which later belonged to Prince Volkonsky, then to doctor Petro Oldenborher.

The museum in it was founded in 1920 by lawyer and historian Yuriy Vynohradsky. He discovered 50 Neolithic sites and 9 hillforts in Chernihiv Region. The archaeological collection of Vynohradsky became the basis of the exposition.

Currently, the museum's funds include 10,000 exhibits. Among the unique exhibits are neck hryvnias, a mammoth tusk with notches, several ancient documents.

Some things of the former owners of the Sosnytsia manor, the Poltoratsky nobles, who owned Sosnytsia in the 18th and 19th centuries, are also presented.

The museum is named after Yuriy Vynohradsky.

The source "Ushivska krynytsya" is located on the bank of the river Loska, the right tributary of the Desna, one kilometer from the village of Ushivka in the direction of United.

Strong sources of drinking water emerge from the ground, forming a small lake. "Ushivska krynytsya" has had the status of a hydrological monument of nature since 1964. The area of the protected area is 0.01 hectares.

The Stretenia Cathedral of the Hustynia monastery on Galaganivska Street is a notable architectural building of old Pryluky.

It was built in 1889 in honor of the fallen Russian Emperor Oleksandr II. Most of the funds for the construction were donated by the then mayor Ivan Dedin.

A rare for Ukrainian architecture, a three-nave basilica-like building with three domes (only one - the central one - has survived to our time), made of rare red brick and painted with brown paint.

From 1929 until recently, the temple housed a local history museum. Currently, the exposition has been dismantled, and work is underway to restore the Stritennya Cathedral.

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.

The Talalaivka Museum of Local Lore was opened in 2013 in the premises of the former House of Culture of the village of Talalaivka.

The exposition is located in several halls with a total area of ​​60 square meters. The museum's collections include unique antique everyday items, tools, ceramic and pottery products of the 19th-21st centuries, banknotes, collections of embroidered towels, shirts, woven carpets of the 20th-21st centuries, and over 300 women's scarves.

A separate part of the exposition is dedicated to honoring the memory of the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred and the Russian-Ukrainian War.

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 Three Saints 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.

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 stone Transfiguration Cathedral was built by folk craftsmen in the restrained forms of late Baroque, typical of Cossack churches. In 1834, reconstruction was carried out.

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

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.