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Антонієві печери, Чернігів
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Saint Anthony's Caves

Temple , Architecture , Museum / gallery

Saint Anthony's Caves - the oldest shrine of Chernihiv is a part of the Trinity-Elijah Monastery on the Boldyni Hills.

The first cave church and monastery was founded by Saint Anthoniy Pechersky in 1069, when he left the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, which he founded.

Through the Church of Saint Elijah (XII century) you can get to the cave part (315 m), where there are underground churches of Saint Anthony, Saint Theodosius and Saint Nicholas Svyatosha.

On the hill above the monastery are the Slavic mounds Bezimenny and Hulbyshche, as well as the tomb of Mykhaylo Kotsyubynsky with a monument.

Archeological excavations continue in the Saint Anthony's Caves, and excursions are held.

Map pin icon Illinska Street, 33A Chernihiv

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Георгіївська церква, Седнів
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Saint George Church

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The wooden Cossack Saint George Church was founded in Sedniv, probably in the pre-Mongol period.

It is located at the height of the Crown Castle tract, in the center of the ancient settlement of Snovsk. In its current form, this richly carved church was rebuilt without a single nail in 1745 and is considered one of the best works of Ukrainian folk architecture.

In this church, dedicated to George the Victorious, the Cossacks of the Sedniv Hundred of the Chernihiv Regiment sanctified their sabers before military campaigns.

At first, George's Church was single-domed. Two additional baths were added in the course of the restoration carried out after the fire.

There is a version that the initial filming of key episodes of the popular Soviet film "Viy" based on the novel of the same name by Mykola Hohol took place in the interior of  George's Church, but the working material was not liked by the management of "Mosfilm", and all interior scenes were later shot in Moscow, in specially constructed scenery. .

Map pin icon Kozatska Street, 22A Sedniv

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Пустинно-Рихлівський монастир, Рихли
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Saint Nicholas Desert-Rykhly Monastery

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The Saint Nicholas Desert Rykhly Monastery was founded in 1666 by Chernihiv colonel Vasyl Mnogogrishny.

In 1757, a small Nicholas Church was built, and in 1754-1760, the five-bay Saint Nicolas Cathedral. In 1767, at the expense of Hetman Ivan Samoylovych, a belfry was built with the over-gate church of John the Baptist. There was also a cave complex that has partially survived to this day. In 1749, the Okhtyrka colonel Fedir Kachanivsky presented the monastery with a unique guardian ark, which was on the main throne of the Rykhly Monastery until 1922, and then was transferred to the Chernihiv State Museum.

By the end of the Soviet period, only the ruins of the living room, cells and monastery walls remained from the monastery complex. In 2006, the monastery again acquired the status of a monastery of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate, restoration works are being carried out.

Map pin icon Rykhly

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Трьохсвятительська церква, Прилуки
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Three Saints Church

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The Church of the Three Saints in Kustivtsy in Pryluky was built in 1878 on the site of an old church founded in the 17th century.

The first temple was built at the expense of the burgher Andriн Kendyukh.

The new five-domed church in Kustivtsy is made in the so-called "parish" style.

Map pin icon Petropavlivska Street, 32 Pryluky

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Тріумфальна арка, Новгород-Сіверський
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Triumphal Arch

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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.

Map pin icon Hubernska Street Novhorod-Siverskyi

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Бібліотека Короленка (Земельний банк), Чернігів
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Volodymyr Korolenko Scientific Library (Noble Land Bank)

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The Chernihiv Regional Universal Scientific Library named after Volodymyr Korolenko is located in the former building of the Noble and Peasant Land Bank in Chernihiv.

The building was built by the provincial engineer Dmytro Afanasyev according to the project of the architect Oleksandr Fon-Hohen. A two-story brick house in the Northern Art Nouveau style.

Since 1974, the Chernihiv Regional Universal Scientific Library has been housed in the former premises of the Noble Land Bank. About 30 different clubs operate on the territory of the library, literary evenings, exhibitions, presentations and conferences are constantly held.

On March 30, 2022, during the Russian-Ukrainian war, the building was heavily damaged as a result of shelling by Russian troops. The roof was broken, the windows were broken, cracks formed in the walls.

Map pin icon Myru Avenue, 41 Chernihiv

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Юр'єва Божниця, Остер
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Yuryeva Bozhnytsia (Saint Michael's Church)

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Yuryeva Bozhnytsia in Oster - the eastern part of the Saint Michael's Church, preserved from princely times. It is located on the remains of the settlement of the historic Horodets on Vostri.

The temple was probably founded by Prince Volodymyr Monomakh of Kyiv at the same time as the founding of the city in 1098. It was rebuilt in 1152 under Prince Yuriy Dolhoruky, thanks to which the popular name "Yuryeva Bozhnytsia" took root.

It suffered from Tatar raids, and in 1753 - from a lightning strike, at the beginning of the 19th century, most of the volume was dismantled due to its state of disrepair. Only the altar part - the apse and a fragment of the wall - has been preserved.

At the beginning of the 20th century, restoration and research works were carried out. An ancient fresco "Eucharist" was discovered on the wall, probably made by Kyiv masters in the 11th-12th centuries.

Map pin icon Sespelya Street Oster

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Чернігівський колегіум, Чернігів
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Chernihiv Collegium

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The openwork building of the Chernihiv Collegium with a high bell tower is located on the territory of the Dytynets (Chernihiv Rampart).

It was once part of the cathedral Saints Borys and Hlib Monastery - the residence of the Chernihiv archbishops.

The construction of the monastery refectory was probably started at the end of the 17th century by Archbishop Lazar Baranovich. In its current form, the building was erected in 1700-1702 by Archbishop Ioann Maksymovych with the support and funding of Hetman Ivan Mazepa, as evidenced by the board of the bell tower with the coat of arms of Mazepa, which is now exhibited in exhibition halls.

Later, the refectory began to be used as one of the premises of the Chernihiv Collegium - the first higher educational institution of the Left Bank of Ukraine, which operated from 1700 to 1786. Latin and other languages were taught here, as well as poetics, rhetoric, philosophy, mathematics, geography, and so on. The college trained church figures, civil servants, translators, writers, and physicians.

Now the Chernihiv Collegium houses a museum that covers the history of the school. The class of the college has been reconstructed, an exposition of icon painting has been exhibited, and the exhibition "Chernihiv and Chernihiv People 100 Years Ago" is open.

The administration of the National Architectural and Historical Reserve "Ancient Chernihiv" is also located here.

Map pin icon Preobrazhenska Street, 1 Chernihiv

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Музей ткацтва, Козелець
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History of Weaving of Chernihiv region Museum

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The Kozelet Museum of the History of Weaving of the Chernihiv Region was opened in 1988 in the premises of the Resurrection Church, in 2017 the museum finally got its own premises.

In the exposition, in addition to carpets, embroidered fabrics and towels, you can see photos of old Kozelets and a family tree of the Rozumovskys.

Map pin icon Sobornosti Street, 12 Kozelets

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Цар-дуб, Рихли
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King Oak

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A centuries-old monastery oak in the village of Rykhly, a botanical landmark of nature of local importance, is called "King Oak". Its age is estimated at 800 years.

According to legend, during the Northern War with Sweden (1700-1721), the scouts of Peter I watched the maneuvers of the troops of the Swedish king Charles XII from the top of this huge tree, which towers over the entire forest massif.

The trunk of the monastery oak reaches 1.8 meters in diameter and 24 meters in height. In 2010, at the "National Tree of Ukraine" competition, the Rykhly "King Oak" took 3rd place in the "Aesthetically valuable trees" nomination.

Another long-lived oak tree with a huge hollow in its trunk grows nearby.

Map pin icon Monastyrska Street Rykhly

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Краєзнавчий музей, Прилуки
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Museum of Local Lore named after Vasyl Maslov

Museum / gallery , Architecture

The Pryluky Museum of Local Lore named after Vasyl Maslov occupies a restored two-story mansion built in the 19th century for the mayor Mykola Kyslovsky in the very center of the city.

Its history begins with the Museum of Natural History, opened at the end of the 19th century. It reached its peak in the 1930s under the leadership of the famous scientist Vasyl Maslov (a monument has been installed at the entrance to the museum). The collection of masterpieces of world art and Cossack relics of the famous public figure and philanthropist Hryhoriy Galagan became the basis of his collection.

Since then, the museum has formed interesting art collections, a large collection of decorative and applied art, and opened a department of Pryluky history. The most interesting exhibits: the saddle of Hetman Danylo Apostol, a model of the Pryluky fortress, a fragment of the fortress palisade.

Employees of the local lore museum conduct tours of the city and its surroundings.

Map pin icon Kyivska Street, 277 Pryluky

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Борисоглібський собор (Музей архітектури), Чернігів
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Saints Borys and Hlib Cathedral (Architecture Museum)

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Saints Borys and Hlib Cathedral was built in Chernihiv in the 12th century on the foundation of an older stone building of the 11th century, and was rebuilt several times.

During the restoration in the middle of the XX century the buildings returned to the old Rus forms. The interior of Saints Borys and Hlib Cathedral has preserved ancient frescoes, inlaid floor.

A museum of architecture has been opened in the church, which is part of the National Architectural and Historical Reserve "Ancient Chernihiv".

The administration of the reserve is located in the adjacent building of the Collegium (1672), which in the XVII century was part of the Saints Borys and Hlib Monastery - the residence of the Chernihiv metropolitans.

Map pin icon Preobrazhenska Street, 1A Chernihiv

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Обласний історичний музей Тарновського, Чернігів
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Chernihiv Regional Historical Museum named after Vasyl Tarnovsky

Museum / gallery , Architecture

The Chernihiv Historical Museum is named after Vasyl Tarnovsky, a landowner, businessman and philanthropist from Kachanivka, who in 1902 organized the first Museum of Ukrainian Antiquities in the city. The exposition is based on his personal collection of Cossack-Hetman's antiquities and relics.

Today the museum is located in the former governor's house on Chernihiv Rampart (XIX century).

The collection includes more than 130 thousand exhibits belonging to different periods of Chernihiv region's history from ancient times to the present. The decoration of the exposition is a rich collection of archeological finds, old prints, rare documents, objects of the Cossack era.

Of particular interest is the diorama "Mezyn settlenent", which gives an idea of ​​the life of primitive man in the late Paleolithic era on the basis of archaeological finds in the village of Mezyn in Chernihiv region.

Map pin icon Muzeyna Street, 4 Chernihiv

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Садиба Лизогубів, Седнів
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Lyzohub family Estate

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For almost three centuries, the Sedniv estate was the main residence of the Lyzohub noble family, which came from a Cossack sergeant in the time of Bohdan Khmelnytsky.

The first known member of the family was a simple Cossack Kindrat Lyzohub from Zolotonosha. His sons, Ivan and Yakiv, advanced from ordinary Cossacks to sergeants during the hetman's strife of the "Ruins" period. Yakiv became a colonel of Chernihiv and settled in Sedniv, and his descendants continued the arrangement of the estate he had begun.

The great reconstruction was carried out in the 19th century by brothers Andriy and Illya Lyzohub. They expanded the park and built a new manor house, and the old stone house (Kamyanytsa Lyzohub) was stylized as a small Gothic castle and converted for household needs. In their estate the brothers received the poet Taras Shevchenko, the biker Leonid Hlibov, the artist Lev Zhemchuzhnikov and other famous cultural figures of the time (monuments were erected).

In Soviet times, the manor house housed a high school (now - in a new house next door), and in another part of the manor was opened the House of Artists. Shevchenko's 600-year-old linden tree and Hlibov's romantic gazebo, in which the lyrical poem "Kruchyna" was written, have been preserved in the park.

In front of the entrance to the estate there is a monument to the former owners, art lovers and patrons Andriy and Illya Lyzohub.

Map pin icon Tarasa Shevchenko Street, 28 Sedniv

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Менський зоопарк, Мена
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Mena Zoo

Zoo

Mena Zoo is the only one in Ukraine located in a small town.

Founded in 1977 by local nature lover Hennadiy Polosmak. The former police sergeant organized a zoo corner in his house, which later grew into a private zoo, and then into a national zoo.

Today, the Mena Zoo occupies an area of almost 9 hectares. 560 animals of more than 120 species live here. Visitors are most interested in primates (monkeys Vasyl and Nina), tiger, lion, brown bears, bison, Nimogau antelopes, camel, crocodiles, pythons.

Map pin icon Chernihivsky shlyakh, 32 Mena

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