Attractions of Rivne district

The romantic ruins of the Hubkiv Castle adorn the picturesque rocky shore of the Sluch River.

The castle was built in the 15th century. It was first mentioned in 1505, when it was destroyed by the Tatars. In the 16th century, the Semashko princes restored the Hubkiv castle, turning it into one of the most powerful fortifications in Volyn. The fortification system consisted of four corner towers, united by walls with loopholes, an entrance gate and a drawbridge. Residential and commercial buildings were located in the castle yard.

In 1596, during Severyn Nalyvayko's rebellion, the Hubkiv Castle was captured by the Cossacks under the command of Hryhoriy Loboda (a memorial sign was erected), but was soon restored by the Poles.

Two episodes of the Northern War, when the fortifications were destroyed first by Russian (1704) and then by Swedish troops (1708), were fatal for the stronghold. Since that time, Hubkiv Castle has not been restored.

Small sections of dilapidated walls of one tower and the former palace, the castle well, have been preserved. Access is free.

The Korets Historical Museum was opened in the former Horchynsky Palace (18th century) to mark the 850th anniversary of the first chronicle of the city.

The exposition is located in five halls: the history of the city of Korets, World War II, ethnography and two exhibitions. More than 6,000 exhibits reflect the history, culture and life of the region.

In front of the entrance to the Korets Historical Museum there is a monument to Taras Shevchenko, according to the legend, remade from the monument to Lenin.

The historic quarter "Maidan Bergshloss" opened in 2020 as part of the renewed architectural complex of the Rivne Brewery at the initiative of the director of the enterprise Maryan Hoda.

A small cobbled square is surrounded by three-story buildings reminiscent of the buildings of an old European city. Colorful and stylish false facades have Polish, German and Scandinavian features.

Most of the premises are currently occupied by the Hotel Optima Collection Bergshloss Rivne of the "Reikarts" chain. There is an Italian restaurant.

The European courtyard "Maidan Bergshloss" is periodically used as a festival site and a cultural and exhibition space.

The opening of the Beer and Hop Growing Museum is planned.

A monument to the princes Ostrozki - Reverend Fedir (in a scheme), Kostyantyn Ivanovych (with a sword) and Vasyl-Kostyantyn (with a Bible) - was erected in 2000 in the square in the central square of the city Ostroh.

In the 14th and 17th centuries, Ostroh was the main residence of the powerful Volyn family of the Ostrozki princes. The figures of the three most glorious representatives of the family are immortalized against the background of five arches crowned with a cross.

The author of the Princes Ostrozki Monument is Honored Artist of Ukraine Serhiy Chumakov.

The wooden Saint Nicholas Church is located in the western part of the ancient Rus settlement of Peresopnytsia.

It was probably built in the 18th century on the site of an older church that existed during the heyday of the Peresopnytsia Monastery of the Nativity of the Virgin, when the Peresopnytsia Gospel was created (16th century).

The Nicholas Church is a three-part, one-story building consisting of a rectangular nave and nave and a hexagonal altar block. Above the nave rises an octagonal pediment, crowned by an octagonal dome with a decorative lantern. In 1888, an additional entrance was cut into the southern wall of the nave, highlighted by a small porch on two wooden posts, and a vestibule was added to the nave from the west. A two-story wooden belfry was built nearby.

The Nicholas Church in Peresopnytsia has harmonious proportions and is one of the most distinctive wooden churches in this region of Volyn.

Next to the Saint Nicholas Church there is a reconstruction of a fragment of the Peresopnytsia hillfort of the 12th-13th centuries - a wooden wall with three towers.

Known throughout Volhyn, the tract of Saint Nicholas with twin Sources in a stone grotto (cave) has been known since the time of the Ostrozky princes.

On the outskirts of the village of Hilcha Persha, clean Sources of living cold water emerge from the ground. It was believed that these keys are not simple, but "thunderous", struck by God's lightning and, therefore, healing. Therefore, for centuries, the source of Saint Nicholas has attracted many people.

The grotto and pool were built in the 18th century. The poet Olena Pchilka (mother of Lesya Ukrainka), who was in Hilcha with her children, described the "God's path" of the holy stream in the short poem "Hulcha".

"Swan Lake" park in the center of Rivne is all that remains of the estate of the Lubomyrsky princes.

Until the middle of the 20th century, in the place where the "Avanhard" stadium is now located, there stood the Empire-style Lubomyrsky Palace, built on the basis of the medieval castle of Princess Mariya of Rivne, the widow of Prince Semen Nesvytskyi.

In the 18th century, the Lyubomirskis laid a palace park with the participation of the architect Yan Yakub Burhinyon. At the beginning of the 19th century, it was redesigned in the English style by the famous park builder Dionysius Makler (Mickler). After the First World War, the manor fell into disrepair. The palace burned down, and the park was cut down.

After the Second World War, the park was partially restored and named Komsomolsky, but the name "Swan Lake" stuck in the people, because swans live on a small pond in the center of the park.

The Gallery of European Painting "Euro-Art" opened in Rivne in 2011.

The gallery introduces the art of the 19th–20th centuries. The four halls of the gallery present paintings by Western European and Ukrainian artists with world names: Volodymyr Orlovsky, Albert Bredov, Davyd Burlyuk, Oleksa Novakivsky, Serhiy Shyshko, Fedir Manaylo, Andriy Kotska, Erno Erb, Ernest Kontratovych, Oleksiy Shovkunenko, Tomassyne Dezyre, Teodor Russo, Piter Kalman, Yozef Braks, Leon Delderene, Yaroslav Vyeshyn, Vinchentso Volpe, Yaroslav Kamikh and others.

Art exhibitions are systematically held in the hall of temporary exhibitions "Euro-Art".

The school historical and ethnographic museum "Crafts of Volyn" was opened in the village of Oleksandriia on the basis of the Regional Art Lyceum in 2011.

The museum exposition is presented in three thematic sections - "Interior of a Ukrainian house of the late 19th - early 20th centuries", "Crafts and crafts of Volyn and Volyn Polissya of the late 19th - early 20th centuries" and "Modern crafts of Volyn".

The first section presents the internal layout of Ukrainian housing, typical for Volyn in the late 19th - early 20th centuries: a three-part type of hut, a living room and a utility room for storing food, minor repairs and seasonal clothing, a stove.

The department of crafts of this period presents the main and auxiliary crafts of Volhynia and Volyn Polissya: woodworking (copperworking, carpentry, weaving), blacksmithing, weaving, pottery, wrestling and fishing.

Modern crafts of Volyn are represented by products of masters of Rivne and Volyn regions from various types of decorative and applied arts: artistic woodworking, pottery, artistic ceramics, glass painting, leather processing, wood painting, thread printing, artistic embroidery, straw weaving, straw plastic, wickerwork, beadwork, floristry, fine arts, paintings from poplar fluff, folk toys, Easter eggs, blacksmithing, artistic weaving from natural materials, processing of torn flax, non-woven tapestry, author's doll, motanka doll.

The Arsenyev estate in Shubkiv was built in the 19th century. The two-story building was rebuilt in Soviet times and housed the village council.

An outbuilding with an original roof has also been preserved. A giant chestnut tree 26 meters high grows in the yard.

The Berezne Museum of Local Lore is located in the former house of landowner Mykhaylo Malynsky, built in 1902-1903 in the classicism style.

5 thousand exhibits tell about the history of Berezne region from the earliest times. In particular, an iron sword and an arrowhead of the XIV-XV centuries, objects of the Cossack era, are presented.

The interwar period is characterized by documents, photographs, household items, books that belonged to the destroyed Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, icons from the Roman Catholic Church.

One of the halls is dedicated to modern decorative and applied art.

The Bereznivsky State Dendrological Park was established in 1979 at the Berezne Forestry College.

Currently, about 900 species of trees and shrubs from many parts of the world grow here on an area of 30 hectares. Representatives of flora from Central Asia and the Caucasus, the Carpathians and the Crimea, North America, Siberia and the Far East, Japan and China have taken root in Polissya.

Walking paths have been laid in the park, a cascade of ponds has been built, gazebos and observation decks have been equipped. There is a separate area of ornamental plants, a birch grove (more than 40 species of birch), jasmine gardens, and a rose garden.

Excursions are conducted.

The National Museum of Ukrainian Translator and Poet Borys Ten (Mykola Khomychevsky) has been operating on a non-profit basis on the basis of the Derman Gymnasium since 2008.

The museum's exposition contains materials and photographs that tell about the Khomychevsky family, in which Borys Ten was born in 1897, about the years of study at the Derman Gymnasium, about the three higher educations of the famous translator (theological, pedagogical and musical), the rectorship in the Peter and Paul Church in Podil, 10 years of camps in the Far East, about his only son Vasylko, about participation in World War II and captivity, about the difficult path to fame and recognition.

The Khomychevsky family house has been preserved in Derman to this day (a memorial plaque has been installed).

The Brewing and Hopmaking Museum of Historical Volyn was opened in Rivne by the director of the Rivne Brewery, Maryan Goda, in 2025. The creation of the exposition took about five years.

The museum will be located in the former house of the first director of the Rivne brewery, Hersh Pisyuk, built in 1928 on the plot bordering the territory of the enterprise.

Until recently, the two-story building was occupied by the Rivne City Center for Student Youth Creativity. After the restoration, the building became part of the complex of buildings of the "Maidan Bergshloss" Historic Quarter with a hotel and a fairground.

The museum's exposition recreates the atmosphere of an old brewery and tells about the history of brewing in Volyn - not only in Rivne, but also in Lutsk, Kremenets, Semyduby, Kvasyliv, Vovkovyi and other cities.

The basis of the exhibition is Marian Goda's personal collection: beer bottles up to a hundred years old, over 300 beer mugs, wooden barrels, elements of brewing and laboratory equipment, historical documents and photographs.

The People`s Museum of the History of the Village of Bystrychi was founded in 1985 on the basis of the Bystrychi Secondary School.

The museum's exposition is divided into separate thematic sections. The "Archaeological Past" section presents samples of stone tools, fragments of clay vessels of linear-ribbon, comb-ringed and cord ceramics, metal products and their fragments of the Chernyakhiv culture.

The "Ancient History of the Village" section presents fragments of frescoes of the 18th-century lord's palace, Cossack pipes, Cossack symbols, documents and photographs.

Separate sections are dedicated to the events of the First and Second World Wars, as well as the period of the liberation struggles of 1917-1920. A separate exposition is dedicated to the activities of the founder of the UPA, General-Coroner Taras Bulba-Borovets for the revival of Ukrainian statehood.

Household items and craft tools traditional for the region are also presented.