Attractions of Rivne district

The Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity and Saint Michael the Archangel was built in Tuchyn in 1614 at the expense of the nobleman Mykola Semashko.

The temple burned down several times, in particular during the Liberation War of 1648-1654, when Tuchyn was captured by Maksym Kryvonos Cossacks. After the signing of the Andrusiv truce in 1667 and the return of the Poles, the church was restored.

The temple suffered the greatest destruction during the Second World War, as it served as a shelter for the defending Red Army soldiers, then for the Germans. After this war, the Trinity Church was not restored - it is still half-ruined.

Trinity Derman Monastery is an ancient Orthodox monastery with a pronounced defensive character.

The Derman Monastery was founded on the spurs of the Mizoch Range at the end of the 15th century by Prince Vasyl Ostrozky. It served as the country residence of the prince, in connection with which fortifications were erected - a stone castle surrounded by walls with loopholes and a moat with water. The entrance was guarded by a massive gate tower, later transformed into the bell tower of the monastery.

Later, the Trinity Church and monastery cells were built by Vasyl-Kostyantyn Ostrozky.

In 1575-1576, the Derman monastery was managed by the first printer Ivan Fedorov, in 1602 a printing house and a religious school were opened.

In 1627-1633, the abbot of the monastery, which became Greek-Catholic, was Meletiy Smotrytskyi, the author of "Slavic Grammar".

In the 19th century, the Russian government took the monastery from the Greek Catholics and handed it over to the Orthodox monks from Ostroh.

Currently, the Derman Monastery is active and belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate. The complex includes the Trinity Cathedral, the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, the Church of Fedir Ostrozky. A residential building with a church in honor of Saint Innocent of Irkutsk is under construction.

A pergola (a natural fence made of trees or bushes) is called the "Tunnel of Love" in Klevan, which grew above the railway tracks near the "Klevan" station in a very unusual way. For a moment, the authorities stopped cutting the trees, and the thick crowns formed an improvised grotto.

In the warm season, this green avenue serves as a filming location for local newlyweds - visiting the "Tunnel of Love" is considered a good omen.

The Literary and Memorial Museum of the outstanding Ukrainian writer and public figure Ulas Samchuk opened in Derman in 1995 with the financial support of the Toronto Society "Volyn" (Canada).

The museum is located in the building of the Derman Gymnasium (former teacher's seminary), where Samchuk once studied.

The museum exposition tells about the childhood of Ulas Samchuk, his family, studies, you can see icons from the writer's house, and later
his uncle. Among the valuable exhibits of the museum are photographs of the writer from different years, books published by Ulas Samchuk in Munich, several personal belongings (a walking stick, glasses, business cards). Separate expositions are dedicated to researchers of Ulas Samchuk's work and honoring his memory.

Over the past few years, the museum has collected a significant amount of additional materials that expand and complement the exhibition: these are photo documents, materials from the press of the past and current publications, memoirs of Ulas Samchuk's contemporaries. A significant number of books of the writer's creative output came from the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada, where Ulas Samchuk spent his last years, and the USA (not yet published in Ukraine).

A memorial plaque in honor of Ulas Samchuk is installed on the facade of the gymnasium.

The Ulas Samchuk Literary Museum in Rivne was opened in 2007 on the 102nd anniversary of the birth of the writer, who was born in Rivne region.

The writer spent most of his life in exile, always remaining a chronicler of his time and people. Samchuk was called the Ukrainian Homer of the twentieth century.

The Ulas Samchuk Museum is a department of the Rivne Regional Museum of Local Lore.

The museum's exposition highlights the main creative achievements of Ulas Samchuk and focuses on the influence of the writer's personality on the entire Ukrainian literary process of the twentieth century. Visitors are presented with the first editions of the trilogy "Volyn", other works of the writer, letters, photographs, his personal belongings.

In addition, the museum focuses on the Rivne period of life and work of the writer (1941-1943), visually recreating the life of Samchuk's apartment in those years (things from the former Rivne apartment where he lived) and preserving the main achievements of the writer in this period.

The exposition of the museum tells about the life and creative path of the writer, shows the cohort of literary figures of the Ukrainian language, with whom Ulas Samchuk met.

The monument to Ulas Samchuk was erected in Rivne in 2005 in honor of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Ukrainian writer and public figure of the national liberation struggle.

The monument is located in front of the drama theater building. Authors of the monument: Mykola Pasichnyk, Viktor Kovalchuk, Tetiana Melnychuk, Volodymyr Sholudko.

The UPA Museum-Kryivka (hideout) in the Hurby tract near the Holy Resurrection Monastery at the Insurgent Graves near the village of Mosty was opened in 2011.

In April 1944, the Battle of Hurby took place between UPA units and NKVD troops.

The planning and interior equipment of the insurgents' bunker is based on drawings made by NKVD officers: bunk beds, boxes, shelves, shelves, tables and benches, a stove. On the walls are black and white photographs, postcards and posters of the time.

You can also see weapons, military uniforms, equipment and insurgent household items.

The school historical and ethnographic museum "History of the village of Zirne" was opened in 2009.

The museum's expositions consist of several separate sections: "Main occupations and crafts of the villagers of the mid-19th - early 20th centuries", "The beginnings of the history of the village of Zirne", "Under Polish rule", "In the flames of World War II", "The village of Zirne in the second half of the 20th - early 21st centuries" and "Development of education. Outstanding graduates".

A separate stand is dedicated to the UPA hundred Leonid Boreychuk, nicknamed "Strybaylo", and the activities of the Ukrainian underground.

With the beginning of the Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian war, an exposition was created about the heroes of the Heavenly Hundred and the defenders of Ukraine.

The Museum of the History of the Village of Posiahva opened in 1988 in the Posiahva School as a corner of historical material collected on the territory of the village by Anatoliy Melnychuk.

In 1996, the historical corner was reorganized into a systematized museum of the village of Posiahva. In 2004, the museum received new premises. The museum exposition presents more than 400 exhibits. Work on collecting material is still underway.

The museum also features an art gallery, which was collected from old-timers. Most of the paintings are the works of Yevheniya Yakovchuk, a resident of the village of Posiahva, who laid out patterns and flowers from ribbons. Her works are now in Canada, Poland, and Germany.

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.

A wooden three-story building of a water mill on the Korchytsya River (a tributary of the Horyn) was built in Hoshcha in the 18th-19th centuries.

Currently, the mill is not working, the first floor is practically flooded, but part of the equipment that still remains in the building has been preserved.

The Church of Saint Yan Nepomuk in Mizoch stands on the site of a destroyed Cossack temple.

The Empire style building was started by General Kshyshtof Dunin-Karvytskyi in 1795 and finished by his son Kazymyr after 1830.

After 1945, the church was divided in the middle into two parts by beams. There was a library downstairs, and a movie theater upstairs.

In the dungeons of the church, representatives of the Dunin-Karvytsky family were buried, as well as Princess Yadviha Lyubomyrska.

Today it is the Orthodox Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. The interior decoration in the original style has not been preserved.

"Yanush's Furnace" is the name of the only structure that survived from the palace of Yanush Ostrozki in Mezhyrich near Ostroh.

The palace was located next to the Holy Trinity monastery-fortress. All that remains of it is a huge fireplace-type stove with large arched openings, a pyramidal roof and a tall chimney with Renaissance decoration. The fire was lit in the center, the side passages could be closed during the cold season.

It is assumed that the palace guards warmed themselves near the Yanush Furnace. It could also be used during banquets to roast large animal carcasses on spits.

Zaslav (Izyaslav) gate is the only surviving stone element of the outer defensive fortifications of medieval Mezhyrich.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, the defensive Holy Trinity Monastery was the citadel of the Mezhyrich fortress. Its defensive ramparts were organically united and incorporated into the system of earthen fortifications of the village itself. Then earthen ramparts with hexagonal bastions placed at the corners of the ramparts were built around Mezhyrich. You could get to Mezhyrichthrough two gates: the Zaslav Gate on the road to Izyaslav (former Zaslav), which has survived to this day, and the Dubno Gate, which was located where the center of the village is now.

The Zoological Museum in Rivne operates on the basis of the Stepan Demyanchuk International University of Economics and Humanities. The collection of rare animals, which includes over 2,500 specimens, was collected and systematized by biologist Rostyslav Shykula.

All exhibits are rare for Ukraine. Most of them are exotic invertebrates of the seas and tropical coasts and forests. A significant part of the collection is made up of a section that presents insects from Africa, South America, South and Southeast Asia and adjacent islands.

The diversity of the entomofauna of Ukraine is represented by collections of beetles, butterflies, hymenoptera, bedbugs and other arthropods. Among the rare species of Ukraine are the dead-head beetle, the black apollo, the swallowtail, the podalirius sailfish, the stag beetle, the muskrat, the large oak barbel, the hermit beetle.

The most valuable exhibit in the collection is the Hercules beetle, 14.8 centimeters long - it is also the largest beetle in the world.

Today, only Lviv National University has a similar collection in the western regions of Ukraine.