Attractions of Dubno district

The first Orthodox church in Dubno was built in the 16th century on Kampa Island near the Transfiguration Monastery, founded by the first owners of the city from the Ostrozky family.

The Transfiguration Church was first mentioned in 1592 in a letter of Prince Kostyantyn Ostrozky as "a creation of our ancestors". In 1643, a stone church was built on the site of the wooden church, which has survived to this day. In 1839, the bell tower was completed.

One of the medieval bells of the Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior (1572) is presented in the exposition "Our Spiritual Treasures" of the Dubno Historical and Cultural Reserve, located in the Dubno Castle.

The Shevchenko spring (Tarasova krynytsya) is located next to the M-06 highway "Kyiv - Chop" not far from Dubno, behind the village of Pidluzhzhia near Tarakaniv.

In the fall of 1846, the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko rested near this spring during his trip to Volyn as an artist in the Archaeological Commission. On his way back from Pochaiv, he visited the village of Verba and the city of Dubno. According to local legend, Shevchenko drank water from this roadside well.

During Soviet times, the Shevchenko spring was beautifully decorated, and a monument to the poet was erected near it.

Tarakaniv Fort (other names - Fort-zastava Dubno, Dubensky Fort) is a powerful fortress during the confrontation between Russia and Austria-Hungary.

Erected on the Russian-Austrian border in 1890 by order of Tsar Oleksandr III to protect the Lviv railway. The Dubno Fort has a rhombus shape and was a concrete-earth fortification. In the center is a quadrangular two-story barracks. It is surrounded by two rows of powerful earth ramparts, between which a 14-meter ditch with stone walls and casemates has been dug.

However, it is believed that from the point of view of military engineering, the project was unsuccessful. Tarakaniv Fort was not used for its intended purpose. Now it is in a neglected state and is gradually collapsing.