Attractions of Tarashcha

The complex of Present Places in Tarashcha was designed by the imperial architect, professor of the architectural class of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, Andreyan Zakharov.

It was built in 1803-1817 after Tarashcha became a county town.

Official county offices, a prison, a wing of the Zemstvo court, the treasury, and the city administration have been preserved. Under the complex is a network of underground tunnels, through which prisoners from the Zemstvo prison were taken to the construction of the cathedral (destroyed in the 1930s).

Now one of the buildings houses a labor exchange, the others are used as residential buildings

The Tower fire station was built in Tarasha in the middle of the 19th century according to the project of architect Andreyan Zakharov.

It is an architectural monument of local importance. In satisfactory condition, located next to the fire station. The entrance is closed.

The Roman Catholic Church of Saint Mary Magdalene in Tarashcha was built in the 1890s in the pseudo-Gothic style.

The construction of the church began in 1886. Count Branytsky collected money for it. An organ was installed in the church, the pointed windows were decorated with stained glass.

During the time of the Soviet authorities, they intended to open a pasta factory in the premises, but this was prevented by the Second World War. During the German occupation, the church became an Orthodox temple, and in the 1960s it was divided into 2 floors, making small classrooms on the first floor, and a large assembly hall on the second floor - the church became a music school.

Currently, the Church of Mary Magdalene is one of the decorations of Tarascha, it still houses the Tarascha Music School named after Mykola Lysenko. You can come in and inspect the premises during working hours.

The Natural History Museum "Porossya Pearls" in Tarashcha has been operating at the Center for Extracurricular Education "Veselka" since 2008. The museum was created on the initiative of the local historian Valeriy Romanyuk with the participation of the famous archaeologist Svitlana Bessonova.

The exposition presents archaeological materials collected on the outskirts of Tarashcha by activists of the Nevryda archaeological club.

In particular, you can see a considerable collection of bronze products of various functional purposes from the Scythian era, early Scythian ceramic dishes, fragments of molded ceramics from other eras.

Household items from the times of Kyivan Rus, household items from the Lithuanian and Polish era, Cossack weapons are also presented.

Since 1965, the Tarashcha Historical and Local Lore Museum has been located in the priest's house at the Mary Magdalene Church, built in Tarashcha at the end of the 19th century. The priest's brick house was built in 1917.

The exposition of the museum introduces the archaeological finds in the territory of Tarashcha and its surroundings, the history of this region from the earliest times to the present, and the unique culture of the inhabitants of this district of Kyiv region.

In particular, collections of clay figurines, embroidered towels, and various wooden tools are presented. A separate exposition is dedicated to prominent residents of Tarashcha, among whom are many famous scientists and teachers.