Attractions of Boryspil

Boryspil State Historical Museum was founded in 1967 on the initiative of local historian Viktor Yova.

Now the museum's collection includes more than 13 thousand exhibits, all collected in a stylized building on the ancient architecture of the Kyivskyi Shlyakh Street, built specifically for the museum in the 1980s.

The exposition tells, in particular, about famous Boryspil residents: Cossack families of Sulymas and Bezborodkos, poet Ivan Nekrashevych, ethnographer Pavlo Chubynskyi.

The exposition also presents materials of Trypillia culture, a diorama "Construction of the Let Synagogue", a fragment of a Polovtsian stone woman, a large number of weapons, tools, jewelry and household utensils, the interior of a peasant house.

Separate expositions tell about Boryspil during the period of Tatar captivity and Polish rule, about the economic development of the city, about the historical events of the liberation struggle of 1917-1921, the Second World War, the Holodomor, the post-war revival, the present.

The majestic cathedral in honor of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God was built in Boryspil at the end of the 20th century according to the project of the archbishop of Cherkasy and Kaniv Sophronius.

The cathedral has four thrones: the central throne is consecrated in honor of the Intercession of the Mother of God, the right aisle is in honor of the miracle of Archangel Michael in Khony, the left one is in honor of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, and the lower church is consecrated in honor of the holy pious princes of the martyrs Boris and Hlib.

It belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The Knyshovy memorial park complex in Boryspil was created in 2007 on the territory of the historical cemetery, where many famous people are buried: ethnographer-folklorist and author of the words of the national anthem of Ukraine Pavlo Chubynsky, Decembrist Vasyl Lukashevych, hero of the Soviet Union Mykhaylo Babkin.

During the Holodomor of 1932-1933, people who died of starvation were buried here. In 1934, the Knyshova Church and Chubynsky's grave were destroyed.

Currently, the territory of the park has been cleaned and arranged, and the creation of a memorial complex is underway. Saint Nicholas Church was rebuilt.