Attractions of Kremenets

Saint Nicholas Cathedral in Kremenets was built in the Baroque style as a church of the Franciscan monastery, founded in 1606 at the expense of the princes Vyshnevetskys (according to legend, the founder of the monastery was Queen Bona).

The Franciscan monastery had a fraternal school and a printing house, where the "Kremenets Grammar" was printed. In 1832, after the defeat of the Polish uprising and the beginning of the Russification of Western Ukrainian lands, the monastery was closed, and the church was reconsecrated as the Orthodox Nicholas Cathedral of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate. During the reconstruction, the church lost its Gothic-Renaissance appearance and acquired Baroque features.

In 2023, after almost 200 years of being used by representatives of the Moscow Patriarchate, the Saint Nicholas Cathedral in Kremenets returned to state ownership and was transferred to the Kremenets-Pochaiv Historical and Architectural Reserve.

On December 6, 2023, the first service in the Ukrainian language was held in the Saint Nicholas Cathedral on the occasion of Saint Nicholas Day.

The Ulas Samchuk Museum is located in Kremenets in the main building of the Ulas Samchuk Lyceum. It was opened in 2005 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the writer's birth as the cabinet-museum "Ulas Samchuk's Svitlytsya". It acquired the status of a literary museum in 2010.

The museum's exposition highlights the life and creative path of Ulas Samchuk, honoring the memory of the writer. Among the exhibits are student lists, pages of class magazines, a statement, pages of the student almanac "Youth" of Ulas Samchuk's gymnasium period; photographs, documents from the writer's stay in Rivne in 1941-1943. Among the valuable exhibits are photographs of the writer from different years, his family, friends; books published by the artist in Munich, Toronto; photo documents, press materials from past years, current publications, memoirs about Ulas Samchuk, works of the writer published in independent Ukraine, works of his contemporaries. A significant number of books of the writer's creative output came from the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada and the USA.

The museum's exposition has sections: "Childhood and Youth of Ulas Samchuk (1905-1921), "Study at the Kremenets Gymnasium (1921-1927)", "First Emigration (1928-1941)", "Return to the Homeland (1941-1943)", "Stay in camps for the displacement of persons (1943-1948)", "Second Emigration (1948-1987)", "Honoring the Memory of Ulas Samchuk in Ukraine", "Havrylo Chernykhivskyi - a Researcher of Ulas Samchuk's Creativity", "Honoring the Memory of Ulas Samchuk in the Lyceum".

On February 19, 2016, a memorial tablet dedicated to the memory of Ulas Samchuk was unveiled on the facade of the Lyceum.