Attractions of Varash district

The empire-style palace was built in Volodymyrets in the 18th century by Count Vinsent Yuzef Krasytsky, a representative of the ancient Polish family of the coat of arms of Rohal.

The building is two-story, with a colonnade. In Poland, it was the residence of the manager of Volodymyrets and Horodets distilleries and agricultural affairs. After the Second World War, the building housed an orphanage, then the office of the collective farm.

The palace is currently in a state of disrepair.

Bile Lake is a lake of karst origin, one of the largest lakes in the Rivne region.

Its area is 453 hectares, the average depth is 4 meters, the maximum depth is 26 meters. Its water is clean and transparent, on the bottom you can clearly see almost white limestone stones, which gave the lake its name. It feeds on the waters of underground sources, and even atmospheric precipitation. The bottom of the lake is sandy. Carp, perch, pike, tench are found. The shores of the lake are a nesting place for migratory birds (cranes, wild ducks and geese).

The lake and its surroundings are a recreation area. The "Bile Lake" rehabilitation and health complex is located on the shore of the lake

The Ethnographic Museum of Embroidery and Weaving of the Village of Mutvytsia, located in a local school, was founded in 2022 on the initiative of Svitlana Sarych.

Embroidered and woven items from all over the district are collected here. The first exhibits were collected by the principals of secondary schools in the district.

The total number of exhibits is over 1 thousand. Some of the exhibits are copies - they were made to display various embroidery ornaments and ceremonial symbols. The collection of towels is divided into separate expositions by embroidery: geometric themes, plant-geometric, plant, ornithomorphic and anthropomorphic. The museum also has many embroidered paintings.

The school ethnographic museum “Svitlytsya” operates in the village of Volodymyrets on the basis of the Volodymyrets Lyceum.

It has two exhibition halls. The first hall, "Life and Way of Life of Polishchuk Peasants," recreates the layout of a traditional Polissya hut.

The second hall is dedicated to the history of the educational institution.

The wooden church in honor of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built in Volodymyrka in 1897.

The interior painting was done for the first time in 1978.

The temple is single-domed, with five baths. There are seven bells in the belfry.

Lake Nobel is located in the floodplain of the Prypyat River in the north of Rivne Region.

Its area is 5 square kilometers, the depth is more than 10 meters. The lake divides the peninsula from north to south, on which the village of Nobel is located. The eastern (large) part of the lake is narrow and elongated from north to south, the western part is more oval.

The shores and bottom are sandy, very fragmented. There are four islands. There are crucian carp, tench, pike, perch, catfish, and crayfish. On the banks - nesting of wild geese, ducks and other birds.

The "Polissya tram "Kukushka" railway tourist route was created on the basis of the longest operating narrow-gauge railway in Europe, "Antonivka-Zarichne" (106 kilometers).

The narrow-gauge railway, popularly nicknamed "Kukushka", was built in 1895-1905. The original rails and sleepers, mechanical semaphores, a 150-meter wooden railway bridge over the Styr River in the village of Mlynok have been partially preserved.

Currently, one train is operating on the route, consisting of a TU2 diesel locomotive with four PV51 cars. The cruising speed of the warehouse is 30-40 kilometers per hour. The retro route passes through Volodymyrets, Bila, Borova, Ostrovsk near the Belarusian border through forests and thickets, near relict swamps, numerous natural lakes, beaver and heron reserves.

The landscape park "Prypyat-Stokhid" begins along Zarichne, the decoration of which is Lake Nobel.

Volodymyrets Historical Museum was founded in 1969. The museum is housed in a one-story building built in 1395, which housed the commissariat during the German-fascist occupation, then the printing office of the district newspaper, and the television workshop.

At the time of the opening of the museum, almost two thousand exhibits were collected by the efforts of enthusiasts, almost 800 of which are original. The exposition presents materials about the history of Volodymyrets and Rivne Polissya from the Paleolithic era to the present.

There are also unique exhibits related to famous residents of the village: works of weaver Hanna Leonchuk, awards of world-renowned athlete Anatoliy Prysyazhnyuk, paintings by famous artist Leonid Kovryha and amateur artist Petro Oshurko. The museum has an interesting collection of paper money from different times.

The exhibition, which includes household items, clothes, and a fragment of a Polissya house, introduces Polissya life.

In 2018, a commemorative sign was erected next to the building of the Volodymyrets Historical Museum on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the first offensive battle of the UPA in the village of Volodymyrets.

The communal institution "Local Lore Museum" of Zarichne village council was founded in 2001 and has been receiving visitors since 2007.

About 1,500 exhibits present the historical and ethnographic monuments of Polissya. Among them is a plane-plane of the Cossack era, found in the river Styr.

The exposition of the museum acquaints with weaving and traditional embroidery of Polissya, traditional occupations and crafts (farming, fishing, boarding), the main historical events of the Second World War.

The interior of a typical Polissya house is presented.