Attractions of Horodets

The Polissya Literary Museum was established in the village of Horodets in 2001 in the premises of a school. The museum exposition is located in three halls and has about 1.5 thousand exhibits.

A lot of information is collected here, in particular, about the native of the village, the outstanding writer and author of the dictionary and textbook of Esperanto for Ukrainians Avenir Kolomyets. A lot of materials have been collected about the poetess Halyna Hordasevych, whose childhood years were spent in Horodets. In the middle of the 19th century, the classic of Polish literature Yuzef-Ihnatsiy Krashevsky lived and worked here for a long time. The outstanding Polish local historian, folklorist, author of the first journalistic work about the city of Rivne, Tadeush Yezhy Stetsky, was born in Horodets. A separate showcase is dedicated to the Rivne local historian and writer Hryhoriy Demyanchuk, who with his publications gave impetus to the revival of the literary past of Horodets.

In addition, the Polissya Literary Museum has the most complete library of autographed publications by local authors, the collection of which is constantly being updated.