Attractions of Romny

The Church of the Holy Ascension was built in Romny at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries outside the city wall, on the site of a wooden church founded in 1700.

In 1895, a bell tower was added. In 1896, a church and parish school was opened.

During Soviet times, the temple was closed, the building was not used for its intended purpose.

The revival of the Ascension Church began in 1996. Restoration is underway.

The Cathedral of the Descent of the Holy Spirit is the oldest stone building in the city of Romny.

It is located at the highest point of the city - on Bazarna Square.

This outstanding monument of architecture in the Ukrainian Baroque style was created in 1738-1746 on the site of a temple founded in 1689.

Fragments of paintings have been preserved.

The school museum of ethnography "Belfry of Revelation of Eternity" operates at the Romny Secondary School №5.

He has five expositions: "Towels of his native land", "Heritage through the eyes of children", "Bread is the head of everything", "Holodomor of 1932-1933", "Easter pysanka".

A Pig Monument with the inscription on the pedestal "From grateful Ukrainians" was opened in the city park of Romny in 2000.

Here, on the site of an ancient Rus settlement, archaeologists found pig bones. They came to the conclusion that the pigs, which the Mongols could not eat because of their religion and therefore were not taken from local residents, saved the people from starvation.

The Romny concrete pig, sitting on its hind legs, became the fourth pig monument in the world.

The Romny Local Lore Museum is located in the historical center of the city of Romny and is part of the State Historical and Cultural Reserve "Posullia". It is one of the richest museums in the Sumy region - its funds contain about 50 thousand exhibits.

The history of the museum began in 1919, when the Society for the Protection of Monuments of Antiquity and Art was founded in Romny. During the first decades, the museum changed its address several times, until in 1943 it was located in the current premises of the former 19th century bank.

The museum's exposition tells about the history of the Romny region and the nature of the region. There are permanent exhibitions: "Spiritual amulets of the region", "The people of Romny - heroes of Chernobyl", "The historical choice of the people", "Life in the name of science", "Milestones of the history of the Romny region", "The Romny region during the Second World War", the diorama "Animal world of the Romny region".

The heroic Cossack era in the history of Romny region is represented by weapons, a collection of Cossack pipes and household items from the 17th-18th centuries. Among the rarities is the Lithuanian Statute of 1588, the oldest printed edition in the museum collections of Sumy region. A unique relic associated with the name of Taras Shevchenko is a torban, which belonged to the Kobzar himself. The pride of the museum is a luxurious art collection and a rich ethnographic and household collection.

Near the building of the local history museum lies a huge boulder, brought here by a glacier from Karelia 180 thousand years ago.

The Church of Saint Basil in Romny is part of the complex of the Holy Spirit Cathedral and, in fact, is its bell tower.

After reconstruction, it became elongated, without a dome.

The Church of Saint Basil is located on the Bazarna Square in the city of Romny, next to the market and the ancient Rus settlement.

The State Historical and Cultural Reserve "Posullya" unites a whole complex of historical and cultural monuments of the Romny and Nedryhailiv districts of Sumy region, located in the basin of the Sula River, including historical museums, an ethnographic complex, a number of memorable places and natural monuments.

The administration of the reserve is located in the city of Romny, in a 19th-century building, next to the Romny Museum of Local Lore. The reserve also includes the Nedryhailiv Museum of Local Lore, the Petro Kalnyshevsky Museum with the architectural and ethnographic complex "Old Village", the Oleksa Yushchenko Estate Museum.

The museum fund of the reserve consists of about 40 thousand exhibits that introduce the historical past and present, nature, ethnography, and artistic heritage of the Posullya region.

The "Posullya" reserve also takes care of objects of historical and cultural heritage and natural reserve fund of local and national importance, including the complexes of Scythian mounds, the Severyansk settlement Monastyryshche, the Mammoth Monument at the site of a Paleolithic site in the village of Kulishivka, the geological monument - Zolotukha Mount, etc.

The first full-size monument in Ukraine to the outstanding Ukrainian poet and public figure Taras Shevchenko was erected in Romny in 1918 (according to other sources, in 1919).

The city of Romny at that time was already under the control of the Bolsheviks, who actively supported the cult of the "revolutionary poet". The author of the monument is the famous sculptor Ivan Kavaleridze. The sculpture, which depicts Shevchenko sitting in a thoughtful pose, is considered the most "human" monument to the poet.

A model of this monument has been installed in Kyiv, on Andriyivsky Descent.