Attractions of Sarny district

Dubrovytsia Historical and Ethnographic Museum was established in 1957 as the Museum of the Armed Uprising of 1917.

The exposition in 4 halls tells about the origin and development of Dubrovytsia in chronological order: "History of the ancient city", "Life and tools", "Our land during the Second World War", "Modernity".

Among the exhibits are works of art by potter Yevtukh Kulyk, master of folk art Ulyana Kit, photographs of the Counts of Plyater, copies of the pages of the Peresopnytsia Gospel.

The majestic church of John the Baptist in the mature baroque style, which stands in the center of Dubrovytsia, was built at the beginning of the 18th century, after the wooden Catholic church built in 1684 at the expense of Yan Dolsky burned down.

According to other sources, the current church was built in 1695-1702.

After the Second World War, the church was closed by the Soviet authorities, but in 1992, after Ukraine gained independence, it was returned to the Catholic community of Dubrovytsia.

The Church of John the Baptist is an architectural monument of national importance. Restoration has been carried out.

The deer farm in the village of Kostiantynivka near Sarny has been welcoming tourists since 2019. About 50 red deer, over 30 fallow deer and other wild animals live in a large enclosure. They are joined by domestic animals, including sheep, goats, pigs, rabbits, ornamental chicken breeds, etc.

Visitors are free to walk around the farm, take pictures with the animals and feed them special food purchased on site. Almost all the animals on the farm are accustomed to people and willingly eat food straight from their hands.

The wooden Holy Trinity Church in Sarny is one of the oldest monuments of the wooden architecture of Polissya.

The church was built in the village of Dorotychy in 1725 at the expense of landowner Antoniy Prushynsky.

Initially, the Trinity Church had two baths, but later, thanks to the efforts of the abbot Father Ioann, a third one was built above the bell tower. In the same year, a house was built for the priest, which is still standing near the church. There is only one throne in the temple - in honor of the Holy Trinity.

The Klesiv Arboretum was created on the territory of the Klesiv Forestry by a self-taught landscape designer, former forester Oleksiy Voron.

With his own hands, he created a lot of green sculptures from trees and shrubs, which he brought from various forests of Ukraine. The alleys of the Klesiv Arboretum are decorated with balls, pyramids, cylinders and glasses. There are about 30 sculptures, many arches and other architectural forms. There are also complex sculptural compositions: "Virgin Mary's Candle", "Olympic Cup", "Bohdan Khmelnytskyi's Chalice".

At the entrance to the Klesiv Arboretum, visitors are greeted by a huge coat of arms of Ukraine made of spherical thuja trees.

The Literary and Ethnographic Museum "Olesya" was founded in the village of Kuzmivka on the basis of the Kuzmivka Comprehensive School in 1990.

The first hall of the museum is dedicated to the life and work of Oleksandr Kuprin, who lived in Kuzmivka (then Kazymyrka) at the end of the 19th century and wrote his famous story "Olesya". The prototypes of the heroes of the work were local residents, and the events described actually happened to him.

The next hall is ethnographic. Here are presented materials about the history of Kuzmivka and the region, ancient things that Polishchuk people used at the beginning of the last century, tools, household items, and ancient clothing.

The Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin Mary was built in Dubrovytsia in 1865 at the expense of Count Ihnatiy Broel-Plyater.

The three-domed stone temple is made in the late Baroque style.

In Soviet times, the church building was used as a salt warehouse. Today it is an active temple, an architectural monument of national importance.

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.

The wooden church of Saint Nicholas was built in the city of Dubrovytsia in 1872 at the expense of the parishioners. In 1876, a church-parish fraternity was founded at the church, and in 1877, a one-class public school was opened.

Saint Nicholas Church is an architectural monument of local importance.

The temple is active and belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

Sarny Historical and Ethnographic Museum is a department of the Rivne Regional Museum of Local Lore.

The exposition is devoted to folk crafts and handicrafts, life and everyday life of Polishchuk peasants.

A mini-skansen (open-air museum) was opened on the territory of the museum in 2020. Monuments of folk architecture from the village of Horynychi have been collected and restored here: two village estates and a wooden chapel of the XVIII century, a smithy and a windmill of the XIX century.

Traditionally, the museum hosts folk art festivals with the invitation of amateur art groups, masters of folk art.

The People`s History Museum of the Village of Stepan was founded in 1960.

The museum's exposition is located in four halls. Among the museum's exhibits, the oldest of which date back to the 13th-15th centuries, are weapons found on Stepan Val, a shovel from the time of Kyivan Rus, jewelry of the Ostrozky princes, etc.

In the hall "Life and clothing of Stepan residents of the late 19th - early 20th centuries" the interior of a traditional Polissya hut is recreated - with small windows, various machines, a stove, a wooden basin, old icons on the corner and a cradle.

The exposition also presents a large collection of embroidered towels and authentic Polissya clothing. In particular, you can see the men's and women's folk costumes of Polishchuk peasants (Polissya embroidered shirts, namitka, litnyk, katsaveyka, svita, kozhukh) and footwear (lychaky, wooden drepy, chuni).

A separate hall is dedicated to the life and work of the talented artist Stepan Chupryna, a native of Stepan.

The Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord in the Art Nouveau style was built in Sarny in 1936 instead of the old wooden church.

Students of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow made a significant contribution to the construction. Construction continued until 1939, but it was never finished - the belfry remained unfinished. The last abbot was Yan Lenynsky, who left the city with the last Poles in 1945.

In the priest's house, the military commissariat was placed, then courses of civil defense and car enthusiasts. The premises of the church itself served as a food warehouse.

The shrine was returned to believers only in 1991. Restoration has begun. In 1995, the restored image of Our Lady of Ostrobram was returned to the church and the first mass was held.

The people`s Museum of the History of the Village of Vysotsk was established in 1986 on the initiative of HryhoriyYatsuta.

The museum is located in a separate building with an area of ​​172 square meters. It includes three exhibition sections and has over 3,600 exhibits, of which about 2,000 are exhibited in three halls with an area of ​​108 square meters.

Of interest are materials that tell about human life in the 4th century BC on the territory of Vysotsk (according to archaeological research by Academician Sveshnikov, carried out in 1963). These are silicon arrowheads and spearheads, scrapers, knife-shaped plates, fragments of a stone hammer, pottery, a slate spinning wheel, images of women's jewelry and coin hryvnias found at the ancient Rus settlement of the 9th-13th centuries, located in the eastern part of Vysotsk.

The museum's materials tell about prominent figures of education, culture, and religion whose names are associated with Vysotsk - Meletiy Smotrytsky, Ivan and Fedir Solomaretsky, Edvard Rulikovsky, and Vatslav Boreyko. A separate important group of exhibits in the museum are materials from the era of the hetmans of Ukraine Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Yuriy Khmelnytsky, and Pavlo Teterya.

The museum has written sources dating back to 1709 (Marriage Registration Books, Confession Books, individual letters and church and secular documents).

A large collection of material culture objects is presented, namely from agriculture, fishing, pottery, beekeeping, and weaving. The most interesting and rare are the dovbank boats raised from the bottom of the Horyn River, which are over 200 years old, and the loom used to make canvas.

Among the museum's exhibits are materials that tell about the peasant unrest of the era of Severyn Nalyvayko, the Richytskyi rebellion of 1910, etc. Most of the exhibits testify to the struggle of local residents against foreign oppressors during the times of the Russian Empire and feudal Poland, especially at the beginning of the 20th century and during World War II, for the independence of Ukraine.

In addition, some stands of the museum reveal the tragic fate of the Jews of Vysotsk, who were completely destroyed (1864 people) in Vysotsk on September 9, 1942.

The Yuzefinsky oak in the "Yuzefinska dacha" tract near the village of Hlynne is one of the oldest trees in Ukraine.

In the Book of Records of Ukraine, it is recorded as the oldest oak in Ukraine (1,300 years old), but experts of the Kyiv Ecological and Cultural Center concluded that it is no more than 1,000 years old, and it is not the oldest.

The Yuzefinsky oak is also called the "Tree of Prince Ihor" because, according to legend, it witnessed the campaign of Prince Ihor in 945.

The oak-patriarch has a height of about 20 meters, a girth of 7.9 meters. The tree is in extremely bad condition, there are several hollows on the trunk, only two branches remain alive.