Attractions of Romny district

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 wooden Holy Trinity Church in Pustoviitivka was founded in 1773 at the expense of the last basket chieftain of Zaporizhzhia Sich, Petro Kalnyshevskyi.

After the Second World War, the temple premises were used as a warehouse.

In 2007, the Trinity Church in Pustoviitivka was reconstructed according to traditional technologies of folk wooden architecture as part of the creation of a memorial to Petro Kalnyshevskyi.

The Mammoth Monument in Kulishivka is the first such monument in the world.

It was established in 1841 in honor of a paleontological find made in 1839 by the Ukrainian scientist-naturalist, professor of Kharkiv University, Ivan Kalynychenko. He unearthed a well-preserved skeleton of a mammoth discovered by local residents during excavations. The find was presented to the zoological office of Kharkiv University.

At the suggestion of Professor Kalynychenko and with the participation of the owner of the estate, Count Yuriy Holovkin, in 1841, a 3-meter cast-iron memorial was erected at the place where the bones were found.

The Kulishivka monument to the mammoth is now a landmark of the district and is even depicted on its coat of arms.

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".

The first monument in Ukraine to Petro Kalnyshevskyi, the last kosh chieftain of Zaporizhzhia Sich, was erected in the village of Pustoviitivka, where he was born in 1691.

In fact, with the installation of this monument in 1991, the creation of the Kalnyshevsky memorial in Pustoviitivka began.

The chieftain is depicted with the hetman's mace in his hand. The authors of the monument are academician Vasyl Boroday and sculptor Rostyslav Synko.

The memorial complex of the last Kish Otaman of the Zaporizhzhia Sich Petro Kalnyshevsky in the village of Pustoviitivka in the Sumy region includes the Museum of Petro Kalnyshevsky, which is a department of the State Historical and Cultural Reserve "Posullya".

The museum was founded in 2005 on the basis of materials from the Romny Museum of Local Lore, which previously formed the exhibition "Legendary Koshovy ". It is located in the house of culture of the village of Pustoviitivka, in the homeland of Petro Kalnyshevsky.

The main exposition tells about the life of the Kish Otaman: childhood in his native village, dedication to the Sich, service in the Zaporozhzhian Lowland Army, election as Kish Otaman, participation in the Russo-Turkish war of 1768-1774, imprisonment by order of the tsarist government and exile on Solovki. Reconstruction of the interior of the Solovki cell, where Petro Kalnyshevsky spent 25 years, is presented.

Also on display are fragments of a wooden Trinity Church, built at the expense of the Otaman in Pustoviitivka (now reconstructed). You can also see a collection of Cossack weapons, coins, pipes, icons.

Two more exhibition halls present local archeological finds of Scythian times and materials about other prominent natives of Pustoviitivka.

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 Museum of Local Lore is one of the richest in the region.

Its funds include 50,000 exhibits. The museum tells about the history of Romny region and the nature of the region. There are permanent exhibitions: "Spiritual charms of the region", "Romny - heroes of Chornobyl", "Historical choice of the people", "Life in the name of science", "Milestones of the history of Romny region", "Romny region during the Second World War", diorama "Animal the world of Romny region".

Near the Museum of Local Lore building lies a huge boulder brought here by a glacier from Kareliya 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.

Saint Nicholas Church in Pustoviitivka was founded in 1900 according to the project of Poltava architect Serhiн Nosov.

Construction was completed in 1906.

Currently, the Nicholas Church is active and belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

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.

The Peoples Museum of the Vilshana Village History in Sumy Oblast has been operating at the Vilshana Lyceum since 2002. It was created on the initiative of local educators.

The exposition tells about the ancient history of the region, the foundation and development of the village of Vilshana, the Holodomor of 1932-1933, the events of World War II, the Chornobyl tragedy, etc.

The museum collection, assembled with the participation of schoolchildren, has over 800 exhibits. These are numerous antiques, fragments of weapons and military equipment, historical documents, old photographs.

A special exhibit is the flag brought by school graduate Oleksandr Zayika from the area where the joint forces operation was conducted in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

The Literary Museum of Writers Leonid Poltava and Yosyp Dudka operates in the village of Pustoviitivka at the Pustoviitivka Secondary School named after Petro Kalnyshevsky.

The institution opened in 2006 as a memorial museum of the poet, publicist, and public figure Leonid Poltava to mark the 85th anniversary of his birth. The museum's exposition introduces the life and creative path of Leonid Poltava, editions of his books in English and Ukrainian, family photos, performance posters, opera and operetta librettos, collections of badges, key chains, coins, stamps, envelopes, and personal belongings of Leonid Poltava, which were donated to the museum by his family from New York.

Later, a museum exposition was opened to mark the 95th anniversary of the birth of Yosyp Dudka - a famous poet and teacher of Romny region, an extraordinary person, and an ardent patriot of his land.