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 Nedryhayliv Local Lore Museum was opened in 2006 on the initiative of the local branch of the "Prosvita" society. It is located in the restored premises of the printing house. It is part of the State Historical and Cultural Reserve "Posulyia".

The exposition has about 5,000 exhibits. The archaeological collection presents fragments of ceramics and metal products of the Bronze Age, found by archaeologists in the Mazepyna Hill tract. The historical section tells about the founding of the village of Nedryhailiv, here you can see copies of documents from the Khmelnytskyi period.

Also presented are weapons, military equipment, tools, household items from different times, materials about the Holodomor of 1932–1933, and the liquidation of the Chornobyl accident.

In addition, the museum highlights the life and activities of local artists, folk craftsmen, scientists, and politicians.

The Oleksa Yushchenko Museum-Estate in the village of Khoruzhivka in Sumy Oblast has been operating since 2007 as a sector of the Nedryhayliv Local Lore Museum as part of the State Historical and Cultural Reserve "Posullia". It is located on the southern outskirts of the village, which is called Shkodivka.

The exhibition is located in the century-old parental house of Ukrainian poet and journalist Oleksa Yushchenko, a great-uncle of the third President of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko. The house recreates the atmosphere that existed here during the life of Oleksa Yushchenko and his parents at the beginning of the 20th century.

The exposition presents personal belongings of the Yushchenko family, first editions of the poet's collections, his articles, letters and photographs.

A bust of Oleksa Yushchenko is installed in the courtyard.

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 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.

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 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.