Attractions of Romny district

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 Peoples Museum of the Salohubivka Village History was founded in 1975. Initially, it was dedicated to the Soviet intelligence officer Kuzma Hnidash, who was born in Salohubivka in 1914.

Currently, the museum has 1,410 exhibits, 200 of which are original. The exhibition contains materials and documents that highlight the history of the village and the lives of its famous natives. Some ethnographic materials are presented.

The Smile Historical and Local Lore Museum is located in the former house of a wealthy peasant in the center of the village of Smile, built over a hundred years ago. In Soviet times, it housed the district police department.

The exhibition presents documents and photographs telling about the history of the village of Smile, samples of traditional Ukrainian clothing, embroidered towels, antique dishes, household items, tools, old medical instruments. The interiors of a traditional Ukrainian hut and a village clinic of the mid-20th century are recreated.

The State Historical and Cultural Reserve "Posullia" 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 Posullia region.

The "Posullia" 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 Siverianske 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.

The Peoples Museum of the Vilshana Village History in Sumy Region 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.