Attractions of Novhorod-Siverskyi district

The Dormition Church in Vyshenky is an outstanding example of temple architecture of the second half of the 19th century.

It was built in 1782-1787 at the expense of Field Marshal Petro Rumyantsev-Zadunayskyi in the form of classicism with baroque elements.

A very expressive temple, which impresses with the simplicity of the plan, exquisite proportions, the elegance of the facades, and the elegant silhouette of the building. The architecture shows the influence of Catholic and Muslim temple architecture.

The Dormition Temple is part of the palace and park complex of Rumyantsev-Zadunayskyi. Restoration is underway.

The wooden Church of the Intercession was built in Larynivka in 1902 on the site of an old church that had been known since 1732.

The temple is made in the diocesan style. Square in plan, the cubic volume is topped by a figure-of-eight bathhouse and four deaf lanterns in the corners. Wide use of carvings is characteristic for external decoration.

The Church of the Intercession was closed for a long time, so neither the old iconostasis nor the icons were preserved.

Adjacent to the western facade is a slender almost 20-meter three-tier bell tower with a tent top, which was characteristic of the temple architecture of the Sivershchyna at that time.

The Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin, which stands on a hill in the center of the village of Dihtiarivka, was built in 1708-1710 at the expense of Hetman Ivan Mazepa. It was in the Church of the Intercession that the great Ukrainian Hetman prayed on the eve of the decision to side with King Charles XII against the Tsar of Moscow in the Northern War.

The five-domed stone temple was built in the Ukrainian Baroque style. The influence of the late Renaissance and early classicism can be felt in the exterior decoration.

During the Soviet era, the Intercession Church was looted and partially destroyed.

In 2009, restoration work was started, during which one of the aisles of the church was restored. However, due to a lack of funds, the work was suspended. In 2023, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine announced its intention to use Ivan Mazepa's charity fund, created in 2022, to rebuild the church.

The Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in Semenivka was built in 1875.

The large five-domed stone temple has a central dome above the altar and four small domes. The five-tiered bell tower 47.5 meters high is considered a separate part of the temple. The church has 3 entrances, the main one is from the western side.

In 1935, the church was closed by the Soviet authorities, the bells and crosses were removed. Damaged during World War II.

The Kazan Icon of Mother of God Church was restored in 1999.

The Korop Center for Children's and Youth Creativity is located in the former. the house of the merchant Bohdan, who was one of the richest entrepreneurs of pre-revolutionary Korop.

Here you can see the works of the center's students, including ceramics and straw products, samples of painting.

The Korop Regional Historical and Archaeological Museum is located in the building of the former Theodosius Church, which was built in the 1880s in the pseudo-Rus style.

Under Soviet rule, the baths were removed from the temple and housed first a cinema and then a museum.

Archaeological, geological and ethnographic collections are of considerable value. In the exposition you can see finds from the Mezyn Paleolithic site, a diorama of the Radychiv settlement from the times of Kyivan Rus, samples of traditional clothes and towels.

The museum also widely presents samples of ceramic pottery and tiles of Korop region, which was known as one of the leading centers of pottery.

The architecture of the region is represented by models of all 9 churches that existed in Korop in the early XX century.

Leonid Kuchma's house in Chaikyne was built in 2000-2003 on the place where the wooden parental house of the second president of Ukraine used to stand.

Kuchma was born in 1938 in the local forestry near the nearby village of Uzrui, where his father Danylo worked as a forester, and spent his childhood and youth in Chaikyne.

The current brick building of modern architecture has an area of ​​about 600 square meters. Visually from the street, it seems that Kuchma's house has only 2 floors, but in fact it is four-level. The Great Hall on the fourth floor is used as a public children's library. Other rooms are residential. Leonid Kuchma stops here when he visits his small homeland.

A modern kindergarten and a school have been built nearby. The architecture is reminiscent of the buildings of the famous Kovalivka in the Kyiv region, the homeland of politicians and businessmen of Zasukha, who also own the Taras Shevchenko CJSC agricultural enterprise in Chaikyne.

The male gymnasium building appeared in the center of Novohorod-Siverskyi at the end of the 19th century, although the educational institution itself was founded in 1804 on the basis of an even older public school.

For a long time, the gymnasium was the center of education of the entire Chernihiv province. Among the graduates are the historian, the first rector of Kyiv University Mykhaylo Maksymovych, the Ukrainian writer Panteleymon Kulish, the revolutionary-populist Mykola Kybalchych, as well as the famous teacher Kostyantyn Ushynsky.

The state gymnasium, which currently occupies the premises, is named after the latter.

On the night of May 12, 2022, in the course of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian aviation dropped missiles on the center of Novhorod-Siverskyi. As a result of the Russian airstrike, the entire complex of buildings of the male gymnasium was damaged - the windows were broken, the roof and part of the facade of the building were completely destroyed.

Mezyn National Nature Park, also known as "Mezyn Switzerland", was created in 2006 on the basis of several landscape reserves along the right bank of the Desna River.

The area of the park is 31 thousand hectares. It stretches from Mezyn in the north to Horodyshche in the south and from Ponornytsia in the west to Rozlyoti in the east. In the floodplain of the Desna, many old houses and lakes have been preserved, the largest of which is Lake Khatyn (50 hectares). The park is home to 149 species of vertebrates: 25 species of fish, 9 species of amphibians, 3 species of reptiles, 93 species of birds and 19 species of mammals. Of these, 24 species are listed in the Red Book of Ukraine. Among the monuments of archeology is the Mezyn Paleolithic site, the age of which is estimated at 20 thousand years.

The Mezyn National Nature Park Visitor Center is located in Desnyansk. A nature museum has been created here, where collections of insects, mosses and geological materials are exhibited. Also presented is a panorama of the Mezyn parking lot, a small ethnographic exposition, the museum room of Vasyl Kurylenko, the founder and permanent director of the Mezyn Archaeological Research Museum.

The Museum of Local Lore of the Novhorod-Siverskyi historical and cultural reserve introduces the history of the city, archeology and nature of the Siverskyi region.

The history department presents a diorama of the late Paleolithic Pushkarivska site, as well as a diorama of the liberation of the city from the German-fascist invaders.

The exposition of the nature department with the diorama "Polissya" introduces the flora and fauna of the region.

The exhibition "Ukrainian life, clothing and embroidery" has been opened in the ethnology department.

Museum employees conduct tours of the city.

The memorial museum of the revolutionary-populist and inventor Mykola Kybalchych was opened in Korop in the house of the priest in which he was born in 1853.

Even in his youth, Kybalchych, who was fond of chemistry, became an underground revolutionary, working in the so-called "hell laboratories" where explosives were made. At the same time, he developed a diagram of the world's first jet aircraft, the drawing of which was scratched on the wall of a prison cell. In 1881, he was executed for an attempt to assassinate the Russian Tsar Oleksandr II.

A family of local artists - Olena Lukash and Mykola Hara-Zhuk - stood near the sources of the creation of the Kybalchych Museum in Korop. In particular, the museum exposition presents a model of the Kybalchych rocket.

The house of the notary Oleksandr Popov was built in the city of Semenivka in 1912 in the style of classicism. This is the most beautiful pre-revolutionary building in the city.

In Soviet times, a police station and a polyclinic were located here. Today it is a house of creativity of children and youth.

The old spruce alley, more than 100 years old, is a protected object (botanical monument of nature of local importance).

Today, there are 79 thirty-meter trees that surround the road to the monastery caves on both sides.

The city park of culture and recreation named after Taras Shevchenko in Novhorod-Siversky is located in the central part of the city, in front of the Holy Transfiguration Monastery.

Interesting unusual park sculptures of Soviet times. It is a monument of garden and park art of local importance.

"Pokrovsky Well" (Pokrovska krynytsya) in Novhorod-Siverskyi is called a source of pure spring water in the lower part of the city.

Local residents say that the spring used to hit the ground with a strong jet, which is why it was called a fountain.

The water from the spring is rich in silver, and it is attributed healing properties. In 2013, enthusiasts built a wooden pavilion over the spring and equipped a bathhouse.