Attractions of Novhorod-Siverskyi district

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 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 Saint Illya Church in Korop is an unusual defensive-type church that has no analogues on the Left Bank of Ukraine.

According to one of the versions, the foundation of the temple is a tower that was part of the system of city fortifications of the XV-XVI centuries. Other researchers date its construction to the second half of the 17th century, when hetman Demyan Mnohohrishny created a special hetman hundred and artillery yard in Korop.

The Saint Illya Church has powerful walls up to 2 meters thick, narrow loophole windows, a complex layout and a system of secret passages. It is possible that even then it simultaneously performed three functions: religious, military and civil. Food and ammunition were stored on the first floor, religious services were held on the second, and the third was a military one.

In the 18th century, the church-fortress was reconstructed and consecrated in honor of Saint Illya the Thunderer. According to tradition, Cossack cannons installed on the temple were fired during major holidays.

The Saint Illya Church was badly damaged during the Second World War, the upper part was dismantled. At present, the church has been handed over to the Orthodox community of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, but restoration has been frozen.

The Saint Nicolas Church in Novhorod-Siverskyi is a remarkable work of carpentry art of the Chernihiv school of wooden folk architecture of the 18th century.

The first church in honor of Saint Nicholas was built in 1086 on a hill above the road, on which a pagan idol stood in pre-Christian times. After the Mongol invasion, the church was restored only in 1720.

The church is cruciform in plan, single-headed, five-aisled. The pyramidal shape organically completes the silhouette of the hill.

The Saint Nicholas Desert Rykhly Monastery was founded in 1666 by Chernihiv colonel Vasyl Mnogogrishny.

In 1757, a small Nicholas Church was built, and in 1754-1760, the five-bay Saint Nicolas Cathedral. In 1767, at the expense of Hetman Ivan Samoylovych, a belfry was built with the over-gate church of John the Baptist. There was also a cave complex that has partially survived to this day. In 1749, the Okhtyrka colonel Fedir Kachanivsky presented the monastery with a unique guardian ark, which was on the main throne of the Rykhly Monastery until 1922, and then was transferred to the Chernihiv State Museum.

By the end of the Soviet period, only the ruins of the living room, cells and monastery walls remained from the monastery complex. In 2006, the monastery again acquired the status of a monastery of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate, restoration works are being carried out.

The source "Ushivska krynytsya" is located on the bank of the river Loska, the right tributary of the Desna, one kilometer from the village of Ushivka in the direction of United.

Strong sources of drinking water emerge from the ground, forming a small lake. "Ushivska krynytsya" has had the status of a hydrological monument of nature since 1964. The area of the protected area is 0.01 hectares.

The symbolic Triumphal Arch was erected in 1787 on the occasion of the passage of Empress Catherine II through Novhorod-Siverskyi.

The construction was financed by local nobles and merchants. On the pylons between the columns are placed shields with the coats of arms of ten districts of the Novhorod-Siversky Governorate.

The Triumphal Arch in Novhorod-Siverskyi is a unique memorial building of the High Classicism style on the Left Bank of Ukraine. Needs restoration.

"Uzruyivski Springs" - a hydrological monument of nature since 1964. Numerous non-freezing springs flow from the bottom of the lake in the middle of the swamp massif along the Smyach River.

According to the legend, previously the springs that beat the fountain were connected by an underground river with a large dyke on the Desna, which once threatened shipping in the area of the village of Lenkiv.

In 2004, a recreation area of the Novhorod-Siverskyi forest farm with gazebos and a banquet house with a fireplace was equipped here. The presidents of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus rested here in nature during the meeting in Novhorod-Siverskyi in 2004.