Attractions of Novhorod-Siverskyi district

The Saint Daniel's Church in Kostobobriv was built from 1996 to 1997 at the initiative of the second president of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma, who graduated from school in this village. The temple is named after his father.

Previously, there was a wooden Ascension Church on this place, built in 1911 and burned down in 1979 by order of the Chernihiv leadership.

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 Church of the Holy Great Martyr Paraskeva Pyatnytsya in the village of Chaikyne was built in 1999-2002 under the project "UkrNDPIcivilbud" with the participation of JSC "Chernihivrestavratsiya".

Named in honor of the mother of the second president of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma, born Chaikyne.

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 Korop synagogue was built in the 19th century, when about half of the town's population was Jewish. The project was developed by the architect Luka Shmihelsky.

A Jewish school operated at the synagogue.

Until recently, the synagogue building was used as a warehouse. The premises are now abandoned.

The Trinity Church in Troitske was built at the expense of the Cossack elders in 1772-1774, similar to the Ascension Church in Korop.

The type is a tetraconch. Four lower exedras with facades topped by triangular pediments adjoin the central cubic volume topped by a dome.

During the entire period of its existence, the temple was never expanded. Until recently, its condition was depressing, but it was recently restored.

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.