Attractions of Koriukivka district

Mena Zoo is the only one in Ukraine located in a small town.

Founded in 1977 by local nature lover Hennadiy Polosmak. The former police sergeant organized a zoo corner in his house, which later grew into a private zoo, and then into a national zoo.

Today, the Mena Zoo occupies an area of almost 9 hectares. 560 animals of more than 120 species live here. Visitors are most interested in primates (monkeys Vasyl and Nina), tiger, lion, brown bears, bison, Nimogau antelopes, camel, crocodiles, pythons.

The wooden Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary in Voloskivtsi was built in 1765 next to the ancient castle.

Forms are characteristic of Ukrainian Baroque architecture. The temple is cruciform in plan, at the intersection of four high lateral log cabins, an octagonal top is placed. The sides of the sleeves have a pronounced slope towards the center of the structure. In this way, the masters strengthened the perspective and created the illusion of a higher building.

From the western side, the temple is combined with a three-tiered wooden bell tower, added in the middle of the 19th century.

The Church of the Assumption in Voloskivtsi is an architectural monument of national importance.

The wooden palace of the Dolynskyi landowners in the village of Pekariv in the Chernihiv region was built in 1834 in the style of classicism. This is a rare example of wooden manor construction of the Left Bank of Ukraine, preserved from the 19th century.

The regimental osavul Hryhoriy Karpovych Dolynskyi received the village of Pekariv from hetman Kyrylo Rozumovskyi in 1762. His grandson Hryhoriy Hryhorovych Dolynskyi built a new palace on the site of his grandfather's estate. Its last resident was the landowner Sofiya Dolynska.

The two-story building is made in the style of early classicism with baroque elements. The main and park facades are decorated with four-column porticoes of the Tuscan order. The walls are decorated with wood carvings. A spiral staircase leads to the second floor.

During Soviet times, the Dolynskyi estate housed a school, thanks to which the building has survived to this day. The palace has been empty since 2001. Activists plan restoration.

The Holy Ascension Church in Koriukivka was founded in 1882.

The first temple was wooden. In 1904, a new red brick Holy Ascension Church was built in its place.

The wooden Church of the Holy Intercession is the only preserved church in Sosnytsia.

It was originally built in 1724 on the site of an ancient temple. It was completely rebuilt in 1847.

Made in the traditional forms of the Cossack temple. It looks archaic due to the unusual slope of the walls. Oil paintings on biblical subjects have been preserved in the interiors.

During Soviet times, the church was closed, the building housed a driving school, then a warehouse. In 1989, the service was resumed.

The Holy Intercession Church was built in the village of Zhuklia at the expense of Major General Mykola Komstadius.

It is considered a very valuable architectural monument, since there are no more churches of this type in Ukraine.

The church was founded in 1911 on the site of a burned down wooden church. According to legend, the owner of the village promised the residents to build a temple that does not burn. For this, he ordered an architect and builders from St. Petersburg.

The Pokrovsky Church is made in neo-Rus style. It combines elements of the architecture of the northern regions of Ancient Rus with Ukrainian compositional techniques. The interior of the temple is decorated with original paintings. The iconostasis has not survived to this day.

The Koriukivka Historical Museum consists of 5 exposition departments, which tell about the life of people on these lands in different historical periods.

The museum's holdings include more than 8,000 exhibits: numismatics, stone tools of the late Neolithic period, a mammoth tusk, household items and antiques, personal belongings and materials of prominent people, photo documents.

In particular, a fragment of a Ukrainian house of the Koryukiv region of the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century is presented. This is a three-room apartment (work, household and ritual parts), in which various things that were used in everyday life at that time are displayed.

Museum of Local Lore "Ukrainian Svitlytsya" opened in the village of Kamka in 2021 at the initiative of a local historian.

The exposition in the form of a village room, arranged in the premises of the former mayor, introduces visitors to the ancient life of locals.

Presented antique tables, benches, towels, embroidered shirts, pottery, household items, paintings, antique clothing.

The Sosnytsia Museum of Local Lore is located in the house of doctor Shcherbakov (1869-1870), which later belonged to Prince Volkonsky, then to doctor Petro Oldenborher.

The museum in it was founded in 1920 by lawyer and historian Yuriy Vynohradsky. He discovered 50 Neolithic sites and 9 hillforts in Chernihiv Region. The archaeological collection of Vynohradsky became the basis of the exposition.

Currently, the museum's funds include 10,000 exhibits. Among the unique exhibits are neck hryvnias, a mammoth tusk with notches, several ancient documents.

Some things of the former owners of the Sosnytsia manor, the Poltoratsky nobles, who owned Sosnytsia in the 18th and 19th centuries, are also presented.

The museum is named after Yuriy Vynohradsky.

The museum complex "Lisohrad" in the forests in the north of Chernihiv region is dedicated to the local partisan movement during the Second World War.

In 1942-1943, the Chernihiv partisan units of Mykola Popudrenko and Oleksiy Fedorov operated in the Yelino forests. Near the village of Yelino, there was a whole partisan town made of dugouts, which was called "Lisohrad". From here, the partisans went on combat operations to destroy enemy garrisons and carry out sabotage on railways.

In 2010, enthusiasts recreated the partisan camp, restoring 3 dugouts and building 2 more. The partisan oven was also recreated, and the partisan well and trenches were cleared.

The exhibits in the dugouts allow you to feel the spirit of partisanship, to see in what difficult living conditions people had to live and defend their land.

The Literary Memorial Museum of Oleksandr Dovzhenko was opened in the film director's homeland in Sosnytsia.

He was born in 1894 in a large rural family in the village of Vyunishche within the current urban-type settlement of Sosnytsia. From there he went to study at the Hlukhiv Teacher's Institute, then to Zhytomyr and pre-revolutionary Kyiv.

His complex biography included service in the troops of the Ukrainian People's Republic, detention in a Bolshevik concentration camp, joining the Communist Party, Polish captivity, work at the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, etc.

Dovzhenko gained worldwide fame as the founder of the Ukrainian National School of Cinematography after the release of his famous films "Zvenyhora" and "Zemlya", the latter of which is now included in the lists of the best films of all times and nations.

Creation of the director's museum in Sosnytsia began in 1957, after his death. Dovzhenko's parental house has been preserved, in which the atmosphere that surrounded him in his youth is reproduced. Collections of his short stories and film stories are presented in the literary exhibition.

An impressive, expressive monument to Dovzhenko (1974, sculptor Anatoliy Fuzhenko, architect Anatoliy Ihnashchenko) was installed in the courtyard of the estate.

The Snovsk Historical Museum was opened in 1939 as a memorial museum of Mykola Shchors in the house where the future Red Commander, whose image was heroized in Soviet literature and cinema, spent his childhood and youth.

Shchors was born in 1895 in the village of Korzhivka in Chernihiv Region (now the city of Snovsk) in the family of a railway mechanic. Currently, the exposition of the home furnishings and personal belongings of the Shchors family, located in their wooden house built in 1894, is the memorial department of the Snovsk Historical Museum and presents the life of the railway worker's family at the end of the 19th century.

In 1961, the historical department of the museum was opened in a separate building with a local history exposition from ancient times to modern history. The exposition presents objects that tell about the first human settlements on the territory of the region, folk crafts and crafts, ethnographic features of the area. The decoration of the exhibition is a collection of towels from the Snovsk district and samples of regional costumes.

The museum also exhibits archaeological finds: objects of labor, remains of ancient animals, ceramic and glass products, Cossack cradles, railway products made at medieval mines, historical and household items of the late 19th - early 20th centuries.