Attractions of Chernivtsi district

An archaic temple of defensive type, one of the oldest buildings on the territory of Bukovyna.

The Saint Illya Church was built in Toporivtsi in 1560 by the governor Myron Barnovsky. During the Turkish rule, the building was actively used as a fortress. It has thick walls without windows, loopholes are placed around the perimeter at the level of the roof, and a battle tier is hidden under the shingle roof. A square stone two-story bell tower was the main entrance to the temple grounds.

Currently, the Saint Illya Church belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, so local residents call it "Ukrainian".

The one-nave stone church of Saint John the Theologian without a dome was built in the 19th century as the ancestral burial place of the Counts of Kantakuzyn, who owned the village.

Part of the relics of the holy great martyr and healer Panteleymon, brought from Mount Athos by Count Oleksandr Kantakuzyn, who is considered a descendant of the Byzantine emperor Ioann VI Kantakuzyn, is preserved here. The box with relics was miraculously preserved during Soviet times, and now it is the main relic of the temple.

The "new" Rus (that is, Ruthenian - Ukrainian) church of Saint Nicholas was built by architects Valter Shtyubkhen-Kirkhner, Yozef Lener and Virdzhyl Ionesku, modeled on the masterpiece of Romanian medieval architecture - the mid-14th century royal church in Kurtya-de-Ardzhesh.

It is nicknamed the "drunken church" for its original "twisted" baths.

During Soviet times, the Nicholas Church remained active (it was the cathedral and the residence of the bishop), thanks to which the original interior was preserved.

It is now used by parishioners of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The Church of Saint Spyridon in Hertsa is a typical church of the Bukovyna architectural school.

Founded in 1807.

The church is brightly painted both outside and inside.

The wooden church of Saint Nicholas is the oldest building in Chernivtsi (restored after a fire in 1992). An architectural monument of national importance.

It is made in the typical Bukovyna log cabin (so-called cottage) style.

The Saint Nicholas Church is active and belongs to the parish of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The house at the intersection of Holovna and Sholom-Aleykhema streets, which resembles a ship in shape (in the Bukovyna dialect, "ship" is from the German schiff). The narrowed facade resembles the nose of a ship, the open area on the second floor is a deck, and the tower above the roof is a mast or pipe.

Urban legend says that the house was built by a local entrepreneur for his sailor brother, who was called to return home after many years of traveling across distant seas.

The palace of the landowners Skybinetskyi (Skybnivsky) in Hlyboka is the most interesting architectural monument of this small Bukovyna town, although it has survived to our days in a rebuilt form.

The palace was founded in the 19th century (according to other sources, at the beginning of the 20th century) by the Polish tycoon Bronyslav Skybinetskyi, who moved to Hlyboka from the family estate in Dunaivtsi in 1874.

The complex-shaped three-story structure, after numerous reconstructions, now looks like an ordinary administrative building. Currently, it houses the children's department of the central district hospital.

The Storozhynets City Hall was built in 1905.

It is considered the second highest in Bukovyna after Chernivtsi.

The main architectural element of the city hall is a two-story clock tower with an observation deck, where steep stairs lead.

As before, the town hall building is a symbol of local self-government in Storozhynets - it houses the city council.

The building of the Ukrainian People's House in Chernivtsi has been a center of national culture for over a hundred years.

The date 1884 is indicated on the facade - the year of foundation of the Ukrainian society "People's House". A two-story building was built for it in 1899.

The Ukrainian community in Chernivtsi has always been one of the largest. By the end of the 19th century it was inferior in number only to the Jewish one. Before the First World War, an active process of revival of the Ukrainian language and the national identity of Bukovyna Ruthenians, who recognized themselves as Ukrainians, took place in the city.

In the premises of the People's House, Ukrainian societies operated, periodicals were published, solemn events and meetings with outstanding figures of Ukrainian culture were held. Lesya Ukrayinka, Mykhaylo Hrushevsky, Ivan Franko and others performed here.

Now the building also belongs to the "Ukrainian People's House in Chernivtsi" society.

The viewing platform in the village of Khreshchatyk is located on a high cliff above the Dniester, from which the most fascinating panorama of the city of Zalishchyky, located on the opposite bank, girdled by a steep bend of the river, opens.

From here, the road bridge over the Dniester and the domes of the Khreshchatyk Monastery can be clearly seen.

The observation deck is not equipped.

Since 2004, the Literary and Memorial Museum of the outstanding writer Yuriy Fedkovych has been located in Chernivtsi in the building where he spent the last years of his life at the end of the 19th century and also edited the Bukovyna newspaper.

In the memorial room, the interior of the newspaper editorial office, Fedkovych's workplace, is reproduced. The room-apartment presents the writer's personal belongings, his desk-bureau, early editions of outstanding works of art, musical instruments, and household items.

In the literary exhibition of the museum, the life and creative path of Yuriy Fedkovych, as well as the public and pedagogical activities of the writer, are widely covered.