Attractions of Sumy region

The Park of Culture and Recreation named after Ivan Kozhedub with an area of 58 hectares is located in the center of the city of Sumy.

There are many attractions in the park, exhibitions, festivals and other cultural events take place regularly.

The modern stadium "Yuvileyny" is located near the central entrance to the park. The city beach on the Psel River is located in the southeastern part of the park.

The Pavlo Hrabovsky Museum was founded in 1964 on a non-profit basis. In 1994, the museum received the status of "People's Museum".

In five halls of the museum with a total area of ​​over 90 square meters, an exhibition is located, telling about the life and work of the poet.

The main place in the exhibition is occupied by stands with collected photographs and materials telling about the poet's life in the village of Pushkarne (the former name of Hrabovske): childhood, youth, populist activities, exile to his native village, as well as sending to the army, arrest on the way, meeting with Nadiia Syhyda in Butyrka prison, correspondence with Ivan Franko, years of exile (Viliuisk, Yakutsk, Tobolsk).

The most valuable exhibits of the museum are the personal belongings of Pavlo Hrabovsky, which were donated to the museum on the centenary of the poet's birth by the wife and daughter of his son Bohdan: a towel embroidered by his mother, a small bowl for his wife, and a toy mushroom for his son, all made by Hrabovsky.

A separate hall of the museum is dedicated to the ethnography of the region. It presents objects of ancient Ukrainian life: shirts, towels, embroidered shirts, jugs, pots, irons, combs, mortars, etc.

The Peter and Paul Cemetery Church in the style of classicism is located in the oldest city cemetery in Sumy, where many famous Sumy residents are buried.

The temple was built in 1843-1851 at the expense of the merchant Fedior Sapozhnikov. The one-domed stone church. The bell tower is connected to the temple by a short passage. Original interior decorations and oil paintings have been preserved.

Nearby are the graves of members of the Kharytonenko family of sugar growers with marble tombstones by the Italian master Aristid Kruazi, as well as the graves of the Sukhanov merchants.

The first monument in Ukraine to Petro Kalnyshevskyi, the last kosh chieftain of Zaporizhzhia Sich, was erected in the village of Pustoviitivka, where he was born in 1691.

In fact, with the installation of this monument in 1991, the creation of the Kalnyshevsky memorial in Pustoviitivka began.

The chieftain is depicted with the hetman's mace in his hand. The authors of the monument are academician Vasyl Boroday and sculptor Rostyslav Synko.

The memorial complex of the last Kish Otaman of the Zaporizhzhia Sich Petro Kalnyshevsky in the village of Pustoviitivka in the Sumy region includes the Museum of Petro Kalnyshevsky, which is a department of the State Historical and Cultural Reserve "Posullia".

The museum was founded in 2005 on the basis of materials from the Romny Museum of Local Lore, which previously formed the exhibition "Legendary Koshovyi". It is located in the house of culture of the village of Pustoviitivka, in the homeland of Petro Kalnyshevsky.

The main exposition tells about the life of the Kish Otaman: childhood in his native village, dedication to the Sich, service in the Zaporozhzhian Lowland Army, election as Kish Otaman, participation in the Russo-Turkish war of 1768-1774, imprisonment by order of the tsarist government and exile on Solovki. Reconstruction of the interior of the Solovki cell, where Petro Kalnyshevsky spent 25 years, is presented.

Also on display are fragments of a wooden Trinity Church, built at the expense of the Otaman in Pustoviitivka (now reconstructed). You can also see a collection of Cossack weapons, coins, pipes, icons.

Two more exhibition halls present local archeological finds of Scythian times and materials about other prominent natives of Pustoviitivka.

A monument to the composer Petro Tchaikovsky is installed in the central park of Trostianets.

The composer spent three summer months in Trostianets in 1864 at the invitation of his friend and classmate Oleksiy Holitsyn. Here Tchaikovsky wrote his first symphonic work - the overture to the drama "The Thunderstorm".

The monument of sculptor Mykola Sukhodolov is considered the only monument to Tchaikovsky in Ukraine, where the composer is depicted in full height.

A Pig Monument with the inscription on the pedestal "From grateful Ukrainians" was opened in the city park of Romny in 2000.

Here, on the site of an ancient Rus settlement, archaeologists found pig bones. They came to the conclusion that the pigs, which the Mongols could not eat because of their religion and therefore were not taken from local residents, saved the people from starvation.

The Romny concrete pig, sitting on its hind legs, became the fourth pig monument in the world.

The room-museum of the poet Pylyp Rud operates in the premises of the Bystryk Educational Complex, because it was in the village of Bystryk that he was born in 1910 and studied at a local school.

The exhibition presents a portrait of Pylyp Rud, documents and photographs from his family archive, a story about the poet's life and work "A Brave and Songful Heart", a drawing of his native house. From  personal belongings, you can see books, a shirt, letters from the war to his relatives, a correspondent's ID card for the South-Western Front, a collection of poems "Valiant Youth", etc.

Among other materials about Rud's life and work: memories of him from friends and fellow villagers, correspondence between schoolchildren and the poet's wife and daughter, articles dedicated to Rud, and photographs about the poet's life and work.

The Popivka Village History Museum opened in 2016 on the basis of the Popivka Comprehensive School on the initiative of English teacher Marharyta Chepurna.

The exhibition on an area of ​​30 square meters tells about the history of the origin and development of the village. It presents old household items, as well as many old photographs and documents that tell the stories of the lives of prominent figures of Popivka of the past and present.

The manor house of the Putyvl princes Lvov in the village of Bochechky, Konotop district, is a unique monument of palace and park art of the high classicism era for the Sumy region, which has been well preserved to this day.

The estate was founded in 1745 (according to other sources - in 1783), when a landscape park was laid out on these lands that belonged to the Lvovs. Now it is a park-monument of local landscape art with an area of ​​almost 15 hectares. Linden, oak, maple, sedge and other plants grow in it.

The main element of the estate is a brick two-story palace in the style of classicism with elements of the neo-Renaissance. Most sources indicate the year 1866 as the time of its construction, although it is possible that an earlier building was reconstructed then. The estate was then owned by Lieutenant Colonel Oleksandr Lvov. Its last owner was Princess Anna Lvova.

The palace is rectangular in plan, with a massive semi-rotunda of the dance hall with a colonnade gallery, protruding on the park facade. The front facade is designed in classicist architectural forms. Initially, the layout of both floors was enfilade.

After the Bolshevik coup, the palace of Princess Lvova in Bochechky was confiscated, an agricultural technical school was placed in it, then a rural school. At the same time, the interior decor was completely lost, as well as the Corinthian capitals of the columns and pilasters of the park facade.

Now the palace houses the Bochechky secondary education institution of grades I-III. In 2010, the facade and roof of the estate were reconstructed. In 2012, the grand opening of the renovated landscape park took place: the alleys were illuminated, flowers were planted, and benches for relaxation were installed.

The two-story building of the Hlukhiv prison castle was built in 1842 on the site of an earlier complex of buildings of the county prison, which existed in Hlukhiv already in the 17th century.

The wooden prison was located in the north-eastern corner of the Hlukhiv fortress. In 1708, the leaders of Baturyn's defense - Colonel Dmytro Chechel and General Fridrikh Kenihsen - captured by Menshikov were held here before their execution.

The stone prison castle was built according to the improved typical project of Andriyan Zakharov. It consisted of a main body and a wing in classical forms.

After World War II, the building housed a brewery. Now the castle is in ruins. Restoration is planned.

The brick Prophet Elijah Church was founded in Zasumka (a district of the city, which was separated from the old part of Sumy by the Sumka River) in 1836 on the site of a burned-down wooden church. After another fire, construction was suspended for a long time and was completed in 1845. In 1851, the church was consecrated in honor of the holy prophet Elijah.

In terms of its architectural composition, it is a common type of single-tiered cross-domed churches of rectangular plan in Ukrainian architecture, built in a classical style with elements of eclecticism. A four-tiered bell tower with the main entrance to the church is attached to the Prophet Elijah Church, which ends with a dome with a high spire.

The Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin rises on the steep bank of the river in the center of the village of Vyrivka.

It was founded in 1892 at the expense of Yukhym Shkolyarenko, a merchant of the first guild, who towards the end of his life was engaged in charity work.

The temple impresses not only with its size and architecture, but also with its interior decoration.

During Soviet times, the church survived, although it was neglected for many years.

Currently, the church has been restored, and the portrait of the founder is preserved in it.

The State Historical and Cultural Reserve in the city of Putyvl protects a complex of historical, cultural and archaeological monuments of the historical city and its environs - from ancient Rus times to the 20th century. In total, there are 35 cultural heritage sites on its territory.

The monuments of national importance are Horodok (a hillfort of Ancient Rus Putyvl), the architectural ensembles of the Molchensky Monastery (16th-19th) and the former Holy Spirit Convent (17th-19th), the Nicholas Velykoritsky Church (17th).

The administration building of the reserve houses the Putivl Local Lore Museum. It is located in a small one-story mansion in the center of Putyvl, which belonged to the landowner Cherepov in the 19th century. Almost three thousand exhibits reveal the history of the city from ancient times to the present day. In particular, the museum presents an 18th-century wardrobe that belonged to Hetman Ivan Mazepa; an armchair of the Russian impostor False Dmitry I; a bell donated to the city by Tsar Michael Romanov; a bull's jawbone with drawings found in the Molchenske swamp.

The national status is given to the "Spadshchansky Forest" Memorial Complex, where the Museum of Partisan Glory, the Museum of Weapons and Military Equipment, and the Museum of Monumental Art of the Totalitarian Era "Park of the Totalitarian Period" are located. The reserve also includes the Horiun Culture Museum and the "Bell of Sorrow" Memorial in the village of Nova Sloboda.

The monument of refined sugar in Sumy was opened for the 355th anniversary of the city in memory of the former sugar glory of Sumy.

It is located on Pokrovska Square, opposite the monument to the sugar factory Ivan Kharytonenko, thanks to whom the city achieved prosperity in the 19th century. At that time, sugar began to be pressed into small cubes, and it was this form of the monument that was chosen by sculptors Viktor Dovholyuk and Oleksiy Shevchenko.

You can go down to the large refined cube on stone cubes to take a photo at the landmark, which symbolizes the wealth of the region. It is assumed that individual sugar cubes will be scattered throughout the city.

On the same day, on Voskresenska Street in Sumy, the sculpture "Baby Sweets" was opened.