Attractions of Shepetivka district

The Arian tower in Tykhomel is a unique landmark of sacred architecture, the only similar structure in Ukraine.

The chapel was built by a local landowner, Pavlo Kshyshtof Senyuta, who was a follower of the Arians' Christian teachings, which were considered heretical. In the 16th and 17th centuries, Arianism was widespread in Eastern Europe, and, in particular, in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Arians denied the triune essence of God, that is, the Holy Trinity, affirming the superiority of God the Father over God the Son, who was created by him - Jesus Christ.

The frescoed chapel is built on a mound above the grave of Pavlo Kshyshtof Senyuta, on the site of the ancient Rus settlement of Tykhomel. Later, the chapel served as a tower of the fortress built here. Preserved in ruins.

The grandiose complex of the Bernardine monastery rises on a hill a little away from the center of Iziaslav.

The construction was started in 1596 after the Union of Berestey. The architect Yakub Madlena perfectly integrated the defensive monastery complex into the surrounding landscape. The main buildings were Saint Michael's Church (1602) and a huge cell building (1610), surrounded by 6-meter walls with an entrance tower and a gate.

The monastery was damaged during the War of Liberation in 1648, but was later restored and rebuilt under the direction of the architect Paolo Fontana.

During Soviet times, the monastery was converted into a maximum security prison. The building still performs this function, so it is not possible to inspect the territory.

A cascade of five lakes in a pine forest northwest of Slavuta, near the village of Stryhany, was formed on the site of exhausted peat quarries.

The lakes are deep, with clear and transparent water - due to the sandy bottom and a large number of artesian springs, which raise the glacial water of the Precambrian period to the surface.

There are pike, carp, crucian carp, crucian carp, tench, perch, and rare blue crayfish. There are wild ducks and swans.

During the Soviet times, on the shore of one of the Blue lakes, the Khmelnytsk NPP, located nearby, began to build the buildings of a pioneer camp and a recreation center, which remained unfinished.

Green tourism is developing in the surrounding villages. On hot summer days, there are many vacationers here, mostly motorists.

The palace of Chetvertynsky princes in Stryhany was built in 1904 in Western European forms.

During the Soviet regime, he served as a village council, then as a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients.

Currently in a dilapidated state.

A creative bus stop forged from iron was installed in Slavuta in 2012 for Spring Day. The author of the work is Artem Volsky.

The sculpture represents two images of a woman: spring and autumn, which can be interpreted as symbols of female beauty and wisdom.

A living forest tunnel was formed from leaves and branches of trees along the railway on the outskirts of the village of Stryhany.

The railway branch connecting the Slavuta sand quarry with the railway station "Slavuta 2" passes through the forest. The tunnel looks especially impressive in the period when there are many leaves on the trees.

Unlike the famous "Tunnel of Love" in Klevan, the arch of the tunnel in Stryhany has not yet been formed, and it is only about 100 meters long.

The estate of the Groholskys in Hrytsiv is an architectural landmark of local importance.

In the middle of the 18th century, Mikhal Groholsky built a Rococo-style palace with a landscaped park on the site of the old Lyubomyrsky castle. According to the original project, the main body of the palace was to be connected to the side pavilions by two steep galleries in the Palladian style.

The son of the founder of the manor, Martyn, completed the construction in 1782 in a simplified form, abandoning many of his father's architectural ideas. To the right of the palace, Lyudvik Groholskyi built in the 19th century a manor chapel in the Neo-Gothic style according to the project of Froel-Platter.

In the 1960s, the complex of manor buildings was rebuilt as a vocational school, the appearance and interiors of the palace changed significantly. Currently, it is the Hrytsiv Higher Art Vocational School No. 19.

The first wooden Church of the Holy Intercession in Polonne was founded in 1720. In 1910, a new wooden temple was built next to the old church - also wooden, on a stone foundation.

The first priest of the newly built church was archpriest Mykolay Matusevych, who served here until 1937. With the advent of Soviet power, he was repressed and exiled to Kolyma, where he died in 1940. The church was closed and a granary was built in it, the bell tower was destroyed.

Services in the Intercession Church resumed after the Second World War.

On July 23, 2023, the church community voted for the transition to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Iziaslav historical and local history museum is located in the premises of the cultural center.

The museum was founded in the 1920s and 1930s, but was closed during the Second World War, and was restored only in 2003.

The museum presents an exposition that tells about the history and ethnography of the region. In particular, you can see unique exhibits from the interior of the Church of Saint Michael, which was located on the territory of the Bernardine Monastery.

A separate exhibition tells about the culture and traditions of the Jewish community of Iziaslav: ritual objects, cult books of the 19th century.

An exhibition of works by local artist Mykola Tkachuk is on display: painting, sculpture, wood carving.

The international memorial complex "Field of Memory" was created in 1997-2007 near Slavuta, where the German camp for prisoners of war "Stalag 301/Z" was located during the Second World War.

In terrible conditions, wounded and sick officers and soldiers of the Red Army were kept there, who, in fact, were doomed to death from exhaustion and disease. The number of dead is estimated at 150,000 people.

Currently, the cemetery of the dead prisoners of war has been cleared and arranged, a mound has been filled on it and a monument has been erected. A monument to the victims of the Jewish concentration camp is located near the complex.

The Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin Mary in Slavuta was built in 1819 at the expense of the parishioners and with the participation of Prince Yevstakhiy Sangushko.

Made in the Ukrainian Baroque style, painted in the image of the Saint Volodymyr Cathedral in Kyiv.

Later, the church was expanded, a priest's house, a psalmist's house, and a prosphora were built nearby.

The Nativity of the Virgin Horodyshche Men's Monastery was founded in Horodyshche in 1538 by Prince Bohush Koretsky, the founder of the famous Korets Women's Monastery.

The wooden Orthodox monastery burned down in 1745. In its place, in 1746-1782, the Princes of Lubomyrski built a Catholic monastery of the Discalced Carmelites with a church. In 1777, the monastery became a Greek-Catholic Basilian monastery, and in 1832, after the second partition of Poland, Orthodox monks returned to Horodyszcz and re-consecrated the monastery in the name of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos. The church was rebuilt into the Church of the Holy Virgin. In 1902, the Church of the Nativity of John the Baptist was built.

The monastery was closed during the Soviet rule, but briefly resumed its activities during the German occupation. The rest of the time on its territory was first a sanatorium of the Central Committee of LKSMU, then a boarding school, then a psychiatric hospital.

The revival began in 1996. It belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

Netishyn City Museum of Local Lore was founded in 1994.

The exposition of the museum is located in the annex to the first floor of a residential building near the city center and is represented by eighteen exhibition halls, which reflect the main directions of history, ethnography, nature of the region.

The Archeology Hall exhibits materials of the Acheulean epoch from the Paleolithic site on the Spivak hamlet and finds from the burial mounds of the East Bronze Age Bronze Age culture from the Kozatsky Mohyly tract near Netishyn.

In the ethnographic exposition you can see household items, clothes, tools, utensils of different eras. Weaving, cooperage, pottery and weaving from elastic raw materials are presented in the halls of handicrafts and crafts.

Some halls of the museum bring visitors closer to the history of the villages of Netishyn and Dorohoshcha, which reaches deep into the XVI-XVII salt marshes. Here is exhibited one of the first known maps of the Netishyn farm from 1813.

The hall of the same name tells about the recent past of the city of Netishyn and Khmelnitsky NPP, in the center of which is a model of a WWER-1000 nuclear power unit operated at KhNPP.

The exposition is completed by the numismatics and bonistics halls, which reflect the general history of the region's money circulation.

The first museum of the famous Jewish poet Perets Markish in Ukraine was opened in Polonne in 1998.

Markish was born in Polonne in 1895, and spent his childhood there. He became famous in the world as one of the leading Jewish writers, was widely published abroad, was a member of the leadership of the Union of Writers of the USSR, and was awarded the Order of Lenin. In 1949, he was repressed for his participation in the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, and in 1952 he was shot.

The exposition of the Polonne museum tells about the life and creative path of the poet. The museum exhibit includes 23 books by the writer in Yiddish, Hebrew, Ukrainian, Russian, English, and even Chuvash. A special place in the exposition is occupied by the jubilee Israeli edition of three books by Perets Markish. They were issued in 1998 on the initiative of the mayor's office of the city of Beer Sheva. One of the three books contains 24 poems and excerpts from the poem in Yiddish, the other two are translated into Russian and Hebrew. The museum received these books as a gift from David Bonfeld, the mayor of Beer Sheva.

The museum exhibits a lot of photographs from different periods of Perets Markish's life, including his childhood and youth spent in Polonne. Also in the museum exposition is a gift from the poet's daughter, the famous artist and sculptor Olha Rapay-Markish - original ceramic products. The exhibition also includes books by Perets Markish's sons - Shimon and David.

The Perets Markish Jewish Cultural Society operates on the basis of the museum.

In 2007, the museum was awarded the honorary title "People's Museum".

The People's Museum of the History of Polonne is located in the building of the city's cultural center.

The museum was founded on October 25, 1964. The exhibition presents a collection of antiquities found on the territory of the region, which gives an idea of the ancient way of life, traditions, and customs of the inhabitants of Polonne region.

Currently, the historical museum of Polonne preserves a unique collection of 4,735 pieces of products of defunct, at the time, world-famous porcelain and art ceramics factories. The products were transferred to the balance of the museum by the keeper of this unique collection, in the past the chief artist of the Polonne Porcelain Factory, Mykola Kozak.