Attractions of Yasenove Druhe

The Holy Intercession Church was built in the village of Yasenove Druhe in the second half of the 18th century. It is an architectural monument of local importance.

The church houses a unique icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "It is Worthy to Be", which was painted and consecrated in the cell of John Chrysostom on Mount Athos and is revered by local residents as a highly revered shrine.

On the territory of the Holy Intercession Church is the Yasenivsky Historical and Local Lore Museum with rare artifacts from the history of the region.

The Yasenivsky People`s Museum of History and Local Lore was founded in the village of Yasenove Druhe in 1960. The head and founder of the museum was the historian and local lore expert Serhiy Rakhubenko, who began collecting exhibits in 1948 and whose name the museum now bears.

The museum is located on the territory of the Holy Intercession Church in an adapted building of the church building.

Today, the museum's collection includes more than 3 thousand exhibits. For the presence of rare and unique exhibits, the museum was awarded the title of "People's", which was confirmed in 1991.

Among the interesting exhibits of the museum are: a flint knife from the settlement of the Trypillyan culture, ritual ceramic vessels of the Chernyakhiv culture, a plow, a wooden axle of a milky-white cart, a wooden propeller of the first airplanes, carpoles (wooden pitchforks), a tusk of a fossil rhinoceros (1 million years old), whole teeth of a dinotherium and a mammoth, relics of Adzhymushkay, a Greek amphora from the bottom of the Kerch Strait, a terracotta seal of the church of the Berdyansk Regiment, and a flint axe.