Attractions of Chuhuiv district

The wooden church of the Nativity of Christ was built in the village of Borova in 1782 at the expense of the parishioners. This is one of the oldest wooden churches of the Kharkiv region, a wonderful example of the wooden church architecture of the Slobozhanshchyna.

The church is one-story, three-log, made of oak logs, decorated with elegant decorative wood carvings.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the Church of the Nativity of Christ was reconstructed.

Recreation complex "Osynove Pleso" is located on the picturesque shore of Siverskyi Donets on the eastern outskirts of Chuhuiv.

Made in an ethnic style: a Ukrainian mud house with a reed roof, a village yard fenced with mud, a wooden carved well in the yard. On the territory, you can visit an authentic Ukrainian house-museum, which recreates the lifestyle of the Ukrainian peasantry of the 18th-19th centuries. A unique collection of household items and decorative and applied art, collected by the founder of the complex, Pavlo Zektser, is on display.

A three-level bathhouse, fishing, and picnic areas are at your disposal. During the Repin plein airs, the complex hosts artists, and their paintings are exhibited here.

The Chapel of the Immaculate Savior was built on the spot where, in 1888, a train carrying Russian Emperor Oleksandr III and his family derailed near the Borky station.

Many people died in the disaster, but the emperor, who was in the carriage, was miraculously unharmed, as well as members of his family. The Saviour's hermitage was founded in memory of this event.

According to the project of academician of architecture Marfeld, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and the Chapel of the Savior Not Made by Hands were built. A hospital and a home for elderly railway workers, a school, and a library operated at the hermitage.

During the Second World War, the temple was blown up, and the chapel was badly damaged. Only in 2003 was the restoration of the chapel carried out, and the stations returned their historical name.

The five-headed church of the Volodymyr icon of the Mother of God in the village of Kochetok was built between 1825 and 1854 on the site of an old wooden church, next to a miraculous spring.

The icon, in honor of which the church is named, was popularly called the "Revealed Icon". Later, a bell tower was added to the church.

In 1934, the church was closed, and it gradually fell into disrepair. In 1989, on the day of St. Nicholas, the church was opened again. It belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The unique Water Museum was created in 1983. on the basis of the Kochetok water station (today PUVKG "Donets") on the initiative of the talented engineer Serhiy Komar.

More than 2,000 exhibits tell about the history of the Siverskyi Donets River, the construction of a water supply station and the role of water in people's lives in general.

The schemes of the Siverskyi Donets river basin with collections of archaeological finds and samples of minerals are of great interest to visitors.

The water museum is located in the building of the public and cultural center of PUVKG "Donets".

Zmiiv Museum of Local Lore was established in 1991. The museum is located in an old two-story building.

The exposition is based on archeological finds made in the Zmiiv region - more than 10 thousand exhibits. In particular, the tools of the Stone Age, weapons and chain mail from the times of Kiyvan Rus, household items of the XIX century, among which the most interesting are the loom and the primitive sawmill.

The art gallery features the most interesting works by local artists depicting the crash of the royal train and the Spasiv Hermitage, the legendary Kozacha Hill, based on this site.