Attractions of Rivne region

The director of Rivne Brewery Maryan Hoda plans to open a Beer and Hop Growing Museum in Rivne.

The museum will be located in the former house of the first director of the Rivne brewery, Hersh Pisyuk, built in 1928 on the plot bordering the territory of the enterprise.

Until recently, the two-story building was occupied by the Rivne City Center for Student Youth Creativity. After the restoration, the building became part of the complex of buildings of the "Maidan Bergshloss" Historic Quarter with a hotel and a fairground.

The museum exposition will tell about the history of brewing in Volyn. The basis of the exposition is the personal collection of Maryan Hoda: beer bottles, mugs, elements of brewing equipment, historical documents and photos.

The Berezne Museum of Local Lore is located in the former house of landowner Mykhaylo Malynsky, built in 1902-1903 in the classicism style.

5 thousand exhibits tell about the history of Berezne region from the earliest times. In particular, an iron sword and an arrowhead of the XIV-XV centuries, objects of the Cossack era, are presented.

The interwar period is characterized by documents, photographs, household items, books that belonged to the destroyed Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, icons from the Roman Catholic Church.

One of the halls is dedicated to modern decorative and applied art.

The Bereznivsky State Dendrological Park was established in 1979 at the Berezne Forestry College.

Currently, about 900 species of trees and shrubs from many parts of the world grow here on an area of 30 hectares. Representatives of flora from Central Asia and the Caucasus, the Carpathians and the Crimea, North America, Siberia and the Far East, Japan and China have taken root in Polissya.

Walking paths have been laid in the park, a cascade of ponds has been built, gazebos and observation decks have been equipped. There is a separate area of ornamental plants, a birch grove (more than 40 species of birch), jasmine gardens, and a rose garden.

Excursions are conducted.

The former church of the Bernardine monastery is the oldest church in the city of Dubno. The monastery was founded by Yanush Ostrozky in 1614. The temple complex in the early Baroque style was completed in 1630, already under the Zaslavsky princes.

Surrounded by defensive walls, the Bernardine monastery was part of the system of city fortifications of Dubno together with the Lutsk Gate. After the third partition of Poland in 1784, the Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Bernardine monastery was transformed into an Orthodox church and rebuilt in a pseudo-Rus style.

In Soviet times, the building was used as a production facility. Currently, it is the Saint Nicholas Church of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which has been partially restored.

Bile Lake is a lake of karst origin, one of the largest lakes in the Rivne region.

Its area is 453 hectares, the average depth is 4 meters, the maximum depth is 26 meters. Its water is clean and transparent, on the bottom you can clearly see almost white limestone stones, which gave the lake its name. It feeds on the waters of underground sources, and even atmospheric precipitation. The bottom of the lake is sandy. Carp, perch, pike, tench are found. The shores of the lake are a nesting place for migratory birds (cranes, wild ducks and geese).

The lake and its surroundings are a recreation area. The "Bile Lake" rehabilitation and health complex is located on the shore of the lake

The Lutsk Tower in Ostroh was a key defensive element of the lower city, also serving as the entrance gate to Lutsk. This is one of the two surviving towers of the outer city fortifications.

Currently, the room is adapted for the exposition of the Book and Printing Museum (in 1580 Ivan Fedorov created a printing house in Ostroh, which published the first "Reading Book" and the first complete Slavic Ostroh Bible). There are also temporary exhibitions.

The National Museum of Ukrainian Translator and Poet Borys Ten (Mykola Khomychevsky) has been operating on a non-profit basis on the basis of the Derman Gymnasium since 2008.

The museum's exposition contains materials and photographs that tell about the Khomychevsky family, in which Borys Ten was born in 1897, about the years of study at the Derman Gymnasium, about the three higher educations of the famous translator (theological, pedagogical and musical), the rectorship in the Peter and Paul Church in Podil, 10 years of camps in the Far East, about his only son Vasylko, about participation in World War II and captivity, about the difficult path to fame and recognition.

The Khomychevsky family house has been preserved in Derman to this day (a memorial plaque has been installed).

The complex of buildings of the Carmelite monastery was built in Dubno in the early Baroque style during the time of the Zaslavsky princes.

The church and cell building are connected by side facades, an arched gallery runs along the main facade.

In 1890, the Carmelite monastery was closed by royal decree. Subsequently, it temporarily resumed activity in 1921-1936. During the Soviet rule, the monastery finally ceased to exist.

In 1946, a cancer dispensary was placed in the former monastery buildings. Currently, it is an oncology hospice under the care of the Dubno Medical College. In 2004, with the consent of the head of the oncology dispensary, rooms were allocated here for the house church and for cells for the residents of the Holy Barbary Monastery of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The massive body of cells of the former Resurrection Monastery stands on a hill in the center of Korets, opposite the Saint Nicholas Church.

It was founded by Prince Bohush Koretsky in 1571 as an Orthodox monastery on the site of an older monastery. The current monastery complex in the late Baroque style was built in 1754-1767 by the Basilian Fathers (according to other sources, by the Franciscans).

Today it is the Resurrection Hermitage of the Holy Trinity Korets Monastery with the Church of the Resurrection of Christ.

The Contract House on the market square of Dubno was built in the 19th century. The building is made in the style of classicism.

The place of the famous "Dubno contracts" was the city of Dubno in the 18th century, until they were moved to Zviahel, and then to Kyiv. Grand fairs were held annually during the month immediately after Christmas. Later, fairs were revived on a smaller scale.

Nowadays, the Contract House is a house of children's creativity.

The Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts "Art" was founded in Dubno in 1980 on the basis of the Dubno Higher Art Vocational and Technical School by the efforts of masters of industrial training and students of the profession "Wood and Birch Carver".

Over the long period of its existence, a unique collection of works of art has been collected in its fund - these are sculptures, panels, frames, plates, piggy banks, etc.

The deer farm in the village of Kostiantynivka near Sarny has been welcoming tourists since 2019. About 50 red deer, over 30 fallow deer and other wild animals live in a large enclosure. They are joined by domestic animals, including sheep, goats, pigs, rabbits, ornamental chicken breeds, etc.

Visitors are free to walk around the farm, take pictures with the animals and feed them special food purchased on site. Almost all the animals on the farm are accustomed to people and willingly eat food straight from their hands.

The Derman Gymnasium building was built in 1912-1913 for the Saint Fedir Teacher's Seminary, which was transferred to Derman in 1906 from Zhytomyr under the care of the Derman Monastery.

The gymnasium was opened here during the Polish period, and during the Soviet times it was a secondary school. In 1917-1920, the famous Ukrainian writer Ulas Samchuk studied in a four-grade school at the Derman Seminary. The gymnasium now houses a museum of Samchuk, in which, in particular, some of his personal belongings are presented: glasses, a cane, and a pen.

In addition, there is a room-museum of the poet Borys Ten, who was also born in Derman.

The family castle of the princes Ostrozky was built in Dubno in the 15th century, then it belonged to several more aristocratic families: Zaslavsky, Sanhushsko, Lyubomyrsky, Baryatynsky.

For centuries, the Dubno Castle remained impregnable - the fortress walls withstood repeated sieges by the Crimean Tatars in the 16th century, the Cossack units of Maksym Kryvonos, and the Russian army in the 17th century. During various wars of the 18th and 19th centuries, hetman Ivan Mazepa, the Swedish king Karl XII, tsar Peter I, generals Suvorov and Kutuzov visited here.

The Dubno castle is surrounded by a defensive moat, over which a bridge leading to the gate and the gatehouse is overturned. On the right is the Ostrozky Palace (XVI century), and on the left - the Lyubomyrsky Palace (XVIII century), in which the stucco work of the Italian master Domeniko Merlini has been preserved. In the 17th century, the castle was fortified with two bastions with towers designed by the engineer Voban. The "Maiden's Tower" is associated with the legend of Princess Beata and her successful shot from a cannon at the tent of the Tatar Khan, who was besieging the castle.

There is a whole system of basements and underground passages. They are, in particular, described by Mykola Hohol in the novel "Taras Bulba", the main action of which unfolds around the Dubno Castle. In one of the basements, there is an exposition of the museum of torture. Theatrical tours are held.

In 2024, the museum room "Reviver of Ukrainian Castles" was opened, dedicated to the outstanding Ukrainian art critic, long-time director of the Lviv National Art Gallery Borys Voznytsky, who at one time contributed to the restoration of the Dubo Castle.

There is a souvenir shop and a cafeteria.

The Eco Farm AlpacaHome (Fluffy Farm) in Horodyshche near Rivne opened for visitors in 2024. It is located on the banks of a large pond 10 kilometers from the city center.

About three dozen South American alpacas now live on the farm. They are accompanied by pygmy goats, sheep, rabbits, guinea pigs and peacocks.

During a visit to the farm, visitors are in the same territory with alpacas, which are completely non-aggressive. You can directly contact the animals, feed them with special food, take pictures with them.

On the territory there are places for relaxation with gazebos, tables, hammocks, canopies, deckchairs.

The price of the visit includes an excursion and a portion of feed for the animals. Pre-registration is required to visit.