Attractions of Rivne region

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 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.

Saint Anthony's Church is the oldest church in the city of Korets. Founded by Prince Karol Koretsky in 1533 (according to other sources - in 1633), named after Saint Anthony of Padua.

In 1706, a new stone church in the Baroque style was built on the site of the wooden church. During the reconstruction in 1916, an additional nave was added.

During the Soviet rule, a chemical warehouse was located here.

In 1990, the church was returned to the Catholic community of Korets, consecrated in 1904 as the church of Saint Anthony.

Fragments of wall paintings have been preserved, and restoration has been carried out.

The parish church of Saint John of Nepomuk is the only active Catholic church in the city of Dubno. It was built in 1817-1830 by the local parish priest Aloyiz Osynsky on the site of an older church. There is a stone bell tower nearby.

During the Soviet rule, the gymnasium of the local sports school was closed and transformed.

In 1991, after Ukraine gained independence, services were resumed in the church. In 1994, the church of Saint John Nepomuk in Dubno was officially handed over to the faithful of the Roman Catholic parish

It is part of the State Historical and Cultural Reserve of the city of Dubno.

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 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.

Dubrovytsia Historical and Ethnographic Museum was established in 1957 as the Museum of the Armed Uprising of 1917.

The exposition in 4 halls tells about the origin and development of Dubrovytsia in chronological order: "History of the ancient city", "Life and tools", "Our land during the Second World War", "Modernity".

Among the exhibits are works of art by potter Yevtukh Kulyk, master of folk art Ulyana Kit, photographs of the Counts of Plyater, copies of the pages of the Peresopnytsia Gospel.

The Forest Museum near Kostopil was opened in 2011 on the basis of the Kostopil Forestry.

The exposition covers the work of each of the 16 forestries of the region. In particular, one of the stands tells about the 250-year-old Kostopil oak.

Among the exhibits of the forest museum are a stuffed animal of 50 species of birds, wild boars, martens, badgers and bison. Another exposition tells about the peculiarities of wooden architecture and life of Polishchuks.

Around the museum is the creation of a forest park with a cascade of ponds and labyrinths of forests. Lawn and flower beds were laid out, paths were equipped, gazebos for recreation and a playground with wooden figures of fairy-tale heroes were installed, a chapel was built.

There is a souvenir shop.

Built in Ostroh in the 16th century, the defensive Great Synagogue was at one time one of the largest centers of Jewish culture in Europe, with a higher school of rabbis.

It was destroyed during the War of Liberation.

After the Second World War, the Jewish community of the city was never restored, the synagogue building was used as a warehouse.

Until 2016, it was in a state of disrepair, gradually collapsing. In 2016, the restoration of the synagogue began at the expense of patrons.

The Dubno Great Synagogue was built in the 16th century.

It underwent reconstruction in the 18th century after destruction during the Liberation War of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi.

Until the middle of the 19th century, Dubno had the largest Jewish community in Lutsk County, which flourished thanks to the "Dubno Contracts" fairs that were regularly held in the city. There were 15 synagogues and prayer houses, as well as a Jewish printing house.

The Dubno Great Synagogue was badly damaged during the First World War, but has survived to this day.

Ostroh Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy is the first higher educational institution in Ukraine and Eastern Europe.

It was founded in 1576 by Prince Vasyl-Kostyantyn Ostrozky and Princess Halshka Ostrozka (a memorial sign has been erected in Shevchenko Park next to the castle where the academy was originally located). The first printer Ivan Fedorov opened a printing house there in 1580, where the first "Bukvar" and the famous "Ostroh Bible" were published.

The first rector of the academy was Herasym Smotrytsky. Among the graduates are Hetman Petro Sahaydachny, the Nalyvayko brothers and others.

In 1624, after the founding of the Jesuit College in Ostroh, funding for the academy ceased, and in 1636 it was disbanded. Revived in 1994 as a state university. Today it occupies the premises of the former Capuchin monastery with the Trinity Church (1778, architects Paolo Fontana).

There is a museum of history of the National University "Ostroh Academy", excursions to the dungeon of the monastery, where crypts with burials of monks were found.

The wooden Church of the Assumption is the oldest building in Rivne. The temple in the Tyutkivskyi suburb of the city was built in 1756 at the expense of the parishioners. The church is single-domed, the iconostasis was completed in 1784.

According to legend, Ivan Honta, the leader of the Haidamac movement, prayed in the Assumption Church before the battle with the Polish nobility.

The belfry and the "chain of moral foundations" to which ungodly parishioners were chained in the 18th century for public atonement have been preserved.

The wooden church in honor of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built in Volodymyrka in 1897.

The interior painting was done for the first time in 1978.

The temple is single-domed, with five baths. There are seven bells in the belfry.

The most notable architectural landmark of the city. The Holy Resurrection Cathedral was built in the 19th century on the donation of Emperor Oleksandr III on the site of the church that burned down in 1881.

During the Soviet rule, the museum of atheism was located here. With the beginning of democratic transformations, the religious building was returned to the Orthodox community of the city. Currently, the Holy Resurrection Cathedral belongs to the Moscow Patriarchate.

The wooden Holy Trinity Church in Sarny is one of the oldest monuments of the wooden architecture of Polissya.

The church was built in the village of Dorotychy in 1725 at the expense of landowner Antoniy Prushynsky.

Initially, the Trinity Church had two baths, but later, thanks to the efforts of the abbot Father Ioann, a third one was built above the bell tower. In the same year, a house was built for the priest, which is still standing near the church. There is only one throne in the temple - in honor of the Holy Trinity.

The Dominican monastery in Nevirkiv was founded in 1698. There was a wooden temple with it.

In 1807, Yan Kazimezh Stetskyi from nearby Velyki Mezhyrichi built a majestic stone church in the style of classicism (there is an inscription above the entrance to confirm this).

In 1832, after the dissolution of the Dominican monastery, the Church of the Holy Trinity became a parish church.

Now - in a pitiful state.