Attractions of Vysotsk

The people`s Museum of the History of the Village of Vysotsk was established in 1986 on the initiative of HryhoriyYatsuta.

The museum is located in a separate building with an area of ​​172 square meters. It includes three exhibition sections and has over 3,600 exhibits, of which about 2,000 are exhibited in three halls with an area of ​​108 square meters.

Of interest are materials that tell about human life in the 4th century BC on the territory of Vysotsk (according to archaeological research by Academician Sveshnikov, carried out in 1963). These are silicon arrowheads and spearheads, scrapers, knife-shaped plates, fragments of a stone hammer, pottery, a slate spinning wheel, images of women's jewelry and coin hryvnias found at the ancient Rus settlement of the 9th-13th centuries, located in the eastern part of Vysotsk.

The museum's materials tell about prominent figures of education, culture, and religion whose names are associated with Vysotsk - Meletiy Smotrytsky, Ivan and Fedir Solomaretsky, Edvard Rulikovsky, and Vatslav Boreyko. A separate important group of exhibits in the museum are materials from the era of the hetmans of Ukraine Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Yuriy Khmelnytsky, and Pavlo Teterya.

The museum has written sources dating back to 1709 (Marriage Registration Books, Confession Books, individual letters and church and secular documents).

A large collection of material culture objects is presented, namely from agriculture, fishing, pottery, beekeeping, and weaving. The most interesting and rare are the dovbank boats raised from the bottom of the Horyn River, which are over 200 years old, and the loom used to make canvas.

Among the museum's exhibits are materials that tell about the peasant unrest of the era of Severyn Nalyvayko, the Richytskyi rebellion of 1910, etc. Most of the exhibits testify to the struggle of local residents against foreign oppressors during the times of the Russian Empire and feudal Poland, especially at the beginning of the 20th century and during World War II, for the independence of Ukraine.

In addition, some stands of the museum reveal the tragic fate of the Jews of Vysotsk, who were completely destroyed (1864 people) in Vysotsk on September 9, 1942.