Attractions of Kremenets district

The Church of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called was built in Staryi Oleksynets in 1756 as a castle church. Later, it was rebuilt as an Orthodox Saint Andrew's Church.

Belongs to the community of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Holy Assumption Pochaiv Lavra is one of the largest shrines of the Orthodox world, the second most important on the territory of Ukraine after the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.

Legend attributes the founding of the first skete to the Athos monk Methodius. Around 1240, Kyiv monks appear on Pochaiv Hill in the neighborhood, escaping from the Tatar invasion (the name is associated with the Pochayna River, where Prince Volodymyr baptized the people of Kyiv). According to legend, a sign from above was the appearance of the Mother of God in a pillar of fire. The imprint of the Virgin Mary's foot remained on a stone, from under which a healing spring flowed.

Today, the relics are inside the grand Assumption Cathedral (1783, architect Gottfried Hoffmann). In the main altar, there is a miraculous icon of the Mother of God, donated to the monastery in 1597 by its founder - landlady Anna Hoyska. The parishioners want to attach themselves to the relics of Saint Iov, who was the abbot of the monastery during the confrontation with the Union in the 17th century.

The current magnificence of the laurel is largely due to the donations of Kaniv's elder Mykola Potoski, it was supported by the Russian tsars.

Excursions are conducted, visitors should dress appropriately: men in pants, women in skirts and with their heads covered (scarves and skirts can be rented).

The monastery is leased by the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The Holy Spirit Pochaiv monastery was revived in the place where the monk Methodius, who came from Athos, who is considered the founder of the Pochaiv Lavra, settled in the 13th century.

The Holy Spirit Pochaiv monastery complex includes three churches: the Holy Spirit, Saint Seraphim of Sarov and All Saints. There is a miraculous icon, the relics of Saint Methodius and other shrines.

Belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

Lanivtsicity communal institution "Ivan Marchuk Museum" was created in 2011. It includes the Museum-room of Ivan Marchuk in his native village of Moskalivka near Lanivtsi.

The Marchuk Museum is being created directly in Lanivtsi since 2020 in the former premises of the "Suputnyk" cinema in the center of the city. It should be a modern museum with an art gallery, a creative workshop and an area for installations.

The Ivan Marchuk Museum was created in 2010 in the premises of the Moskalivka elementary school in the artist's homeland - in the village of Moskalivka village near Lanivtsi. The institution is a subdivision of the Lanivtsi city communal institution "Ivan Marchuk Museum".

People's Artist of Ukraine Ivan Marchuk was born in Moskalivka in 1936 in the family of a local weaver, graduated from a seven-year rural school. Subsequently, he studied at the Lviv School of Applied Arts named after Ivan Trush. Today, the master's creative output includes about 5,000 paintings, which are exhibited in museums on all continents of the world.

For a long time, the museum in Moskalivka was the only Ivan Marchuk museum in Ukraine. It was started by enthusiastic local teachers in one school room with the personal assistance of the artist. Later, the exhibition expanded.

Now the museum has two exhibition halls where some of Ivan Marchuk's personal belongings, documentary materials about the artist's life in Moskalivka, his creative path and world recognition are presented. For some time, the museum exhibited more than 40 original Marchuk paintings, but now only reproductions can be seen. Excursions are conducted by schoolchildren.

The majestic complex of buildings of the Jesuit church, monastery and collegium in the baroque style is the architectural dominant of Kremenets. In the 18th-19th centuries, the Kremenets collegium was one of the largest centers of education in the Podillya and Volyn lands. Jesuit monks were invited to Kremenets by Prince Yanush Vyshnyvetskyi to create a Catholic collegium on the basis of the sister school of the Epiphany Monastery. In 1731-1743, the famous Italian architect Paolo Fontana built the church of Saint Ignatius of Loyola and Stanislav Kostka (now the Transfiguration Cathedral of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine) with adjacent educational buildings at the expense of the Vyshnyvetskyi.

In 1805, on the initiative of the historian and educator Tadeusz Czacki, the collegium was transformed first into the Volyn Gymnasium, and then into the Volyn Lyceum. The famous park builder Dionysius Makler (Mickler) laid a botanical garden next to it, which still exists today. In 1832, after the suppression of the Polish uprising, the higher school was closed, and its library funds and teaching staff became the basis for the creation of Kyiv University. A theological seminary was opened instead of a lyceum.

After the return of the Poles at the beginning of the 20th century, the lyceum was restored, and during Soviet times, a pedagogical school was opened on its base. Currently, it is the Taras Shevchenko Taras Shevchenko Regional Humanitarian and Pedagogical Academy.

The building of the Kremenets School of Arts named after Mykhaylo Verykivsky was built in the 19th century and is an architectural monument.

During Polish times, it housed a polyclinic. Since 1939 - a music school.

The Kremenets Botanical Garden at the Kremenets Lyceum was founded in 1806 by the Irish gardener and park builder Denis McClair (Dionizy Mikler).

On 4.5 hectares, he planted 460 species of local plants and 760 imported from different places. Already by 1809, the number of trees and shrubs reached 12 thousand. Among them: edible chestnut, Canadian pine, Pontic azalea, araucaria, red-leaved beech, ginkgo, white mulberry, fig, white-flowered ash, tulip tree.

After the dissolution of the lyceum in 1832-1834, the most valuable breeds were transported to Kyiv to the garden of Saint Volodymyr University.

Currently, the Kremenets Botanical Garden is a monument of horticultural art. It occupies 200 hectares.

The first museum in Kremenets called Muzeum Ziemi Krzemienieckiej emerged as part of the Kremenets Lyceum.

Currently Kremenets Museum of Local Lore there are 65,000 exhibits. It is located in the building of the former seminary. Archaeological finds, numismatic collections, ancient weapons, household items, handicrafts, the first editions and personal belongings of the Polish poet Yuliush Slovatsky and other famous Kremenets residents are presented in 10 halls.

The mountain "Maiden's Rocks" in Kremenets is a natural monument of state importance.

The picturesque rock spur with a height of 376 meters is located in the north-eastern part of the city, within the National Park "Kremenetsky Mountains".

The mountain is associated with a legend about girls captured by the Tatars - residents of Kremenets ravaged by the Krymchaks. Not wanting to be enslaved, the girls threw themselves into the abyss from the rock, which has since been called "Maiden's".

Broken blocks piled up in primordial chaos, steep cliffs and amazing stone compositions, black abysses of grottoes and caves encircle the mountain with a long ribbon 2.6 kilometers long. Shell-like, dense limestones that rise to the surface in steep cornices create a kind of uniqueness and beauty.

The Molotkiv Tragedy Museum Complex was opened in 1985 as the central part of the memorial complex in memory of the 617 civilians of the village who were killed, burned alive and murdered by the German fascists on April 29, 1943. The authors of the project are architect Ivan Osadchuk and sculptor Borys Rudy.

Between two large earthen ramparts symbolizing a mass grave, the road leads to the symbolic Death Street - the street of the burned village, which in turn leads to the Molotkiv Tragedy Museum. On both sides of it are burned houses, red floors the color of blood.

The museum's exposition includes a diorama "Burning of the Village" (artist Stepan Nechay), fragments of a burned house: burnt doors, charred cradle and icon, etc. (design by Bohdan Boshko and Stepan Mamchur), a Book of Memory containing the memories of Molotkiv residents about the tragedy. On the stands are photographs and lists of those executed in Molotkiv and neighboring villages. The exhibits collected here tell about the history of the village, the participation of its residents in World War II.

A museum in honor of Metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn Yakiv (Panchuk) was opened in 2013 in the village of Losiatyn, where the bishop was born. The museum is located in the courtyard of the church of Archpriest Michael.

The museum's exposition illustrates the life and activities of the Metropolitan Archpastor, the developer of the Ukrainian local church.

The picturesque Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Virgin in Staryi Vyshnivets looks especially impressive from the opposite side of the Horyn River, from the terraces of the palace park.

Wooden, built in the middle of the 19th century.

The Literary and Memorial Museum of the poet, public figure, zoologist-entomologist, scientist, professor of the University of Minnesota Oleksandr Neprytsky-Hranovsky was opened in his homeland, in the village of Velyki Berezhtsi, in 1996. The initiator of the creation of the museum was Borys Neprytsky - a cousin of Oleksandr Neprytsky-Hranovsky, who lives in the USA.

The museum is located in the premises of the Velyki Berezhtsi comprehensive school in seven rooms with a total area of ​​207 square meters. The museum collection includes about 2,500 exhibits. The museum exposition consists of 9 sections and introduces the life and creative path of Oleksandr Neprytsky-Hranovsky in Ukraine and abroad. Among the unique exhibits are a birth certificate, a photocopy of the certificate of graduation from the Bilokrynytsia Agricultural School, photos of members of the Ukrainian club "Rodyna" (Mykola Lysenko, Olena Pchilka, Pavlo Bohatsky, Oleksandr Neprytsky-Hranovsky), a diploma of a doctor of philosophy, a congratulatory telegram from US President Dwight Eisenhower to Oleksandr Neprytsky-Hranovsky on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Organization of the State Renaissance of Ukraine, the first collections of poems by the poet ("Petals of Hope", "Necklace of Tears" and "Chords", a portrait of Taras Shevchenko made by Oleksandr Neprytsky-Hranovsky in pencil in 1907 with his own signature, Easter eggs made according to Oleksandr Neprytsky-Hranovsky's drawings.

In 2009, the museum's funds were replenished with a collection of 202 dolls from almost 60 countries of the world, which the scientist collected over many years years of being in different countries of the world.

The church of the holy apostle and evangelist John the Theologian was built in Bilokrynytsia in 1890 in the Russian eparchial style at the expense of the secret adviser of the Kyiv Governor-General, Count Oleksandr Voronin.

The count is buried in the church, as evidenced by the memorial plaque.

The Church of John the Theologian belongs to the parish of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.