Attractions of Pryluky

The Pryluky City Cultural House is one of the most prominent buildings in the city.

As the first professional theater stage, Pryluky began to build it in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by the burgher Brodskyi together with the owner of the brick factory Shtonda, but they did not have enough funds to complete the construction. The central two-story part was completed only in 1930.

Currently, the People's Amateur Theater "Rampa" and several other creative groups perform on the stage of the House of Culture. Theater festivals are held here every year, gathering amateur groups from all over Ukraine.

In 2008, a monument to the famous Ukrainian theater and film actor Mykola Yakovchenko, a native of Pryluky, was erected on the square in front of the Brodsky Theater building.

The Church of the Three Saints in Kustivtsy in Pryluky was built in 1878 on the site of an old church founded in the 17th century.

The first temple was built at the expense of the burgher Andriн Kendyukh.

The new five-domed church in Kustivtsy is made in the so-called "parish" style.

The Pryluky Museum of Local Lore named after Vasyl Maslov occupies a restored two-story mansion built in the 19th century for the mayor Mykola Kyslovsky in the very center of the city.

Its history begins with the Museum of Natural History, opened at the end of the 19th century. It reached its peak in the 1930s under the leadership of the famous scientist Vasyl Maslov (a monument has been installed at the entrance to the museum). The collection of masterpieces of world art and Cossack relics of the famous public figure and philanthropist Hryhoriy Galagan became the basis of his collection.

Since then, the museum has formed interesting art collections, a large collection of decorative and applied art, and opened a department of Pryluky history. The most interesting exhibits: the saddle of Hetman Danylo Apostol, a model of the Pryluky fortress, a fragment of the fortress palisade.

Employees of the local lore museum conduct tours of the city and its surroundings.

The Nativity of Holy Virgin Cathedral was built in Pryluky on the site of two ancient Pryluky churches that burned down during a fire in 1781.

Fundraising for the stone temple was announced immediately after the fire, but the construction was completed only after the city received funding from the royal treasury in 1802, as evidenced by a copper plaque with a commemorative inscription.

A new church with three thrones in honor of the Nativity of the Holy Mother of God, Varvara the Great Martyr and Saint Oleksandr Nevsky was consecrated in 1817. It was built by a craftsman from Chernihiv region Fedir Zabolotskyi. Remains of oil painting from the beginning of the 19th century have been preserved inside.

Near the central portal stood a stone two-story bell tower, built in the best forms of late classicism (not preserved). Until recently, the building housed the department of the Chernihiv Regional State Archives.

In 2005, the Nativity of Holy Virgin Cathedral was returned to the parishioners of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The museum of Oleh Koshovy is dedicated to the memory of the head of the underground organization "Young Guard" in Chervonodon, who was born in Pryluky.

It is located in the former house of the Koshovy family.

The exposition includes more than 450 exhibits: household items, dishes, an overcoat, weapons and other personal belongings of Oleh, documents, letters.

In 1979, a monument to Koshovy was opened in the courtyard of the museum.

Fragments of the ramparts of the ancient Pryluky fortress have been preserved near the central square of the city, between Nezalezhnosti Street and Hoholya Street.

The Cossack fortress was built in Pryluky in the 17th century under the Vyshnevetsky princes on the basis of the fortifications of the ancient Rus settlement of Pryluky town. The fortress had strong oak walls with high hewn towers. A deep ditch stretched along the rampart, which was 10-12 meters high. The Vyshnevetsky Palace, the regimental office, the court, the town hall, the prison, the houses of the colonel and the regimental foreman were located on the territory.

Of all the fortress buildings, except for earth ramparts and stone temples, the building of the regimental treasury, built at the beginning of the 18th century by Colonel Hnat Galagan, has survived. The remains of the ramparts of the Pryluky fortress can be seen at the far end of the central park. A monument to Volodymyr Monomakh has been erected here.

The building of the regimental treasury is the only preserved stone fortification structure of the Pryluky fortress, the oldest civil structure in the city.

A small tenement for storing Cossack valuables, cleynods and weapons was built near his house by the Zaporizhzhia colonel Hnat Galagan, who rose under Hetman Ivan Mazepa, and later in the service of Tsar Peter I.

The rectangular structure with walls one meter thick has deep basements. The ends are crowned with baroque pediments, the facades are decorated with pilasters.

The booty taken by the Cossacks from the campaigns was stored here: expensive weapons, clothes, money, as well as regimental flags.

Nearby is the grave of an unknown Cossack.

This monumental stone building with a tall, slender bell tower is one of the best architectural structures in Pryluky.

Saint John's Church (Ivanivska Church) was built in 1865 in Kvashentsy (formerly a village, now a district of the city), at the intersection of Kyivska and Ivanivska streets.

The first wooden church at this place was laid in 1708 by hetman Ivan Mazepa, thanks to which it got its name, which has survived to this day, despite the fact that Mazepa was anathema by the Russian church.

The stone temple was built after a strong fire, which destroyed all the churches of the city at the end of the 18th century, except Saint Barbary Church. Currently, the Saint John's Church has been restored in its original form.

The Stretenia Cathedral of the Hustynia monastery on Galaganivska Street is a notable architectural building of old Pryluky.

It was built in 1889 in honor of the fallen Russian Emperor Oleksandr II. Most of the funds for the construction were donated by the then mayor Ivan Dedin.

A rare for Ukrainian architecture, a three-nave basilica-like building with three domes (only one - the central one - has survived to our time), made of rare red brick and painted with brown paint.

From 1929 until recently, the temple housed a local history museum. Currently, the exposition has been dismantled, and work is underway to restore the temple.

The ancient five-bathroom Transfiguration Cathedral is the main architectural landmark of Pryluky.

It was built at the beginning of the 18th century at the expense of Colonel Hnat Galagan. It was located on the territory of the Pryluky fortress, on the site of the burnt wooden Savior's Church of the middle of the 17th century.

The stone temple was built by folk craftsmen in the restrained forms of the late baroque, characteristic of Cossack temples. Reconstruction was carried out in 1834.

Inside the cathedral, its founder, Colonel Galagan, is buried in a deep crypt. The main shrine is the icon of the Sorrowful Mother of God.

Nearby is the massive two-story church-bell tower of Saint Nicholas. A monument to Saint Yoasaf of Belhorod, who was born in Pryluky, was erected between them.