Attractions of Nizhyn

Separate buildings that were part of the citadel complex of the Nizhyn fortress in the 17th-19th centuries have survived on the territory of the current central city market.

The fortress in Nizhyn was built during Polish rule on the site of early fortifications, reconstructed in 1749 according to the Western European model. The citadel was surrounded by an earth rampart with 4 gates, 11 wooden towers and bastions. However, after a great fire at the beginning of the 19th century, the ramparts were torn down, and the territory was set aside for a bazaar.

The castle Church of the Epiphany (1721), a powder cellar (13th century), as well as a two-story ostrog (prison) building, which now houses an ambulance station (Bazarna Street, 18), have been preserved. The remains of the northern rampart of the fortress are visible from the river side.

Currently, the territory of the fortress is occupied by the Nizhyn Market with 19th-century shophouses. In particular, you can buy the famous homemade Nizhny cucumbers here.

Nizhyn Museum of Local Lore named after Ivan  Spasky is located in an old house that belonged to the merchant Dyachenko in the XIX century.

The funds have 30,000 exhibits that tell the history of the city from ancient times to 1945. An interesting collection of archaeological finds obtained during excavations in the old part of the city, things of the Cossack era (cold steel and firearms, hetman's universals), exhibits characterizing the multinational nature of Nizhyn (including the history of the Greek community).

Of particular interest is the numismatic collection, the collection of orders and medals, the philatelic collection.

The first Soviet HTZ tractor was installed in the yard of the Nizhyn Museum of Local Lore.

The Greek Church of Saint Michael the Archangel is the scariest church of the Greek community preserved in Nizhyn.

Built in 1719-1729 in the Greek quarter of Nizhyn. Since then, it has never been rebuilt, thanks to which it has preserved the archaic forms of Balkan architecture.

Currently, Saint Michael's Church is closed, services are not held. The temple does not catch the eye, as it is hidden behind the larger church of All Saints.

The Church of the Transfiguration in the Baroque style was built on the territory of the Nizhyn suburb of Nove Misto.

The architecture uses a rare method of combining a cross volume with a three-story finish, which is traditional for the wooden temple architecture of the western regions.

In 1857, a bell tower was completed, which has not survived to this day.

In 1861, a funeral procession stopped in the church during the transportation of the body of Taras Shevchenko to Ukraine.

During the Second World War, the Nazis tried unsuccessfully to blow up the temple during their retreat.

The Trinity Church is located in the Greek quarter of Nizhyn. The single-domed stone church in the Baroque style was built in 1733.

In 1888, it was thoroughly rebuilt, as a result of which it acquired features of classicism. In particular, the shape of the dome was completely changed, a two-tier bell tower with a spire was added on the western side. The church yard was surrounded by a wrought-iron fence at the end of the 19th century. There is an original inscription on the fence with the date of the last reconstruction and the name of its initiator.

For a long time, the Trinity Church was closed, the premises of the church were used as an archive. Currently, the Nizhyn City Council has started the process of returning the Trinity Church to the city community and has adopted a corresponding decision.

The Yuriy Lysyansky Memorial House-Museum is a department of the Ivan Spassky Nizhyn Museum of Local Lore.

The first Ukrainian traveler around the world, Yuriy Lysyansky, was a navigator, geographer, oceanographer, cartographer and ethnographer, a descendant of the Nizhyn noble Cossack-priestly family. He took part in the first circumnavigation in the history of the Russian Empire, which took place under the command of Ivan Kruzenstern. An island in Hawaii, a peninsula in Alaska, a strait, a river and a mountain in Sakhalyn are named after him.

The Lysyansky Museum is located in the house of the priest of the Church of Saint John the Theologian, in whose family the future sailor was born in 1773. The first exhibition hall with a temporary exhibition "Traveler of the Cossack family" opened in 2021. Here are some household items of the Lysyansky family - utensils, a clay Cossack pipe, etc.

Also in the exhibition you can see items related to the life of naval officers and training in the cadet corps, weapons of the time, a model of the sloop "Neva", on which Lysyansky traveled around the world.