Attractions of Lutsk district

The Cathedral of the Holy Trinity was built in the 18th century as a church of the Bernardine monastery in the new part of the city, which is now the administrative center of Lutsk.

The project was developed by architect Pavlo Hizhytskyi. Initially, the church had rococo architectural features, but after the Bernardine Order was abolished and the church was handed over to the Orthodox Church, the building was completely rebuilt in the late Baroque style.

The interior decoration of the 19th century with a two-tiered carved and gilded iconostasis made by Ukrainian masters has been preserved in the Holy Trinity Cathedral.

The majestic Holy Trinity Cathedral in Berestechko was founded in 1910 in memory of the Cossacks who died in the Battle of Berestechko in 1651.

The three-level Trinity Church was supposed to be a copy of the Volodymyr Cathedral in Kyiv. Before the beginning of the First World War, they did not have time to complete the construction. The Polish authorities allowed the completion of only the underground part and the first tier, because after the completion of the upper tier, the Orthodox cathedral would overshadow the neighboring Catholic church.

Only in the 1930s, a temporary roof was built over the unfinished cathedral. In this form, it existed until 1995 (it was closed from 1960 to 1990). Currently, the construction of the Trinity Cathedral has been completed, although the original project has not been found.

The cathedral looks especially impressive from the opposite bank of the river.

The Horokhiv Historical Museum was founded in 1967 as a museum of revolutionary, military and labor glory.

The organizer and first director was local historian Andriy Maksymenko.

The exposition unfolds in a two-story building and has the following main sections: "Formation of Ukrainian statehood", "Horokhiv region in the Second World War", ethnographic.

A number of exhibitions have been opened in the museum, among them: "Rehabilitated by history", a photo exhibition dedicated to the anniversary of Ukraine's Independence "My Native Horokhiv".

Horokhiv Park is a landmark of garden and park art. Founded at the beginning of the 19th century by the owner of the city, Tarnavskyi.

In the park, Tarnavskyi built a palace in the Empire style, in which a rich collection of works of art was collected, in particular. rare antique sculptures.

Currently, more than 80 species of different trees and shrubs grow in the 12-hectare park.

The Kivertsi Museum of Local Lore was founded in 2009.

The exposition presents more than 900 exhibits that tell about the history of the region from ancient times to the present.

Art exhibitions, excursions, master classes on folk art are held.

The Lopatensky historical and natural museum complex is located in the Lopaten tract near the village of Berestiane, on the territory of the Tsuman Pushcha National Nature Park, where Soviet partisans and UPA units were active in 1941-1943.

The central element of the memorial complex is the burial mound with the obelisk "To All the Living and the Dead in World War II", which is reached by a log alley with portraits of partisan commanders. The partisan dugouts located in a semicircle have been preserved: headquarters, commandant's platoon, hospital, operating room. You can see the partisan oven, a device for making homemade mines. The museum exposition "Our land during the Second World War" presents weapons, ammunition, documents and personal belongings of partisans.

The complex also includes the "Museum of the Volyn Forest" with a reconstructed forester's hut of the 19th century, an apiary, wooden sculptures and an ecological path around forest lakes (there are hiking and horse trails).

The Art Museum in Lutsk presents an outstanding collection of world and Ukrainian paintings, graphics and sculptures of different eras.

The exhibition is housed in the former building of the county office and noble courts, built in 1789 on the ruins of the princely palace of Lutsk Castle.

The collection of the Lutsk Art Museum was formed in the post-war years on the basis of the collection from the magnate gallery of the Radzyvill princes in the Castle in Olyka. European painting of the 17th and early 20th centuries, particularly from Italy, France, Germany, and Poland, is widely represented.

The pearl of the collection is the painting "Saint Jerome" (1644) - almost the only work in Ukraine by the outstanding Spanish artist of the "Golden Age" Jusepe de Ribera. The Lutsk Art Museum has one of the country's largest collections of Polish paintings (January Suchodolski, Jan Matejko, Józef Brandt and others), the core of which is a gallery of ceremonial portraits of princes Radziwills and other aristocrats of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Among them, the portrait of Queen Anna of Austria, the wife of the Polish king Stefan Batory, and the brush of the court artist Martin Kober stand out. Another decoration of the museum's permanent exhibition is "Per procura wedding of Prince Mikolaj "the Black" Radziwill with Catherine of Austria (Gonzaga)" by Ksaveryj Geski.

Among the masterpieces of Ukrainian painting of the late 19th and early 20th centuries is the painting "Storm at Sea" by the outstanding marine painter Ivan Ayvazovsky. The exposition also presents modern Ukrainian painting, the works of Volyn artists.

Zeman Lutsk Brewery was founded in 1888 by the Czech brewer Vatslav Zeman, whose father, Yozef Zeman, moved from the Czech Republic to Kvasyliv in Volyn in 1869.

In 1906, the wooden building of the factory was destroyed by fire, but two years later the brewery was rebuilt in stone. In 1913, the brewery reached its maximum productivity. Four varieties of beer were brewed here: "Stolove", "Sakura", "Pomegranate" and "Bok Beer".

In 1939, after Volyn joined the USSR, the Lutsk Brewery was nationalized. After Ukraine gained independence in 2004, the production of beer under the trademark "Zeman" was established in honor of the founder of the brewery Vatslav Zeman. Currently, 12 types of beer are brewed here.

The Lutsk Zoo is located on the territory of the Lesya Ukrayinka Central Park of Culture and Recreation.

The zoo exhibition consists of 42 species of fauna. In particular, lions, bears, red deer, bison, antelope, llama, porcupine, raccoon dogs, pheasants, peacocks, black swans and others are presented. In total, more than 150 animals and birds live in the Lutsk Zoo.

There is a summer cafe on the territory of the zoo.

The Volyn Regional Museum of the Ukrainian Army and Military Equipment was established on the initiative of the public organization Dzherela.

The museum is located on the territory of a military town in the center of Lutsk, in the premises built in 1925.

The exposition presents 50 samples of military equipment and weapons. The permanent exhibition "Pages of Military History of the Volyn Region" has been opened.

The building of the old pharmacy was built in Lutsk by the Zlotsky family at the turn of the XVIII-XIX centuries.

The pharmacy laboratory used more than 200 species of medicinal plants to prepare medicines, ointments, tinctures and syrups.

In 1920, the extraction of artesian wells and the sale of mineral water were established here.

In 1882, Lesya Ukrayinka often bought medicines here.

The estate of the Pronsky princes, who owned Berestechko since 1544, has survived only partially, in a significantly rebuilt form.

According to legend, the Pronsky Palace was connected to the Trinity Church by an underground passage.

Currently, the Berestechko psychoneurological boarding school is located on the territory of the manor and the park.

The former manor of Prince Rinchynskyi is located at the exit from Berestechkoin the direction of Horokhiv (this place is still called Rinchyna).

Vocational and technical school No. 27 is currently located on the site of the manor. The park and the manor house, which now houses the school's library, have been preserved.

The historical and local lore museum in the town of Rozhyshche in Volyn was opened in 1977 on the initiative of local historians.

Now the museum consists of 4 departments: nature, ethnography, history and art. Valuable exhibits include the 17th-century icon "Exaltation of the Holy and Life-Giving Cross of the Lord" and wreaths of the same period, as well as sculptures of Catholic saints from the nearby village of Pozharka.

Separate expositions are devoted to the activities of the UPA in Volyn and the historical fate of Ukrainians deported from Poland to Ukraine in 1944-1946.

In the ethnographic department, the interior of a peasant's house of the middle of the 19th century is reproduced. 22 paintings for the art exhibition of the Rozhyshche Historical and Local History Museum were donated by an honorary resident of the city, artist Mykola Savchuk.

The Church of Saint Demetrius of Thessalonica was built in Zhuravnyky in the neo-Rus style in 1905 on the site of an old wooden church.

The church was founded by Count Rafayil de Bossalini, a landowner of Italian origin from the nearby village of Brany, and his wife Kateryna.

The Church of Saint Demetrius belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.