Attractions of Fastiv district

The Byshiv exemplary museum of history and local lore was founded in 1983 by Valeriy Obukhivskyi, a history teacher at the Byshiv secondary school. It is located in the premises of the Byshiv Academic Lyceum.

The museum's collections include up to 1,500 exhibits, which are organized by sections: archaeological, medieval, ethnographic, the first half of the 20th century, the Second World War, socio-economic development of the village in 1950–1990, and the present.

The large landscape park "Eva Park" opened in 2023 in the village of Vita-Poshtova, 10 kilometers from Kyiv. This is the garden center of the landscape design company of the same name, which at the same time serves as a recreation area, a photo location and a place for themed events.

The total territory of the park is more than 25 hectares. There are miniature houses in the English style, elegant bridges, a cozy small cafe, art objects, stone waterfalls, as well as a living corner with peacocks, plants from different parts of the world, ponds, photo zones and various locations for entertainment. In Eva Park, you can not only take a walk, but also fish, order a photo session or rent an area for special events.

Eva Park also hosts various events - painting workshops, themed brunches, excursions, tea ceremonies.

The History and Local Lore Museum at the Novosilky Gymnasium of the Boiarka City Council was created in 1989 on the initiative of local teachers. The materials for the museum were collected by students of the then Novosilky secondary school.

The exposition tells about the history of the village of Novosilky since its founding in the 15th century, about the liberation movements on the territory of the region in the 17th-19th centuries, and about the development of the village in the 20th century.

In particular, materials are presented about the military career of the Hero of the Soviet Union, Rear Admiral Ivan Kucherenko, who was born in the village of Novosilky in 1908, as well as about the scientist and writer Vitaliy Kulakovskyi, a native of the nearby village of Mostyshche.

The Intercession Church in Kozhanka is located on a hill in the center of the village.

The church is wooden on a stone foundation, three-log three-domed, later expanded due to the addition of low buildings and a vestibule. A small extension adjoins the apse from the south. Log houses are covered with octagonal domes without drums, which makes the silhouette of the building somewhat stocky.

According to legend, the funds for the construction of this church were raised by the Haydamaks.

The unusual composition of the building places it among a number of interesting monuments of wooden architecture of the Right Bank of Ukraine.

The architectural ensemble of the Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin in Hatne is made in the ancient traditions of wooden Orthodox architecture.

The type of church is cross-domed. In its plan, it is a cruciform space into which light penetrates through windows in a drum surmounted by a dome that symbolizes heavenly glory.

Intercession Church belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The landscape park of the estate of Varvara Khanenko, the wife of the famous sugar factory Bohdan Khanenko, was preserved in the village of Olenivka, which belonged to the Khanenko family at the beginning of the 20th century.

This is an arboretum with three ponds, with spruce-oak-hornbeam groves, a section of the cultural elite garden and the "Amur" spring, which was once decorated with a bronze figure of Amur. Today, only a stone catchment remains from the spring, and from the estate only the old water tower - a monument of technology of the beginning of the 20th century.

In 2017, a rosary was planted in the park in honor of Varvara Khanenko. It is planned to include the Khanenkiv park in the landscape reserve of local importance "Khanenko-Olenivka Paradise".

Khutir Mlynok appeared near Vepryk in the 17th-18th centuries, when miller Demyan Tsukrenko built a water mill here on the Kyrsha River at its confluence with Irpin.

However, settlements in this place have existed since ancient times, starting with the Neolithic (XII-X centuries BC), as evidenced by archaeological findings. The fortifications of the later Scythian settlement of the VI-V centuries BC have been preserved. A rampart 1.5 kilometers long, 5 meters high, up to 25 meters wide with a 2-meter-deep moat protects an area of ​​about 40 hectares. This is one of the largest Scythian settlements in Kevshchyna. In section, the shaft can be seen right at the entrance to the farm, next to the original wooden gate and watchtower.

A chapel of the Immaculate Image of Jesus Christ and Theodore Icon of the Mother of God was built on the bank of the reservoir.

The famous naval engineer, lieutenant general, designer of the famous cruiser "Aurora" Ksaveriy Ratnik was born in Mykolaiv. After the defeat of the Russian fleet in 1905 in the Battle of Tsushima, in which the "Aurora" participated, Ratnik was accused of corruption by the leadership of the Russian Empire's navy, retired and began to live permanently on the outskirts of the then Borova farm and Motovyliv dachas, on the hills of the right high bank of the Stuhna River, where he purchased a plot of land and in 1907 built a three-story manor house in the shape of a ship. The rooms were considered cabins, and the large balcony was called the captain's bridge.

After the death of the owner in 1924, the manor house was given over to a sanatorium, then the office of the Kyiv Vegetable and Potato Research Station was located in Ratnik's former house.

Currently, the house-ship is abandoned and is slowly collapsing. Through the efforts of enthusiasts and Ksaveriy Ratnik's great-grandson, Oleh Ratnik, a memorial plaque to Ksaveriy Ratnik was installed on it in the early 2010s, and the designer's grave was also discovered and arranged. The plans include the creation of a Cultural and Historical Center based on the house-museum.

Pillbox 180 (DOT) in Vita-Poshtova of battalion district No. 6 of the southern sector of the Kyiv Ukriparion (KyUR) was part of the first line of defense of the city of Kyiv.

The structure of thick reinforced concrete is a single-story frontal fire machine gun Pillbox with 4 embrasures (type B).

In August 1941, the garrison of Pillbox 180 for 6 hours repelled the attacks of the advancing Wehrmacht troops while crossing the bridge in the village of Vita-Poshtova. 6 out of 15 defenders of the capital of Ukraine died in battle, the fate of those who survived is unknown.

The fortification was cleared and restored by the forces of enthusiasts from the Kyiv historical and patriotic club "Poshuk" with the participation of the International Association of Fortification Researchers "Citadel".

In 2011, the exposition of the museum "Defense of Kyiv - Belt of Glory" was opened in it. The equipment and weapons of the Pillbox are presented, including the Maxim machine gun, as well as other finds of search engines: projectiles, mines, grenades, helmets of various types, parts of rifles and machine guns, etc.

The long-term firing point No. 186 (Pillbox 186) in Chabany was built in 1930 and is one of the 250 fortification structures of the Kyiv Fortified District (KiUR), covering Kyiv from the southwest in a semi-ring 85 kilometers long.

The 1.5-meter-thick walls are designed for a direct hit by a 203-millimeter projectile. Pillbox is single-story, has 4 embrasures and an additional embrasure of the rear firing. There were 4 machine guns "Maxim" and one manual DP. Ammunition - 90,000 rounds of caliber 7.62. The type of masking is an economic building.

In 1941, Pillbox 186 was part of the "Crimea" base. Garrison - 10-15 people (surnames of fighters are unknown).

Currently, the International Association of Fortification Researchers "Citadel" has created a museum on the basis of Pillbox 186. Part of the equipment has been restored, in particular one of the casemate machine guns.

"Captain Kiparenko's Pillbox" is called Pillbox 204 of battalion district No. 6 of the southern sector of the Kyiv fortified area (KFA) - the artillery command and observation post (AOP) of the circular observation sector.

Underground reinforced concrete structure of type "B", single-story, with two armored caps of the GAU and an entrance defense embrasure. In August 1941, Pillbox 204 served as the command post of the 28th separate machine gun battalion of Captain Ivan Kiparenko of the "Crimea" base of the KFA.

In 2010, Pillbox 204 was cleared and prepared for the placement of the exposition as the first stage of the museum complex "Defense of Kyiv - Belt of Glory" by the enthusiasts of VO "Patriot" and IAF "Citadel". However, later the object was destroyed by vandals. Now access is free.

"Vyetrov Pillbox" is the unofficial name of the legendary Pillbox205 of battalion district No. 6 of the southern sector of the Kyiv fortified area (KFA).

This six-embrasure machine gun mine group, built according to an individual project, is considered the most powerful and most impregnable structure of the entire fortified area. 5 casemates were connected to each other by underground passages with a length of 375 meters.

In August 1941, the garrison of Pillbox 205 from the 28th separate machine-gun battalion under the command of Lieutenant Heorhiy Vyetrov , contrary to the order, refused to leave the combat positions and fought heroically with the Germans for 10 days in complete encirclement, independently extracting ammunition and food during eye raids. It was later unblocked by Soviet troops and the garrison nevertheless retreated.

Pillbox 205 was cleared by the forces of the Kyiv "Search" club, it is planned to be included in the "Defense of Kyiv - Belt of Glory" museum complex.

The elegant building in the Art Nouveau style was built in 1903 according to the project of the architect Valerian Kulykivskyi for the family of noblemen Khoyetsky, who owned Tomashivka since 1810.

The building is brick, two- and partly one-story, and has a complex plan. The appearance is diversified by numerous pediments, slats, cornices, enriched by an open veranda decorated with carved wooden bindings, and the same loggia.

In Soviet times, the building housed a secondary school. Currently, the premises and territory of the manor are at the disposal of the Rizopolozhenskyi Monastery of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate, restoration and construction work is being carried out by the brothers.

Churches of the Passion of Christ, the Resurrection of Christ, the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, All the Monks of Pechersk, Paisius the Great, as well as the chapels of Saint Khoma, the prudent robber Rach, Saint Matron, Saint Uar and Saint Anastasia the Improviser were erected on the territory. The bell tower with the chapel of Saint Nicholas is under construction. It is planned to build a grand Cathedral of the Imposition of the Robe of the Mother of God in Blacherna.

The monks organized a mini-zoo where ponies, ostriches, and various birds are kept.

Visitors are asked to dress modestly (women in long skirts and headscarves, men in trousers) and refrain from taking photographs on the grounds.

The ruins of the Rulykivsky manor were preserved in the park of Velyka Motovylivka next to the rural council.

Polish landowner, historian and ethnographer, researcher of Right Bank Ukraine Edvard Rulykivskyi owned Motovylivka at the beginning of the 19th century. He built a two-story brick palace on the place where the castle of the Aksaki nobles used to stand.

Currently, only the basements and the crypt of the Catholic church remain from the manor house, which formed a single complex with the manor house. Tombstones on the former graves of Edvard Rulykivskyi and his brother Antoniy have been preserved in the crypt.

The Church of John Chrysostom was built in the village of Pivni in 1868 on the site of the old church founded in 1738.

In the harmonious forms of the building, the influence of the classical style, more characteristic of stone temples at that time, can be felt.

The Church of Saint John Chrysostom is an architectural monument of national significance. Belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

Currently, restoration works are being carried out in the temple. Two compositions have already been restored - myrrh-bearing women and Saint Peter the Apostle.