Attractions of Obukhiv district

The Holy Trinity Church was built in Bohuslav in the 19th century on the site of an old church. Most of the funds for the construction were allocated by Oleksandra Branytska.

The temple is made in the style of late classicism. An architectural monument of national importance.

Belongs to the community of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

Rzhyshchiv Museum of Fine Arts named Ivan-Valentyn Zadorozhny is located in an administrative building in the center of Rzhyshchiv.

The permanent exhibition presents works by contemporary artist-monumentalist, a native of Rzhyshchiv Ivan-Valentyn Zadorozhny. He is the author of 24 monumental works located throughout Ukraine. These are stained-glass windows in the author's technique of cast glass, mosaics, carvings, concrete reliefs.

The artist's creative work also includes tapestries of hand weaving, sculptures, graphic illustrations to Taras Shevchenko's "Kobzar" and children's fairy tales.

Visitors to the museum can see the author's works, historical and documentary photographs, read excerpts from the artist's diary. The Rzhyshchiv Museum of Art also holds thematic exhibitions and other events.

The landscape reserve of local significance "Vasylkivski Carpathians" is located east of Vasylkiv, between the villages of Velyka Buhaivka and Roslavychi. It got its name due to the steep hilly relief, reminiscent of Carpathian landscapes.

The reserve with an area of ​​226.8 hectares was created in 1999 on the basis of a large stream with adjacent ravines, at the bottom of which flows the Krushynka River and several nameless streams flowing into the Buhaivka River. The fragmented log-beam landscape has artificial pine plantations in the upper reaches and natural broad-leaved forest in the lower part, including a floodplain aspen forest. Some pine trees have been preserved on the slopes of the stream.

The main value of the "Vasylkivski Carpathians" is the natural meadow-steppe herbage preserved on the slopes of the ravines, which have never been used by humans for agricultural purposes. In summer, the slopes are full of flowers, filling the air with honeyed aromas of wild chicory, meadow sage, alpine clover and other meadow herbs. Among the rare plants there is hard fiber flax and half-moon bunchgrass (key-grass), which is listed in the Red Book of Ukraine.

According to the Department of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Kyiv Regional State Administration, the "Vasylkivski Carpathians" are home to deer, roe deer, roe deer, wild boars, hares, partridges, and moose, which is listed in the Red Book of Ukraine. More than 30 species of birds nest.

You can enter the territory of the reserve from the T-1006 road on a dirt road that starts opposite the turn to the Gvozdoff ski complex. There is a place for picnics.

On the opposite side of the village of Velyka Buhaivka, there is another truss-beam system "Kazkovy yar", which is often confused with the "Vasylkivski Carpathians".

The manor-museum of the writer Marko Vovchok is a branch of the Museum of the History of Bohulavshchyna.

Prominent Ukrainian writer Mariya Vilinska, who entered the literature under the pseudonym Marko Vovchok, lived in the Bohuslav region for almost 8 years (first in the city, and then in the house of Count Branytsky in neighboring Khokhitva). She came here with a man who was appointed forester. The story "Sly Khayimka" was written on Bohuslav motives.

The only museum in Ukraine, Marko Vovchok, was opened in half of the house where she lived. In the exposition - original things of the writer, embroidery, letters.

The monument to Marusya Bohuslavka, the heroine of Ukrainian folklore, was erected in 1981 on the rocky shore of the Ros River in the central part of Bohuslav.

Marusya entered the national memory as a symbol of loyalty to the Motherland and her people in popular thoughts and songs. According to legend, Marusya, the daughter of the priest of the Intercession Church, was captured by the Tatars during the Tatar raid and was sold to the harem of the Turkish Pasha. As the Pasha's beloved wife, Marusya managed to organize the escape of seven hundred Ukrainian Cossacks from a Turkish prison.

The monument to Marusya Bohuslavka was erected on the place where, according to legend, the Holy Intercession Church stood.

The most famous and most visited tourist object of Vytachiv is Mohyla Mountain, better known recently as Knyazhyi Shpyl (Prince's Spire) or Horodyshche. It is located in the south-eastern part of the village. This is one of the highest Dnipro cliffs (190 meters above sea level), which has become the hallmark of the village of Vytachiv thanks to stunning panoramas, modern legends and developed tourist infrastructure.

Data from archeological researches indicate that a 12th century barrow gravedigger is located at this place. Some local historians believe that it was at this place that the historic Vytychiv snem (congress of ancient Rus princes) took place, at which peace was concluded between Svyatopolk Izyaslavych, Volodymyr Monomakh, David and Oleh Svyatoslavych.

Mohyla Mountain does not have a protected status, although in some sources this place is mistakenly called the National Scientific and Cultural Reserve "Novhorod Svyatopolchyi Settlement" or "Vytych Settlement".

In 1991, Ukrainian writer and philosopher Oles Berdnyk laid the cornerstone of the future Church of Ukraine-Mother at this place during the Second Congress of the Ukrainian Spiritual Republic. Before the third congress held in Vytachiv the following year, a wooden windmill and a chapel designed by Taras Shevchenko were erected. The Berdnyk chapel appears in the film "Bohdan Zynoviy Khmelnytskyi" (2004). On the lower terrace of the mountain, the remains of the scenery of Orysya's hut from the film "The Guide" (2014) have been preserved.

The "Vytach" wood-fired craft bakery offers sourdough bread near the windmill. There is a car parking lot, places for rest with tables and barbecues, a public toilet. A stylized private estate also attracts attention.

The Small Khodosivka (Round) Hillfort on Planerna Mountain in Khodosivka village is part of the Khodosivsky archaeological complex - a group of archaeological monuments in the southern suburbs of Kyiv, which includes about 30 objects of cultural heritage, including the famous "Serpent's Wall".

The first literary references to the Round Fort, fortified by a rampart and an escarpment, date back to the 19th century. During the 20th century, it was repeatedly explored by archaeologists. Many archaeological materials of the Scythian era, the Zarubinets culture, and the Kyivan Rus' era were found here.

In 2023, Planerna Mountain received the status of a landscape reserve of local importance. The reserve protects a valuable natural complex with an area of 31 hectares, which includes a hill with meadow-steppe vegetation, where the populations of the Stipa capillata and the Stipa pennata, listed in the Red Book of Ukraine, grow.

Planerna Mountain with a height of 157 meters is a favorite place for lovers of paragliding, hang-gliding and model aircraft sports. It is also one of the best observation decks, from where you can see panoramas of the hills of the Dnieper Upland with the urban landscapes of the capital's residential areas on the horizon.

Near the northern foot of Planerna Mountain is the outlet town "Manufactura".

The Great Khodosivka Hillfort (Kruhlyk Settlement) is located on the southern outskirts of Kyiv between the villages of Khotiv, Lisnyki, Khodosivka, and Ivankovychi. Inside the settlement are the villages of Kruhlyk and Kremenishche.

This is one of the three giant hillforts of the forest-steppe of Ukraine, an archeological monument of national importance, which is part of the Khodosivka archaeological complex and is part of the Serpent's Wall system.

The settlement belongs to the early Iron Age (VI–V centuries BC). It was a settlement of Scythian ploughmen, surrounded by a protective rampart with a total length of 10-12 kilometers. Now this rampart has a height of up to 8 meters, in some places a defensive ditch can still be seen along it. In the days of Kyivan Rus', the rampart of the hillfort was built into the system of the Serpent's Wall (Zmiyevi valy) as the last line of defense in front of Kyiv.

The remnants of the Ancient Rus' system of earthen fortifications, located on the southern outskirts of Kyiv and in other places on the territory of the Middle Dnieper region, are called snake ramparts. Their total length, according to various estimates, reaches from 900 to 1500 kilometers. Presumably, the ramparts served to protect the southern borders of the Kyiv state from nomads. The history of their construction and functions have not been sufficiently studied.

The legend tells about the legendary hero Mykyta KozhemIaka, who harnessed the Zmiy Horynych (Slavic dragon, snake) to a plow and plowed giant furrows, from which the name of the wall came.

According to archaeologists, most of the Serpent's Wall were built in the X-XI centuries. Earth ramparts with wooden structures inside were up to 15 meters high, and were fortified with a wooden palisade along the crest. They formed a front in the direction of the steppe - to the south and southeast. At least 4,000 construction workers were to participate in the construction work, and the work could last about 4-5 years.

Fragments of the Serpent's Wall have been preserved along the tributaries of the Dnipro: Vita, Chervona, Stuhna, Trubizh, Sula, Ros and others. One of the best places to look is the section of the shaft on the road from Kruhlyk to Ivankovychi. There is a parking lot nearby. A wooden sign mistakenly indicates that these are Cossack ramparts of the 16th century.

A monument to the poet Taras Shevchenko in Vasylkiv was erected in 1993 on one of the city's central squares.

The monument is distinguished by its "humanity" - the Ukrainian genius is depicted not as a stern old man with a judgmental look, as usual, but as a young and inspired poet who sat down to rest with a book in his hands.

A creative workshop-museum was opened in Bohuslav by the famous Ukrainian carpet maker and member of the National Union of Folk Art Masters of Ukraine, Valentyna Tkach. Her carpets, which preserve ancient traditions, are in private collections all over the world - from China to the USA.

Valentyna Tkach calls carpet weaving her life's work. Her grandfather was also engaged in this, her father was the director of the Peremoha art products factory in Bohuslav, the craftswoman's mother worked at the factory as a weaver and developed her own carpet sketches. After the factory closed, Valentyna bought a dozen looms, rented premises and, together with her mother and other weavers of the factory, is reviving and developing weaving in Bohuslav.

Valentyna Tkach considers the weaving school, which she opened on the basis of her workshop, to be one of her most important projects. There, the craftswoman holds master classes for guests, during which anyone can try making their own product on a mini-machine.

A memorial to the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 was erected on the outskirts of Obukhiv in 2008.

During the famine organized by the Soviet authorities in Ukraine, every fourth resident of Obukhiv died of starvation. In general, according to the estimates of local historians, the Holodomor took the lives of up to 3,000 residents of Obukhiv.

The author of the monument to the victims of the Holodomor is the Ukrainian artist-monumentalist Anatoliy Haydamaka.

The Baker Synagogue in Vasylkiv was built at the beginning of the 20th century on the site of a wooden Jewish prayer house.

The two-story brick building of the synagogue has characteristic features of a Jewish religious building, richly decorated using elements of medieval architecture.

In 1927, the "Baker" synagogue was closed, the building was handed over to the South-Western Railway and rebuilt under the "Vasylkiv-2" railway station.

Currently, the building is in communal ownership, until recently several families lived in it.

The Kyiv Regional Archaeological Museum in Trypillia is mainly dedicated to the Trypillia archeological culture, which was named after this village in the Kyiv region, where the first archeological excavations were carried out.

The dark constructivist building of cubic shape is located on Posadova Hill, on the site of the ancient settlement of Trepol. According to architect Anatoliy Ihnashchenko, the chest building symbolizes the wealth of Ukraine, and located around the stone - a piece of land.

The Kyiv Regional Archaeological Museum was established to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Trypillia culture by Vikentiy Khvoyka on the basis of the former Museum of Komsomol Glory. The exposition presents 34 thousand exhibits. The most interesting of them are exhibited in the Trypillya hall, which is stylized as a church of Trypillia: ceramics, jewelry, models of Trypillya residents, etc. In total, about 200 products of various shapes, sizes, applications and ornaments.

In two more halls there are exhibits of other epochs, starting from the Stone Age and ending with the XVIII century. Souvenirs imitating Trypillia ceramics are for sale. The most popular is the original binocular ritual utensils of Trypillya.

A bronze bust of Vikentiy Khvoyka, the first archeological monument in Ukraine, has been erected on a pedestal next to the museum building. In front of the monument there is a "Table of Harmony", in the center of which is a metal cylinder - the axis of the earth with the inscription "Dialogue of Cultures" in Ukrainian and English, symbolizing the intertwining of cultures on this land, the transition from one to another. Around the "Table of Harmony" placed historical exhibits of stone, created by ancient man. In front of the facade of the museum there are large blocks of sandstone, which are over 70 million years old - a gift from the National Historical and Ethnographic Reserve Pereyaslav.

The branches of the Kyiv Regional Archaeological Museum are the Archaeological and Local Lore Museum in the village of Kopachiv, the Historical and Local Lore Museum in the village of Sosnova, the Anatoliy Solovyanenko Museum in the village of Kozyn, the Military History Museum in the village of Trypillia, the Vikentiy Khvoyka Museum and the Ivan Franko Museum in the village of Halepya, the Cossack Era Museum and Picture Gallery in the village of Hermanivka.

The ancient building in the Art Nouveau style at the corner of Soborna and Pokrovska in the center of Vasylkov was built at the end of the 19th century.

In various sources, it is called a new synagogue or a Jewish school. In old photos above the building you can see two domes with attics, which are now missing.

Since 1944, a high school has been located here - now Vasylkiv Lyceum No. 2.

The Park of Trypillya sculpture is considered a business card of the city of Rzhyshchiv, which disputes with the village of Trypillia for the informal title of the capital of Trypillya culture.

Trypillya Park was created in the square in front of the building of the Rzhyshchiv City Council and the new cultural center in 2003-2004 at the initiative of the local authorities. The central element of the park is a large sculpture in the form of a Trypillya binocular vessel by the sculptor Anatoliy Haydamaka. This ritual vessel also became the central element of the new coat of arms and the main symbol of Rzhyshchiv.

The park also features female statuettes and other enlarged Trypil figures by sculptors Mykola Bilyk, Mykola Sivak, Volodymyr Sholudko and others.