Attractions of Obukhiv district

Two-story artillery and machine-gun caponir No. 152 in Kruhlyk - one of the three artillery Pillboxs of the Kyiv military district.

Equipped on an earthen rampart of the Kruhlyk hillfort. With his two 76-millimeter cannons of the model of 1900, he shot through the valley of the river Siverka (Vyta) and the road from Kruhlyk farm to Vyta-Poshtova. With machine gun fire from the embrasure, he controlled the bridge on the Ivankovichi - Khotiv road from the reverse side.

DOT 152 was taken on August 4, 1941.

One of Robert Durlacher's 1912 artillery carriages has been preserved inside.

The residential building of the merchant Pokras in the center of Bohuslav was built in 1887.

At that time, it was the most imposing building in the city. Pokras was a successful businessman, and at the beginning of the 20th century he became the owner of the Bohuslav cloth factory, which previously belonged to the landowner Yuzefov.

Currently, the Pokras building houses the Bohuslav City Council.

In 2009, a monument to Prince Yaroslav the Wise, the founder of Bohuslav, was erected in the park next to it. The sculpture is bronze, height - 2.6 meters. On the granite pedestal, the ornament of the sarcophagus of Yaroslav the Wise, which is kept in Sophia of Kyiv, is reproduced.

The Church of the Resurrection in Borodani, a village of Dybyntsi, was built in 1800.

With its simple architectural forms, this small three-headed church resembles early examples of Ukrainian wooden architecture.

In the Church of the Resurrection there is a wonderful icon of the Mother of God.

Revyna Hill above the Chervona River is a historical place on the outskirts of the village of Hermanivka, where the Old Rus fortified settlement of Hermanych, known since 1096, was founded approximately at the end of the 10th century.

It is believed that the city was founded by Prince Volodymyr the Great of Kyiv on Serpent's Shafts for protection from nomads. Ancient Hermanych burned to the ground during the Mongol-Tatar invasion.

In commemoration of the foundation of the village, a talisman was erected on Revyna Hill, a chapel and a gazebo were built.

A picturesque view of the village of Hermanivka, which lies on the other side of the river, opens from the ramparts of the hillfort.

Picturesque rapids on the Ros River near the village of Khokhitva attract lovers of water tourism.

Nearby is the largest granite quarry in the Kyiv region.

The Church of Saint Nicholas in Vasylkiv combines features of classicism with characteristic elements of the Baroque. It is famous for its rich decoration, paintings of the 19th century and a wonderful carved iconostasis.

The architectural monument is an active Orthodox church of the Moscow Patriarchate.

Near the Saint Nicholas Church is a spring discovered by Saint Theodosius. A chapel was built above it.

The Church of Saint Nicholas in Chaikywas built in 2002 on the site of the ancient Cossack Saint Nicholas Church.

The wooden church of Saint Nicholas in the style of classicism was built in 1758 (according to other sources - in 1558) and survived until the 20th century, but was destroyed during the Soviet rule.

Thanks to the efforts of the abbot, the Saint Nicholas Church was rebuilt in 2002. It is also consecrated in honor of Nicholas the Wonderworker.

There are 3 old graves on the church grounds. The inscriptions are difficult to read.

The Saint Nicholas Monastery is located in Bohuslav on a hill on the bank of the Ros River.

Founded in the 16th century near Tarascha, during Tatar raids it was moved by monks near Bohuslav. Twice it was handed over to the Uniate Basilians, but it was returned to Orthodoxy. The stone buildings were built in the 19th century.

The Church of the Resurrection (1866), the premises of the theological school, which housed an orphanage and a dormitory in Soviet times, have been preserved.

It currently belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Church of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker was built in Kadomka in 1851. Located in the center of the village.

In Soviet times, it was one of the two churches in Kaharlyk district that are active.

Saint Nicholas Church belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

Nearby is an ancient Russian settlement.

The source of Saint Theodosius is located at the foot of the Vasylkiv Castle Hill, under the Cathedral of Anthoniy and Theodosius.

It is believed that the first well at this place was dug in the 11th century by Theodosius Pecherskyi, who was originally from here.

The chapel above the spring was built in 1832. It was destroyed during the Soviet era, but restored in 2001.

The Church of the Transfiguration in Neshcheriv was built in 1794 by the landowner Ivan Hudyma-Levkovych, a descendant of the Cossack elders of the Hudyma and Levkovych families.

The Church of the Transfiguration, which is shaped like a ship, is a model of architecture of the transitional period from Ukrainian Baroque to classicism. In the western corner of the temple there is a belfry with wooden shutters built into the building itself. In the basement of the church there is a crypt, the mysterious corridors of which have long given rise to legends about underground passages leading many kilometers from Neshcheriv.

In 2004, a hermitage of the Ionian Men's Monastery was opened at the Transfiguration Church. On its territory you can see an ancient Cossack cross. The church is well restored.

The Slaven Oak, over 300 years old, grows in the courtyard of the estate of the State Enterprise "Bohuslav Forestry", next to its administrative building in Bohuslav. Its height is 21 meters, and the trunk circumference is 450 centimeters.

This tree is considered one of the oldest oaks in the Kyiv region, it has important ecological and historical significance. The Slaven Oak could already be an adult when the Bohuslav region was at the epicenter of the Cossack uprisings led by colonels Semen Paliy and Samiylo Samus, the campaigns of Hetman Pylyp Orlyk and the Haidamak movement in the Kyiv region.

Since 2024, the Slaven Oak has had the status of a natural monument of local importance, which guarantees it protection from damage and destruction.

The historic town of Svyatopolch (Novhorod Svyatopolchyi) was founded in 1095 by the Kyiv prince Svyatopolk II Izyaslavych on the Vytachiv hill. Here the prince will resettle the inhabitants of the city of Yuryiv, destroyed by the Polovtsy.

Chronicles show that after the defeat of the army of the Rus princes in the battle of Kalka in 1223, the Mongols marched into Rus, but only reached Svyatopolch, from where they turned back. After that, Svyatopolch is no longer mentioned in the annals.

According to archaeological research, the remains of historical Svyatopolch are located in the Horodyshche tract between the villages of Vytachiv and Staiky. Hillfort occupied a triangular cape with an area of about 0.5 hectares. Fragments of earthen defensive ramparts with three towers have been preserved, and the remains of settlements have been investigated. Remains of a post with a pottery workshop can be traced on the ground side and on the slopes.

In 2009, the monument of archeology "The settlement of the historical city of Svyatopolch of the IX-XIII centuries" was entered into the State Register of Immovable Monuments of Ukraine under the number 100014-Н. A memorial sign has been installed.

The Transfiguration Monastery in Rzhyshchiv is one of the oldest in Ukraine. According to legend, it was founded by Saints Anthony and Theodosius, who from time to time traveled here from the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.

The year 1626 is considered the official foundation date of the Rzhyshchiv Transfiguration Monastery. The Polish landowners of Voronichi, giving their lands to the monastery in 1649, claimed that the monastery was founded by their ancestors. It was one of three monasteries in the Kyiv region, where old and sick Cossacks lived to the end.

In 1653, the ambassador of the Moscow tsar, the boyar Vasyl Buturlin, met here with the hetman of Ukraine Bohdan Khmelnitsky, where the terms of the alliance treaty were discussed.

At the beginning of the 20th century, there were 3 churches in the monastery: Saint Barbara, Transfiguration of the Lord and Life-giving Source. In 1927, the monastery was dissolved, a zootechnical school was placed on the territory, then a construction technical school.

In 1995, the Transfiguration Monastery was revived. Cells from the end of the 19th century have been preserved. Located on a hill above the Dnipro.

Park in Kaharlyk was founded at the end of the 18th century by the Ukrainian nobleman Dmytro Troshchynskyi, a statesman and patron of Ukrainian culture, a descendant of Hetman Ivan Mazepa.

He received the estate in Kaharlyk after 1796 as a gift from Emperor Paul I. The park had a palace, outbuildings, and farm buildings. Copies of Greek and Roman statues were placed in the alleys and lawns.

The gazebo-rotunda on the "Mashuk" hill and the "Sazhalka" pond, which is fed by underground springs, have been preserved.

On an area of 35.5 hectares, there are 113 types of trees imported from the Crimea, the Caucasus and European countries.