Attractions of Boryspil district

The ruins of the flooded church of Saint Elijah are the only preserved structure of the flooded village of Tsybli, which was moved to the high bank of the Dnipro in connection with the construction of the Kaniv Reservoir.

The temple was built in 1912 on the site of a wooden church of the 18th century. The architecture of the Elijah Church with five onion domes had features of Pskov-Novhorod architecture with elements of classicism. A bell tower with a tent-like top was attached to the temple.

Currently, the church is in a dilapidated state and stands on the shoal. You can get to it by wading or by boat.

The Cossack Church of John the Theologian is an example of folk wooden architecture, the oldest wooden church in Pereyaslav. It is located on the territory of the Museum of Folk Architecture and Life. Transported from the village of Ostriyki (Bilotserkivske Starostvo).

A Cossack cemetery with stone crosses has been recreated around the church. Nearby is a three-tier bell tower (XVIII century) from the village of Busheve, Kyiv region. A church bell weighing 25 tons is installed in it.

Another wooden church is located nearby - the Church of the Intercession (1778) from the village of Sukhyi Yar. In Soviet times, it housed the Museum of Atheism, and now it is the Museum of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

The museum exposition, dedicated to the stay of the poet and artist Taras Shevchenko in Yahotyn, is located in the reconstructed wooden outbuilding of the former Ryepnin-Volkonsky estate in Kyiv region.

Shevchenko visited Yahotyn several times in 1843-1845, living in this wing. Here he painted portraits of the owners of the Yahotyn estate, painted the surrounding landscapes. Copies of some of his works are now on display in the museum's exposition in six thematic halls.

Of particular value are some items from the Ryepnin estate that Shevchenko used, such as a desk and a chair in the Cabinet Hall.

Also presented here is a unique painting by an unknown Italian artist "Blind Man with a Boy" from the personal collection of the Ryepnin princes.

In the "Living Room" paintings by contemporary artists reproduce some moments of the poet's life in Yahotyn.

The exposition "Taras Shevchenko's Outbuilding" is a department of the Municipal Institution "Yahotyn Historical Museum".

The exposition pavilion of the Archaeological Museum of Pereyaslav was built in 1957 over the remains of the Savior Church of the XI century, which was located on the territory of the city suburb and served as the tomb of famous people of ancient Pereyaslav princely times.

Thus, it was possible to preserve and present to visitors fragments of the foundations and walls of the ancient Rus temple with the remains of a fresco, paved floor with ceramic tiles, burial in brick sarcophagi under slate slabs.

The exposition of the Archaeological Museum tells about the ancient history of the Pereyaslav region. In particular, you can see stone tools of primitive people, ceramic dishes of Trypillya culture, antique helmet made of gilded bronze, rare glassware of Chernyakhiv culture, products of Pereyaslav masters of the Princely era.

The Archaeological Museum is part of the National Historical and Ethnographic Reserve "Pereyaslav".

The remains of one of the oldest settlements of primitive people in Ukraine in the late Paleolithic era (10,000 BC), found in the village of Dobranychivka during the construction of the road in 1952, are now exhibited in the Archaeological Museum "Dobranychivka settlement", which is a branch of Yahotyn historical museum.

Archaeologists have found here four household complexes around the central square.

The exposition pavilion of the "Dobranychivka settlement" Museum was erected directly above the excavation site of the largest of the household complexes. You can see the foundation of housing from the bones of mammoths and animal skulls, pits, fires and places of production of tools made of bones and flint.

The exposition presents products made of stone and bone, as well as two large panoramic canvases depicting scenes of the original mammoth hunt and the life of the inhabitants of "Dobranychivka settlement".

The Pereyaslav City Gymnasium was built in the 19th century and originally belonged to the complex of buildings of the Ascension Monastery. The brick building, which housed the dormitory of the seminary until 1917, still impresses with its monumentality.

Until 1941, it housed an orphanage, and during World War II, it housed the German commandant's office. During the war, the building lost most of its magnificent decor. After restoration, in 1958, the educational building of the pedagogical school was opened there.

In 2000, the building was reorganized into primary school No. 6 and a gymnasium, then into the Pereyaslav Academic Lyceum named after Ivan Mazepa.

The Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Pereyaslav is located in the western part of the former city center, on the site of the church of the same name, founded in the 12th century.

Before its destruction by the Tatars in the 13th century, it served as a house church for the princes of Pereyaslav. In 1586, Prince Vasyl Ostrozkyi rebuilt the temple as a military cathedral. It was here on January 8, 1654 that the Cossack foreman, led by Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, took an oath of loyalty to the Moscow Tsar. A year later, during a big fire, the wooden building burned down.

Modern architectural forms - a five-domed church in the pseudo-Byzantine style - the cathedral acquired at the end of the 19th century. The church is still active.

In June 2022, the Assumption Cathedral joined the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Pereyaslav Museum of Trypillian Culture is one of the youngest museums in the National Historical and Ethnographic Reserve "Pereyaslav". It was opened in 2003 in the house where the brother of Ukrainian composer Pavlo Senitsa once lived.

The exposition presents materials from about 40 settlements of Trypillya agricultural culture (V-III millennium BC) from different regions of Ukraine: Dnipro region, Pobuzhzhya, Podnistrovya. They tell about the Trypillya system of land cultivation, the first cultivated cereals, the construction of Trypillya dwellings, the mythology and rituals of the ancient inhabitants of the region. Among the exhibits: ceramic ware, jewelry, clay figurines, tools.

In the same room is the Museum of Cossack Glory, which presents the works of a talented artist and wood carver, Ukrainian poet-singer Vasyl Zavhorodny. In the three halls of the museum there are more than 200 works by the artist, addressed to the theme of the Ukrainian Cossacks: images of Cossacks, princes, hetmans and educators, including Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Hryhoriy Skovoroda, Petro Sahaidachnyi, Taras Shevchenko, Mykola Hohol.

The two-story building, in which the Zemstvo administration of Pereyaslav was located, stands out with features of late classicism. Now it houses school No. 2.

Opposite is the elegant, skillfully decorated building of the former women's gymnasium (now also the building of school No. 2), which is compositionally connected with the building of the Zemstvo administration into a single architectural whole.

The Museum of Ethnography and Education in Yahotyn is located on the territory of the Yahotyn Lyceum No. 3, in the premises of the former Zemstvo school built in 1913. Since 1996, one of the branches of the Yahotyn Historical Museum has been located here.

In the two main halls, the history of the Yahotyn school, its teachers, leaders, and students is highlighted. Documents, photographs, personal belongings are widely presented.

In the ethnographic exposition, which appeared in the museum since 2006, exhibitions of old towels, peasant clothes of the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century, and household items are on display. A typical interior of a rural house in the Yahotyn region of the beginning of the 19th century has been reconstructed.

The Museum of Ethnography and Education hosts exhibitions of paintings by Yahotyn artists.

Maidan Knyazhyi Dvir (Prince's Courtyard Square) is located in the center of the ancient Pereyaslav city. Princes of Pereyaslav lived here, state affairs were decided, the princely army was gathered, from here they set off against the enemy and returned here victorious.

In princely times, the area of the entire city center reached 2.5 hectares. The princely court (Knyazhyi dvir) occupied its northern part and was bounded from the east by the central street connecting the princely and episcopal gates, from the north and west by a defensive rampart, and from the south by a transverse street that departed from the city center.

It was at this place in 1654 that the Pereyaslav Rada (Pereyaslav Council) was held - the general military council of the leaders of the Ukrainian Cossacks, at which Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, before the Moscow embassy of the boyar Vasyl Buturlin, took an oath of loyalty to Tsar Alexis of Russia (Oleksii Mykhailovych), the result of which was the conclusion of an agreement on a military-political union between Ukraine and by Muscovy.

On the square is the Holy Assumption Cathedral, where the Cossack foreman was sworn in. Ukraine was under the protectorate of the Muscovite Empire. The process of curtailing the autonomy of the Cossack state and the complete absorption of Ukraine by the Muscovite state, which later became the Russian Empire, soon began.

In honor of the 325th anniversary of those events, in Soviet times, the square in front of the Assumption Cathedral was named "Pereyaslav Rada Square", building of a museum began (construction is not completed), a monument to the Pereyaslav Council was erected (dismantled in 2025 as part of decolonization). Nearby, in 1992, a memorial stone was installed in honor of the renunciation of the oath to the Moscow Tsar, which was proclaimed by the Ukrainian politician Viacheslav Chornovil in 1992.

On September 26, 2019, by decision of the City Council session, the Pereyaslav Rada Square was renamed the Maidan Knyazhyi Dvir (Prince's Courtyard Square).

The majestic cathedral in honor of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God was built in Boryspil at the end of the 20th century according to the project of the archbishop of Cherkasy and Kaniv Sophronius.

The cathedral has four thrones: the central throne is consecrated in honor of the Intercession of the Mother of God, the right aisle is in honor of the miracle of Archangel Michael in Khony, the left one is in honor of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, and the lower church is consecrated in honor of the holy pious princes of the martyrs Boris and Hlib.

It belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

Bohdan Khmelnytsky Square is the main one in Pereyaslav. The administration building and the central hotel are located here.

A monument to Ukrainian-Russian friendship was erected in the Central City Park adjacent to the square in honor of the 300th anniversary of the reunification of Ukraine with Russia (1954). In 2022, during Russia's large-scale military invasion of Ukraine, this monument was dismantled by the decision of the hromada and the local self-government body.

Khmelnytsky Square is closed to traffic.

The landscape reserve "Chubynsky Farm" was created on the site of the estate of the well-known folklorist, ethnographer and poet Pavlo Chubynskyi, the author of national fame of Ukraine.

In 1861, this land was bought by his father, Platon Chubynskyi. In 1862, a garden was planted and a house was built, which stood until the 1930s.

The reserve of national importance with an area of ​​10 hectares was created in 1994 to preserve the landscape, vegetation, and the picturesque area of ​​the oak grove. Oaks 200-300 years old grow here - the remains of forests that once covered the Left Bank of the Dnieper.

In memory of Pavlo Chubynsky, a memorial sign was installed in the park, and the chapel of Saint Paul was opened.

The reserve-farm "Kyilivska Askania" is located in a picturesque corner of Kyiv region, far from roads. Protected from all sides by a kilometer-long strip of dense forest.

The reserve has all the conditions for recreation in the wild and for communication with animals that move freely through the territory and are practically tame.

On the territory of the reserve there are 5 ponds for fishing, where swans and geese live, and wild ducks nest. Exotic animals and birds are the wealth of "Kyilivska Askania": black African ostriches, Cameroonian goats, Vietnamese pigs, pheasants, downy chickens.

Horseback riding is available all year round for horse-riding enthusiasts, and donkey-drawn cart rides for children. You can taste exotic foods in the "Exotic Dishes" cafe-bar. There is a souvenir shop, and there is also a banquet hall for 40 people.