Attractions of Volyn region

The Church of the Holy Holy Martyr Yosafat was built in Volodymyr in 1890 as a Lutheran church for the city's German community. The pastor's house is located nearby.

After the Second World War, the church was turned into a chemical warehouse, then a sports hall.

Today it is the Greek Catholic church and monastery of Saint Yosafat Kuntsevych.

The Church of Saint Archangel Michael in Kysylyn was built in 1777 on the site of the wooden church of the same name, known since 1645.

According to one version, the temple was originally an Arian temple, which led to its uncharacteristic squat architecture in the Baroque style. The walls of the building are sometimes more than one and a half meters thick. Above the intersection rises a two-level tower on a wide base, crowned with a decorative spire. The facade has a rich architectural decoration. Icons of the 17th century were preserved in the iconostasis of 1905. The building is surrounded by a brick fence with a massive belfry of an unusual shape.

Now the Saint Michael Church belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

Saint Nicolas Church was built in Volodymyr in 1780 as a Greek Catholic chapel of Saint Yosafat Kuntsevych. It was on this spot that Kuntsevych's parents' house stood.

The small temple was built in the style of early classicism. The main facade is topped with a pediment.

In 1800, the chapel was handed over to the Orthodox Church and consecrated as the Church of Saint Nicholas.

The Church of the Holy Great Martyr Paraskeva was built in Lukiv in 1723 at the expense of Count Petro-Mikhaylo Mönchynskyi.

It has a high gable roof with a small spire tower. The pediments are bordered by small obelisks. The side facades are decorated with pilasters and semicircular windows. There is a wooden bell tower nearby.

An example of naive painting of the 18th century has been preserved in the interior. This is an icon depicting Saint George on a disproportionately small horse.

In 1839, the Greek Catholic church was handed over to the Orthodox Church. Now it belongs to the Volodymyr Eparchy of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

Saint Volodymyr's Chapel at the beginning of Soborna Street in Volodymyr was built in the Rus-Byzantine style. Opened in 1888 for the 900th anniversary of Orthodoxy in Rus.

The chapel, quadrangular in plan, has an octagonal finish with arches in the form of kokoshniks. The dome resembles the helmet of an ancient Rus warrior.

The Church of Saints Anna and Stanislav the Bishop was built in Lukiv in the Renaissance style in 1595 at the expense of Stanislav Matseyovsky.

In 1708, during the attack of the Swedes, the temple was almost completely destroyed.

At the beginning of the 18th century, the church was restored with the assistance of the Volyn voivode, Atanaziy Monchynsky.

After the partition of Poland, the church was confiscated by the Russian tsarist government and handed over to the Orthodox Church as the Church of the Assumption.

After the Second World War, the Assumption Church was closed by the Soviet authorities and turned into a granary.

Currently, this is an active church in honor of Saint Anna of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Museum of Science, Technology and Industrial Design (Museum of Technical Progress) opened in 2018 in the premises of the Adrenaline City Cultural and Entertainment Center on the northeastern outskirts of Lutsk, next to the Korsaks Museum of Modern Ukrainian Art.

The exposition acquaints visitors with the development of science and technology from the simplest devices of primitive times to the present.

The Museum of Science and Technology has 18 departments: music, architecture and design, light and optical, physico-chemical, military, medical, gaming, history of technological progress, physics and mechanics and others.

The Museum of Industrial Design presents examples of mass production at the intersection of art and technology. In particular, there are collections of watches, cameras, radio equipment, gramophones, tape recorders, telephones, computers. Among the interesting - a section of 3D puzzles from the famous Ukrainian toy manufacturer UGEARS.

All the exhibits can be touched with your hands.

Stara Vyzhivka Museum of Local Lore is located in the old post office building, built in the middle of the XX century.

The funds have almost 4,000 exhibits. Stuffed animals are presented in the natural department.

The ethnographic collection includes an old fan, a loom, embroidered shirts, barrels made of straw and willow, skeins and other household items.

The history of firefighting is reflected in exhibits of both Ukrainian and Polish origin: pump, fire helmets, firefighters' clothes.

The historical department presents archeological finds, cold steel weapons, fragments of pottery, and ornaments.

The Roman Catholic Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord in Manevychi was built in 1933-1937. Before that, a wooden chapel near the station served as a parish church.

The construction of the new church was financed by the parishioners, the priest Boleslav Yastshembsky supervised the construction.

In 1943, the Transfiguration Church was closed by the decision of the Soviet authorities, and the premises began to be used as a warehouse for mineral salt.

In 1992, the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord was returned to the Catholic community of Manevychi, restoration is ongoing.

Volyn Museum of Local Lore is the largest and oldest museum in Volyn. Founded in 1929.

It has been housed in the current building in the center of Lutsk since 1985. The funds contain more than 140 thousand exhibits representing nature, history, ethnography, art of the Volyn region.

The museum has a rich collection of natural materials, collections of geological minerals, plants and animals. The museum's collections are presented in the exposition, which consists of sections of nature, ancient and modern history, thematic exhibitions.

The exposition of the museum is located on an area of ​​more than 2 thousand square meters. m in 23 stationary and 9 exhibition halls. It is built on thematic (nature department) and thematic-chronological principles (history department).

The branches and departments of the Volyn Museum of Local Lore are the Kolodyazhne Literary Memorial Museum of Lesya Ukrayinka, the Art Museum in Lutsk Castle, the Museum of the Volyn Icon, the Museum of the History of the Lutsk Brotherhood, and the Lypynsky Memorial Museum.

The Museum of Ethnography and Folk Crafts of Volyn is created.

The Zahorivsky monastery near Lokachi is one of the oldest in Volyn.

According to legend, it was founded by Kyiv-Pechersk monks who escaped from the Mongol-Tatar invasion. Probably, the original red brick temple was built then, which is preserved at the base of the monastery complex. The first mention of the Zahorivsky monastery is found in documents in 1492.

The complex was completed during the 16th and 17th centuries under the Zahorovsky and Chatsky nobles. After 1719, the Orthodox monastery adopted the union, then became Catholic, but returned to Orthodoxy in 1824. The main church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin in the baroque style was built in the 18th century.

In 1943, 44 UPA fighters under the command of Andriy Martsenyuk (Bereza) held a heroic defense against the German-fascist troops in the Zahorivsky monastery. Since then, the monastery buildings have been in ruins.