Attractions of Volodymyr

The first fortifications of the city of Ladomyr between the Luha River and its two tributaries arose in early Slavic times.

The earthen ramparts of a quadrangular shape preserved in the center of modern Volodymyr belong to the heyday of urban construction after the accession of the city to Kyivan Rus by Prince Volodymyr the Great.

There were wooden city walls with towers and several gates on the ramparts, a moat with water ran around the ramparts, and there were several stone temples and palaces on the territory.

From the 19th to the middle of the 20th century, the government of tsarist, then Soviet Russia used the fortress as a prison for political prisoners, then as a tuberculosis hospital. A two-story prison building has been preserved, which is being restored to house a museum exhibit.

A memorial sign was installed in honor of those who died for the freedom of Ukraine.

The parish church of Saints Joachim and Anna was built in Volodymyr in austere forms of late baroque on the site of a wooden church founded in 1554 with the support of Princess Anna Zbarazka.

Three-naft basilica with two towers on the main facade.

Under the church there are cellars covered with cylindrical vaults.

The ancient white-stone Holy Assumption Cathedral rises majestically above the city of Volodymyr, a little away from the center, behind the ramparts of the city center.

Founded in the 12th century by Mstyslav Izyaslavych, the future Grand Duke of Kyiv. "Mstyslav's Church" was the residence of the Volyn bishops and the ancestral tomb of the Mstyslavych princes. Roman Mstyslavich, the founder of the Galicia-Volyn principality, is buried here.

The temple was repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt, the last reconstruction in 1900 gave it ancient Rus forms.

Nearby is the bell tower built in the 15th century, as well as the bishop's house.

Monuments to ancient Rus princes have been erected on the territory.

Saint Basil's Rotunda Church is a unique example of Orthodox architecture. The name of the architect Oleksa, who built the temple, is mentioned in the Galician-Volyn Chronicle.

Elements of Gothic architecture can be traced in the structural and technical solution, in particular the eight-petal ceiling.

In 1901, a Russian-style bathhouse was built on top, which changed the look of the church beyond recognition.

The Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ is located in the center of Volodymyr.

It was built as a Jesuit church of the Sending of the Apostles within the boundaries of the surrounding town in 1755 by the Slonim elder Hnat Sadovskyi. The construction of the church in the late Baroque style lasted 15 years. In 1762, the Jesuit church acquired the status of the "Heart of Jesus" monastery. After the abolition of the Jesuit Order, the church was transferred to the Basilian Order, and in 1840 the monastery became Orthodox and was the residence of bishops. In 1921, it again came under the control of the Roman Catholic diocese.

Injured during the Second World War. Currently restored, it is the Orthodox Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Volodymyr Museum of History is housed in a building built in 1912 in the ancient square of the Capuchin monastery.

This is one of the oldest collections of antiquities in the Volyn region, dating back to 1887, when the Volodymyr public organized the Antiquities Store in the city for the purpose of preserving and studying ancient monuments.

Currently, the museum's funds include 18,000 items. A significant archaeological collection, products of Volodymyr craftsmen, tools and household items of peasants from different historical periods, a large ethnographic collection, including samples of Volyn embroidery and clothing, are presented.

The unique collection of coins of the VI-XIX centuries includes, in particular, a silver coin of Prince Volodymyr the Great. A collection of old prints, works of art of Volyn masters of different eras is also exhibited.

The Dominican monastery was founded in Volodymyr in 1497 by the great Lithuanian prince Oleksandr Yahellonchyk, who later became the Polish king.

Some researchers attribute the construction of the belfry, which now stands at the corner of Danyla Halytskoho and Soborna Streets, to this period.

The current defensive monastery complex with the Trinity Church was built in 1789. During a great fire in the 19th century, the church burned down, other buildings of the monastery, completely devoid of decoration, were adapted for the city's needs - it housed the city court, then the treasury, and the Polish eldership. Currently, it is one of the buildings of the Volodymyr Vocational College.

Saint George's Church (Saint Yuriy) is a typical military church, built at the beginning of the 20th century for the 149th Black Sea Regiment quartered in Volodymyr (the so-called "Brusyliv barracks").

Similar temples were built by decision of the General Staff of the Ministry of War of the Russian Empire according to model projects approved in 1900.

In the post-war years, it was converted into an officers' house.

Today, the Church of Saint George is functioning again. Belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

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.

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.

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.