Attractions of Chernihiv region

The wooden church of Saint Michael in the village of Maksym in the Chernihiv region was built in the 18th century.

It is a rather large wooden structure with one dome and an attached bell tower.

It has remained unchanged to this day.

Saint Michael's Church in Polonky was built in 1777-1779 (according to another version in 1720) at the expense of Oleksandr Shylo, the priest's son.

The influence of the wooden folk architecture of Left Bank Ukraine is very noticeable in the architecture. Initially, the temple was single-domed, then two heads were added to it above the side chambers and stucco molding was added on the facades.

This is one of the most distinctive churches of the Ukrainian Baroque era in Chernihiv Region. The relics of Saint. Dimitry, Metropolitan of Rostov, are preserved in the Saint Michael's Church. Next to the temple is a holy spring, the water from which is attributed healing properties.

The wooden Saint Michael's Church in Horodyshche belongs to the so-called eparchial style, standardized, somewhat dry and rationalistic.

Located on a hill above the river in the center of the village.

Single-domed, nave in plan, with right angles and pointed details. A characteristic example of the same type of eclectic provincial architecture.

Sait Michael's Church was built in the village of Bezuhlivka in 1805-1835.

The architecture of the stone temple in the style of classicism is attributed to the provincial empire. A tombstone on the grave of Bezuhlivka landowner Mykhaylo Sydorenko has been preserved on the church circuit.

The Greek Church of Saint Michael the Archangel is the scariest church of the Greek community preserved in Nizhyn.

Built in 1719-1729 in the Greek quarter of Nizhyn. Since then, it has never been rebuilt, thanks to which it has preserved the archaic forms of Balkan architecture.

Currently, Saint Michael's Church is closed, services are not held. The temple does not catch the eye, as it is hidden behind the larger church of All Saints.

Saint Nicholas Cathedral is the main temple of Nizhyn, one of the first examples of Ukrainian Baroque architecture.

The cathedral was built in 1658-1668 by Cossacks of the Nizhyn regiment at the expense of colonels Ivan and Vasyl Zolotarenk on the site of an old wooden temple. It repeats the classic techniques of Ukrainian wooden architecture in stone. A characteristic feature of the architecture of the five-domed temple is "comprehensiveness", that is, it looks the same from all sides. Inside, the carved iconostasis deserves attention.

In 1663, the Saint Nicholas Cathedral in Nizhyn became the center of dramatic events associated with the "Black Council" - Ivan Bryukhovetskyi, the basket chieftain of the Zaporizhzhia Sich, was elected hetman of the Left Bank of Ukraine here, which is considered the beginning of the Ruin - the collapse of the hetman state.

According to local legend, in the same temple (still wooden) Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi married Hanna Zolotarenko, the sister of Nizhyn colonels, but in fact their wedding took place in Korsun.

In 1990, the Saint Nicholas Cathedral was restored and handed over to the religious community of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate. The Warm Church of John the Baptist (1842), which was part of the complex, was rebuilt into the House of Culture (Batyuka Streetб 16).

Monuments to Bohdan Khmelnytskyi and Mariya Zankovetska have been installed in the park.

The Saint Nicholas Church in Bilorichytsia is all that remains of the estate of Olena Volkonska-Rakhmanova, the daughter of the Decembrist Serhiy Volkonsky.

The estate belonged to her since 1873. Oleksandr Yuliyovich Yahno lived and worked in the village - an architect, artist and master of artistic ceramics. It was from his hand that all the residential and farm buildings of the manor were built in the Rakhmanov estate. The complex included a palace (1886), a wing for guests (1878), a bakery and a church (1850). The palace was destroyed during the Second World War. The church was already dismantled during the Soviet times - in 1962.

To this day, only the building of the wing for visitors, which now houses the Saint Nicholas Church, has survived. This piece of architecture combines the forms of Russian (XVII-XVIII centuries) and Ukrainian folk architecture.

The Church of Saint Nicholas in Ichnia was built in 1879 according to a typical diocesan project in the so-called modern brick style.

During Soviet times, the church building was destroyed, but the bell tower was preserved - it was used as a fire station.

Since 2007, the Saint Nicholas church-bell tower belongs to the religious community of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The wooden church of Saint Nicholas in Morivsk was built in the 19th century.

During the Soviet rule, the temple was closed. To this day, the Saint Nicholas Church has been preserved and is functioning again, but the recent reconstruction has completely changed its appearance, and the church has lost its historical appearance.

Saint Nicholas Church in Kozelets was built in 1781-1784 on the site of an old wooden church.

The stone single-domed Saint Nicholas Church is located in the historical center of Kozelets on the banks of the Oster River, not far from the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin. The location of the temple marks the southern border of the Kozelets fortress of the XVII-XVIII centuries.

The church has well preserved its original architectural forms in the late Baroque style, with the exception of the bathhouse, the completion of which was replaced by a spherical dome in 1811.

In 1981-1989, restoration works were carried out and the lost finish of the bath was restored. Recently, a new iconostasis was created, the basis of which was the painting of the Volodymyrsky Cathedral.

Today, the Saint Nicholas Church is a working temple.

The Saint Nicolas Church in Novhorod-Siverskyi is a remarkable work of carpentry art of the Chernihiv school of wooden folk architecture of the 18th century.

The first church in honor of Saint Nicholas was built in 1086 on a hill above the road, on which a pagan idol stood in pre-Christian times. After the Mongol invasion, the church was restored only in 1720.

The church is cruciform in plan, single-headed, five-aisled. The pyramidal shape organically completes the silhouette of the hill.

Saint Nicolas church-bell tower was built in Pryluky in 1720 next to the Transfiguration Cathedral at the expense of Pryluky colonel Hnat Galagan and his wife Olena.

The Orthodox church is made in the style of a Catholic chapel - one nave, with an altar-apse on the east side and a high gable roof. Above the faceted apse rises a high pediment with volutes, reminiscent of the pediment of the Pryluky regimental treasury.

Later, a powerful two-story bell tower was added to the church. Its first tier is in the form of a cubic volume, the second is a cylindrical tower with high arched openings where the bells are placed. The belfry is completed by a dome with dormer windows, in which the dials of the tower's chime clock are embedded.

A monument to Saint Yoasaf of Belhorod was erected nearby.

The church in the name of Saint Panteleimon the Healer in Pryluky is located on the central transport highway of the city in the direction of Romny.

A small original brick temple in the pseudo-Rus style was built in 1905 in the inn yard of the Hustynia Monastery.

In Soviet times, the building housed a pharmacy, a warehouse, and a cafe. In 2008, the restoration of the Panteleimon church was carried out, the church was painted in a bright green color.

The Church of the Holy Great Martyr Paraskeva Pyatnytsya in the village of Chaikyne was built in 1999-2002 under the project "UkrNDPIcivilbud" with the participation of JSC "Chernihivrestavratsiya".

Named in honor of the mother of the second president of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma, born Chaikyne.

Saint Peter and Paul Church in Petrivka near Novyi Bykiv was built in 1838.

Unique in terms of architecture, the temple with Neo-Gothic elements has original domes. One of them is shaped like a strongly flattened bulb, and the other is a ball.