Attractions of Rivne district

The private museum "Verkhivska Sadyba" is being created in the village of Verkhiv in the Rivne region by a family of doctors - Ihor and Liudmyla Korchak. They undertook to restore a Ukrainian rural farmstead built in the 1920s-1930s by a local peasant Sydir Zabiyaka.

The authentic farmstead has buildings typical of the first half of the 20th century - a brick house with a stove, a barn and a forge with a workshop. Also in the courtyard is a wooden house from the late 19th century, transported from the village of Nova Moshchanytsia and newly assembled from wooden beams. The roof has also been authentically restored to match the style of the house.

The exhibition will feature restored century-old furniture, elements of vintage clothing, various dishes, household tools, carpentry tools, fishing tackle, etc.

The founders of the estate plan to restore not only the architecture and furnishings, but also the household life of that time. Visitors will be able to see how our ancestors lived and feel the atmosphere of that era.

The Orthodox Church of the Nativity of Christ is located in the center of Klevan next to the castle.

It was founded in 1777 as a Greek Catholic church. The stone church of the Nativity of Christ was built at the expense of Adam Chartoryysky. It has characteristic forms of classicism, decorated with a hollow pilaster portico of the Tuscan order with a triangular pediment, finished with a semicircular attic. Planning is typical of folk architecture: cross plan, single-headed finish.

In 1844, a stone bell tower was erected next to the Church of the Nativity of Christ.

It belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The Novomalyn Castle was built on a hill above the Zbytenka River by Prince Svydryhaylo at the end of the 14th century.

Initially, it was surrounded by a moat with water. It was regular in plan, had five corner pentagonal towers connected by walls with loopholes, a bridge and an entrance gate on the north-eastern side. It was rebuilt in the XV, XVII, XVIII centuries. A major reconstruction was carried out at the beginning of the 19th century by the Sosnovsky magnates.

The palace is located along the south-eastern side of the castle. Its outer wall was defensive, connected to the walls of the castle. The building has vaulted basements in several levels. Nearby was a kitchen decorated with a neo-Gothic arcade.

A neo-Gothic style chapel was built on the basis of one of the defensive towers. Each of its facades is pierced by one narrow arrowed window, and high round towers placed at the five outer corners, drawn with linear rust, resemble Gothic pinnacles. The interior of the chapel was decorated with marble carvings made by the master of the manor himself, sculptor Tomash Oskar Sosnovsky (beginning of the 19th century).

Currently, the western pentagonal two-story tower, the half-ruined southern tower, a small section of the defensive wall between them, the chapel (the northern tower of the castle) and the ruins of the former palace are preserved. The ceilings are destroyed, only three rooms of the first floor have preserved cross vaults.

The numismatic collection of the State Historical and Cultural Reserve of Ostroh is located in the former the Shteynberh residential building (19th century) in the city center.

A significant part of the collection consists of coins, paper money and awards of the Russian Empire, including gold coins of Peter I and Catherine II.

A special place in the exhibition is occupied by the history of the development of Ukrainian money of the twentieth century: paper notes of Odesa, Zhytomyr, Kremenets, Ostroh, national money and securities of the Liberation Struggle of 1917-1921.

The main place in the exposition is given to modern awards of Ukraine and awards of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

The wooden church of Oleksandr Nevsky in Kostopil was built in 1893.

The temple belongs to the little-known samples of the last period of the development of Volyn monumental architecture of the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century with the use of the "diocesan" style.

The Peace Museum was opened in Rivne in 1999 on the basis of the International University of Economics and Humanities in 1999 at the initiative of the famous teacher, academician and founder of the university Stepan Demyanchuk.

The Peace Museum is represented by three halls. The first hall outlines the main components of the problem of peace. The exposition is created in sections: "Folk wisdom and Ukrainian thinkers (Hryhoriy Skovoroda, Taras Shevchenko, Mykola Hohol, Mykhaylo Drahomanov and others) about good and evil", "History of the Ukrainian state. The path to mutual understanding and peace in the state", "Ukrainian humanists of the 20th century (Mykhaylo Hrushevsky, Volodymyr Korolenko, Oleksandr Dovzhenko and others)", "The movement of supporters of peace in Ukraine in the post-war periods. Ukraine and the UN".

The following aspects of the problem of peace are separately highlighted: the ecological security of Ukraine; national policy in Ukraine (religious and interethnic relations, mutual understanding and mutual respect); sports and art, activities of public organizations.

The second exhibition hall tells about the struggle for Ukraine's independence within the framework of peacemaking processes. About wars in the history of Ukraine, their participants, national tragedies, the Holodomor and repressions against Ukrainians. These exhibits are divided into three sections: "From the princely era and the Cossacks, to the times of the First and Second World Wars", "The Holodomor in Ukraine and the genocide of Ukrainian Jews", "The Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian War".

The last exhibition reflects the scientific and pedagogical activities of university employees who devoted their work to the issues of peace, humanism, tolerance towards other peoples and nations, the history of the creation and activities of the university. Another part of the stands presents the sporting achievements of students and teachers in sports, their participation in All-Ukrainian and World tournaments, and the promotion of sports as one of the tools for settling peace in the world. A separate stand section is dedicated to partnership activities with universities in Georgia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Spain, Canada, the USA, and the UK.

The pharmacy museum opened in Rivne in 2020 on the basis of the oldest Rivne pharmacy No. 3.

From the pharmacy window, pharmacist Józef greets all passers-by, who, according to historical documents, was the owner of this pharmacy at the beginning of the 20th century. On the walls of the pharmacy hang his portraits at work, photos of other luminaries of the Rivne pharmacy business, as well as each stage of the medicine manufacturing process.

The interior preserves restored old shelves from Polish times with figured carvings, which have decorated this pharmacy since 1903. Among the exhibits is a 100-year-old cash register, with which they not only recorded the sale of drugs, but also kept records of patients and opened loans. There is a pharmacist's chest and chair, flasks, beakers, scales and mortars.

The employees of the pharmacy museum have preserved unique handwritten recipes for tinctures, ointments, nourishing creams, etc. Along with regular medicines, you can buy pills “for happiness”, pills “for envy”, “Antyhandryn”, “Pills to attract love” - vitaminized herbal preparations of the pharmacy’s own production.

The pharmacy holds master classes during which anyone can try to make vitaminized powders, ointments, and creams.

The Museum of Photography was opened in Rivne by the famous Ukrainian photographer Oleksandr Kharvat in the premises of his own photo studio.

The museum's exposition includes more than 1,000 exhibits - cameras, film cameras, photographic equipment and other equipment used for shooting, starting from the end of the 19th century. Also presented are devices and accessories donated to the museum by world-famous photographers.

Among the exhibits are many unique ones - in particular, a German camera from the Second World War, as well as a journalist's camera made in the 1940s.

Along with other exhibits in the museum - a large library of books on the history of photography, technologies, albums of photographers from many countries of the world, as well as "The History of Rivne in Photographs" by Oleksandr Kharvat.

The Museum of the History of the Village of Posiahva opened in 1988 in the Posiahva School as a corner of historical material collected on the territory of the village by Anatoliy Melnychuk.

In 1996, the historical corner was reorganized into a systematized museum of the village of Posiahva. In 2004, the museum received new premises. The museum exposition presents more than 400 exhibits. Work on collecting material is still underway.

The museum also features an art gallery, which was collected from old-timers. Most of the paintings are the works of Yevheniya Yakovchuk, a resident of the village of Posiahva, who laid out patterns and flowers from ribbons. Her works are now in Canada, Poland, and Germany.

The complex of buildings of the Rivne Brewery was built in 1900 by the "Bergshloss Steam Brewery" Joint Stock Company.

The main shareholder was the Czech entrepreneur Bergshloss, who arrived in Volyn at the end of the 19th century with a wave of immigrants from the Czech Republic. He created his enterprise in Rivne on the basis of artisanal beer that had existed in the city since 1849. A company logo was developed, a specially shaped bottle with an embossed stamp was blown.

In addition to the factory buildings, a metal fence has been preserved, in the lace of which Rivne blacksmiths wove the name of the owner of the enterprise.

In 1939, the plant was nationalized, during Soviet times it produced beer brands "Zhigulovske", "Ukrainian", "Slovianske".

Since 2012, the company has been called LLC "Riven LTD". Recently, the assortment has been expanded: dark, wheat, strong and other varieties are produced, the "Bergshloss" brand has been restored. Rivne beer has a natural bright taste thanks to the fact that no pasteurization or preservatives are used in production.

In the basement of the plant's main building, there is a Kant beer restaurant, which offers craft beer from its own mini-brewery.

In 2020, Riven Brewery became part of the new architectural complex "Maidan Bergshloss" Historical Quarter, styled after ancient buildings in various European styles. Most of the premises of the complex are currently occupied by the Optima Collection Bergshloss Rivne hotel of the "Reikartz" chain, and there is an Italian restaurant. The opening of the Beer and Hop Growing Museum is planned.

Rivne Children's Railway is one of the 9 operating children's railways in Ukraine.

The design of the road began in 1948. Its construction was led by road workers PC-7 of the Kovel railway, who were helped on Sundays by the residents of the city. The ceremonial opening of the Small Rivne Railway took place in 1949.

The children's railway line with two dead-end double-track stations runs along the left bank of the Ustya River. The Partyzanska station is located in the very center of the city, near the bridge by which Rivne main street - Soborna - crosses the river. The second station – Ozerna – is on the shore of Lake Basiv Kut. The road management is located at Partyzanska station. There are several artificial structures on the route of the Rivne children's railway - a bridge, a culvert. Stepana Bandery Street crosses the road along the overpass.

P43 rails are laid in the track. The rolling stock of the road in the year of its opening included steam locomotive N.1572 (Kolomensk plant, type 86), two wooden passenger cars of the III class manufactured by the Kolomensk plant, and two cargo platforms. In 1973, the rolling stock of the road was renewed - a diesel locomotive TU3-034 and all-metal Pafawag passenger cars were received. The locomotive was scrapped, the wooden passenger cars were scrapped and disassembled. In 1982, the TU2-137 diesel locomotive was received from the Haivoron Locomotive Repair Plant, and the TU3-034, which had exhausted its resource, together with two Pafawag cars, was handed over to the "Expers" recreation camp for children of railway workers. Nowadays, these carriages are equipped with classrooms. Currently, the rolling stock of the road includes a diesel locomotive TU2-137, 2 Pafawag wagons ("Yuny zhlazhniynik" stock) and 2 cargo platforms.

The Rivne Children's Railway operates from the beginning of May to the end of August, trains run on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.

The Museum of the History of the Police of the Rivne Region was founded in 1982 under the Main Directorate of the National Police of Ukraine in the Rivne region.

Employees and veterans of the internal affairs bodies, their relatives and friends, as well as families of deceased law enforcement officers took an active part in the collection of museum materials. Currently, the museum's exposition consists of over two thousand exhibits.

In 2012, a complete reconstruction of the museum was carried out and its exposition was updated, reflecting the history of law enforcement agencies of the Rivne region during the Russian Empire, Poland, and the Ukrainian Revolution.

The structure of the museum consists of nine thematic sections.

In 2015, the Museum of the History of the Police of the Rivne Region received the status of "People's Museum".

The Museum of the History of the Rivne Ukrainian Gymnasium "From Gymnasium to Gymnasium" is one of the first public museums in the Rivne region, the exposition of which tells about the history of the educational institution in 1923-1939 and about its revival during the years of Independence of Ukraine.

In September 2003, the museum received the status of "People's Museum".

During the Polish rule in the 1920s, the Rivne Ukrainian Private Gymnasium was known throughout Volyn as one of the most advanced systems of education and upbringing at that time.

The history of the educational institution, which is presented in the museum's exposition, is recreated based on the memoirs of Professor Mykhaylo Hutsulyak, from the letters and materials of Yuriy Shumovsky, Professor of Mathematics Nadiya Ishchuk, from the memoirs of the daughter of the drawing teacher Heorhiy Kosmiadi, as well as from modern research by Candidate of Historical Sciences Valentyna Dobrochynska and others.

During the activity of the Rivne Ukrainian Gymnasium, famous professors  educated hundreds of patriots of Ukraine. Most of the graduates of the Rivne Ukrainian Gymnasium took an active part in the national liberation struggle, becoming members of the OUN, the Sich of the "Carpathian Sich", and the UPA soldiers.

In the second half of the 17th century, the Lubomyrsky magnates, to whom Velyki Mezhyrichi belonged at that time, founded a Roman Catholic collegium.

In 1702-1725, the majestic church of Saint Anthony was built in the baroque style according to the project of the architect Voytsekh Lenartovych.

The church is stone, hall-type, with choirs, where the organ used to be. The interiors were decorated with rich stucco. The church is decorated with three pediments of late baroque character. On the altar side of the building, a two-story annex of the collegium with a library and an examination hall has been preserved.

Today, the church of Saint Anthony is in a very neglected state, although it is an architectural monument of national importance.

The one-nave church of Saint Lawrence in Taikury with an elongated faceted apse and two side chapels half the height of the nave is surrounded on all sides by a dilapidated but still strong stone wall.

A belfry in the form of a high pediment with three vertical slits for bells is attached to the western corner. Once the church had a crowning pinak tower above the ridge of the pitched roof. Despite the neglected state, the main elements of the architectural design are clearly visible in the interior: pilasters, horizontal belts, cornice with a complex set of profiles. The composition of the main part of the interior space is completed by a cylindrical vault with deep formwork in the places adjacent to the windows, elastic arches and bundles of false ribs. Other rooms are covered with ordinary cross vaults.

According to legend, the church of Saint Lawrence was built thanks to an accident: the dog of the nobleman Peplovsky, looking for game shot by his master, dug up a golden treasure from the ground. Thanks to fate, the nobleman built a church on that place.