Attractions of Sarny district

Dubrovytsia Historical and Ethnographic Museum was established in 1957 as the Museum of the Armed Uprising of 1917.

The exposition in 4 halls tells about the origin and development of Dubrovytsia in chronological order: "History of the ancient city", "Life and tools", "Our land during the Second World War", "Modernity".

Among the exhibits are works of art by potter Yevtukh Kulyk, master of folk art Ulyana Kit, photographs of the Counts of Plyater, copies of the pages of the Peresopnytsia Gospel.

The wooden Holy Trinity Church in Sarny is one of the oldest monuments of the wooden architecture of Polissya.

The church was built in the village of Dorotychy in 1725 at the expense of landowner Antoniy Prushynsky.

Initially, the Trinity Church had two baths, but later, thanks to the efforts of the abbot Father Ioann, a third one was built above the bell tower. In the same year, a house was built for the priest, which is still standing near the church. There is only one throne in the temple - in honor of the Holy Trinity.

The majestic church of John the Baptist in the mature baroque style, which stands in the center of Dubrovytsia, was built at the beginning of the 18th century, after the wooden Catholic church built in 1684 at the expense of Yan Dolsky burned down.

According to other sources, the current church was built in 1695-1702.

After the Second World War, the church was closed by the Soviet authorities, but in 1992, after Ukraine gained independence, it was returned to the Catholic community of Dubrovytsia.

The Church of John the Baptist is an architectural monument of national importance. Restoration has been carried out.

The Klesiv Arboretum was created on the territory of the Klesiv Forestry by a self-taught landscape designer, former forester Oleksiy Voron.

With his own hands, he created a lot of green sculptures from trees and shrubs, which he brought from various forests of Ukraine. The alleys of the Klesiv Arboretum are decorated with balls, pyramids, cylinders and glasses. There are about 30 sculptures, many arches and other architectural forms. There are also complex sculptural compositions: "Virgin Mary's Candle", "Olympic Cup", "Bohdan Khmelnytskyi's Chalice".

At the entrance to the Klesiv Arboretum, visitors are greeted by a huge coat of arms of Ukraine made of spherical thuja trees.

The Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin Mary was built in Dubrovytsia in 1865 at the expense of Count Ihnatiy Broel-Plyater.

The three-domed stone temple is made in the late Baroque style.

In Soviet times, the church building was used as a salt warehouse. Today it is an active temple, an architectural monument of national importance.

The wooden church of Saint Nicholas was built in the city of Dubrovytsia in 1872 at the expense of the parishioners. In 1876, a church-parish fraternity was founded at the church, and in 1877, a one-class public school was opened.

Saint Nicholas Church is an architectural monument of local importance.

The temple is active and belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

Sarny Historical and Ethnographic Museum is a department of the Rivne Regional Museum of Local Lore.

The exposition is devoted to folk crafts and handicrafts, life and everyday life of Polishchuk peasants.

A mini-skansen (open-air museum) was opened on the territory of the museum in 2020. Monuments of folk architecture from the village of Horynychi have been collected and restored here: two village estates and a wooden chapel of the XVIII century, a smithy and a windmill of the XIX century.

Traditionally, the museum hosts folk art festivals with the invitation of amateur art groups, masters of folk art.

The Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord in the Art Nouveau style was built in Sarny in 1936 instead of the old wooden church.

Students of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow made a significant contribution to the construction. Construction continued until 1939, but it was never finished - the belfry remained unfinished. The last abbot was Yan Lenynsky, who left the city with the last Poles in 1945.

In the priest's house, the military commissariat was placed, then courses of civil defense and car enthusiasts. The premises of the church itself served as a food warehouse.

The shrine was returned to believers only in 1991. Restoration has begun. In 1995, the restored image of Our Lady of Ostrobram was returned to the church and the first mass was held.

The Yuzefinsky oak in the "Yuzefinska dacha" tract near the village of Hlynne is one of the oldest trees in Ukraine.

In the Book of Records of Ukraine, it is recorded as the oldest oak in Ukraine (1,300 years old), but experts of the Kyiv Ecological and Cultural Center concluded that it is no more than 1,000 years old, and it is not the oldest.

The Yuzefinsky oak is also called the "Tree of Prince Ihor" because, according to legend, it witnessed the campaign of Prince Ihor in 945.

The oak-patriarch has a height of about 20 meters, a girth of 7.9 meters. The tree is in extremely bad condition, there are several hollows on the trunk, only two branches remain alive.