Attractions of Kharkiv region

The tall and slender Holy Assumption Cathedral in the Ukrainian Baroque style was built in the center of the University Hill on the site of the old church of 1688.

The bell tower with chimes, built by architects Yevhen Vasiliev and Andriy Ton, is the tallest building in the city (89 meters). Thanks to the location of the windows, the temple looks like a palace.

During Soviet times, the church was closed, and in 1986, the House of Organ and Chamber Music opened in it. After the opening of a new philharmonic complex in Kharkiv in 2016, the Assumption Cathedral became fully owned by the diocese.

In 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the cathedral was damaged by shelling from Russian troops. The projectile that hit the building of the Assumption Cathedral broke windows and stained-glass windows, damaged church utensils and decorations.

The Church of the Assumption in Barvinkove ​​was founded in 1876 and consecrated in 1884.

The temple was built in the late Byzantine style in honor of the exploits of the Barvinkove regiment, which became famous during the liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule. The emperor donated a silver guard to the temple, and the imperial court - a large iconostasis of the work of artists of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow.

During the Bolshevik revolution at the beginning of the 20th century, all the decoration of the temple was destroyed. During World War II, the altar was destroyed by a bomb, but most of the church survived. Assumption Church was recreated in its original form during the restoration in 1982.

The small one-story brick church of the Epiphany is located in the center of the village of Molodova on a high hill.

The temple was built for ten years at the expense of small landowners and residents of the surrounding villages, services began in 1896. In the 1930s, the church was closed by the Soviet authorities, and the high bell tower was destroyed.

Until 2011, the building stood dilapidated. Currently, the Holy Epiphany Church in Molodova is being restored.

The Holy Intercession Cathedral is an architectural monument that adorns the central square of Chuhuiv.

It was built in the first half of the 19th century according to the project of the architect Vasyl Stasov in the style of classicism. The cathedral was built under the leadership of the architects of the military settlements, and the construction was completed by the architect Schrader. The mosaics and frescoes were executed by the Italian artist Petro Rosetti (he was assisted by local masters), icon painting works by the Kharkiv artist Ivan Kulikov.

During Soviet times, the building lost its dome, bell tower and all interior decoration. Until recently, a picture gallery was located here. In 2009, the cathedral was returned to believers, and restoration is underway.

The Holy Intercession Monastery in Kharkiv is the oldest building preserved in the city. In the 17th century, the monastery was part of the system of fortifications of the Kharkiv fortress. The Belfry of the Intercession Cathedral (1689) looks like a defensive tower.

The entrance gate is decorated with an icon of the Savior Not Made by Hands. On the territory there is the Ozeryan Church (1896), the bishop's house, the abbot's house and a cell block with a refectory. In 1726, the Kharkiv Collegium was founded here, where the philosopher Hryhoriy Skovoroda taught (the monument is erected), and the writer Hryhoriy Kvitka-Osnovyanenko worked.

For the 2000th anniversary of Christianity, the figure of Jesus Christ was established.

The Church of the Annunciation of the Ozeryanska Icon of the Mother of God was founded in 1892 on the former outskirts of Kharkiv. Since 1874, there was a chapel at this place, where prayers were served during processions with the Ozeryanska Icon of the Mother of God (Hodigitria).

The new majestic Holy Ozeryanska Church designed by Volodymyr Nemkin was made of red unplastered brick in the eclectic forms of the Byzantine-Rus style. The facades of the building are full of architectural details borrowed from ancient Rus cult architecture. A slender four-tiered belfry with a height of about 40 meters is connected to the western vestibule.

In 1938, the church was closed, the episcopal chair was transferred to the Kazanska Church on Lysa Hill. Services in the Ozeryanska Church in Kharkiv resumed in 1942.

The five-domed Holy Transfiguration Cathedral in Izium is one of the oldest stone buildings in the Slobozhanshchyna.

It was part of the city fortifications, and the architectural ensemble of the city center formed around it. It was built at the expense of Colonels Kostyantyna Donets-Zakharzhevskyi and Fedir Shydlovskyi in 1684 in the Ukrainian Baroque style by a team of craftsmen who later built the Intercession Cathedral in Kharkiv, erected churches in Nizhyn and Baturyn.

The architecture of the Holy Transfiguration Cathedral uses the traditional forms of a three-timbered wooden church with a separate bell tower. In 1903, the engineer Mykhaylo Lovtsov carried out a reconstruction in a neo-Russian style: new domes with bulbous heads were erected, kokoshniks were built on top of the walls.

In 1953-1955, the architectural monument was restored to its original form.

During the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the Holy Transfiguration Cathedral was heavily damaged and partially lost its glazing due to shelling by the Russian army.

The Holy Transfiguration Church in Nova Vodolaha was founded in 1821 on the site of an old wooden church that had existed since 1750. In 1830, thanks to the efforts of the parishioners, the construction was completed, and the next year the church was consecrated.

The Transfiguration Church is an example of post-classicism in architecture. It is surrounded by a massive stone fence with stylized towers and iron gates, which emphasizes the completeness of the structure and makes it look like a fortress.

In the 1920s, the Bolsheviks closed the temple and removed all objects made of gold, silver and ivory. Divine service resumed in 1943. There are many icons in the church, there are paintings by old masters of Nova Vodolaha, in particular the icon painter Borysenko. The most revered icon of Saint Ioasaf of Belhorod.

The first Ukrainian horilka museum opened in 2008 on the territory of the Prime distillery near Chuhuiv.

The exhibition features unusual glasses, hand-poured decanters, moonshine machines, old and modern bottles, labels and posters from different historical eras and many others. More than 1,000 unique exhibits reveal the history of the production and consumption of a drink traditional for the Slavic peoples.

Free tours of the factory are held, during which you can familiarize yourself with the production process and visit the main workshops of the factory: depalletization, water preparation, three levels of blending workshops, a bottling and palletizing workshop, as well as premises of the administrative and household complex - a laboratory, a tasting room, a Mendeleev gallery, etc. .

You can order a professional tasting of TM Prime products.

A high-rise apartment building in the center of Kharkiv in the style of the "Stalin Empire" is called "House with a Spire".

It occupies an entire block on the corner of maidan Konstytutsiyi. It was built in 1950-1954 according to the project of the architect Petro Oreshkin for the employees of the Kharkiv Turbine Plant.

The main 7-story part of the building with an 11-story tower is topped by a spire, which gave the building its name.

According to the voting results in 2008, the "House with a Spire" was included in the list of "Seven Wonders of Kharkiv".

The Art Memorial Museum house-museum of Illya Repin is located in Chuhuiv in a small one-story building from the time of military settlements (beginning of the 19th century) on the former Nikitynska Street, where the famous artist lived and worked in 1876-1877.

The initial - quite simple situation is recreated. The main exposition is devoted to the Chuhuiv period in Repin's life and work, as well as to the artist's close ties with Ukraine, which were not interrupted throughout his life.

Repin's personal belongings are collected here - a blue velvet beret, a white vest, a device for quick removal of shoes and others.

Unique works of local painters and icon painters of the 19th century - Repin's teachers from Chuhuiv are also presented. Four icons and some other works of Repin are exhibited: a portrait of Verovkina, drawings, etchings.

The museum's collections also include works by famous artists from the Repin area: Valentyn Syerov, Volodymyr Mayakovsky, Petro Vereshchahin, Mykola Pymonenko, Ivan Pelevin.

The Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin in Parkhomivka was part of the Podhorichani count estate.

The first wooden church in Parkhomivka was founded back in 1704, in its place Count Ivan Podhorichani built a five-domed wooden church after 1769, and in 1808 the widow of Count Varvara Podhorichani (Shydlovska) decided to build a new stone church .

The single-domed church in the style of classicism was designed by Kharkiv provincial architect Petro Yaroslavskyi, who is considered the founder of the Ukrainian school of classicist architecture. An interesting feature of the architecture of the Intercession Church is two bell towers. According to experts, this is a peculiar interpretation of the three-domed church, an echo of the Ukrainian folk architecture of the 17th century.

A feature of the interior is the choirs in the three branches of the building. The painting on the sails and above the main entrance has been preserved.

In the 1960s, the church was closed and turned into a warehouse. Only 50 years later, the Intercession Church began to be used for its intended purpose again.

Ivanivsky Fort (Saint John's Fortress) is part of the Ukrainian Defense Line.

At the beginning of the 18th century, this structure was built using only shovels and sacks to move the earth. A regular square. There are four bastions at the corners. In front of the southern and eastern walls are triangular ravelins, behind which hundreds of horsemen could hide. The shelves for the defenders of the fort are clearly visible on the tops of the walls. Inside the fort is a round pit of unclear purpose (most likely a reservoir). The fort is surrounded by a moat along its perimeter, and earthen ramparts with moats approach from the west and east.

The correct proportions, thoughtfulness of all components are impressive.

The exposition of the Izium Museum of Local Lore named after Mykola Sibilov is located in an old residential building built in 1818 (reconstructed).

Currently, the museum has more than 11 thousand units of storage of fixed assets. The exposition presents archeological finds of different epochs and cultures, ancient tools, Polovtsian stone statues, etc. Special attention should be paid to: a beautiful numismatic collection, which presents rare coins, the Gospel in silver and gold - a gift from Peter I Izium Transfiguration cathedral (edition of the beginning of the XVIII century), personal belongings of the family of the Decembrist Andriy Rosen, works of painting: sketches by Serhiy Vasylkivsky, paintings by Mykhaylo Fedoriv, Vasyl Zabashta, Fenya Kogan.

During the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Izium found itself on the front line. The city was under full occupation from April to September. The infrastructure and residential multi-apartment buildings in Izium have been destroyed by 80%. The Museum of Local History also suffered significant damage - a Russian projectile hit the museum building. In addition, part of the collection was looted by the Russians. However, the workers of the Izium Museum of Local History managed to save the most valuable exhibits - the Gospel of 1707 in a silver and gilded frame, issued by Hetman Ivan Mazepa, as well as a portrait of Andriy Samborskyi, a well-known public figure of the 18th and 19th centuries in the Slobozhan region, made by his famous contemporary Yohan Baptist Lampi, and other valuable canvases , objects of the Cossack era.

Kharkiv Jungle Aqua Park is a large modern indoor water park, the interior of which is stylized as the jungle of South America.

There are 7 swimming pools (including sports, wave, circular, hydromassage, jacuzzi) with 11 water attractions on 11,000 square meters of space, of which 4,000 square meters are occupied by the water entertainment area.

Water slides are distinguished by the profile of the chutes and the steepness of the curves. Super-attractions: the "Space Hole" centrifugal slide (54-meter spiral) and the "Black Hole" slide (16-meter rapid descent).

The temperature regime is maintained throughout the year in the range of 30-33 degrees with 65-70% humidity.

The complex also includes a hotel, restaurant, bars, sauna and massage, solarium, billiards, shooting range.