Attractions of Konotop district

The Kozatske Village Local Lore Museum in Sumy region was founded in 2000 as a school museum. Since 2017, it has been operating on the basis of the local club "Krayeznavets" at the Kozatske Village House of Culture.

The museum's exposition, spread over several halls of the house of culture, tells about the origin of the village and its name, the history of the local school, church, and agricultural enterprises of the village.

Visitors can learn more about the traditions and customs of local residents, as well as see an exhibition of naive art paintings created by masters of the village of Kozatske.

An exhibition of retro equipment has been created in the park next to the museum, featuring old cars, tractors, and other equipment used by local agricultural enterprises.

The village of Nova Sloboda in the Sumy region is called the Ukrainian Khatyn, because in 1942 the German occupiers shot 586 villagers to take revenge for the help of the villagers to the partisan unit of Sydor Kovpak.

In 2004, the "Bell of Sorrow" memorial was opened in the center of Nova Sloboda - a monument to the unconquered village and its brave inhabitants.

The monument is made in the shape of a bell, inside there is a small chapel, the names of all those who died in that tragedy are engraved on the marble slabs.

The Ethnographic Museum of Horiun Culture in the village of Nova Sloboda opened in 2017 as a branch of the State Historical and Cultural Reserve in Putyvl.

Presents a unique culture of Horiuns - a small ethnic group living in Putyvl region. According to researchers, it is an autochthonous ancient Slavic population that has preserved its original culture, language and archaic features in everyday life.

The museum exposition recreates the estate of the Horiuns of the late XIX - early XX centuries. The interior of the house presents furniture, various household items, clothes, etc. Here and ancient icons, and embroidered towels, and a cradle, and a loom. In farm buildings - barns, barns, windmills - exhibited tools, other agricultural equipment.

In addition, in the Horiun courtyard you can see a crane well and a rare kind of cellar – a neck pit.

The church of Mykola Kozatskyi in the Ukrainian Baroque style was built in the 18th century at the expense of the residents of Putyvl - Ukrainian Cossacks.

It has an unusual silhouette with two towers of equal height. Initially, the temple was built in three parts and with one roof, but later a multi-tiered belfry was added to it from the western side. On the first floor of the two-story church is a "warm church" with low vaults. On the second floor is a "cold church" with a high central top.

The restoration was recently completed, and the museum exhibition "The Tale of Ihor's Campaign" is planned to be opened in the church.

The memorial museum complex of the Ukrainian artist, painter, and graphic artist Mykola Storozhenko opened in his small homeland, in the village of Vyazove, in 2018, on the occasion of the artist's 90th birthday.

Mykola Storozhenko is an academician of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, People's Artist of Ukraine, professor, laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine, founder and long-time head of the Painting and Temple Culture Workshop at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture. He belonged to the circle of the second wave of the National Renaissance in Ukraine, the "sixties", which included such iconic figures as Opanas Zalyvakha, Lyudmyla Semykina, Yuriy Yakutovych, Alla Horska, Viktor Zaretskiy, Halyna Sevruk, Valentyn Zadorozhniy. All of them were open to experiments with different materials in order to carry out a high synthesis, combining the achievements of Ukrainian folk art, the experience of the Ukrainian avant-garde, and European modernism.

In addition to the artist's works, the museum's exhibits also feature the artist's memorial items donated to the museum by his family - books, brushes and paints, gifts and awards.

The house where Mykola Storozhenko lived and the school where Storozhenko studied and painted his first works have been preserved on the territory of Vyazove.

The defensive Molchensky monastery-fortress on the banks of the Seim in Putyvl was built at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries on the basis of a fortress from Lithuanian times, which was called the Kremlin.

The monastery was founded in 1570 by monks who moved to the fortress from the Molchensky desert, located 20 kilometers from Putyvl. In 1604, the impostor tsar False Dmitry I was hiding behind the walls of the monastery, coming from here to Moscow after the death of Borys Hodunov.

The complex of the Molchensky Monastery is dominated by the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin, built in 1575-1585 and rebuilt several times in the 17th-18th centuries. The tower over the gate of the fortress serves as a belfry, and a fragment of the wall with a corner tower has also been preserved.

The complex also includes the 19th-century church of John the Baptist, the abbot's and cell buildings, a refectory and utility buildings.

The Peoples Museum of the Chernecha Sloboda Village History is located in the center of the settlement, opposite the school. It was opened in 1991 at the initiative of the local community. The famous artist Mykola Bondarenko took part in the design.

The exposition was formed thanks to the caring residents of the village of Chernecha Sloboda, who shared many antiquities with the museum. In particular, samples of traditional clothing, embroidered towels, ceramics, etc. are presented.

Old documents and photographs on the stands tell about the period of the Ukrainian Revolution, the times of the Holodomor and World War II, in particular the immortalized memory of the four Moroz brothers and the five Shapoval brothers. Materials about the modern Russian-Ukrainian war are also presented.

The Popivka Village History Museum opened in 2016 on the basis of the Popivka Comprehensive School on the initiative of English teacher Marharyta Chepurna.

The exhibition on an area of ​​30 square meters tells about the history of the origin and development of the village. It presents old household items, as well as many old photographs and documents that tell the stories of the lives of prominent figures of Popivka of the past and present.

The manor house of the Putyvl princes Lvov in the village of Bochechky, Konotop district, is a unique monument of palace and park art of the high classicism era for the Sumy region, which has been well preserved to this day.

The estate was founded in 1745 (according to other sources - in 1783), when a landscape park was laid out on these lands that belonged to the Lvovs. Now it is a park-monument of local landscape art with an area of ​​almost 15 hectares. Linden, oak, maple, sedge and other plants grow in it.

The main element of the estate is a brick two-story palace in the style of classicism with elements of the neo-Renaissance. Most sources indicate the year 1866 as the time of its construction, although it is possible that an earlier building was reconstructed then. The estate was then owned by Lieutenant Colonel Oleksandr Lvov. Its last owner was Princess Anna Lvova.

The palace is rectangular in plan, with a massive semi-rotunda of the dance hall with a colonnade gallery, protruding on the park facade. The front facade is designed in classicist architectural forms. Initially, the layout of both floors was enfilade.

After the Bolshevik coup, the palace of Princess Lvova in Bochechky was confiscated, an agricultural technical school was placed in it, then a rural school. At the same time, the interior decor was completely lost, as well as the Corinthian capitals of the columns and pilasters of the park facade.

Now the palace houses the Bochechky secondary education institution of grades I-III. In 2010, the facade and roof of the estate were reconstructed. In 2012, the grand opening of the renovated landscape park took place: the alleys were illuminated, flowers were planted, and benches for relaxation were installed.

The Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin rises on the steep bank of the river in the center of the village of Vyrivka.

It was founded in 1892 at the expense of Yukhym Shkolyarenko, a merchant of the first guild, who towards the end of his life was engaged in charity work.

The temple impresses not only with its size and architecture, but also with its interior decoration.

During Soviet times, the church survived, although it was neglected for many years.

Currently, the church has been restored, and the portrait of the founder is preserved in it.

The Museum of Local Lore is located in a small one-story mansion in the center of Putyvl, which belonged to the landowner Cherepov in the 19th century.

Almost three thousand exhibits reveal the history of the city and its surroundings from ancient times to the present day.

The museum presents - an 18th-century wardrobe that belonged to Hetman Ivan Mazepa; the chair of the Russian impostor False Dmitry the First; the bell was presented to the city by Tsar Mykhaylo Romanov; jaws of a bull with drawings found in the Molchen marsh.

The manor house of the Rudzynsky nobles from Krolevets was built in the 1820s on the southeastern outskirts of Krolevets near the old road to Hlukhiv.

Made in the architectural forms of late provincial classicism, with a certain influence of romanticism. The walls are made of oak beams, the decorative elements are made of stucco stucco. The original decor has been partially preserved in the interiors, in particular the stucco rosette on the ceiling.

There is a version that Taras Shevchenko visited here in 1845 (a portrait of Yosyp Rudzynsky, dated that year, made by Shevchenko has been preserved). The last owner was Volodymyr Rudzynsky, a participant in the liberation movement of the beginning of the 20th century.

In Soviet times, a club was placed here, and then a school. In the 1960s, a children's sanatorium was established on the grounds of the estate. Currently, the building has been restored and is in private ownership.

The wooden Church of the Savior and Transfiguration is the only church in Krolevets that has survived.

It was built in the 18th century. In 1849, architect Malinin rebuilt and expanded the church, created a side altar. In 1863, the architect Ivanov created a project of a stone bell tower, which was built in 1865-1872.

In the 1930s, the Savior and Transfiguration Church was closed, the dome and bell tower were destroyed. Services in the church were resumed only during the period of German occupation - in 1942.

Now the temple is active.

The state landscape reserve "Serednoseimskyi" with an area of ​​693 hectares protects a unique floodplain natural complex in the headwaters of the Seim River with mainly meadow vegetation, floodplain deciduous forests and numerous water bodies.

The massif located near the village of Boiaro-Lezhachi has great water protection value. "Serednoseimskyi" nature reserve - a place where the common vulture is preserved - a species listed in the international Red Book. The relict ostrich feather fern and broad-leaved sedge grow here - a species listed in the Red Book of Ukraine.

The territory of the reserve and its adjacent forests, meadows and swamps is promising for the creation of nature-reserve objects of the highest category - a national nature park.

The Nativity of the Virgin Sophronivsky Monastery is located on Mount Chudna above the Molchanka River.

Its ancient history is closely related to the history of the Molchensky Monastery in Putyvl. According to legend, the first monastery was founded by Greek monks who settled here together with Metropolitan Mykhaylo back in the 11th century.

According to another version, the Sophronivsky-Molchensky Hermitage was founded in the 13th century by Kyiv-Pechersk monks. The first monastery caves belong to these times.

At the end of the 14th century, the monastery fell into disrepair, after a century it was revived, but in 1592 it was again destroyed by the Tatars. After that, the Molchensky Monastery was transferred to Putyvl, but soon the idea of restoring the wilderness in its former place ripened. In 1630, the first stone church of the Nativity of the Mother of God was built, and in 1653, a monastery was revived near it, which was called Small Molchensky, and soon - Sofroniivsky, named after Abbot Sophronius, who significantly contributed to the establishment of the monastery as one of the the largest in the Russian Empire.

At the beginning of the 20th century, there were 60 different buildings here. In 1930, the Bolsheviks closed the monastery and destroyed the churches, and placed an orphanage on the territory. By the end of the 20th century, only ruins remained here. The revival began in 1999. The caves have been cleared, the Inter-Gate Church of the Intercession and the Church of Elijah the Prophet have been restored, the refectory and the abbot's building have been restored, the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin and the bell tower are under construction. The Iver icon of the Holy Mother of God is kept here.

The Nativity of the Virgin Sophronivsky Monastery belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.