Attractions of Chernivtsi district

"The Colonel's House" is one of the first stone residential buildings in Chernivtsi. Built in 1782, it was named after its first resident.

At the end of the 19th century, an officer's casino was located here. In the Romanian period, the building was called the "Officer's Club". During the Soviet era, the premises were used by the "House of Political Enlightenment".

Since 1983, the Chernivtsi Regional Academic Puppet Theater has been located here. During its existence, the theater performed more than 100 performances. The performances "Buka", "How the fox tricked the bear", "Baby elephant" are considered the best.

The one-story building of the Novoselytsia railway station was built in 1905.

It was from here in 1915 that the American writer-publicist John Reed began his famous journey through the Russian Empire, described by him in the book "War in Eastern Europe".

The ensemble of the former residence of the Orthodox Bukovynian and Dalmatian Metropolitans is the most popular monument of Chernivtsi, which has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2011.

The residence was designed by the Czech architect Josef Hlavka in 1864-1882 on the initiative of the first Metropolitan of Bukocyna and Dalmatia Euhene Hackman. The buildings impress with their rich design, combining Romanesque-Gothic, Byzantine, Oriental, Moldavian, folk Bukovyinian and other stylistic motifs.

The closed complex of the residence of the metropolitans of Bukovyna, similar to a monastery, consists of three independent buildings, but united by a single idea: the Main (Metropolitan), Seminary (with the Church of the Three Saints), Monastic (House of Visitors). The buildings form a spacious courtyard, separated from the street by a fence with a monumental gate.

Among the rooms stands out the Synodal (Marble) Hall of the Main Building, painted by painters Epaminondas Buchevsky and Yevhen Maksymovych.

Currently, the main buildings of Yuri Fedkovich Chernivtsi National University are located in the complex of the residence of Bukovyna Metropolitans. Its territory and the university church can be inspected independently.

For those wishing to visit the interior, the Historical and Museum Complex of the Chernivtsi National University conducts daily guided tours, during which you can see the Marble, Blue and Red Halls. Groups are formed by appointment or directly on site.

The Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Chernivtsi is an excellent example of Bukovyna Neo-Gothic architecture.

The monastery complex with a slender church was built at the end of the 19th century thanks to the petitions of the missionaries of the Society of Jesus - the heirs of the Jesuit order. The project was developed by Professor Yozef Lyaytsner in the best traditions of Gothic churches in Europe.

In Soviet times, the church housed an archive, and the monastery housed an art school.

In 2010, the Church of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus was returned to the Catholic community of Chernivtsi.

The Roman Catholic Church of Saint Anne in the Neo-Gothic style was built in Storozhynets at the expense of Yerzhy Flondor and the parishioners.

Its tall bell tower with a clock can be seen from almost every part of the city.

In 1880, the shrine was expanded. In the 1960s, the church was closed, but in 1990 it was returned to the Catholic community of the city.

The Church of Saint George is located in the center of Novoselytsia.

It was built in 1858 on the site of an old wooden temple known since the 15th century.

Saint George's Church in Storozhynets was founded in 1829 and became the first large church in the city.

In its current form, it was rebuilt in 1888 at the expense of Kateryna Garste - the wife of Mykola Flondor.

Currently, the Saint George Church belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

An archaic temple of defensive type, one of the oldest buildings on the territory of Bukovyna.

The Saint Illya Church was built in Toporivtsi in 1560 by the governor Myron Barnovsky. During the Turkish rule, the building was actively used as a fortress. It has thick walls without windows, loopholes are placed around the perimeter at the level of the roof, and a battle tier is hidden under the shingle roof. A square stone two-story bell tower was the main entrance to the temple grounds.

Currently, the Saint Illya Church belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, so local residents call it "Ukrainian".

The one-nave stone church of Saint John the Theologian without a dome was built in the 19th century as the ancestral burial place of the Counts of Kantakuzyn, who owned the village.

Part of the relics of the holy great martyr and healer Panteleymon, brought from Mount Athos by Count Oleksandr Kantakuzyn, who is considered a descendant of the Byzantine emperor Ioann VI Kantakuzyn, is preserved here. The box with relics was miraculously preserved during Soviet times, and now it is the main relic of the temple.

The "new" Rus (that is, Ruthenian - Ukrainian) church of Saint Nicholas was built in Chernivtsi by architects Valter Shtyubkhen-Kirkhner, Yozef Lener and Virdzhyl Ionesku, modeled on the masterpiece of Romanian medieval architecture - the mid-14th century royal church in Kurtya-de-Ardzhesh.

It is nicknamed the "drunken church" for its original "twisted" baths.

During Soviet times, the Nicholas Church remained active (it was the cathedral and the residence of the bishop), thanks to which the original interior was preserved.

Currently, Saint Nicholas Cathedral is used by parishioners of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The Church of Saint Paraskeva of Serbia is the first Orthodox stone church in Chernivtsi.

It was built on the site of a wooden parish church according to the project of architect Antin Pavlovsky.

In 1864, on the third anniversary of Taras Shevchenko's death, the Chernivtsi Ruthenians first commemorated Kobzar in the church of Saint Paraskeva, thus recognizing themselves as Ukrainians.

In Soviet times, a chess club was located here.

Since 1992, the church has acquired the status of a cathedral. Since then, the Church of Saint Paraskeva has been the cathedral of the Chernivtsi Diocese of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Church of Saint Spyridon in Hertsa is a typical church of the Bukovyna architectural school.

Founded in 1807.

The church is brightly painted both outside and inside.

The wooden church of Saint Nicholas is the oldest building in Chernivtsi (restored after a fire in 1992). An architectural monument of national importance.

It is made in the typical Bukovyna log cabin (so-called cottage) style.

The Saint Nicholas Church is active and belongs to the parish of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Interactive Science Museum of the Small Academy of Sciences of Ukraine opened in Chernivtsi in 2022 in the Boyanivka Shopping and Entertainment Center. This is the first regional state Museum of the Small Academy of Sciences.

The main feature of science museums is that visitors interact with all the exhibits, explore the essence of physical, chemical and biological phenomena and learn how science works in real life. It is forbidden NOT to touch the exhibits here.

For research experiments, the science museum offers more than 100 exhibits, which are combined into four thematic zones. Most of the museum's exhibition space is made up of exhibits from the Small Academy of Sciences and partners from the German museum TECHNOZEUM (Mannheim).

In the Nature zone, you can feel like a participant in an expedition, plunge into the world of ancient animals and plants, conduct interesting research with traces and determine the age of a wide variety of tree species by their rings trunks.

The "Human" space reveals the details of the principles of the human body, allows you to explore the human skull, brain, heart, nervous system and skin, and examine the structure of the eye and ear.

"Physics" is one of the most saturated areas of the museum. Here, visitors can see a perpetual motion machine, a lunaphone, a noise meter, which will allow you to scream and simultaneously check the volume of your voice. You can also view X-rays and try on a pregnancy vest.

Thanks to the "Optical Illusions" exhibition, visitors can become part of the visual illusion created by the Ames room, look through a mirror maze or learn about the principles of the kaleidoscope.

The house at the intersection of Holovna and Sholom-Aleykhema streets, which resembles a ship in shape (in the Bukovyna dialect, "ship" is from the German schiff). The narrowed facade resembles the nose of a ship, the open area on the second floor is a deck, and the tower above the roof is a mast or pipe.

Urban legend says that the house was built by a local entrepreneur for his sailor brother, who was called to return home after many years of traveling across distant seas.