Attractions of Chuhuiv district

The wooden church of the Nativity of Christ was built in the village of Borova in 1782 at the expense of the parishioners. This is one of the oldest wooden churches of the Kharkiv region, a wonderful example of the wooden church architecture of the Slobozhanshchyna.

The church is one-story, three-log, made of oak logs, decorated with elegant decorative wood carvings.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the Church of the Nativity of Christ was reconstructed.

Recreation complex "Osynove Pleso" is located on the picturesque shore of Siverskyi Donets on the eastern outskirts of Chuhuiv.

Made in an ethnic style: a Ukrainian mud house with a reed roof, a village yard fenced with mud, a wooden carved well in the yard. On the territory, you can visit an authentic Ukrainian house-museum, which recreates the lifestyle of the Ukrainian peasantry of the 18th-19th centuries. A unique collection of household items and decorative and applied art, collected by the founder of the complex, Pavlo Zektser, is on display.

A three-level bathhouse, fishing, and picnic areas are at your disposal. During the Repin plein airs, the complex hosts artists, and their paintings are exhibited here.

The Paper Museum was established at the Zmiiv Paper Mill in 2018 in a building that is over 125 years old.

The museum's exposition tells the history of the development of the paper industry from ancient times to the present, demonstrates production processes and eco-technologies used in the modern world and in particular at the Zmiiv factory. Among the exhibits are printing and publishing machines and equipment, samples of paper and products made from it. Some exhibits are over 200 years old. The main museum exhibits are unique machines that were used to make paper at the beginning of the 20th century.

For museum visitors, real and virtual tours of the museum premises, laboratories where eco-paper is made, and production workshops are held.

The Chapel of the Immaculate Savior was built on the spot where, in 1888, a train carrying Russian Emperor Oleksandr III and his family derailed near the Borky station.

Many people died in the disaster, but the emperor, who was in the carriage, was miraculously unharmed, as well as members of his family. The Saviour's hermitage was founded in memory of this event.

According to the project of academician of architecture Marfeld, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and the Chapel of the Savior Not Made by Hands were built. A hospital and a home for elderly railway workers, a school, and a library operated at the hermitage.

During the Second World War, the temple was blown up, and the chapel was badly damaged. Only in 2003 was the restoration of the chapel carried out, and the stations returned their historical name.

The "Mecca of Futurism" museum is being created in the village of Krasna Poliana in the former estate of the Kharkiv merchant Mikhaylo Synyakov and his five daughters, who at the beginning of the 20th century were friends with many famous avant-garde artists and hosted them in their home. It is believed that it was in the Sinyakov estate in the Kharkiv region that world futurism was born, the muses of which were the Synyakov sisters.

The most famous of the sisters is the Ukrainian artist, close to the avant-garde, graphic artist, illustrator Mariya Synyakova-Urechyna. In Ukrainian art of the 1910s-1920s, she represented the neo-primitivist trend. Her works are kept in the National Art Museum of Ukraine, the Museum of Modern Art (New York), and private collections in Ukraine and abroad.

In addition to its memorial value, the Synyakov estate has great architectural and artistic significance, as it is a model of wooden park estates of the late 19th century. Today it is the only building of this type that has survived in the Zmiiv region. The house itself has preserved stucco molding, a stove, a wooden floor, and red wallpaper on the wall.

The Museum "Mecca of Futurism" is a branch of the Zmiiv Museum of Local Lore.

The five-headed church of the Volodymyr icon of the Mother of God in the village of Kochetok was built between 1825 and 1854 on the site of an old wooden church, next to a miraculous spring.

The icon, in honor of which the church is named, was popularly called the "Revealed Icon". Later, a bell tower was added to the church.

In 1934, the church was closed, and it gradually fell into disrepair. In 1989, on the day of St. Nicholas, the church was opened again. It belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The Vovchansk Museum of Local Lore is one of the oldest museums in the Kharkiv region. The museum was established in 1912 on the initiative of the archaeologist, tireless collector of local history materials and antiquities, and discoverer of Saltiv archaeological culture Vasyl Babenko in a specially built building in the Art Nouveau style.

In 1941, during the bombing of the city of Vovchansk, the museum was damaged. In 1963, a new museum of local history was created based on its surviving collections.

The museum's exposition introduces the history of the city and the stages of development of Vovchansk. The collection includes traditional examples of folk art for the region - embroidery, wood carvings, paintings, as well as objects of folk life.

The archeology department presents monuments of Saltiv archaeological culture.

Russian-Ukrainian War

According to the information of the Vovchansk City Military Administration, as of the end of 2024, the city of Volchansk has been practically destroyed by the Russian occupiers. The museum collection has been evacuated to a safe place in advance.

The unique Water Museum was created in 1983. on the basis of the Kochetok water station (today PUVKG "Donets") on the initiative of the talented engineer Serhiy Komar.

More than 2,000 exhibits tell about the history of the Siverskyi Donets River, the construction of a water supply station and the role of water in people's lives in general.

The schemes of the Siverskyi Donets river basin with collections of archaeological finds and samples of minerals are of great interest to visitors.

The water museum is located in the building of the public and cultural center of PUVKG "Donets".

Zmiiv Museum of Local Lore was established in 1991. The museum is located in an old two-story building.

The exposition is based on archeological finds made in the Zmiiv region - more than 10 thousand exhibits. In particular, the tools of the Stone Age, weapons and chain mail from the times of Kiyvan Rus, household items of the XIX century, among which the most interesting are the loom and the primitive sawmill.

The art gallery of Zmiiv Local Lore Museum features the most interesting works by local artists depicting the crash of the royal train and the Saviour's Hermitage, the legendary Cossack Mountain, based on this site.