Attractions of Rivne region

The Tatar Gate Tower is one of the two surviving fortress towers. They were part of the system of external city fortifications of ancient Ostroh.

It was located in the Muslim part of the city, where Tatar prisoners were kept, which is where the name comes from. It also served as an entrance gate.

Currently, the Tatar Gate Tower is in poor condition, and no restoration is being carried out.

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 Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity and Saint Michael the Archangel was built in Tuchyn in 1614 at the expense of the nobleman Mykola Semashko.

The temple burned down several times, in particular during the Liberation War of 1648-1654, when Tuchyn was captured by Maksym Kryvonos Cossacks. After the signing of the Andrusiv truce in 1667 and the return of the Poles, the church was restored.

The temple suffered the greatest destruction during the Second World War, as it served as a shelter for the defending Red Army soldiers, then for the Germans. After this war, the Trinity Church was not restored - it is still half-ruined.

Trinity Derman Monastery is an ancient Orthodox monastery with a pronounced defensive character.

The Derman Monastery was founded on the spurs of the Mizoch Range at the end of the 15th century by Prince Vasyl Ostrozky. It served as the country residence of the prince, in connection with which fortifications were erected - a stone castle surrounded by walls with loopholes and a moat with water. The entrance was guarded by a massive gate tower, later transformed into the bell tower of the monastery.

Later, the Trinity Church and monastery cells were built by Vasyl-Kostyantyn Ostrozky.

In 1575-1576, the Derman monastery was managed by the first printer Ivan Fedorov, in 1602 a printing house and a religious school were opened.

In 1627-1633, the abbot of the monastery, which became Greek-Catholic, was Meletiy Smotrytskyi, the author of "Slavic Grammar".

In the 19th century, the Russian government took the monastery from the Greek Catholics and handed it over to the Orthodox monks from Ostroh.

Currently, the Derman Monastery is active and belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate. The complex includes the Trinity Cathedral, the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, the Church of Fedir Ostrozky. A residential building with a church in honor of Saint Innocent of Irkutsk is under construction.

The Literary and Memorial Museum of the outstanding Ukrainian writer and public figure Ulas Samchuk opened in Derman in 1995 with the financial support of the Toronto Society "Volyn" (Canada).

The museum is located in the building of the Derman Gymnasium (former teacher's seminary), where Samchuk once studied.

The museum exposition tells about the childhood of Ulas Samchuk, his family, studies, you can see icons from the writer's house, and later
his uncle. Among the valuable exhibits of the museum are photographs of the writer from different years, books published by Ulas Samchuk in Munich, several personal belongings (a walking stick, glasses, business cards). Separate expositions are dedicated to researchers of Ulas Samchuk's work and honoring his memory.

Over the past few years, the museum has collected a significant amount of additional materials that expand and complement the exhibition: these are photo documents, materials from the press of the past and current publications, memoirs of Ulas Samchuk's contemporaries. A significant number of books of the writer's creative output came from the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada, where Ulas Samchuk spent his last years, and the USA (not yet published in Ukraine).

A memorial plaque in honor of Ulas Samchuk is installed on the facade of the gymnasium.

The UPA Museum-Kryivka (hideout) in the Hurby tract near the Holy Resurrection Monastery at the Insurgent Graves near the village of Mosty was opened in 2011.

In April 1944, the Battle of Hurby took place between UPA units and NKVD troops.

The planning and interior equipment of the insurgents' bunker is based on drawings made by NKVD officers: bunk beds, boxes, shelves, shelves, tables and benches, a stove. On the walls are black and white photographs, postcards and posters of the time.

You can also see weapons, military uniforms, equipment and insurgent household items.

Volodymyrets Historical Museum was founded in 1969. The museum is housed in a one-story building built in 1395, which housed the commissariat during the German-fascist occupation, then the printing office of the district newspaper, and the television workshop.

At the time of the opening of the museum, almost two thousand exhibits were collected by the efforts of enthusiasts, almost 800 of which are original. The exposition presents materials about the history of Volodymyrets and Rivne Polissya from the Paleolithic era to the present.

There are also unique exhibits related to famous residents of the village: works of weaver Hanna Leonchuk, awards of world-renowned athlete Anatoliy Prysyazhnyuk, paintings by famous artist Leonid Kovryha and amateur artist Petro Oshurko. The museum has an interesting collection of paper money from different times.

The exhibition, which includes household items, clothes, and a fragment of a Polissya house, introduces Polissya life.

In 2018, a commemorative sign was erected next to the building of the Volodymyrets Historical Museum on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the first offensive battle of the UPA in the village of Volodymyrets.

Separate fragments of defensive walls and towers can barely be seen on the site of the medieval castle in Taikury, built in the late 16th - early 17th centuries by Prince Yuriy Vyshnevetskyi.

The castle was made of stone and brick, regular in plan. It had corner towers connecting defensive walls, a drawbridge.

In 1825, the castle burned down. The then owner Oleksandr Illinskyi decided not to restore it and sold it for building materials.

The part of the southern tower, which reached a height of 30 meters and served as a watchtower, was best preserved.

The people`s Museum of the History of the Village of Vysotsk was established in 1986 on the initiative of HryhoriyYatsuta.

The museum is located in a separate building with an area of ​​172 square meters. It includes three exhibition sections and has over 3,600 exhibits, of which about 2,000 are exhibited in three halls with an area of ​​108 square meters.

Of interest are materials that tell about human life in the 4th century BC on the territory of Vysotsk (according to archaeological research by Academician Sveshnikov, carried out in 1963). These are silicon arrowheads and spearheads, scrapers, knife-shaped plates, fragments of a stone hammer, pottery, a slate spinning wheel, images of women's jewelry and coin hryvnias found at the ancient Rus settlement of the 9th-13th centuries, located in the eastern part of Vysotsk.

The museum's materials tell about prominent figures of education, culture, and religion whose names are associated with Vysotsk - Meletiy Smotrytsky, Ivan and Fedir Solomaretsky, Edvard Rulikovsky, and Vatslav Boreyko. A separate important group of exhibits in the museum are materials from the era of the hetmans of Ukraine Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Yuriy Khmelnytsky, and Pavlo Teterya.

The museum has written sources dating back to 1709 (Marriage Registration Books, Confession Books, individual letters and church and secular documents).

A large collection of material culture objects is presented, namely from agriculture, fishing, pottery, beekeeping, and weaving. The most interesting and rare are the dovbank boats raised from the bottom of the Horyn River, which are over 200 years old, and the loom used to make canvas.

Among the museum's exhibits are materials that tell about the peasant unrest of the era of Severyn Nalyvayko, the Richytskyi rebellion of 1910, etc. Most of the exhibits testify to the struggle of local residents against foreign oppressors during the times of the Russian Empire and feudal Poland, especially at the beginning of the 20th century and during World War II, for the independence of Ukraine.

In addition, some stands of the museum reveal the tragic fate of the Jews of Vysotsk, who were completely destroyed (1864 people) in Vysotsk on September 9, 1942.

A wooden three-story building of a water mill on the Korchytsya River (a tributary of the Horyn) was built in Hoshcha in the 18th-19th centuries.

Currently, the mill is not working, the first floor is practically flooded, but part of the equipment that still remains in the building has been preserved.

The Church of Saint Yan Nepomuk in Mizoch stands on the site of a destroyed Cossack temple.

The Empire style building was started by General Kshyshtof Dunin-Karvytskyi in 1795 and finished by his son Kazymyr after 1830.

After 1945, the Yan Nepomuk church was divided in the middle into two parts by beams. There was a library downstairs, and a movie theater upstairs.

In the dungeons of the church, representatives of the Dunin-Karvytsky family were buried, as well as Princess Yadviha Lyubomyrska.

Today it is the Orthodox Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. The interior decoration in the original style has not been preserved.

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.

The communal institution "Local Lore Museum" of Zarichne village council was founded in 2001 and has been receiving visitors since 2007.

About 1,500 exhibits present the historical and ethnographic monuments of Polissya. Among them is a plane-plane of the Cossack era, found in the river Styr.

The exposition of the museum acquaints with weaving and traditional embroidery of Polissya, traditional occupations and crafts (farming, fishing, boarding), the main historical events of the Second World War.

The interior of a typical Polissya house is presented.

Zaslav (Izyaslav) gate is the only surviving stone element of the outer defensive fortifications of medieval Mezhyrich.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, the defensive Holy Trinity Monastery was the citadel of the Mezhyrich fortress. Its defensive ramparts were organically united and incorporated into the system of earthen fortifications of the village itself. Then earthen ramparts with hexagonal bastions placed at the corners of the ramparts were built around Mezhyrich. You could get to Mezhyrichthrough two gates: the Zaslav Gate on the road to Izyaslav (former Zaslav), which has survived to this day, and the Dubno Gate, which was located where the center of the village is now.

The school historical and ethnographic museum "History of the village of Zirne" was opened in 2009.

The museum's expositions consist of several separate sections: "Main occupations and crafts of the villagers of the mid-19th - early 20th centuries", "The beginnings of the history of the village of Zirne", "Under Polish rule", "In the flames of World War II", "The village of Zirne in the second half of the 20th - early 21st centuries" and "Development of education. Outstanding graduates".

A separate stand is dedicated to the UPA hundred Leonid Boreychuk, nicknamed "Strybaylo", and the activities of the Ukrainian underground.

With the beginning of the Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian war, an exposition was created about the heroes of the Heavenly Hundred and the defenders of Ukraine.