Attractions of Lozova district

The Lozova Museum of Local Lore has been operating since 1967 and is now subordinated to the Lozova City Council.

The archeological exposition presents items from the burial of a nomad and stone women of the XII-XIII centuries. Objects of the Cossack era are acquainted with the history of the region: saber, clay flask, fragments of pipes.

The foundation of the town of Lozova in the XIX century is told in photographs, plans and orders, which show the construction of the railway, household items of the first railwaymen, furniture of different segments of the population.

In 2001, the history hall of the Lozova Forging and Mechanical Plant was opened.

The Oleksiyivska Fortress of the Ukrainian Defense Line was built in 1831, during the second stage of the construction of the line of fortifications on the then southern borders of the Russian Empire.

The original name was Beretska, in 1738 it was renamed to the fortress of Saint Oleksiy. Earthen, almost square in plan, four bastions. The height of the shafts is more than 5 meters. The area of ​​the serf yard is more than 1.5 hectares. A dirt road with a length of about 100 meters is brought up by an embankment to the north-western curtain, in which the entrance is located. The eastern curtain is strengthened by a ravelin directed towards the Bereka River. The length of the fortress on the outer side of the base of the shaft is more than 1030 meters.

The Aleksiivskaya fortress was connected by a rampart with a dry moat to the fourth on the line of Mykhaylivska and the sixth - Yefremivska fortresses. The garrison consisted of one infantry regiment of land militiamen, later transferred to dragoons and reinforced by a half-company of grenadiers.

The monument is well preserved and gives a clear idea of ​​the shape and size of the earthen fortification of the first third of the 18th century.

The Verkhnii Byshkyn Museum of Local Lore in the Kharkiv Region was founded in 1968.

The exposition of the museum tells about the nature of the region and the history of the village of Verkhnii Byshkyn from ancient times to the present.

The museum has an interesting ethnographic collection.

Thematic exhibitions are held regularly to commemorative dates.