Attractions of Zhytomyr district

The two-story baroque mansion on the southern outskirts of Zhytomyr belonged to Zhytomyr notary, lawyer Ivan Filipov.

Originally, the house, built in 1886, was wooden. Filipov reconstructed it in 1903, turning it into a luxurious mansion.

Currently, the building houses 3 state organizations: the Department of Justice, the Department of Culture, and the Palace of Happiness.

Filipov's mansion is an architectural monument of local importance, one of the little-known architectural gems of Zhytomyr.

The Museum of Fire Protection in Zhytomyr is located in the premises of the fire tower, which was built in 1894.

The fire tower is still in operation and is an architectural monument of local importance.

The history of the formation of the fire extinguishing system and fire equipment is presented in the museum, and a movie about the causes of fires is shown on a movie projector.

"Flat house" in Zhytomyr, which is also called "Chimera house" or "Heart-shaped house", earned such a name for its non-standard architectural solution.

The building of the middle of the 19th century is located in the historical center of Zhytomyr, on Victory Square. Its location corresponds to the pre-revolutionary radial planning of the city. Once upon a time, the house was corner, and stood on the sharp corner of the intersection. In order to make the most of the entire plot of land, the architect also had to design the house with an extremely sharp corner. Thus, when viewed from a certain angle, the illusion is created that the house has only a facade with windows, and there are no other walls - the house is flat. At the same time, the two wings of the building made it in a plan resembling the shape of a heart.

Also known are "flat houses" in Odesa and Lviv.

A large flooded granite quarry is located in the village of Nova Rudnia, near Tryhirya.

Picturesque shores overgrown with pine forest are surrounded by steep granite rocks.

The place is little known and sparsely populated, so far it is clean.

The Historical Museum named after Ivan Ohiyenko in Brusyliv was founded in 1960 on public grounds in several rooms of the current office building of the "Renaissance" newspaper.

The organizer and first director of the museum was Yakiv Halaychuk. In the mid-1980s, the museum received a separate building, which it occupies to this day.

In 2009, the public museum became a department of the Zhytomyr Regional Museum of Local History and was named after a native of Brusyliv, Ivan Ohiyenko (Metropolitan Hilarion) - an outstanding scholar-historian, linguist and literary critic, poet and prose writer, editor and publisher, political scientist and theorist of canon law, public-political and church figure, translator of the Bible into the Ukrainian language. On August 21, 2010, in front of the museum, the first monument in Ukraine to Ivan Ohiyenko by the sculptor Anatoliy Burdeyny was opened.

The museum exposition is housed in two halls. One of them reflects the main stages of Ivan Ohiyenko's life and social activities. The exposition presents numerous works of Metropolitan Hilarion on the history of Ukraine, the history of the Ukrainian church, and the history of the Ukrainian language, which were published in Canada in the 1950s-1970s; a copy of the 1962 London edition of the Bible translated by Metropolitan Hilarion with a gift inscription to his daughter Lesia; photographs by Ivan Ohiyenko; family closet - dowry of Ivan Ohiyenko's wife; the interior of a Ukrainian house in the Kyiv province of the beginning of the 20th century, which helps to recreate the environment in which Ohiyenko himself lived.

The second hall presents materials that tell about the history of the Brusyliv region and the town of Brusyliv. The exposition presents a collection of solid coins (first half of the 16th century), which were found on the territory of the region; copy of "Gospel" from 1753, tools and products of Brusyliv craftsmen, household items; agricultural implements, traditional Ukrainian men's and women's clothing; photos, documents, books of famous people of Brusyliv region.

The stone Holy Ascension Church in Andrushky was built in 1850-1859. Currently, it is being restored, in particular with patronage funds of the sugar factory.

The Holy Dormition Bishop's Cathedral is located in one of the oldest historical districts of Zhytomyr - in Podil, which is why it is also called the Podilska Church.

The church is an architectural monument of local importance.

It belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The tall and slender Holy Exaltation of the Cross Cathedral is located in the historical heart of Zhytomyr on Castle Hill.

The Byzantine-style church was built in 1900 on the site of the wooden Trinity Church, which had existed since the 17th century.

In the 1930s, the temple was closed by the Soviet authorities, later transferred to the regional museum of local lore. In 1987, it housed the exposition of the Museum of Nature, the geological collection of which was founded by Volyn Governor Mykhaylo Chertkov back in the 19th century.

After long discussions regarding the return of the Cathedral of the Exaltation of the Cross to Orthodox believers, in 2011 it was handed over to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate and consecrated in 2014.

The Holy Spirit Men's Monastery was created near the village of Horodske after Archbishop Izyaslav of Zhytomyr and Ovruch got into a car accident here in 2000.

A wooden church, a refectory, cells and utility rooms were built on the shore of the lake in a pine grove. The monastery preserves the relics of Saints Panteleimon the Healer, Nina, and Varvara.

The "Ukrainian Calvary" memorial complex dedicated to the victims of the genocide of the Ukrainian people and repression against the Orthodox clergy was created on the territory of the Holy Spirit Monastery.

The Holy Transfiguration Tryhirya Male Orthodox Monastery was founded in 1583 by Prince Volodymyr Zhytomyrsky.

For the holy abode, the prince identified a secluded place in the middle of a thick forest on the highest bank of the Teteriv River. In the 18th century, the monastery passed to the Uniates, but in 1839 it was returned to the Orthodox Church.

The monastery is compact and cozy, consisting only of the laconic Church of the Transfiguration (1854-1873) and the cell building (1782). The main shrine is the icon of the Mother of God of Trihir.

The fence offers a spectacular view of the Teteriv canyon, filled with water from the reservoir, with high rocky banks covered with mixed forest.

The stone church of the Holy Trinity is located in the center of the village of Stara Chortoryia. The temple was built at the beginning of the 20th century. A new bell tower was recently added to the church.

The Trinity Church is an active church. It belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

Khoroshiv People's History Museum was opened in 1988 in the town center.

Currently, the museum's collection includes more than 1.5 thousand exhibits. Including - tools of ancient people (stone hammers, axes, chisels, scrapers, etc.); wooden household items of Polishchuks (loom, spinning wheel, ruble, combs for combing flax, etc.); peaches, samovars; maps, land merchants, bills, paper and metal money; home-woven towels, shirts; military awards during the Second World War and more.

Noteworthy is the "Geometric Plan" (1906) on the sale by the landlady Trubetska to the peasant Gefka of three tenths of land in the village of Horoshky (old name Khoroshova).

The museum also has an exposition "Kutuzov and Horoshki", dedicated to the commander's stay on his estate in Horoshki.

The People's Museum of the Kodnia Village History was founded in 1976 and is located in the local House of Culture.

In the museum, you can learn about the history of the village of Kodnia from ancient times, get acquainted with archaeological finds, Cossack artifacts, and archival documents.

The main exhibition is devoted to the events of the "Koliivshchyna" uprising in Haydamac. As you know, after the defeat of the rebel units led by Maksym Zaliznyak and Ivan Honta by Polish and Russian troops, more than 200 Zaporozhians and Haydamaks were executed by the decision of the Polish court in Kodnia.

The exposition presents copies of documents related to the Haydamak movement in Ukraine, maps, samples of Cossack weapons, ancient tools of peasant work and life, materials about the history of Kodnia.

The Korostyshiv People's Historical Museum was founded in 1965. The museum is located in the Korostyshiv House of Culture.

Its funds include more than 6,000 storage items. The exposition in three halls tells about the history of the region from ancient times to the present, about the foundation and development of Korostyshiv, about the prominent residents of the city. In particular, the finds of Trypil culture and Ancient Rus from archaeological excavations in the village of Horodske, household items and clothing of local residents of the 19th - early 20th centuries, personal belongings of Zhytomyr partisans from the Second World War are presented.

A separate section is devoted to the Holodomor of 1932-1933.

The pearl of the artistic part of the exposition is a selection of paintings by the People's Artist of Ukraine, the outstanding landscape painter Mykola Maksymenko, originally from Zhytomyr region.

The People's History and Local Lore Museum of the village of Kryve in Zhytomyr region was founded in 2003 on the initiative of local historians.

The museum is located on the territory of the Kryve Gymnasium named Yosyp Yurkevych. The gymnasium bears the name of its founder, the famous doctor and public figure Yosyp Yurkevych, who was born in Kryve in 1853.

The main part of the museum exposition is also dedicated to the Yurkevych family and their friends and neighbors of the Rylskys, who lived nearby in Romanivka. In particular, personal belongings and documents handed over to the museum by the descendants of Yosyp Yurkevych are presented.