Attractions of Chernihiv region

The History and Local Lore Museum of the village of Mykhailo-Kotsiubynske was established in 1987.

The museum's exposition, which includes about 3 thousand exhibits, reflects the history of the origin and development of the village, tells about famous residents of Mykhailo-Kotsiubynske and Chernihiv districts.

Separate sections are dedicated to the Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian war.

At the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the village of Mykhailo-Kotsiubynske found itself in the zone of occupation of the Russian invaders. Having broken out the windows, the invaders broke into the museum and plundered the exposition of the ATO soldiers, damaged the ancient hand mill in the exposition of ancient household items and smashed everything inside the museum.

A monument to the famous Ukrainian painter Mykola Ge was erected in 1981 on the grave of the artist, who lived the last years of his life in Ivankivskyi farm (now the village of Shevchenka) near Fastivtsi.

Mykola Ge graduated from the 1st Kyiv gymnasium, studied at Kyiv and St. Petersburg universities, the Academy of Arts. He was one of the founders of the Association of Peredvishniks. In 1876, he moved to Ukraine, where he bought a small Ivankivskyi farm. A number of sketches of the Ukrainian peasantry and the nature of Ukraine belong to his brush.

Illya Repin, Lev Tolstoy, and Pavlo Tretyakov visited Mykola Ge's farm. Later, Mykhaylo Vrubel lived and worked on the farm (he was married to the artist's relative).

Mykola Ge died in Ivankivskyi in 1894, buried in the eastern part of the farm.

The monument was erected for the 150th anniversary of the birth of the artist and his wife, who is buried nearby. The current state of the monument raises serious concerns, because in the absence of care, it gradually decays.

The world's first monument to the outstanding writer Mykola Hohol was erected in Nizhyn in 1881.

It was here that the future writer received his education, graduating in 1828 from Prince Bezborodko's Gymnasium of Higher Sciences.

The author of the monument to Mykola Hohol was the famous sculptor Parmen Zabila, who himself was from Nizhyn. It is believed that the sculptor immortalized his profile in the folds of Hohol's cloak on the section of the bust, leaving his autograph in this unusual way.

The museum of the historian Mykola Kostomarov was created in the former manor of the landowner Mark Kysil in Didivtsi near Pryluky, where Kostomarov vacationed every summer from 1874 to 1884.

The outstanding historian, writer, ethnographer, folklorist and publicist Mykola Kostomarov came to Didivtsi for the first time at the invitation of his future wife Alina Krahelska, who at that time was already the widow of Mark Kysil, and the following year they got married here.

Here Kostomarov worked on the works "Autobiography", "Ruin", "Ellina Tavrida", "Mazepa" and others. In Didivtsi estate, Kostomarov hosted writers Vasyl Horlenko, Danylo Mordovets, artist Kateryna Junge, and kobzar Ostap Veresay.

In 2016, the Mykola Kostomarov Museum was opened in Didivtsi. The exposition was designed by the Chernihiv monumentalist artist Borys Dedov. The five rooms present the history of Didivtsi village, stories about Kostomarov's life and activities, his feelings for Alina Krahelska, the social and political situation at that time, and the Kyrylo-Mefodiyivske Society.

The memorial museum of the revolutionary-populist and inventor Mykola Kybalchych was opened in Korop in the house of the priest in which he was born in 1853.

Even in his youth, Kybalchych, who was fond of chemistry, became an underground revolutionary, working in the so-called "hell laboratories" where explosives were made. At the same time, he developed a diagram of the world's first jet aircraft, the drawing of which was scratched on the wall of a prison cell. In 1881, he was executed for an attempt to assassinate the Russian Tsar Oleksandr II.

A family of local artists - Olena Lukash and Mykola Hara-Zhuk - stood near the sources of the creation of the Kybalchych Museum in Korop. In particular, the museum exposition presents a model of the Kybalchych rocket.

The National Architectural and Historical Reserve "Ancient Chernihiv" unites 26 architectural monuments of national importance in the historical center of Chernihiv. Among them, six monuments of the pre-Mongol period are considered to be among the oldest in Eastern Europe. All of them are of exceptional historical, cultural, artistic and scientific value, which attracts the attention of tourists.

Most of the monuments are located compactly on the territory of the Chernihiv Rampart (Dytynets) and around, as well as on the nearby Boldyni Hills. Some of them house museum exhibitions. The open-air exposition is complemented by monuments to Hetman Ivan Mazepa and Prince Ihor of Chernihiv.

The administration of the reserve is located in the premises of the Chernihiv Collegium, which is an architectural monument of the 17th-18th centuries. The reserve staff conduct sightseeing tours of the territory of Dytynets and other historical places of the city.

The National Reserve "Ancient Chernihiv" includes, in particular:
- Chernihiv Rampart (Dytynets);
- Savior and Transfiguration Cathedral;
- Saints Borys and Hlib Cathedral;
- Chernihiv Collegium;
- Regimental Chancellery;
- Piatnytska Church;
- Catherine Church;
- Yeletsky Dormition Monastery;
- Black Grave Mound;
- Boldyni Hills;
- Saint Anthony's Caves;
- Saint Elijah Church;
- Holy Trinity Cathedral;
- Introduction Church.

The Nativity of Holy Virgin Cathedral was built in Pryluky on the site of two ancient Pryluky churches that burned down during a fire in 1781.

Fundraising for the stone temple was announced immediately after the fire, but the construction was completed only after the city received funding from the royal treasury in 1802, as evidenced by a copper plaque with a commemorative inscription.

A new church with three thrones in honor of the Nativity of the Holy Mother of God, Varvara the Great Martyr and Saint Oleksandr Nevsky was consecrated in 1817. It was built by a craftsman from Chernihiv region Fedir Zabolotskyi. Remains of oil painting from the beginning of the 19th century have been preserved inside.

Near the central portal stood a stone two-story bell tower, built in the best forms of late classicism (not preserved). Until recently, the building housed the department of the Chernihiv Regional State Archives.

In 2005, the Nativity of Holy Virgin Cathedral was returned to the parishioners of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin Mary was built in Kolychivka near Chernihiv in 1778, completed in 1885.

A five-story wooden building with a vestibule and a two-story belfry. A three-tiered iconostasis with icons of the 18th century has been preserved. Inside the bell tower you can see ancient inscriptions.

The Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Virgin is a little-known example of the wooden monumental architecture of the Sivershchyna at the end of the 18th century.

The wooden church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin Mary is located in the village of Zahrebellia, a suburb of Sosnytsia ("behind the board").

The single-domed, cruciform church forms a whole with a three-tiered belfry. The carved five-tier altar in the Baroque style was created in the 19th century. Paintings of the beginning of the 20th century, which were worked on by artists Mykhaylo Havrylenko, Yakiv Tymoshenko, Mykola Ovdiyenko, Yevhen Bazylevych, Hryhoriy and Yefym Velychkovsky, have been preserved.

The church is surrounded by water - you can drive up by car only in dry weather.

The brick one-story church of Nicholas the Wonderworker is located on the outskirts of Pryluky - Sorochyntsi district.

The temple was built in the middle of the 19th century in the style of Ukrainian Art Nouveau.

Separate buildings that were part of the citadel complex of the Nizhyn fortress in the 17th-19th centuries have survived on the territory of the current central city market.

The fortress in Nizhyn was built during Polish rule on the site of early fortifications, reconstructed in 1749 according to the Western European model. The citadel was surrounded by an earth rampart with 4 gates, 11 wooden towers and bastions. However, after a great fire at the beginning of the 19th century, the ramparts were torn down, and the territory was set aside for a bazaar.

The castle Church of the Epiphany (1721), a powder cellar (13th century), as well as a two-story ostrog (prison) building, which now houses an ambulance station (Bazarna Street, 18), have been preserved. The remains of the northern rampart of the fortress are visible from the river side.

Currently, the territory of the fortress is occupied by the Nizhyn Market with 19th-century shophouses. In particular, you can buy the famous homemade Nizhny cucumbers here.

Nizhyn Museum of Local Lore named after Ivan  Spasky is located in an old house that belonged to the merchant Dyachenko in the XIX century.

The funds have 30,000 exhibits that tell the history of the city from ancient times to 1945. An interesting collection of archaeological finds obtained during excavations in the old part of the city, things of the Cossack era (cold steel and firearms, hetman's universals), exhibits characterizing the multinational nature of Nizhyn (including the history of the Greek community).

Of particular interest is the numismatic collection, the collection of orders and medals, the philatelic collection.

The first Soviet HTZ tractor was installed in the yard of the Nizhyn Museum of Local Lore.

The "Post Office" department of the Nizhyn Museum of Local Lore named after Ivan Spasky was opened in 1986 in a complex of buildings of the post office of the XVIII century, which is almost completely preserved.

Post offices in Kyiv, Nizhyn and Baturyn were established after the decree of Moscow Tsar Oleksiy Mykhaylovych on regular postal services between Moscow and Kyiv in 1669.

In 1787, a private estate built in the center of Nizhyn in the second half of the 18th century was converted into a post office. The complex consisted of a two-story post office building with the apartment of the Nizhyn postmaster and hotel rooms, two symmetrical outbuildings, a stable and a carriage.

At the beginning of the XIX century Nizhyn post office was one of the largest in the Left Bank of Ukraine. Mykhaylo Lomonosov, Hryhoriy Skovoroda, Oleksandr Pushkin, Mykola Hohol, Taras Shevchenko, Marko Vovchok and others stayed at the local hotel.

The exposition of the museum "Post Station" is located in the preserved wing of the station supervisor. The interior of the waiting room has been restored, where you can see a map of the postal tracts of the Russian Empire in 1793, copies of "travelers" by Mykola Hohol (1851) and Taras Shevchenko (1859).

The exhibition also presents a collection of historical postage stamps of Ukraine and Russia, 30 old postcards with photos of Nizhyn streets, a layout of the post office in its original form.

The house of the notary Oleksandr Popov was built in the city of Semenivka in 1912 in the style of classicism. This is the most beautiful pre-revolutionary building in the city.

In Soviet times, a police station and a polyclinic were located here. Today it is a house of creativity of children and youth.

Obyrok Art Island is an eco-settlement near Baturyn, open for cultural and health events, master classes, schools, retreats, exhibitions, camps and meetings.

The art village was founded by director and traveler Leonid Kanter in 2007 on the site of the abandoned Obyrok farm. In 2018, Leonid Kanter committed suicide. His wife Diana announced the continuation of the village's artistic activities.

The settlement consists of three tiny hamlets with 30 houses, which are located at a fairly large distance from each other. "House of the Sun" is a restored hundred-year-old mud house with an earthen floor. The dining room has several tables and benches under a canopy and a sink. Nearby is the "Kinosaray", where film screenings, discussions and presentations are held. There is also an old club for 100 people on "Obyrok Island".