Attractions of Chernihiv region

Fragments of the ramparts of the ancient Pryluky fortress have been preserved near the central square of the city, between Nezalezhnosti Street and Hoholya Street.

The Cossack fortress was built in Pryluky in the 17th century under the Vyshnevetsky princes on the basis of the fortifications of the ancient Rus settlement of Pryluky town. The fortress had strong oak walls with high hewn towers. A deep ditch stretched along the rampart, which was 10-12 meters high. The Vyshnevetsky Palace, the regimental office, the court, the town hall, the prison, the houses of the colonel and the regimental foreman were located on the territory. 

Of all the fortress buildings, except for earth ramparts and stone temples, the building of the regimental treasury, built at the beginning of the 18th century by Colonel Hnat Galagan, has survived. The remains of the ramparts of the Pryluky fortress can be seen at the far end of the central park. A monument to Volodymyr Monomakh has been erected here.

The railway station in Bakhmach, built in 1954 according to the project of the architect "Mosgiprotrans" Oleksandr Kulahin, is considered one of the most beautiful on the Konotop railway.

The building is made in a neo-Gothic style unusual for the region.

The steam locomotive Em736-17 is installed at the station.

The wooden building of the Railwaymen's club in the city of Snovsk was built in 1927 by master Leonid Veselov, who also built a railway station, a bridge and a church in the city.

The Snovsk railwaymen's club served as the scenery of the railway station during the filming of the Russian TV series "Heavy Sand", part of which takes place in pre-revolutionary Snovsk.

The two-story building of the Regimental Office is located in Kozelets in the park behind the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin.

It was built almost simultaneously with the cathedral by the same architects - Ivan Hryhorovych-Barsky and Andriy Kvasov. At that time, the Kozelets Hundred of the Kyiv Regiment was located in Kozelets, and the regimental office - the headquarters of the regiment - was also located there.

In the future, the building performed the functions of the Kozelets magistrate. Now it is the central library of Kozelets.

The building of the regimental treasury is the only preserved stone fortification structure of the Pryluky fortress, the oldest civil structure in the city.

A small tenement for storing Cossack valuables, cleynods and weapons was built near his house by the Zaporizhzhia colonel Hnat Galagan, who rose under Hetman Ivan Mazepa, and later in the service of Tsar Peter I.

The rectangular structure with walls one meter thick has deep basements. The ends are crowned with baroque pediments, the facades are decorated with pilasters.

The booty taken by the Cossacks from the campaigns was stored here: expensive weapons, clothes, money, as well as regimental flags.

Nearby is the grave of an unknown Cossack.

The Resurrection Church in Baturyn is the family tomb of the last hetman of Ukraine, Kyrylo Rozumovsky.

The temple in the style of classicism was built at the expense of Rozumovsky in 1803 at the same time as the Hetman's palace. Named in the same way as the wooden church that was located until 1708 on the territory of the Baturyn fortress.

In 1805, over the grave of the hetman, his son Oleksiy Rozumovsky installed a marble tombstone in the shape of a pyramid by the sculptor Ivan Matros. Under the bas-relief with the image of the deceased, the epitaph and family coat of arms of Rozumovsky with the motto: "To multiply glory with deeds" were engraved.

The Resurrection Church was restored and consecrated in 2009.

The Resurrection Church in Sedniv is the family tomb of the Lyzohub Cossack-senior family.

The church was built in 1690 by Yakiv Lyzohub in the Baroque style. The structure resembles Ukrainian wooden log churches. Rebuilt in 1796-1814. At the same time, a two-story belfry over the gate was added.

For centuries, representatives of the Lyzohub family were buried here. In Soviet times, the dungeon-crypts were destroyed, the mummified remains were used for anti-religious propaganda, but later one mummy, miraculously preserved in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, was returned to Sedniv and placed in a crypt.

Restoration was carried out in the 1980s. Today, the Resurrection Church is active.

Nearby is the grave of the local "non-canonized saint" Hryts Zolotyusenky, who is associated with many legends about prophecies and healings.

The Resurrection Church is located in the very center of Ichnia.

The construction of the church at the expense of the parishioners began in 1806, and after 4 years it was consecrated. The temple is cross-shaped, elongated (60 meters), with a wide middle dome. Inside - a gilded single-tiered iconostasis by master Kulahin. The walls and dome are decorated with frescoes.

In 1844, a two-story belfry was built, on which there was a bell weighing 4,272 kilograms, cast in Nizhyn.

Currently, the Church of the Resurrection belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

Ripky Historical and Local Lore Museum was opened in 1985 in a one-story building with a carved wooden porch in the center of the village of Ripky.

The museum has more than 7,000 museum items. Numerous documents, photographs, household items, fragments of military weapons reflecting the most important events, the development of the economy and culture of the Ripky region are exhibited in 5 halls. The collection of Cossack pipes of the XVII-XVIII centuries attracts attention in the historical exposition.

The ethnographic and household department recreates the interior of a Ukrainian house of the end of the 19th century. A collection of ceramics by local ceramists is presented.

Contemporary events are also covered: the Chornobyl nuclear power plant accident, the Revolution of Dignity, the Russian-Ukrainian war.

The Saint Daniel's Church in Kostobobriv was built from 1996 to 1997 at the initiative of the second president of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma, who graduated from school in this village. The temple is named after his father.

Previously, there was a wooden Ascension Church on this place, built in 1911 and burned down in 1979 by order of the Chernihiv leadership.

The wooden church of the holy great martyr Dimitriy of Thessaloniki was built in Dobrianka in 1790.

This is the only Old Believer church in Chernihiv region. For a long time, according to the decree of Emperor Nicholas I, the bell was forbidden in the temple. The Bolsheviks closed the church before the Second World War, but it became active again under the Germans.

The parishioners consider the icon of the Mother of God "Calmation of Disease" to be the main shrine.

Recently, a belfry was added to the Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki Church.

The Saint Elijah Church in Korop is an unusual defensive-type church that has no analogues on the Left Bank of Ukraine.

According to one of the versions, the foundation of the temple is a tower that was part of the system of city fortifications of the XV-XVI centuries. Other researchers date its construction to the second half of the 17th century, when hetman Demyan Mnohohrishny created a special hetman hundred and artillery yard in Korop.

The Saint Elijah Church has powerful walls up to 2 meters thick, narrow loophole windows, a complex layout and a system of secret passages. It is possible that even then it simultaneously performed three functions: religious, military and civil. Food and ammunition were stored on the first floor, religious services were held on the second, and the third was a military one.

In the 18th century, the church-fortress was reconstructed and consecrated in honor of Saint Elijah the Thunderer. According to tradition, Cossack cannons installed on the temple were fired during major holidays.

The Saint Elijah Church was badly damaged during the Second World War, the upper part was dismantled. At present, the church has been handed over to the Orthodox community of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, but restoration has been frozen.

Saint George's Monastery was founded in 1654.

Development began in 1708, when monks from the Pochaiv monastery moved here. The Rozumovsky family was directly related to the development of the monastery. In 1741, the construction of the stone Saint George's Cathedral in the Ukrainian Baroque style began at the expense of Vira, the sister of Oleksiy and Kyrylo Rozumovsky, who married Colonel Yukhym Darahan. This is one of the best examples of a three-domed temple.

During the Second World War, the bell tower was destroyed. Until recently, there was a home for the elderly on the territory of the monastery. In 1995, the monastery was reopened, and in 1997 it was presented with an Orthodox shrine - the famous icon "I am with you and no one is against you".

You can enter the territory with pilgrims or during the service (07:00, 16:00). Maximum strictness in clothing should be observed.

This monumental stone building with a tall, slender bell tower is one of the best architectural structures in Pryluky.

Saint John's Church (Ivanivska Church) was built in 1865 in Kvashentsy (formerly a village, now a district of the city), at the intersection of Kyivska and Ivanivska streets.

The first wooden church at this place was laid in 1708 by hetman Ivan Mazepa, thanks to which it got its name, which has survived to this day, despite the fact that Mazepa was anathema by the Russian church.

The stone temple was built after a strong fire, which destroyed all the churches of the city at the end of the 18th century, except Saint Barbary Church. Currently, the Saint John's Church has been restored in its original form.

The wooden church of Saint Michael in the village of Maksym in the Chernihiv region was built in the 18th century. It is a rather large wooden structure with one dome and an attached bell tower.

To this day, the Church of Saint Michael has survived without any changes.