Attractions of Chernihiv region

The ancient Rus hillfort of Liubech is located on a high hill above the Dnipro, from where a picturesque view of the river valley opens.

A three-story princely palace, a tower-donjon, a church and farm buildings were located here.

The earth ramparts surrounding the castle, on which rose oak walls with towers, have been preserved. A granite memorial sign was erected on Castle Hill in honor of the 1100th anniversary of the city, as well as a monument in honor of the congress of Old Russian princes that took place in Lyubech in 1097, as a result of which the principalities united against the Polovtsians.

The Central Park of Culture and Recreation of Chernihiv is a popular leisure place for the citizens. Located on the banks of the Desna.

The park is home to an open-air Summer Theater, an amusement park, roller coasters, a circus, fountains, and a botanical monument of nature "Group of centuries-old oaks".

Mass cultural events and festivals are held throughout the year.

A very picturesque abandoned chalk quarry is located east of the village of Putyvsk.

The relief of the walls was formed as a result of erosion of the rock by rains and meltwater. Particularly impressive views are from the bottom of the quarry.

From the top of the nearby mountain, the quarry can be seen in its full scale, and an amazing view of the Desna River opens up.

The Chernihiv Regional Philharmonic Center of Festivals and Concert Programs is located in the former building of the Nicholas Diocesan Brotherhood.

During construction, the Oleksandr Nevsky Chapel, built in 1870, was included in the general ensemble of the building. From 1932 until the beginning of World War II, the Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater of Chernihiv was located in the building.

It was burned in August 1941 during German bombing. Restored in the post-war years with a 3rd floor superstructure over the former chapel.

An example of neo-Rus style architecture, common at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Since 1964, the Chernihiv Regional Philharmonic Center has been located in the building.

The wooden church of Dmitry Rostovsky was built in Chornotychi in 1910. The temple is single-domed, with an attached bell tower. The church is well maintained and visited.

In Soviet times, it was not closed, so the rich interior decoration was preserved - at one time, church utensils and icons from the surrounding churches were brought here.

The temple with two high and three low domes has three thrones: the central throne of Dmitry Rostovskyi, the side left throne of Saint Theodosius and the side throne of the Protection of the Mother of God.

The height of the church is 35 meters.

The wooden palace of the Dolynskyi landowners in the village of Pekariv in the Chernihiv region was built in 1834 in the style of classicism. This is a rare example of wooden manor construction of the Left Bank of Ukraine, preserved from the 19th century.

The regimental osavul Hryhoriy Karpovych Dolynskyi received the village of Pekariv from hetman Kyrylo Rozumovskyi in 1762. His grandson Hryhoriy Hryhorovych Dolynskyi built a new palace on the site of his grandfather's estate. Its last resident was the landowner Sofiya Dolynska.

The two-story building is made in the style of early classicism with baroque elements. The main and park facades are decorated with four-column porticoes of the Tuscan order. The walls are decorated with wood carvings. A spiral staircase leads to the second floor.

During Soviet times, the Dolynskyi estate housed a school, thanks to which the building has survived to this day. The palace has been empty since 2001. Activists plan restoration.

The private ecopark "Dereville" was created in 2009 on the basis of a former hunting farm near the territory of the Mizhrichynskyi Regional Landscape Park. It is 380 hectares of pine forest, meadows, lakes and swamps, where about 600 wild animals live. Among them are deer, fallow deer, Indian buffalo, Scottish cows, mouflons, llamas and Przhevalsky's horses.

Guests of the ecopark are offered safaris on off-road vehicles accompanied by a gamekeeper. Visitors are taken along a special route that allows you to see dozens and even hundreds of wild animals up close in just an hour. All of them are accustomed to local transport and the presence of people, so they are allowed to get quite close, and some can even be petted.

The ecopark has a comfortable recreation area with a hotel, separate cottages and a restaurant with a wine room and a hookah bar. There is also a bathhouse with spa treatments, a beach and fishing on the lake, a mini-zoo with domestic animals and camels.

The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Maherka (former suburb of Nizhyn) was built in 1775 on the site of an old wooden church as a burial place for Colonel Petro Rozumovskyi at the expense of his wife.

The church is tetraconch with four apses.

In 1860, a warm church with a two-story bell tower was completed from the west, connected to the main volume by a long hall, according to the project of the Falovych county surveyor.

In Soviet times, the temple premises were used as a cinema hall and film storage. In 1991, the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross was handed over to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The original brick building of the Female Gymnasium was built according to the project of the architect Feinberg in 1912.

The gymnasium itself was opened in Novhorod-Siverskyi back in 1875. Female graduates had the right to teach in Zemstvo schools.

In 1920, a single labor school was created on the basis of the gymnasium, which was later reorganized into secondary school No. 1. The status of a gymnasium was returned to it in 1999. In 2023, the gymnasium was renamed Novhorod-Siverskyi Lyceum No. 1.

The monument to the fighters for the freedom and independence of Ukraine near the Catherine's Church in Chernihiv was erected in 2009 for the 13th anniversary of the Constitution of Ukraine.

Back in the early 1990s, activists of national-democratic organizations installed a memorial stone here, near which various actions were held.

The author of the monument is Vinnytsia sculptor Volodymyr Smarovoz. The figure of a Cossack with a child in his arms represents young Ukraine.

The estate of Petro Galagan in Dihtiari was built in 1825-1832 according to the project of the architect Pavlo Dubrovskyi, who was also involved in the construction of the Galagan Palace in the neighboring village of Sokyryntsi.

The central two-story building is connected to the two wings by arched passages. The park is laid out under the leadership of gardener Yohann Bisterfeld. The huge manor house with a wonderful garden and huge greenhouses was called one of the best manors of the Chernihiv region.

After Galagan's death in 1876, according to his will, the estate was transferred to the Poltava Provincial Zemstvo for the establishment of an educational institution. In 1877-1882, the architect Fedir Verbytsky rebuilt the palace to organize a Zemstvo craft school in it, and the palace building retains this profile to this day. In particular, after the Second World War, a vocational school was opened in the palace of the Galagan manor in Dihtiari. Today it is the Dihtiari Vocational Agrarian Lyceum, which houses the ethnographic museum of Ukrainian life "Berehinia" with 5 exhibition sections.

The majestic palace and park complex in Sokyryntsi was created in the early 19th century by Pavlo Galagan, designed by architect Pavlo Dubrovsky and gardener Iohann Ernst Bisterfeld.

The age-old oak grove has been transformed into a beautiful park with a lake, lawns and alleys. The park has a rotunda, a Gothic bridge, an antique gazebo.

The Empire-style palace with 60 enfilades is connected to two two-storey outbuildings. At the end of the 19th century, the estate was owned by Hryhoriy Galagan, the last representative of the nobility, a public figure and a patron. He gathered a rich art collection in the palace, which he later donated to the Chernihiv Museum.

Galagan assisted the local kobzar Ostap Veresay, Taras Shevchenko, Panteleymon Kulish, Pavlo Chubynsky visited him.

Now the palace is occupied by an agricultural lyceum, a room-museum of Veresay is opened, a monument is installed in the yard.

Excursions should be booked in advance.

The "Avangard" health center in Desnianske was founded in the 1970s as a collective farm worker's house.

In the late 1990s, the recreation complex was completely reconstructed. A neo-baroque palace was built instead of the old building. Halls for solemn events are located on the first floor, and recreation rooms are located on the second floor. During his visits to Chernihiv Region, the President of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma, stayed here several times, thanks to which the informal name "Kuchma`s Dacha " was fixed behind the palace.

The gazebo on the high bank of the Desna offers a wonderful view of the river, flooded meadows and forests of the Mezyn National Nature Park.

The monument to the Ukrainian hetman Ivan Mazepa and the Swedish king Charles XII was opened in Dihtiarivka in 2008 to mark the centenary of the first meeting of the two allies in the war against Tsar Peter I of Moscow.

It was on this hill near the village of Dihtiarivka in 1708 that Mazepa and Charles met for the first time in person to discuss the details of a military-political union.

The first memorial sign on the hill was installed by local historians in 1998. 10 years later, on the initiative of the leadership of the National Council for Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine, a monument was erected in the form of a granite slab in the shape of a bell, crowned with the coats of arms of Ukraine and Sweden, on which portraits of the hetman and the king are placed.

There are 100-meter steps from the road to the top of the hill.

The Historical and Archaeological Museum Complex "Ancient Liubech" was established in 2008 on the basis of seven architectural and archaeological monuments of the village from the days of Kyivan Rus to the XIX century.

Among them: Castle Hill with a monument in honor of the Liubech Congress of Princes in 1097, the Near and Far Caves of the Reverend Anthoniy Pechersky, the Kamyanytsya of Hetman Pavlo Polubotko (XVIII century), the Transfiguration Church (1811-1817) and others.

The administration and museum exposition of the complex are located in the former boarding school next to the Transfiguration Church. Here is a model of Liubech Castle, numerous exhibits on the history and culture of the city. In the interactive hall, visitors can take pictures with a musket or feel the relief of a Cossack cannon, and young visitors can learn more about archeology in the Archaeological Sandbox. The museum has a permanent exhibition "Liubech the eyes of artists", some halls tell the story of crafts in the region - fishing, farming, trade.

In the park next to the museum there are sculptures of historical figures of Liubech by the capital's master Yehor Zihura: Prince of the Drevlyans Malk of Lyubech, princesse Malusha Malkovna (Lyubechanka) with her young son Volodymyr, her brother Dobrynya, Rev. Anthoniy Pechersky.