Attractions of Chernihiv region

The Cossack Church of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God in Syniavka was founded in 1706.

The current wooden Intercession Church was built at the expense of Pavlo Yunytsky in the traditional forms of Ukrainian Baroque, characteristic of the Left Bank of Ukraine in the 17th and 18th centuries. Cut from pine logs. The central octagonal log house dominates the composition, the eastern log house is hexagonal. Their longitudinal axes in the west-east direction do not coincide, which indicates that the plans were developed at different times. The babinets is covered with a hinged top, the light lantern is covered with a flat ceiling. The forms of crowns are baroque. Window openings of various shapes play an important role in the composition.

The Church of the Intercession in Syniavka is one of the few monuments of folk architecture in Chernihiv region that has preserved its original forms.

Nearby is the grave of the Ukrainian kobzar Petro Tkachenko.

The Church of the Intercession was built in Nizhyn in 1757-1765 and has not been rebuilt since then.

The stone temple is made in a strict baroque style with almost no decor. In the interior you can see paintings of the end of the 18th century.

In the 19th century, an elegant two-tier bell tower in the Empire style was added to the western facade of the Intercession Church. It is decorated with skillfully executed four-column porticos and triangular pediments with a clear rhythm of dentils.

Today, the Intercession Church belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin, which stands on a hill in the center of the village of Dihtiarivka, was built in 1708-1710 at the expense of Hetman Ivan Mazepa. It was in the Church of the Intercession that the great Ukrainian Hetman prayed on the eve of the decision to side with King Charles XII against the Tsar of Moscow in the Northern War.

The five-domed stone temple was built in the Ukrainian Baroque style. The influence of the late Renaissance and early classicism can be felt in the exterior decoration.

During the Soviet era, the Intercession Church was looted and partially destroyed.

In 2009, restoration work was started, during which one of the aisles of the church was restored. However, due to a lack of funds, the work was suspended. In 2023, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine announced its intention to use Ivan Mazepa's charity fund, created in 2022, to rebuild the church.

The Introduction (Vvedenska) Refectory Church is the first church of the Trinity-Elijah Monastery, which was started to be built on Boldyni Hills in Chernihiv by the Archbishop of Chernihiv Lazar Baranovych in the second half of the 17th century. It is the only two-bay refectory church among those preserved on the left-bank part of Ukraine. It is part of the National Architectural and Historical Reserve "Ancient Chernihiv".

The columnless refectory is a true masterpiece of the national architectural style. The church building is adjoined from the west by a dining hall, which in turn has auxiliary rooms for cooking and storing food.

The interior uses techniques derived from wooden architecture. One of the church's baths is intended to accommodate the altar, the second for those who pray. The refectory hall is covered with a cylindrical vault.
The energetic vertical rhythm of the main facade has deep window openings in the thickness of the walls and characteristic triangular pediments above the windows.

Currently, the Introduction Church is a student temple of the Chernihiv Theological School of Regents-Psalmists, which is located in the neighboring building of the former Bishop's House. The four-tiered iconostasis was created in 19889 before the opening of the theological school.

A monument to the sculptor-monumentalist Ivan Martos was erected in his homeland in Ichnia in 1980.

Ivan Martos was born in 1754 in Ichnia in a Cossack family. His most famous work is the monument to Minin and Pozharsky on Red Square in Moscow. During the creation of Martos's sculptures, his sons posed. On the front bas-relief, he depicted himself as a Roman patrician who pushes his sons forward, giving the most precious thing he has to the Motherland. Martos's face was made by his student Samuyil Halberh, keeping his portrait resemblance to his teacher.

In Ukraine, Martos's most famous sculptures are the Dyuk de Rishelye monument in Odesa, the Hrihoriy Potomkin monument in Kherson, and the tombstone of Hetman Kyrylo Rozumovsky in the Baturyn Resurrection Church.

The two-level church of John the Theologian in Nizhyn was built in the 18th century on the site of a wooden church (1619).

The architectural style of the church is characterized as a transition from Baroque to early Classicism, where experts see the hand of the famous Kyiv architect Ivan Hryhorovych-Barskyi. There was a warm church on the first floor, and a cold one on the second.

Saint John of Kronstadt blessed the city and its inhabitants from the balcony of the Saint John the Theologian Church when he visited Nizhyn in 1893 on his way to Kyiv.

The church was restored in 1954-1955, since then its premises have been used as an archive.

Ancient frescoes, interesting openwork stairs and fences have been preserved. Negotiations are underway regarding the return of the Orthodox Church.

Nearby is a monument to the navigator Yuriy Lysyanskyi, whose father served in this church.

The Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in Semenivka was built in 1875.

The large five-domed stone temple has a central dome above the altar and four small domes. The five-tiered bell tower 47.5 meters high is considered a separate part of the temple. The church has 3 entrances, the main one is from the western side.

In 1935, the church was closed by the Soviet authorities, the bells and crosses were removed. Damaged during World War II.

The Kazan Icon of Mother of God Church was restored in 1999.

The Kochubey estate in Tynytsia is an architectural monument of national importance.

It was founded by the descendants of the general judge Vasyl Kochubey, who owned the village in the 19th century. The center of the composition is the manor house of the Kochubeys, built in the 18th century. A beautiful thick pine alley leads to the house.

The palace building is one-story, stone, rectangular in plan, with a strictly symmetrical composition of facades. Further in the park is the treasury building with a second floor added, which changed the original appearance of the building.

The park in Tynytsia was founded at the same time as the Sokyryntsi park by the efforts of Hryhoriy Galagan in the first half of the 19th century. In general, a complex planning system of several park sites with alleys has been preserved. The architectural structure of the park is very interesting: four alleys - spruce, maple, chestnut and linden - converge in rays to the center.

Until 2006, there was a vocational school on the territory of the complex. At the moment, the buildings and the park are in a deplorable condition.

The Koriukivka Historical Museum consists of 5 exposition departments, which tell about the life of people on these lands in different historical periods.

The museum's holdings include more than 8,000 exhibits: numismatics, stone tools of the late Neolithic period, a mammoth tusk, household items and antiques, personal belongings and materials of prominent people, photo documents.

In particular, a fragment of a Ukrainian house of the Koryukiv region of the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century is presented. This is a three-room apartment (work, household and ritual parts), in which various things that were used in everyday life at that time are displayed.

The Korop Center for Children's and Youth Creativity is located in the former. the house of the merchant Bohdan, who was one of the richest entrepreneurs of pre-revolutionary Korop.

Here you can see the works of the center's students, including ceramics and straw products, samples of painting.

The Korop Regional Historical and Archaeological Museum is located in the building of the former Theodosius Church, which was built in the 1880s in the pseudo-Rus style.

Under Soviet rule, the baths were removed from the temple and housed first a cinema and then a museum.

Archaeological, geological and ethnographic collections are of considerable value. In the exposition you can see finds from the Mezyn Paleolithic site, a diorama of the Radychiv settlement from the times of Kyivan Rus, samples of traditional clothes and towels.

The museum also widely presents samples of ceramic pottery and tiles of Korop region, which was known as one of the leading centers of pottery.

The architecture of the region is represented by models of all 9 churches that existed in Korop in the early XX century.

The church of Kostyantyn and Olena at the Greek (Trinity) cemetery of Nizhyn is one of three Greek churches in the city.

It was built in 1819-1820 (according to other sources - in the second half of the 18th century) in the Baroque style at the expense of wealthy Greek merchants, the Zosyma brothers, possibly their ancestral tomb. Under the altar walls of the church, one of the three legendary brothers of Zosyma is buried - Anastasiy, a nobleman and a knight of the Greek Commandery Order of the Savior. The brothers became famous not only for their wealth, but also for their vow of celibacy, which they swore to keep until the liberation of their homeland Greece from the Ottoman yoke.

Mykola Hohol described the consecration of the church of Kostyantyn and Olena at the Greek cemetery in the youth satire "Something about Nizhin, or The law is not written for fools."

Currently, the church of Kostyantyn and Olena in Nizhyn belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

Kozelets Lyceum No. 1 was established in 1996 on the basis of a secondary school, which in turn was established in 1912 as a Higher Primary School for girls.

Arithmetic, writing, reading, embroidery, cutting and sewing were taught there for 4 years. Teaching was conducted in Russian.

During the First World War, the building was used as a hospital. In 1919, the 1st Congress of Councils of the Kozelets district took place in the premises of the lyceum, at which Soviet power was proclaimed. During the Second World War, the Germans used the premises as a granary.

In 1943, training resumed.

The Kruty Heroes Memorial was opened in 2006 at the railway station "Kruty" (Pamyatne village near Kruty), where on January 29, 1918, an unequal battle took place between the 4,000-strong Bolshevik army of Mykhaylo Muravyov and several hundred Kyiv cadets and students who took up defense on the approaches to Kyiv.

The student group, formed from students of Saint Volodymyr Kyiv University, Ukrainian National University and Cyril and Methodius Gymnasium, was sent by the Central Council of the Ukrainian People's Republic to help the Bahamian garrison, which consisted of cadets of the cadet school. The battle lasted 8 hours. Ukrainian troops repelled several attacks by the Bolsheviks, but were forced to retreat, having previously dismantled the railway track.

There are no exact data on the number of dead on the Ukrainian side (historians give different figures - from several tens to three hundred). One reconnaissance platoon (about 30 men) was captured and executed by the Bolsheviks. The bodies of those shot were later buried at the Askold grave, history has preserved the names of only 18 of them.

In the course of military operations, the battle near Kruty was not of decisive importance, but the feat of Kyiv students is heroized as an example of patriotism and self-sacrifice of Ukrainian youth. Oleksandr Vertynskyi's song about the fallen cadets "I don't know why and who needs it..." and Pavlo Tychyna's poem about the thirty martyrs "They were buried at the Askold grave" became a symbol of the era.

The central element of the Kruty Heroes Memorial is a monumental stele in the form of a column of the Red Corps of Kyiv University, crowned with a trident.

The museum exposition is housed in old railway carriages collected from all over Ukraine.

Festive events take place on January 29 every year.

The Kulykivka People's Museum of History and Local Lore was founded in 1978. In 1980, it received the status of a "People's Museum".

The museum's collections include about 3,500 exhibits, which are spread across two exhibition halls with a total area of ​​110 square meters. The exposition is divided into thematic sections: "Nature of the Region", "Kulykivka Region from Ancient Times to the Beginning of the 20th Century", "Archaeological Research", "Ethnography", "Natives of the Region on the Fronts of World War II", "Modern Period and Outstanding Natives of Kulykivka Region".

In 2015, an exposition was created dedicated to honoring the memory of the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred and the Russian-Ukrainian War.