Attractions of Chernihiv region

The Ladansky Intercession Monastery near Pryluky was founded in 1600 by the Kyiv monk Yevfimiy at the same time as the Hustynia Monastery. At first it was called Pidhirskyi.

Princess Rayina Vyshnevetska (Mohylyanka) helped in the construction of the monastery. After the fire of 1753, the monastery was quickly revived. The first stone building in 1763 was the Church of the Holy Mother of God. In the second half of the 19th century, the Intercession Cathedral and Ascension (Saint Nicholas) Church were built.

In Soviet times, a labor commune for homeless children was located on the territory of the Ladansky monastery, then a factory of fire-fighting equipment. Currently, the Holy Intercession Cathedral near the plant is being restored.

Leonid Kuchma's house in Chaikyne was built in 2000-2003 on the place where the wooden parental house of the second president of Ukraine used to stand.

Kuchma was born in 1938 in the local forestry near the nearby village of Uzrui, where his father Danylo worked as a forester, and spent his childhood and youth in Chaikyne.

The current brick building of modern architecture has an area of ​​about 600 square meters. Visually from the street, it seems that Kuchma's house has only 2 floors, but in fact it is four-level. The Great Hall on the fourth floor is used as a public children's library. Other rooms are residential. Leonid Kuchma stops here when he visits his small homeland.

A modern kindergarten and a school have been built nearby. The architecture is reminiscent of the buildings of the famous Kovalivka in the Kyiv region, the homeland of politicians and businessmen of Zasukha, who also own the Taras Shevchenko CJSC agricultural enterprise in Chaikyne.

The Irzhavets Manor-Museum of the composer Levko Revutsky has been open for a century from the day of his birth in the ancestral manor of the Revutsky family, where he was born and spent his childhood and youth.

In 1789, the composer's great-grandfather received an estate in Irzhavets near Parafiivka for his services during the Russian-Turkish war. Composer Mykola Lysenko, artist Mykola Ge, composer Platon Mayboroda, writer Lev Tolstoy and others visited the Revutsky estate.

After the composer's family moved to Kyiv, the building housed a school, a library, and a paramedic-midwifery center.

Currently, the estate has recreated the atmosphere of the Revutskys' house. The piano on which the future composer learned to play, the furniture he made himself, the portrait of Shevchenko that hung in his office and other personal items are presented.

The Museum of Local Lore of the Novhorod-Siverskyi historical and cultural reserve introduces the history of the city, archeology and nature of the Siverskyi region.

The history department presents a diorama of the late Paleolithic Pushkarivska site, as well as a diorama of the liberation of the city from the German-fascist invaders.

The exposition of the nature department with the diorama "Polissya" introduces the flora and fauna of the region.

The exhibition "Ukrainian life, clothing and embroidery" has been opened in the ethnology department.

Local Lore Museum employees conduct tours of the city.

The male gymnasium building appeared in the center of Novohorod-Siverskyi at the end of the 19th century, although the educational institution itself was founded in 1804 on the basis of an even older public school.

For a long time, the gymnasium was the center of education of the entire Chernihiv province. Among the graduates are the historian, the first rector of Kyiv University Mykhaylo Maksymovych, the Ukrainian writer Panteleymon Kulish, the revolutionary-populist Mykola Kybalchych, as well as the famous teacher Kostyantyn Ushynsky.

The state gymnasium, which currently occupies the premises, is named after the latter.

On the night of May 12, 2022, in the course of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian aviation dropped missiles on the center of Novhorod-Siverskyi. As a result of the Russian airstrike, the entire complex of buildings of the male gymnasium was damaged - the windows were broken, the roof and part of the facade of the building were completely destroyed.

Memorial Museum of Mariya Zankovetska was opened in 1964 in the village of Zanky, in the estate of the Adasovsky family.

It was here in 1854 that the outstanding Ukrainian actress, representative of the luminaries of the Ukrainian theater, Mariya Zankovetska (Adasovska), the first People's Artist of Ukraine, was born. She spent her youth here and returned here many times as an adult.

In the house restored after the fire, where Mariya lived as a child, photos of members of the Adasovsky family and Zankovetska's personal belongings are presented: a casket, a mirror, a handbag, dishes, lace woven by her hands. Of particular interest are her stage costumes, as well as the grand piano presented to the actress by the composer Mykola Lysenko.

An ethnographic collection and an exhibition of medicinal herbs are presented in the adjacent building of the old school. The museum organizes a tea party upon the order of tourist groups.

A monument to Mariya Zankovetska has been installed in the courtyard of the museum.

The memorial to the heroes-defenders of Ukraine was opened in 2023 in the center of Nizhyn city, in the former square named after Hubina, next to the All Saints Cathedral.

The memorial complex in the form of a Cossack cross was built from Ukrainian granite according to the project of architect Zhanna Balanyuk and sculptor Serhiy Oleksienko.

In the center of the composition is a sculpture of the Hero of Ukraine Oleksandr Matsiyevskyi, who went to the Russian-Ukrainian war from Nizhyn and died on December 30, 2022 at the hands of the Russian invaders, boldly throwing into their eyes before being shot: "Glory to Ukraine!" His figure symbolizes the feat of all men and women who defended Ukraine against Russian aggression.

In front of the memorial, an interactive information stand has been installed with information about all citizens of Nizhyn who gave their lives defending Ukraine.

Mezyn National Nature Park, also known as "Mezyn Switzerland", was created in 2006 on the basis of several landscape reserves along the right bank of the Desna River.

The area of the Mezyn National Nature Park is 31 thousand hectares. It stretches from Mezyn in the north to Horodyshche in the south and from Ponornytsia in the west to Rozlyoti in the east. In the floodplain of the Desna, many old houses and lakes have been preserved, the largest of which is Lake Khatyn (50 hectares). The park is home to 149 species of vertebrates: 25 species of fish, 9 species of amphibians, 3 species of reptiles, 93 species of birds and 19 species of mammals. Of these, 24 species are listed in the Red Book of Ukraine. Among the monuments of archeology is the Mezyn Paleolithic site, the age of which is estimated at 20 thousand years.

The Mezyn National Nature Park Visitor Center is located in Desnyansk. A nature museum has been created here, where collections of insects, mosses and geological materials are exhibited. Also presented is a panorama of the Mezyn parking lot, a small ethnographic exposition, the museum room of Vasyl Kurylenko, the founder and permanent director of the Mezyn Archaeological Research Museum.

The Military History Museum in Chernihiv is a department of the Chernihiv Historical Museum.

His expositions are dedicated to the participation of Chernihiv residents in the Second World War, in partisan detachments, tell about the fate of camp prisoners, the defense of Chernihiv region in 1941 and its liberation in the fall of 1943.

The exposition also reveals the contribution of Chernihiv residents to the liquidation of the Chornobyl accident and its consequences. In the courtyard of the museum there is a small exhibition of military equipment.

During the large-scale Russian invasion in 2022, the Military History Museum in Chernihiv was heavily damaged by shelling.

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 museum "Chernihiv region - a journey through the ages" was opened in the village of Kalitianske in 2018 on the site of the previously established museum of the famous scientist and traveler Mykola Mykluho-Maklay.

The museum exposition highlights the history of Chernihiv Region from the pre-Christian period, Kyivan Rus, the Hetmanshchyna to the imperial and Soviet times, as well as to the present day.

Models of the most famous historical buildings of the region are presented, in particular, the palace and park complex in Kachanivka, the Transfiguration Cathedral, Yeletsky Holy Dormition Monastery, etc.

The museum complex "Cossack Manor" was opened in Baturyn in 2021 as part of the National Historical and Cultural Reserve "Hetman's Capital". It is located in the historical center of the city next to Hetman's Glory Square.

The preserved 20th-century hut recreates the life of a Baturyn Cossack family of the second half of the 19th century, which was engaged in traditional Baturyn crafts (milling, distillery, trade). You can see a four-chamber hut with a porch, a living room and a pantry, a well, and outbuildings (barn, cellar).

The exhibition, located in the barn, tells about the Baturyn milling complex from the times of Hetman Ivan Mazepa and Hetman Kyrylo Rozumovsky to the second half of the 19th century. Here are presented millstones from Baturyn mills of the late 17th - early 20th centuries, agricultural implements, carpentry tools, a hand mill that were used by a Cossack family in the 19th century.

In the courtyard of the estate there is a garden of medicinal herbs and a vegetable garden.

The museum complex of Nizhyn State University named after Mykola Hohol is located in the main university building, built in 1820 for the Nizhyn Gymnasium of Higher Sciences.

This university-type higher education institution was opened in Nizhyn on the initiative of Counts Oleksandr and Illia Bezborodko. Oleksandr Kushelev-Bezborodko, grandson of Illia Bezborodko, became the trustee. In 1821-1828 the writer Mykola Hohol studied here. Graduates of the gymnasium were also a writer-biker Yevhen Hrebinka, artist Andriy Horonovych, patron Vasyl Tarnovsky and others.

In 1909, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Hohol's birth, the Mykola Hohol Museum was founded at the then Nizhyn Historical and Philological Institute.

In addition, the museum complex of Nizhyn University includes the Museum of the History of Nizhyn University, the Museum of Soviet Life "Homo sovieticus", as well as a unique art gallery, in three halls of which are paintings of different eras.

The basis of the art exhibition is paintings of the Renaissance and classical European schools, which were donated to the school by its trustee Oleksandr Kushelev-Bezborodko in 1845 on the occasion of the 25th anniversary. Of particular value is one of the largest in the country collections of paintings by Ukrainian artist Serhiy Shyshko, which he personally donated to the school. 36 paintings represent different stages of creative growth and development of the artist.

The possibility of visiting the museum on weekends must be coordinated with the university administration in advance.

Museum of Local Lore "Ukrainian Svitlytsya" opened in the village of Kamka in 2021 at the initiative of a local historian.

The exposition in the form of a village room, arranged in the premises of the former mayor, introduces visitors to the ancient life of locals.

Presented antique tables, benches, towels, embroidered shirts, pottery, household items, paintings, antique clothing.

The museum complex "Lisohrad" in the forests in the north of Chernihiv region is dedicated to the local partisan movement during the Second World War.

In 1942-1943, the Chernihiv partisan units of Mykola Popudrenko and Oleksiy Fedorov operated in the Yelino forests. Near the village of Yelino, there was a whole partisan town made of dugouts, which was called "Lisohrad". From here, the partisans went on combat operations to destroy enemy garrisons and carry out sabotage on railways.

In 2010, enthusiasts recreated the partisan camp, restoring 3 dugouts and building 2 more. The partisan oven was also recreated, and the partisan well and trenches were cleared.

The exhibits in the dugouts allow you to feel the spirit of partisanship, to see in what difficult living conditions people had to live and defend their land.