Attractions of Rivne district

The wooden church of the Holy Martyr Paraskeva Pyatnitsa in Novyi Korets was built in 1911-1914.

The architectural forms of the temple resemble the structures of the Holy Trinity Monastery.

The best view of the Saint Paraskeva Church opens from the walls of the Korets Monastery.

The Church of Saints Cosmas and Damian in Novyi Korets stands on a coastal rock above the Korchyk River directly opposite the Korets Castle.

The wooden Saints Cosmas and Damian Church was built in 1896-1897 on the site of the 18th century temple.

The wooden church of the Saints Apostles Peter and Paul in Velyki Mezhyrichi was built in 1848 on the site of an older church.

The building is three-log, one-story. The architecture of the monument combines classicist principles with pseudo-Rus styling. In the interior, the highly open inner space of the nave is actively enhanced by the contrast of the flat-roofed nave, which opens into the nave with a high semi-circular arch-cut.

The Peter and Paul Church is a work of wooden architecture of the Rivne region of the middle of the 19th century.

The Stetsky Palace in Velyki Mezhyrichi was built on a hill on which the castle of the Koretskyi princes stood in the Middle Ages.

In 1789, Ovruch mayor Yan Kazimezh Stetsky won this estate in a lottery and soon built a palace in the classicist style on the site of the castle according to the project of the royal architect Dominic Merlini.

The building is rectangular in plan, with two symmetrical risalites on the main facade, two porticoes and a belvedere. The front facade is accented with porticos of the Ionic order, and the garden facade is accented with a six-column portico with a balcony on the second floor. The central building is symmetrically adjoined by arched galleries-transitions connecting it with the outbuildings. The palace was surrounded by a park, at the foot of which was a trout pond.

During Soviet times, the Stetsky manor housed the Velyki Mezhyrichi special boarding school. The building began to be restored little by little.

The path to the palace passes through an apple orchard. The palace overlooks the church of Saint Anthony.

Rivne Park of Culture and Recreation named after Taras Shevchenko is a monument of garden and park art of state importance.

It was founded at the end of the 18th century, and today the age of individual trees reaches 150-200 years. There are 160 species of trees and shrubs here, many of which are exotic - North American (Engelmann spruce, Weymouth pine, catalpa bignonia, ash maple, red oak), Far Eastern (Amur velvet), South European (forsythia European, edible chestnut) evergreen ), species from China and Japan, Central Asia (biota orientalis, magnolia Sulanza, tall ailant, Japanese quince).

In the early 1950s, the park significantly expanded its territory, in 1977-1984, the park was reconstructed, as a result, it was replenished with new species. A cascade of pools with fountains surrounded by willows was created. In total, there are about 5,540 trees and 14,200 bushes in the park. In the spring of 2000, 670 trees (spruce, pine, thuja, birch, linden, maple) and 50 bushes were planted.

At the moment, the park named after Taras Shevchenko covers 32 hectares and has 5 zones: quiet recreation, active recreation, spectacular structures, sports and children's sector.

The Tatar Gate Tower is one of the two surviving fortress towers. They were part of the system of external city fortifications of ancient Ostroh.

It was located in the Muslim part of the city, where Tatar prisoners were kept, which is where the name comes from. It also served as an entrance gate.

Currently, the Tatar Gate Tower is in poor condition, and no restoration is being carried out.

The Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity and Saint Michael the Archangel was built in Tuchyn in 1614 at the expense of the nobleman Mykola Semashko.

The temple burned down several times, in particular during the Liberation War of 1648-1654, when Tuchyn was captured by Maksym Kryvonos Cossacks. After the signing of the Andrusiv truce in 1667 and the return of the Poles, the church was restored.

The temple suffered the greatest destruction during the Second World War, as it served as a shelter for the defending Red Army soldiers, then for the Germans. After this war, the Trinity Church was not restored - it is still half-ruined.

Trinity Derman Monastery is an ancient Orthodox monastery with a pronounced defensive character.

The Derman Monastery was founded on the spurs of the Mizoch Range at the end of the 15th century by Prince Vasyl Ostrozky. It served as the country residence of the prince, in connection with which fortifications were erected - a stone castle surrounded by walls with loopholes and a moat with water. The entrance was guarded by a massive gate tower, later transformed into the bell tower of the monastery.

Later, the Trinity Church and monastery cells were built by Vasyl-Kostyantyn Ostrozky.

In 1575-1576, the Derman monastery was managed by the first printer Ivan Fedorov, in 1602 a printing house and a religious school were opened.

In 1627-1633, the abbot of the monastery, which became Greek-Catholic, was Meletiy Smotrytskyi, the author of "Slavic Grammar".

In the 19th century, the Russian government took the monastery from the Greek Catholics and handed it over to the Orthodox monks from Ostroh.

Currently, the Derman Monastery is active and belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate. The complex includes the Trinity Cathedral, the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, the Church of Fedir Ostrozky. A residential building with a church in honor of Saint Innocent of Irkutsk is under construction.

The Literary and Memorial Museum of the outstanding Ukrainian writer and public figure Ulas Samchuk opened in Derman in 1995 with the financial support of the Toronto Society "Volyn" (Canada).

The museum is located in the building of the Derman Gymnasium (former teacher's seminary), where Samchuk once studied.

The museum exposition tells about the childhood of Ulas Samchuk, his family, studies, you can see icons from the writer's house, and later
his uncle. Among the valuable exhibits of the museum are photographs of the writer from different years, books published by Ulas Samchuk in Munich, several personal belongings (a walking stick, glasses, business cards). Separate expositions are dedicated to researchers of Ulas Samchuk's work and honoring his memory.

Over the past few years, the museum has collected a significant amount of additional materials that expand and complement the exhibition: these are photo documents, materials from the press of the past and current publications, memoirs of Ulas Samchuk's contemporaries. A significant number of books of the writer's creative output came from the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada, where Ulas Samchuk spent his last years, and the USA (not yet published in Ukraine).

A memorial plaque in honor of Ulas Samchuk is installed on the facade of the gymnasium.

The UPA Museum-Kryivka (hideout) in the Hurby tract near the Holy Resurrection Monastery at the Insurgent Graves near the village of Mosty was opened in 2011.

In April 1944, the Battle of Hurby took place between UPA units and NKVD troops.

The planning and interior equipment of the insurgents' bunker is based on drawings made by NKVD officers: bunk beds, boxes, shelves, shelves, tables and benches, a stove. On the walls are black and white photographs, postcards and posters of the time.

You can also see weapons, military uniforms, equipment and insurgent household items.

Separate fragments of defensive walls and towers can barely be seen on the site of the medieval castle in Taikury, built in the late 16th - early 17th centuries by Prince Yuriy Vyshnevetskyi.

The castle was made of stone and brick, regular in plan. It had corner towers connecting defensive walls, a drawbridge.

In 1825, the castle burned down. The then owner Oleksandr Illinskyi decided not to restore it and sold it for building materials.

The part of the southern tower, which reached a height of 30 meters and served as a watchtower, was best preserved.

A wooden three-story building of a water mill on the Korchytsya River (a tributary of the Horyn) was built in Hoshcha in the 18th-19th centuries.

Currently, the mill is not working, the first floor is practically flooded, but part of the equipment that still remains in the building has been preserved.

The Church of Saint Yan Nepomuk in Mizoch stands on the site of a destroyed Cossack temple.

The Empire style building was started by General Kshyshtof Dunin-Karvytskyi in 1795 and finished by his son Kazymyr after 1830.

After 1945, the Yan Nepomuk church was divided in the middle into two parts by beams. There was a library downstairs, and a movie theater upstairs.

In the dungeons of the church, representatives of the Dunin-Karvytsky family were buried, as well as Princess Yadviha Lyubomyrska.

Today it is the Orthodox Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. The interior decoration in the original style has not been preserved.

Zaslav (Izyaslav) gate is the only surviving stone element of the outer defensive fortifications of medieval Mezhyrich.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, the defensive Holy Trinity Monastery was the citadel of the Mezhyrich fortress. Its defensive ramparts were organically united and incorporated into the system of earthen fortifications of the village itself. Then earthen ramparts with hexagonal bastions placed at the corners of the ramparts were built around Mezhyrich. You could get to Mezhyrichthrough two gates: the Zaslav Gate on the road to Izyaslav (former Zaslav), which has survived to this day, and the Dubno Gate, which was located where the center of the village is now.

The school historical and ethnographic museum "History of the village of Zirne" was opened in 2009.

The museum's expositions consist of several separate sections: "Main occupations and crafts of the villagers of the mid-19th - early 20th centuries", "The beginnings of the history of the village of Zirne", "Under Polish rule", "In the flames of World War II", "The village of Zirne in the second half of the 20th - early 21st centuries" and "Development of education. Outstanding graduates".

A separate stand is dedicated to the UPA hundred Leonid Boreychuk, nicknamed "Strybaylo", and the activities of the Ukrainian underground.

With the beginning of the Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian war, an exposition was created about the heroes of the Heavenly Hundred and the defenders of Ukraine.