Attractions of Shostka district

Hamaliivka (Kharalampiivskyi) monastery is a monastery-prison, one of the most negative examples of the use of historical and architectural heritage in Ukraine.

Founded in 1702 as a hermitage at the wooden church of Saint Harlampius. In 1713, Hetman of Ukraine Ivan Skoropadskyi issued a charter and allocated funds for the construction of a women's monastery. He was buried right there in the ancestral crypt of the Harlampius church (white stone tombstones have been preserved), and the monastery actually became an ancestral tomb.

In 1735, the construction of the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin was finished, the territory was surrounded by walls with towers and a belfry over the gate, stone cells and farm buildings appeared.

In the 18th century, the monastery burned twice and was rebuilt. It existed until 1924, when a nursing home and a children's shelter were opened here, and the cathedral was transformed into a cultural center.

In 1961, correctional and labor colony No. 66 of strict regime was established on the territory, the crypts of the Skoropadskyi were walled up, and the graves of the monks were dug up. It was only in 1994 that the restoration of the Harlampi church was carried out, and religious services for prisoners began to be held in it. The cathedral is still used as a workshop. The issue of returning the monastery to the Orthodox Church has not been resolved.

The Church of the Nativity of Christ is the oldest building in Shostka. The construction of the city began in 1779 with its establishment. The construction lasted 6 years.

The Church of the Nativity of Christ was built on the private donations of workers and employees of the powder factory. In 1809, a bell tower was added.

All solemn events in Shostka were held on the Church Square near the Church of the Nativity of Christ: processions, military parades, solemn religious services.

The Peoples Museum of Obrazhiivka Village History was founded in 1998. It is located in a separate building in the center of the village, opposite the Saint Michael's Church.

The museum exhibition tells about the history of the village of Orbazhiivka, the culture of the inhabitants of this region of Sumy region, traditional village life.

Every Friday, various master classes, ethnographic events, thematic excursions, family holidays, meetings with interesting people, evenings, folklore events are held.

The two-story building of the Hlukhiv prison castle was built in 1842 on the site of an earlier complex of buildings of the county prison, which existed in Hlukhiv already in the 17th century.

The wooden prison was located in the north-eastern corner of the Hlukhiv fortress. In 1708, the leaders of Baturyn's defense - Colonel Dmytro Chechel and General Fridrikh Kenihsen - captured by Menshikov were held here before their execution.

The stone prison castle was built according to the improved typical project of Andriyan Zakharov. It consisted of a main body and a wing in classical forms.

After World War II, the building housed a brewery. Now the castle is in ruins. Restoration is planned.

Shostka City Museum of Local Lore was established in 1993.

The exposition tells about the nature and history of the region.

A large section is devoted to film photography, created on the basis of the funds of the former museum of Shostka software "Svema". Full-scale samples and models of technological equipment for the production and testing of film, samples of film and magnetic tapes of the enterprise of the 1930-2000s are presented.

You can also see a variety of professional and household equipment, which used light-sensitive materials and magnetic media.

The museum of the glorified commander of the Sumy partisan unit Sydir Kovpak was opened in 1971 at the Hlukhiv Technical School of Mechanization (now the Hlukhiv Agricultural Technical Institute).

The museum reflects the history of the partisan movement in Sumy region during the German occupation of 1941-1943. In particular, materials and maps are presented about three raids of Kovpak troops in Sumy region, a raid on Right Bank Ukraine, the famous Carpathian raid, as well as Polish and Niemansky raids.

One of the rarities is a wooden German sign "Caution: Kovpak!", which was hung in the places of action of the partisans.

Personal belongings of Kovpak and members of his family can also be seen, including his famous trophy Hungarian officer's fur coat.

The People`s Museum of History of the Village of Ulanove was founded by a local school teacher, Petro Kyselenko, in 1959 as a school history and local history museum on a non-profit basis.

The museum is located in a separate building with a total area of ​​over 500 square meters.

The museum's collections include about six thousand exhibits, including more than five thousand originals, which are presented in 7 exhibition halls. Among the exhibits are valuable historical documents, photographs, rare editions of books, posters, leaflets, newspapers, paleontological, archaeological, numismatic collections, three thousand folders-funds of personalities of famous people of Sumy region. The museum has a library fund, which has more than four hundred copies, a newspaper collection, which has more than three thousand titles.

In April 2025, the museum was damaged by the Russian bombing of the village of Ulanove.