The Trostyanets dendrological park belongs to the most famous Ukrainian monuments of landscape art. Its creation is connected with the name of Ivan Mykhailovych Skoropadskyy (1804-1887), a descendant of Ivan Skoropadskyy, hetman of the Left-Bank Ukraine. In 1830 in the farm-stead of Trostyanets Ivan Skoropadskyy began construction of the palace and the church, erected dams, as a result there were formed four ponds on the ten-hectare area: the Great Pond, the Kutsykha Pond, the Swan Pond and the Nameless
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Kozelets district, which at all times attracts tourists by its unique architectural monuments, generous and rich for water and forests nature, is located in the south-western part of Chernihiv region. It borders on Chernihiv district in the north, on Nosivka and Bobrovytsya districts of Chernihiv region in the east, and on Kyiv region - in the south and the west. The international highways Odesa - St. Petersburg and Kyiv - Moscow intersect the district. The territory of Kozelets district has an e
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The Kruty Heroes memorial complex has been created on the basis of the battle of the Ukrainian People's Republic's armed formations with the troops of the Bolshevik Russia on January 29, 1918 near the Borzna district railway station in the Chernihiv region. The idea to eternalize the memory of the fallen near Kruty which is, in fact, one of the first armed conflicts of the independent Ukrainian state with the Bolshevik aggressors, appeared in the early 1990s. This was spearheaded by the People's Movemen
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By comprehending the ingenious personality of Panteleymon Kulish (1819-1897), the author of well-known "Notes on Southern Rus", historical novel "Black Rada", one of the first translators of the Holy Scripture into Ukrainian, our souls seem to replay the complicated history of our nation. The thing is that during the soviet era his art had been labelled as "bourgeois nationalistic" which put the idea of his museum out of the question. That is why Panteleymon Kulish's historical and memorial preser
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The first record of the Old Russian town of Lyubech we find in "The Tale of Bygone Years" dated back to 882, when on the way from Novgorod to Kyiv Prince Oleg the Prophetic captured it and set his governor there ("occupied Lyubets and set his man"). One more ancient record goes back to 907 - in the agreement of the same Prince Oleg with Byzantium together with the then most famous Old Russian towns as Kyiv, Chernihiv, Pereyaslav, Polotsk. Already at that time this town on the Dnipro was an important stro
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In the center of Chernihiv on the border of former fortress rampart – ancient historical center, one of the most wonderful buildings of the city now known as Collegium is situated. Once this building was included to the cathedral Borys and Hlib monastery - residence of Chernihiv archbishops. It consists of a long two-storey building of a monastery refectory and a bell-tower attached to it.
Chernihiv archbishop Lazar Baranovych who moved in Chernihiv in 1672 started to expand the cathedra. Maybe building of a refectory wa
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The majestic burial mound Chorna Mohyla is located near Yeletskyi monastery in Chernihiv. It is one of the biggest Old Russian barrows of the 10th century which has remained till now. The legend tells that there lies prince Chornyi, who was the founder of the town and gave it his name. The proportions of the barrow are impressive: the diameter is 40 m, circumference is 125 m, the present height is 11 m. In the past it was moated with the ditch 7 m wide. In 1872-1873 the mound was explored by famous native Chernihiv ar
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