Attractions of Volodymyr district

The Kysylyn Village Museum was opened in 2023 on the initiative of the Volyn local historian Artur Alyoshin and with the financial support of local patrons. Located in the former premises of the veterinary medicine point, built in 1990.

Historical objects of Kysylyn, old maps, photographs and documents are presented at the exhibition stands. In particular, you can find out about the first mention of the village in historical documents and about the acquisition of city rights by Kysylyn, see lists of voters among the local population, lists of the Orthodox population, the composition of the fire brigade, etc.

Novovolynsk Historical Museum was established recently - in 1998.

The following permanent expositions are presented in six halls: Ancient history of the city, Events of the Second World War, The beginning of formation of the city, Development of the city, Exhibition of church relics.

The holdings of the Novovolynsk Historical Museum include over 4 thousand exhibits.

Saint George's Church (Saint Yuriy) is a typical military church, built at the beginning of the 20th century for the 149th Black Sea Regiment quartered in Volodymyr (the so-called "Brusyliv barracks").

Similar temples were built by decision of the General Staff of the Ministry of War of the Russian Empire according to model projects approved in 1900.

In the post-war years, it was converted into an officers' house.

Today, the Church of Saint George is functioning again. Belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Church of the Holy Holy Martyr Yosafat was built in Volodymyr in 1890 as a Lutheran church for the city's German community. The pastor's house is located nearby.

After the Second World War, the church was turned into a chemical warehouse, then a sports hall.

Today it is the Greek Catholic church and monastery of Saint Yosafat Kuntsevych.

The Church of Saint Archangel Michael in Kysylyn was built in 1777 on the site of the wooden church of the same name, known since 1645.

According to one version, the temple was originally an Arian temple, which led to its uncharacteristic squat architecture in the Baroque style. The walls of the building are sometimes more than one and a half meters thick. Above the intersection rises a two-level tower on a wide base, crowned with a decorative spire. The facade has a rich architectural decoration. Icons of the 17th century were preserved in the iconostasis of 1905. The building is surrounded by a brick fence with a massive belfry of an unusual shape.

Now the Saint Michael Church belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

Saint Nicholas Church was built in Volodymyr in 1780 as a Greek Catholic chapel of Saint Yosafat Kuntsevych. It was on this spot that Kuntsevych's parents' house stood.

The small temple was built in the style of early classicism. The main facade is topped with a pediment.

In 1800, the chapel was handed over to the Orthodox Church and consecrated as the Church of Saint Nicholas.

It is part of the State Historical and Cultural Reserve "Ancient Volodymyr".

Saint Volodymyr's Chapel at the beginning of Soborna Street in Volodymyr was built in the Rus-Byzantine style. Opened in 1888 for the 900th anniversary of Orthodoxy in Rus.

The chapel, quadrangular in plan, has an octagonal finish with arches in the form of kokoshniks. The dome resembles the helmet of an ancient Rus warrior.

The State Historical and Cultural Reserve "Ancient Volodymyr" was created in 2001 on the basis of the complex of monuments of the ancient city Volodymyr (then Volodymyr-Volynskyi), founded, as is believed, by the Kyiv prince Volodymyr Svyatoslavych in the 10th century. It protects 27 cultural heritage sites of national and local importance on an area of ​​14.5 hectares.

According to some sources, in the 9th century and even earlier, in this place, in the floodplain of the Luha River, there existed an ancient city Ladomyr of the Dulib tribe. Having conquered it, Prince Volodymyr the Great named the city after himself. It was located at the intersection of important trade routes, so it had exceptional economic importance and eventually acquired the status of the capital of the Volyn land.

The core of the reserve is the ancient Rus Volodymyr's hillfort (earthen ramparts) and the nearby Assumption Cathedral complex of the 12th century. Later monuments are the Saint Basil's Church (13th-14th centuries), the Dominican Monastery (15th century), the Church of Joachim and Anna (18th century), the Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ (18th century), and the Saint Nicholas Church (18th century). Also, a number of administrative and residential buildings of the 19th and early 20th centuries have been preserved in the city center.

For tourists, the reserve has developed a number of excursion routes that include not only the territory of the city center, but also the outskirts of the city. The reserve staff conduct excursions.

The Zahorivsky monastery near Lokachi is one of the oldest in Volyn.

According to legend, it was founded by Kyiv-Pechersk monks who escaped from the Mongol-Tatar invasion. Probably, the original red brick temple was built then, which is preserved at the base of the monastery complex. The first mention of the Zahorivsky monastery is found in documents in 1492.

The complex was completed during the 16th and 17th centuries under the Zagorovski and Czacki nobles. After 1719, the Orthodox monastery adopted the union, then became Catholic, but returned to Orthodoxy in 1824. The main church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin in the baroque style was built in the 18th century.

In 1943, 44 UPA fighters under the command of Andriy Martsenyuk (Bereza) held a heroic defense against the German-fascist troops in the Zahorivsky monastery. Since then, the monastery buildings have been in ruins.