Attractions of Zhytomyr region

For many years, the enterprise "Korosten Porcelain Factory" was one of the largest manufacturers of porcelain tableware in Ukraine.

The Korosten Porcelain Factory was founded in 1904 by the Polish entrepreneur Tymofiy Przhybylskyi. During the Second World War, the plant was destroyed, it was put into operation again in 1944.

In Soviet times, the company specialized in the production of porcelain products for cultural and household purposes: dining, tea, and coffee sets, headsets of various configurations, custom-made souvenirs.

An exhibition of the best examples of the factory's products could be seen in the lobby of the main building. In 2012, the Korosten Porcelain Factory was declared bankrupt. Currently, the enterprise is closed and the reconstructed building of the former porcelain factory houses the office of the "UPG" company.

Part of the former exhibition of the Korosten Porcelain Factory is presented at the porcelain exhibition in the Korosten House of Culture.

The Museum of the Locomotive Depot of the Korosten Station tells about the history of the development of railway transport and the construction of the Kyiv-Kovel Railway.

Construction of the Korosten station began in 1902. Today, this complex railway junction is one of the most important in the country.

The collection of rarities for the Locomotive Depot Museum was collected by enthusiasts from among its employees.

The continuation of the exposition can be considered a complex of production facilities.

The Monument to Derun was opened in Korosten in 2009, during the Second International Derun Festival.

Deruns (potato fritters) are considered a traditional dish of Polissya.

The monument is located in Drevlyanskyi Park in the center of Korosten. It is a basket with straws, installed on a pedestal made of gray and red granite quarried in the Korosten district. The author of the monument is Korosten artist Volodymyr Kozyrenko.

Museum of Local Lore in Radomyshl was founded in 1959. It contains exhibits, documents, and photographs reflecting the daily life and political life of Radomyshl residents against the backdrop of world events of the 17th-20th centuries.

The first room presents ancient bones, tusks of a mammoth, a skull of a deer, horns of a red deer (in 1963, the site of primitive people was investigated in Radomyshl, and a monument was erected).

Then there are stands from the period of the Cossacks, Radomyshl at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, the Second World War and the events of recent history.

Separate buildings of the manor of the ancient count family Olizars, to whom Korostyshiv belonged since 1565.

The palace and park complex was founded in Korostyshiv in the 19th century by the outstanding poet and public figure Gustav Olizar. An excellent picture gallery was collected in the palace, the library consisted of several thousand volumes.

The service wing, part of the colonnade has been preserved.

An Alley of Glory was built in the manor park during Soviet times, and in the lower part you can see a collection of granite sculptures.

The park "Horoshki Castle" in Khoroshiv was laid out in the 18th century on the high bank of the Irsha River on the site of the medieval castle of the Lithuanian princely family Sapieha (defensive earthen ramparts and ditches have been preserved).

The estate in Horoshki belonged to the commander Mykhaylo Kutuzov from 1796, he visited it in 1802-1805. In the 19th century, there was a palace in the center of the park that belonged to Kutuzov, and then to his descendants (it burned down in 1919).

About 60 ancient oaks have been preserved.

In the 19th century, the Tereshchenko family of industrialists bought the sugar factory in Chervone from the landowners Hrokholsky. They modernized the plant in accordance with advanced technologies at that time.

Fedir Tereshchenko, who was fond of aircraft construction, founded an aviation workshop at the plant. The hippodrome was used as an airfield. In 1910, seven aircraft were built on the basis of French "cases", one of which fought in the Russian army during the First World War. Ihor Sikorskyi, one of the fathers of world aviation, worked as an engineer at the enterprise, who later created the largest airplane of that time, "Illya Muromets", at the expense of Tereshchenko.

After the Bolshevik coup of 1917, the plant was nationalized, and later a museum of the enterprise was opened on the territory.

In recent years, the exposition has been supplemented with materials about the Tereshchenko family and their contribution to aircraft construction. Apply to the pass-through.

The Pulyny People's Art Museum "Pulyny Paints" was opened in 2012 on the initiative of the group of artists "Pulyny Community". It is located in the Center of Culture and Leisure of the Pulyny Settlement Council.

The basis of the exposition is the works of local artists, including Volodymyr Dzyubenko, Leonid Fesenko, Valentyn Voytenko and others.

Also, in 2023, the ethnographic exposition "Ukrainian house - guardian of the family" was opened in the Center of Culture and Leisure.

The Baranivka People's Museum of History and Local Lore is located in the premises of the Anatoly Pashkevych city cultural center.

The museum in Baranivka was opened in 1970. The main exposition is built on the materials of archaeological research of the urban areas beyond the banks of the Sluch and Dushnivka rivers. Stone tools, pottery, antique household items, clothes, shoes, furniture, stove, women's jewelry are presented.

The second exhibition highlights the fate of Baranivka residents during the Holodomor, repressions and World War II. Also in the museum you can find out how the fates of Lesya Ukrainka, Anatoliy Pashkevych, Ivan Stepanyuk and other prominent Ukrainians are connected with Baranivka.

The exhibition "Forever in our hearts" tells about the modern heroes of the Russian-Ukrainian war.

The museum premises are partially adapted for the needs of visitors with reduced mobility.

The departments of the Baranivka People's Museum of History and Local Lore are the Baranivka Porcelain Museum and the "Poliska Khata" museum in Polianka.

Berdychiv Brewery is widely known in Ukraine as a producer of quality unpasteurized beer.

The plant was built in 1861 by the Czech colonist Stanislav Chep. Since then, the technology has changed little: malt is germinated in the attic, it is poured into the boilers with plywood shovels, and the beer itself ferments in the cellars.

Now the brewery produces 13 varieties of "live" beer without preservatives: "Berdychiv hoppy", "Berdychiv lager", "Berdychiv Yuvileyne", "Berdychiv Original", "Berdychiv Carmelit", "Berdychiv Hetmanske", "Berdychiv Premium", "Stary Berdychiv". ", "Berdychiv Classic" and others.

Excursions are available by prior arrangement, during which you can see with your own eyes how beer is brewed according to the classic technology with the help of modern equipment.

The palace in the Neo-Renaissance style of the second half of the 19th century was built in Andrushivka by the sugar factory Mykola Tereshchenko on the site of the old palace of the Berzhynsky counts.

The second floor above the greenhouse, which connected the palace and the utility building, was built in 1975.

During the Soviet-Ukrainian war, the Volynrevkom was located in the palace, then the headquarters of the First Cavalry Army under the leadership of commander Semen Budyonny.

Currently, a secondary school is located in the premises of Mykola Tereshchenko's palace. Fragments of stucco decoration on the ceilings, marble stairs, and an ancient carved table have been preserved in the interiors.

The palace is located above a swan pond in the middle of an old park. Cedar and cork trees can be found among the park vegetation. A monument to Mykola Tereshchenko, opened in 2014 at the expense of local businessman Yevhen Hrynyshyn, was installed in the park.

The cultural and artistic space "Chaikovsky Space" was created in 2023 on the territory of the former estate of the Chaikovsky family in the village of Halchyn, Zhytomyr region. The revived Chaikovsky Estate hosts excursions, master classes and other cultural and educational events.

The manor house in Halchyn was built in the late 18th or early 19th century by the nobleman Michał Glembocki, a participant in the Franco-Russian War. His daughter Petronelia married a Volyn nobleman of the Cossack family, Stanislav Chaikovsky. In this estate, their son Mykhaylo Chaikovsky (Michał Czajkowski) was born, who later became a famous writer, politician and military figure.

In 1830-1831, Mykhaylo Chaikovsky participated in the Polish uprising against the Russian Empire, after which he emigrated, converted to Islam and entered the service of the Ottoman Empire under the name Mehmed Sadyk-Pasha. He distinguished himself during the Crimean War, organizing a Cossack cavalry brigade within the Turkish army. In his later years, he returned to the Russian Empire and converted to Orthodoxy.

After the confiscation of Polish estates in the Russian Empire, the Halchyn estate was owned by the landowner Ivan Rostovtsev. From 1919 to 2019, a village school was located on the estate.

The monument is now cared for by the Hryshkivtsi hromada. The cultural and artistic space "Chaikovsky Space" offers excursions and thematic events. The Chaikovsky estate hosts the annual festival "White Borscht and More".

The Museum of Local Lore in Cherniakhiv was founded in 1967.

The exposition is located in six halls and tells about the nature and history of Cherniakhiv region from the Paleolithic to today. It has 6 thematic sections: "Nature", "Archaeology", "Ethnography", "Soviet period", "Second World War" and "Modern history".

The Great Choral Synagogue was built in Berdychiv in 1850 at the expense of the city's large Jewish community (up to 93% of the population was Jewish).

The Berdychiv Synagogue was one of the first choral synagogues in the Russian Empire. Its monumentality and size indicated its significant role in the life of the city community.

In 1929, the Soviet authorities turned the temple into a club, and during the German occupation it was destroyed.

After the Second World War, the surviving Jewish community of Berdychiv restored the synagogue, but in 1964, the Soviet authorities took the building again and opened a glove factory in the temple premises, which is still operating today.

The "Chornorudka" railway station was opened in 1870. The station building was probably built between 1870 and 1889.

Today it is an architectural monument of local importance.