The satellite towns of Kiev: the famous for and what to see.

1534 Kiev celebrates his birthday. A holiday in the capital will celebrate in a big way with concerts and mass celebrations. But not everyone knows that surrounding Kyiv city according to the number of historical sites and their age are quite decent neighbors of the capital city. For example, Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky, which is more than 25 museums, is first mentioned in 907, and in Vasilkov (founded in 988) it is possible to visit the ancient settlement of X—XIII century and the remains of a defensive "Snakes shafts". Most "young" you can call the city Yahotyn, which was founded in 1552. However, despite the age, the city is famous for its history: it was Taras Shevchenko, the artist Catherine Bilokur created his wonderful paintings.

Bohuslav Park on the banks of the river ROS 

The town of Bohuslav (called Boguslavl) was founded by Prince Yaroslav the Wise. The city has many monuments and many museums of local lore (street Shevchenko, 36) with more than 5 thousand exhibits of decorative arts, Museum of artist Ivan Soshenko (St. Andrei Zozulya, 1) and the estate of the writer Marko Vovchok (Marko Vovchok str., 15). The most visited place is the landscape Park "Boguslavl" (7.5 hectares), created in 2008 on the banks of the ROS river with its beautiful dams and the oldest building is a two story house (Shevchenko str., 35), built in 1726. Initially, there was a cheder — Jewish school, now a Museum of folk crafts. Holy Trinity Church (Marx, 6), erected in 1861, Nicholas monastery (Ozernaya str, 35), Dating from the second half of the XVI century, and two-storey city Council building (former home of the manufacturer of the Paint), built in 1887.

Vasylkiv: "Zmianie shafts and the monument

According to the Prince of Vladimir in place of the current Vasilkova a fortress was built to protect Kiev from the South from the raids of the Polovtsy. The most important monument in Vasilkov is an ancient settlement X—XIII century and the remains of a defensive "Snakes shafts", which was built for protection from enemies and stretch for hundreds of kilometers. In addition, there are in the city and several ancient temples — Anthony and Theodosius Cathedral (Soborna str, 61), built in 1758, St. Nicholas Church (St. Shevchenko, 11), erected in 1792. And the wooden Church of the Nativity of the virgin (Dekabristov str., 21-b), dated 1859 Works in the city Museum (St. Vladimir, 2), which represents about 1,200 exhibits. In Vasilkov about a dozen sites, most of them devoted to the events of the second world war. Already in independent Ukraine there was opened a memorial to soldiers-Afghans (Grushevskogo str., 12) and a monument to a young poet (street Cathedral, 101).

Yagotin: Paintings by Bilokur and outbuilding Shevchenko

The town's name comes from the Khan Ahold. The main attraction of Yahotyn Park, where a two-storey avant-corps, the remains of the former Palace of Razumovsky-Repnin (con. XVIII — early XIX century), which includes a picture gallery with works by artist Kateryna Bilokur. Strolling through the Park, you can visit "the Wing of Taras Shevchenko" (was restored in 2003). This wooden wing of the Prince Repnin, where in 1843 he lived and worked Shevchenko, was destroyed during the war. In Yagotin there is a restored Holy Trinity Cathedral, which was built in 1800 (destroyed in 1936) on the initiative of Alexei Razumovsky, the son of left-Bank Hetman of Ukraine Kirill Razumovsky, the famous architect Nikolai Lvov.

Bila Tserkva — city rising from the ashes

The city was founded by Prince Yaroslav the Wise and was originally called St. George, according to the Christian name of the Prince Yuri. Its present name the city got after the XIII century was destroyed by nomads. Survived then only the Episcopal Cathedral, built of white stone. Castle hill, where archaeologists discovered the remains of the Cathedral, considered the center of the ancient town, and his three oldest Kurgan are the most visited tourist places. Not less famous arboretum "Alexandria" (the second floor. The nineteenth century), located on the slope of the river ROS, a total area of 200 hectares. In the Park there is a Museum where you can learn the history of three generations of its owners, the counts of Branicki, and enjoy the 15 sculptures made of white Italian marble from the best artists of the XIX century.

Rzhyshchiv — the cradle of the Trypillian culture

Versions of the origin of the name a few: the neighing of a horse ("rye-more"), ancient farming tribes of the field of rye"Rozhyshche") and prokhodnoe from the Polish word "riech" ("crowd"). The most remarkable monument of architecture of the city — Trinity Church (Lenin's street, 5), built in 1860. But the main attraction of Rzhyshchiv are numerous archaeological finds of the Tripolye culture. In the center of Rzhyshchiv is "Tripoli Park" where there are ritual figure has been founded form — the main symbol of the city.

Toompea: Church of the times of Yaroslav

According to legend, the city was founded by the Kievan Knyaz Khoriv and first bore the name of Horovice, but later became known as Toompea. In 1994, by presidential decree, and the decree of the Cabinet in Vyshgorod was founded by the state historical and cultural reserve and with it the pottery Museum (mezhyhirska St. Saviour, 11-13), near which you can see the ancient pottery horn Dating from the XII century, and the historical Museum (Grushevskogo str., 1) where the exhibits, starting with Russia and ending with the construction of the Kiev hydroelectric station. By the way, the city has only one house, built during the Russian Empire in 1905. He is known as "the Cranberry house" (School street, 58), named in honor of his master by the name of Cranberry. The main architectural attraction is the Church of Boris and Gleb, built by Prince Yaroslav the Wise! The Church was repeatedly reconstructed, and its final appearance was restored in 1991. Near Toompea is also one of the few in the Kyiv region populations of the great horsetail, which is listed in the Red book.

Gostomel and airplanes

The Gostomel in 1614-m Polish king Sigismund granted the Magdeburg law, and in the days of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, was a Cossack sotnia town. There is Svyato-Pokrovskaya Church (Lenina str., 224), which is mentioned in historical Chronicles in 1770. In the village alley, you can see the monument to the virgin Mary and even the an-2 plane, because the city is operating the airport. On the left side of maize inscription "Hostomel '" and the emblem of the city.

Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky city-Museum

Pereyaslav was first mentioned in the contract of Prince Oleg with Byzantium, and the name itself means "borrowed glory." The main decoration of the city is the national historical and ethnographic reserve, which includes 25 museums and 166 thousand exhibits, representing various aspects of the history of Pereyaslav. The diversity of the Museum in the city is striking: archaeological (St. Shevchenko,17) located in the pavilion over the remains of the temple of the XI century, medicinal plants, history of beekeeping (recreates the life and work of beekeepers and covers the periods of development of beekeeping in Ukraine from ancient times to the present, the Ukrainian rushnyk (the collection 24 towel embroidered by nuns-three nuns live in the nineteenth century), bread (about 3000 exhibits, including a collection of relict wheat and bakery products, land transport, "Postal station" (about the history of postal services in the Ukraine in the late XIX century), the history of philosophy and even a Museum the knowledge of the world and of space exploration, where among the exhibits there are models of automatic apparatus "Lunokhod-1" and "Baikonur" cosmodrome, as well as devices used in spacecraft and orbital station "Salyut". All the museums are on the street Chronicle. In the city visit the Church of St. Michael and the ascension monastery, which dates from the XVI century, and the Cathedral of the assumption of the late nineteenth century.

Fastow: the carriage and the temple

In ancient times the territory of present-Fastovsky passed the borders of Kyiv lands and archaeological sites are the ancient settlements and barrows of a Scythian epoch. Fastiv is a wooden Church of the intercession (St. Pushkina, 1), built in 1772. Legend has it that erected a temple Fastiv Colonel semen Palii. But according to the history, paly died 50 years before the start of construction. W/d station "Fastov" is the carriage, where in 1918 was signed the act of unification of the UNR and ZUNR.