Description of the attraction
The initiative to found the Boryspil State Historical Museum belongs to the local historian V. Yova, it was opened in 1967. Now the building, stylized as ancient architecture, contains more than thirteen thousand exhibits. The building itself was erected in the 80s of the last century especially for the museum.
The expositions of the museum tell, in particular, about the famous townspeople of Boryspil: the history of the clans of the Cossacks Sulima and Bezborodko, the poet and preacher of the second half of the 18th century I. Nekrashevich, the ethnographer P. Chubinsky. Numerous exhibits of Tripolye culture are presented. A special place in the exposition of the museum is given to the diorama "Construction of the Lett synagogue". You can also see a fragment that was once part of a stone woman left as a legacy by the Polovtsians.
The museum collection contains a large number of weapons, labor, jewelry and household items. The decoration of a peasant hut is colorfully presented. From individual expositions you can learn about the history of Boryspil in the era of Tatar captivity and the rule of the Commonwealth, about the economic formation of the city, about the liberation struggle of 17-21. the last century, the Great Patriotic War, the period of the Holodomor, post-war reconstruction, modern times.
The museum has exhibits dedicated to the Ukrainian philosopher, poet, teacher Grigory Savich Skovoroda, the great Ukrainian poet, prose writer, artist, ethnographer Taras Grigorievich Shevchenko, Marshal of the nobility V. L. Lukashevich, Jewish writer, playwright and educator Sholom Aleichem. The decade of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan and the activities of the Boryspil cell of the Ukrainian People's Movement have not been forgotten either.
