Pyrohiv National Museum of Folk Architecture and Life
Take a look at some of the peculiar examples of Ukrainian architecture and everyday life artifacts from the previous centuries.
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Pyrohiv National Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine is an architectural and landscape complex including around 300 pieces of traditional Ukrainian architecture.
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Opened in 1976, the open-air museum depicts examples dated by XVI–XX centuries from all of the historical and ethnographic regions of Ukraine, namely Polissia, Slobozhanshchyna and Poltavshchyna, the Carpathians, Naddniprianshchyna, Podillia, and the South of Ukraine.
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Churches were the central and most important sites in the Ukrainian old villages. We can now observe some of them at the Pyrohiv National Museum. Take a glimpse of the wooden church from the Polissia area.
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Voskresenska church
Voskresenska church comes from the Kysorychi village of the Rokytnivskyi district in the Rivne region. Built by local masters in 1789, it included three domes that were later changed to one, and an iconostasis, from which four pieces of a unique hewn altar now remain.
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The building is based on oak piles called vidzemky and has three tent-shaped domes remade in the Polissia tradition. Now in the church, you can enjoy the permanent Religious Antiques of Ukraine exhibition including artifacts from the XVIII-XX centuries.
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Pyrohiv windmills
One of the elements of the Podillia region exposition in Pyrohiv is the windmill zone. Take a walk among these wooden giants that used to help Ukrainians in their daily life back in the older times.
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The windmill’s main use was to help grind more grain harvest efficiently and make flour. A typical example, like that of Liytensky Budyshcha village (early XX century), has six wings and a two-level awning with the storeroom on the first floor and grindstones on the second.
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In all, you can find 7 windmills dated from the mid-XIX century to the early XX century from the villages Blahovishchenka (Zaporizhzhia region), Skarhivka (Luhansk), Nurove and Vilshana (Kharkiv), Liutensky Budyshcha (Poltava), Horodyshche (Vinnytsia), and Livyntsi (Chernivtsi).
