Distance to Kiev : 112 km.

Chamber, a cozy town museum. Otherwise Pereyaslav not call: the thirty thousandth 25 museums in the city - so you do not joke. At every taste: from the popular tourist Skansen (museum of folk arhtitekturi in the open air) - to the museum of bread, kobzarskogo Museum of Art - to the museum of medicinal plants, from the Museum of the History of Beekeeping - to the museum of history of philosophy, from the sculptural portrait gallery, opened in TU-114 (!) - to the diorama «Battle for the Dnieper in the autumn of 1943». All museums are part of the The National Historical and Ethnographical Reserve «Pereyaslav», in whose territory the 381 archaeological exhibits, home and historical attractions Ukrainian s .

After these figures seem a strange epithet «industrial» in relation to the city - but it will be true: the city is well developed light industry. And yet this is a student city: every sixth inhabitant Pereyaslav - a student at the State Pedagogical University. G. Pans.

This is already the fate of the Pereyaslav: be at the center, and Ukraine, and Ukrainian history - even with 907 years, when the settlement at the source of rivers Trubezha and Alto remembers Prince Oleg treaty with Byzantium. Another ruler of Russia, Vladimir the Great, established a fortress here to protect the southern borders of the State of ordyntsev. There even was the residence of the Metropolitan, while in Kiev, St. Sophia's Cathedral is not built! The strange thing history: from the capital Pereyaslavl principality in the X century - to the district center in the XXI st. Maybe, and later Pereyaslav would be entirely metropolitan ambitions, if not the Tatar invasion in 1239r., Which destroyed the city. Pereyaslav still up from the knees, again, although not the capital city. But - a historic and fatal!

lived here Grygoriy pan. Here Taras Shevchenko wrote his «testament». Here were born Shalom Aleichem, ethnographer Paul Chubinsky architect Vladimir Zabolotny. In times of national liberation war 1648-1657 biennium. Pereyaslav, the center of a large Pereyaslavl Cossack regiment, played the role of the diplomatic center of the state, which came Polish, Tatar, Hungarian and Turkish ambassadors. It was here on 8 January in 1654 Bohdan Khmelnytsky on the big Cossack Council signed an agreement with Moscow Pereyaslav kingdom. As a result of the agreement Livoberezhna Ukraine gradually a result of the power of Russia. Again in Pereyaslav addressed the fate of Ukraine - and the modern, and the future ...

now come here willingly Kiev and Chernihiv residents, tourists from other cities to see Voznesensky Monastery, built with the money of Ivan Mazepa, amazed extensive destruction Tatars Savior Church-Tomb (now in its place opened archaeological museum), to know that once in the castle was the only one in Russia in the ancient term prototype, built by Bishop Ephraim, read the inscription on the personal Khmelnitskiy swords, which he gave to the King of Poland Jan Kazimierz : «What a Zborovim won, lost custody Berestechko». And, of course, walk skansenom. Here's where you can relax, and deepen their knowledge of the history of this land: it exhibited a collection of windmills XVIII-XIX st., Remnants of buildings X-XI st., House joiner, weaver, pop, a blacksmith, and the like. Demonstrated and the oldest in Europe, a human dwelling at Mammoth Hunters (age - 15 000 years old! ), postponed Pereyaslav in the village Dobranichivka in 1952