National Historical and Ethnographic Reserve "Pereyaslav"

The city of Pereyaslav (since 1943 - Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky ) has a long and distinguished history ^[1] . According to Russian chronicles, it was the third largest city of the Old Russian state - after Kiev and Chernigov. And the Pereyaslav principality played an important role as a southern outpost on the way of raids by the steppe nomads in Kiev .

In the early 1950s, the local history museum occupied only three rooms in the ancestral home of a friend of Taras Shevchenko , a local doctor A. Kozachkovsky. Three years later, a new exposition was created, the opening of which took place on April 13, 1954 - to celebrate the anniversary - "300th anniversary of the reunification of Ukraine and Russia." In the same year, by a decision of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR, the museum was assigned the III republican category and given the name “Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky State Historical Museum”.

On the basis of this institution and the complex of monuments created by him in 1979, according to the decree of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR , the State Historical and Cultural Reserve was formed, renamed on March 15, 1999 by the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine to historical and ethnographic ^[3] .

The status of the national reserve was granted by the Decree of the President of Ukraine of June 1, 1999 ^[4] .

The first director of the reserve was the Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine, laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine, Hero of Ukraine Mikhail Sikorsky (from 1951 to 2008 ).

It consists of 371 immovable historical and architectural monuments of the Ukrainian people, 24 thematic museums of various profiles, most of which are located in architectural monuments (churches, former bourgeois and landlord houses, peasant huts and other structures).

The main museum fund of the reserve is more than 180 thousand storage units. Among them: a unique archaeological collection, a collection of the Cossack period of the XVI - XVII centuries (1800 units), a collection of old printed books of the XVI- XVIII centuries (10 thousand pieces).

For the purpose of scientific study, preservation and popularization of museum collections, the employees of the reserve carry out research, search and exposure-educational work. Its results are discussed at scientific and practical conferences held in the reserve and published in its print media (Scientific Notes "Pereyaslavika"). Cycles of lectures and excursions based on materials from museum collections are systematically held, ritual events and thematic exhibitions are organized for Christmas, Easter, and Green Week.

The general director of the reserve is currently Dolgosheya Pavel Aleksandrovich ( Ukrainian Dovgoshiya Pavlo Oleksandrovich ; born 1968).

The Pereyaslav Nature Reserve belongs to the management sphere of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine . The management is carried out by the Department of Cultural Heritage and Cultural Property.

• Sikorsky M.I., Shimchenko D.K. Pereyalavskiy museums just in the sky // Pereyalavsk land and the city in the development of Ukrainian nationality, state culture
• Nabok L.M., Buzyan G.M. Urkіts . Istoriya village of Pereyalavskiy region
• Tovkaylo M. T. Neolit ​​Stepovogo Pobuzhya

• Official website (in Ukrainian)
• National Historical and Ethnographic Reserve "Pereyaslav"
• Seven Wonders of Ukraine
• Website "Mills of Ukraine"