Vyshgorodsky State Historical and Cultural Reserve

The main objectives of the reserve are:

• Implementation of measures for the protection and preservation of cultural heritage objects, associated territories and mobile objects, works of monumental, visual, decorative and applied art;
• Research, scientifically-methodical, informational, cultural and educational work to popularize the cultural heritage, spiritual enrichment of citizens;
• Development of scientifically based proposals on the storage regime and the procedure for using cultural heritage objects on its balance sheet, ensuring their maintenance, protection, preservation and proper use;
• Implementation of measures for the proper use of land for historical and cultural purposes (the territory of monuments, protected areas, reserves, museums, protected archaeological territories);
• Carrying out work to identify, study, fix, compile records, classify the immovable objects of cultural heritage assigned to them, related territories and moving objects, works of monumental, graphic, decorative and applied arts, prepare documentation for their state registration;
• Providing in the territory of the historical area of ​​Vyshgorod proper protection and maintenance of archeological monuments that are state property;
• Carrying out exposition work; Conducting information and publishing activities, popularization of nature conservation, problems of protection and proper maintenance of cultural heritage objects, determining the procedure for the sale of manufactured printed products;
• Organization and coordination of research in the reserve, attracting employees of other organizations;
• Implementation of international cooperation, conclusion of agreements with foreign individuals and legal entities in accordance with the law;
• Taking measures to develop the infrastructure of excursion and recreational services in the reserve, the provision of paid services and pricing for them, unless otherwise provided by law.

The creation of a historical and cultural reserve is associated with the work of the Vyshgorod archaeological expedition of the Institute of the History of Material Culture (1934-1937) under the leadership of Taddei Movchanovsky . At a meeting in July 1934, it was decided to apply to state security agencies with a project to protect the entire complex of Mezhigorya’s facilities, and make separate parcels protected. They did not forget about the conjuncture: it was believed that Vyshgorod would attract "great attention of historians and writers in connection with the problems of the history of the city of Kiev." It was also believed that to accomplish the tasks of the expedition, “the preparation and concentration of the best scientific forces from all over Ukraine” is needed.

A production meeting on declaring the territory of the settlement as a reserve was held on July 16, 1935. The efforts of scientists and local historians were not in vain - on September 9, 1935, the territory of ancient Vyshgorod was declared reserve by official decree. But after the Second World War, no one remembered about the reserve.

The modern Vyshgorod Historical and Cultural Reserve was founded in 1994, according to the Decree of the President of Ukraine and the Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. The first director was Kushniruk Vitaly Nikolaevich. Since autumn 2016, the reserve is managed by Candidate of Historical Sciences Litovchenko Vlada .

In 2006, one of the leading divisions of the reserve was opened - the Museum of the Pottery of Russia-Ukraine.

Established in 1982, the Vyshgorod Historical Museum is the oldest structural unit of the State Historical and Cultural Reserve. In 2008 it was reconstructed. In 2010, the Territory of the Historic Landscape of the Old Russian City of Vyshgorod was entered into the State Register of Immovable Monuments of Ukraine. In addition to the detinets of the Vyshgorod settlement, it includes the building of the ancient streets of Kalnyshevsky and Mezhygorsky Spas, coastal slopes with a strand of green areas. Landscape Education. This pretty landscape has tremendous historical and artistic value and requires careful storage, as it can be disturbed by even minor interference.

Now in the structure of the Vyshgorod State Historical and Cultural Reserve there are the following structural divisions: Department for the Protection of Monuments of History and Culture, Department of Archeology, Department of Foundations, Department of Thematic Expositions, Scientific and Methodological Council, and also:

• The Pottery Museum (indoors on Mezhigorsky Spas, 11) introduces Vyshgorod as a significant historical center of pottery traditions from the times of Kievan Rus to the present day. Now the real potter's wheel is working in the museum, and every Thursday visitors can take a master class with experienced potters and make a plate, a toy or something else for themselves in memory of visiting the Vyshgorod Pottery Museum;
• Vyshgorod Historical Museum (on the first floor of a modern building at the address: 1, Grushevskogo str.) - the museum exposition is devoted to the archaeological heritage of Vyshgorodsky district, starting from the Paleolithic times. Visitors can see the unique layout of the Olzhny Grad, hear the story of the famous Cossack Mezhygorsky monastery and admire a copy of the icon of the Vyshgorod Mother of God.
• Archaeological expedition . A permanent archaeological expedition operates on the basis of the reserve, and archaeological research continues. In 2013–2014, excavations were carried out on the streets of Mezhigorsky Spas and Staroselskaya. It was found pottery kilns, household and residential buildings potters of Kievan Rus and much more. The excavations were led by the head of the archeology department of the Vyshgorod nature reserve, Vsevolod Ivakin, together with the scientists of the nature reserve Andrei Olenich and Dmitry Bibikov. The results of archaeological research can be found in the materials of international and All-Ukrainian scientific conferences, the local press.
• The reserve has its own periodical scientific publication “The Antiquities of the Vishgorod Region”.

Scientific conferences held by the Vyshgorod reserve in 2016 :

• International Conference "Experimental Modeling of Old Russian Means of Water Transport", which is held under the auspices of the international project "Baltic - Black Sea: reconstruction of trade relations". Organizers: International Academy of Sciences (Brussels), Vyshgorod Regional State Administration, Vyshgorod Historical and Cultural Reserve. October 28, 2016, Vyshgorod, Kiev region
• Scientific-practical conference "History and development prospects of the Vyshgorod historical and cultural reserve (on the 80th anniversary of the formation of the protected area of ​​Vyshgorod)". November 3, 2016, city. Vyshgorod.
• Scientific-practical conference "Mezhigorskaya olden time: popularization and preservation of the cultural heritage of Vyshgorod district." Organizers: Department of Culture, Nationalities and Religions of the Kiev Regional State Administration, Vyshgorod Historical and Cultural Reserve, Oleg Filyuk Publishing House. November 23, 2016, Vyshgorod, Kyiv region

• In Vishgorod city, there is a “round paper”, assigning perspectives to the development of a history and cultural reserve.
• In Vishgorod, they banned the іnіtsіtivuu іz saves of the historical and cultural spadschshini Mezhigir'ya
• Official site