Akhtyrka –is a pearl of Slobozhanshchina. At Cathedral Square located pride and beauty of the town – the St. Basil's Cathedral.This is the card i not only of Akhtyrka. It is recognized as one of the Seven Wonders of Sumy.
The priest parish church of the Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Daniel V. Polyansky working in his garden and found an icon of the Virgin with the crucifixion of Jesus Christ of ancient letters, one of the miraculous lists this unique icons of Our Lady, you can see.
Trostianets founded in the middle of XVII century by settlers from the Right-Bank of Ukraine, and the first written mention of it dates back to 1660, when the church was built. In 1720 Tsar Peter I granted the town to his confessor T. Nadarzhinskiy, whose name at the end of XVIII century.passes into the possession of Prince Golitsyn. With them there were built all have survived to the present architectural monuments of religious and civil purposes in the city.
On the basis of natural oak forests on the banks of a pond at the end of XVIII century was laid the park. At the beginning of the next century is being built palace, buildings, an artificial grotto, and other park facilities. In the 1820's in the center of the city appears round the yard or riding, a circus. This is probably the only facility of its kind in the country which have survived, albeit in a more ascetic than the original form. Next to him is the manor house, where in 1864 he lived Tchaikovsky.
The surviving buildings of worship of Trostyanets. Church of the Annunciation (the beginning of XI-X century.) Distinguished 40-meter bell tower and an exquisite work of the masons, and the Ascension Church (1913) is a squat church with a bell tower, built in the very common when the style of early classicism. In Trostyanets Park (an area of 256 ha) grows more than 200 species of valuable trees and shrubs, among which there are also exotic. The greatest effect is produced by the majestic oak trees a200-300-years of age by a few meters in girth.
