Attractions in Chernihiv

 The mound "Black Grave" is located in Chernigov near Eletsky monastery. This is one of the largest remaining ancient mounds of the tenth century. According to legend, this mound buried Black Prince, who founded the city and gave it a name. Dimensions mound impressive. Its diameter - 40 meters, the circumference - 125 meters wide and 11 meters. In the old mound was surrounded by a moat around the perimeter of the width of 7 meters. In the burial mound, two men and a woman according to the custom of cremation.

 Chernihiv Collegium was founded in 1700 by Archbishop John as an educational institution. The building was built in the style of the Collegium of the Ukrainian baroque of the means of Hetman Ivan Mazepa. College was opened on the basis of the Slavonic-Latin School. It was intended to educate not only the children of the clergy, and nobles, burghers and the Cossacks. And reminded the Kiev Theological Academy. Due to the level of training of students, the school has received wide popularity and in fact became the first seminary in Russia. Chernihiv Collegium became a model of education and later began to open seminaries in other dioceses.

 Detinets and Kotsubinsky park. It includes several monuments located on Desna beach: Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral of the XI century, Borisoglebsky Cathedral, built in the XII century, Chernigiv Collegium, Tarnovsky museum, the monument of Taras Shevchenko. There are also remains of boyars castles and houses in Detinets. Twelve cast-iron cannons of the XVII-XVIII centuries are located there.

  Since the beginning of XIX century, administrative and cultural center of Chernigov is Red Square. Red Square appeared on the map at the turn of Chernigov XVIII and XIX centuries. Earlier this place was called Pyatnitsky field. The name comes from the area of the nearby church of St. Paraskeva-Friday, built at the end of XII century. In XVII century when it existed Nunnery. However, many historians believe that this monastery founded in Old Russian times. Before the Mongol-Tatar invasion of the territory concerned was a feature of urban sprawl. Here were artisans and merchants, these are the results of archaeological excavations.