Volodymyr Pylypenko

Professional historian, candidate of historical sciences, associate professor.

Not only tells about Chernihiv, but also explores it. Therefore, on excursions with Volodymyr you will learn not only what you can read from books or Wikipedia.

1. General sightseeing tour of the city up to 4 hours. It is a quiet walk around the city with a visit to the most interesting historical monuments of Chernihiv from the times of paganism to the present.

2. The mystery of Chernihiv mounds. It is a thematic tour about the mounds and the ancient history of the city. You will learn what Chernihiv mounds hide, how archaeologists work and how archeological material is interpreted. You will visit the most famous archeological sites in the old part of the town. If you wish, you can see archeological exhibitions in museums.

3. Boldin Hills is the holy place of two centuries. It is a thematic Boldin Hills tour. This is the place where ancient paganism and Christianity merged. On Boldin Hills you will visit the ancient Rus mounds of the IX-X centuries and visit the Anthony's Caves (an underground monastery, which appeared in the XI century) and the Trinity Monastery of the Cossack times.

4. Chernihiv the Cossack ancient city. It is a thematic tour about Cossacks and Chernihiv. The city has preserved the Cossack heritage: from heroic stories about local Cossacks to the houses of Cossack officers. You will see the building of the regimental chancellery, visit the temples built on the money of the Cossacks, look for the gold of the Chernihiv colonel Pavlo Polubotko.

5. Tour with the architecture. Chernihiv is a real open-air museum of architecture. The oldest ancient Rus temples, built in Byzantine and local styles, majestic baroque churches and monasteries have been preserved here. The city is complemented by modest wooden houses of the late nineteenth - early twentieth century. Look at the history of the city through the prism of architecture.

Languages of excursions: Ukrainian, Russian, English and Polish.