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City in Ukraine, Zhitomir region, on the river. Noreen. Railway junction. 18.3 thousand inhabitants (1991). Instrument-making, pyrophyllite factories; food factories, flax processing plant. Museum of Local Lore. Known since 977 as Vručiy. Church… … Big Encyclopedic Dictionary

A city in the Zhitomir region of the Ukrainian SSR, on the river. Noreen. Known since the 10th century. Among the architectural monuments is the Church of Vasily (late 12th century, attributed to the architect Peter Milonegu; restored in 1908 by the architect A. V. Shchusev), brick... ... Art encyclopedia

City, district center, Zhytomyr region, Ukraine. It was first mentioned in the chronicle in 977 as the city of Vručaj. The name is from other Russian. lie spring, source. Initial O arose later for phonetic reasons. Geographical names of the world: ... ... Geographical encyclopedia

OVRUCH, a city in Ukraine, Zhytomyr region (see ZHYTOMYR REGION). Population 21.5 thousand people (2001). Center of Ovruch district. Located on the Norin River (in the Pripyat basin). Railway junction. Developed food (canning, dairy... ... encyclopedic Dictionary

City, center of the Ovruch district of the Zhitomir region of the Ukrainian SSR. Located on the river Norin (Pripyat basin). Railway junction (lines to Korosten, Kalinkovichi, Yanov, Belokorovichi). 14.2 thousand inhabitants (1974). Factories: canning, milk canning,... ... Great Soviet Encyclopedia

A district town in the Volyn province, on the left bank of the Norina River, at heights surrounded by deep and steep ravines. Remains of the Church of St. Basil, built by St. Equal to the Apostles Prince Vladimir; a huge mound called Oleg’s grave; ... ... Encyclopedic Dictionary F.A. Brockhaus and I.A. Ephron

- (old name Vruchiy) city, r. c. Zhytomyr region Ukrainian SSR, on the river. Norin. In 1959, 11.5 t. (in 1897 7.4 tons, in 1913 11 tons, in 1935 7.2 tons). Railway station First mentioned in the Tale of Bygone Years under 977 (in other sources under 946), destroyed... ... Soviet historical encyclopedia

- (old name Vruchiy), a city in Western Russian lands on the river. Norin (Zhytomyr region). It was first mentioned in the Tale of Bygone Years under 977 (in other sources under 946). Destroyed by the Tatars in 1240 and 1299. In 1321 captured by Lithuania, and from 1569 by Poland.... ... Russian history

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Ovruch- city, district center, Zhytomyr region, Ukraine. It was first mentioned in the chronicle in 977 as the city of Vručaj. The name is from other Russian. lie spring, source. Initial O arose later for phonetic reasons... Toponymic dictionary

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I go to Weprin by car. Seven miles is not a detour, but the mobility and convenience of movement on the spot is tenfold. The presence of customs and the not always correct attitude of state traffic inspectors towards “foreign” license plates forced us to look not for the shortest, but for the most friendly route. Trial and error led to a road through Smolensk and Belarus with entry into Ukraine near Korosten.

Ovruch is the first city I come to after crossing the border. Ovruch (Vruchy) - one of the oldest cities in Northern Ukraine - is located on the banks of the Noryn River, on hills surrounded by deep and steep ravines. It was first mentioned in the Tale of Bygone Years in 977 as “Grad Vruchiy”. The Drevlyans lived here during these times. To this day, the city has preserved the remains of a 10th-century fortress with ramparts and ditches. And local historians say that the clinic is located on the site of the royal prison, and the modern park is nothing more than a former cemetery. Today it is a small regional center with a population of 16 and a half thousand people.

Temple in the name of St. Basil

Ovruch is located on the Slovechansko-Ovruch ridge, located almost on the border of Ukraine and Belarus, and which is a high-altitude ridge 60 km long and 5 km wide in the east to 14-20 km in the west. On all sides the ridge is surrounded by lower plains - Polesie swamps. The southern slopes of the ridge are steep, the northern slopes are gentle. There are many ravines, their depth reaches 20-25 m. The territory of the Slovechansko-Ovruch ridge is rich in archaeological monuments: on the banks of the rivers Uborti (10 km to the west of the ridge) and Noryn, sites of Mesolithic reindeer hunters and settlements of the Corded Culture of the Bronze Age were discovered. Traces of Neolithic settlements and burial grounds of the 5th – 4th millennia BC. discovered on Castle Hill in Ovruch, artifacts from the Bronze Age (2nd millennium BC) were also found there.

The main attraction of Ovruch - at least for me - is the Vasilievskaya Church - a real old woman, it is already a thousand years old. She represented the Zhytomyr region at the “100 Wonders of Ukraine” competition. Prince Vladimir himself converted the local residents to the Christian faith, and on the site of the pagan idol, as historians suggest, the foundation of a wooden church was laid, which stood for 100 years before the construction of a stone temple. The walls of the temple are thick, interspersed with pieces of quartzite - fire-resistant materials. During the years of Stalin's repressions, they wanted to destroy the church; only the name of the architect-restorer Alexei Shchusev, who was the author of Lenin's mausoleum, saved it.

Temple walls

From the history of the city of Ovruch.

People have settled in this place since time immemorial. In the 10th century, Ovruch was already a city - it is believed that it was the one that replaced the one burned by Princess Olga in 945 AD. (according to other sources in 946) the Drevlyan capital Iskorosten. So:

945 (946) year. Olga cruelly took revenge on the Drevlyans for the murder of her husband, Prince Igor, by setting their capital on fire: “she took the city elders captive, and killed other people, gave others as slaves to her husbands, and left the rest to pay tribute,” the entire land of the Drevlyans was annexed to the Kyiv district with its center in the city of Vruchiy (Ovruch). Ovruch is located 45 kilometers from the burned Iskorosten (Korosten).

969 Princess Olga dies.

970 Olga's son, Svyatoslav, going on a campaign against the Bulgarian kingdom, distributes the lands among his sons. Yaropolk was left in Kyiv, middle son Oleg was left in Ovruch, and Novgorod went to Vladimir.

972 Svyatoslav dies.

975 The Tale of Bygone Years tells that in 975 Oleg killed Lyut, the son of the governor Sveneld, who served Yaropolk and was hunting in his forest. Sveneld, who commanded Yaropolk's troops, allegedly decided to avenge the death of his son.

977 Yaropolk and his squad oppose Oleg and defeat him. Oleg, retreating into the city, fell from a bridge into a ditch and was crushed by people falling down. When Oleg’s body was brought to Yaropolk, he began to mourn his brother and said to Sveneld: “Look, you wanted this.” Prince Oleg Svyatoslavich was buried “on the spot” near Ovruch in a burial mound.

997 Grand Duke Vladimir visited Ovruch and founded a wooden church there in the name of St. Basil the Great, after whom it was named at baptism (according to other sources in 989). This church was called Vasilievskaya Golden-Domed, since its roof was gilded, and according to legend it was built on the site of a destroyed idol temple.

1044 The chronicle tells that Prince Yaroslav, grieving that his uncle Oleg died in paganism, ordered his bones to be dug up, baptism performed over them and buried along with the Christian princes in the Tithe Church in Kyiv (the side Vladimir Church of the Kiev St. Sophia Cathedral).

1136 The last mention of the Drevlyans in the annals of Kievan Rus: the Kiev prince Yaropolk gave their entire territory into the possession of the Tithe Church.

1181 Rurik Rostislavich, together with Svyatoslav and Yaroslav Vsevolodovich and Igor Svyatoslavich and Polovtsian troops led by Konchak and Kobyak, captured Kyiv. Co-government was established over the Kyiv lands: Svyatoslav Vsevolodovich sat in Kyiv, and Rurik ruled Belgorod, Ovruch and Vyshgorod.

1190 Rurik orders the construction of a stone temple on the site of a wooden church. It is believed that it was built by the architect Petr Milong.

1199 Roman Mstislavich Volynsky was invited by the people of Kiev and the Black Klobuks to reign. He captured his uncle Rurik Rostislavich in Ovruch and tonsured him as a monk.

1203 Rurik captures Kyiv, but returns to Ovruch. Roman besieged him here and forced him to renounce his seniority in favor of Vsevolod Yuryevich the Big Nest.

1240. Batu devastates Ovruch, the castle is destroyed.

1321 The Lithuanian prince Gedemin destroys the Church of St. Basil to the ground.

1362 Ovruch, together with other southern Russian lands, became part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

1399 The Crimean Khan Edygei, having defeated the Lithuanian prince Vitovt, destroyed Ovruch.

1471 After the final liquidation of the Kyiv inheritance, Ovruch became the center of eldership as part of the Polish-Lithuanian state.

1545 There are eight churches in Ovruch: Ilyinskaya, Ioakimo-Anninskaya, Nikolskaya, Pyatnitskaya, Mikhailovskaya, Vasilyevskaya, Kozmodamianskaya, Voskresenskaya and three monasteries: Prechistensky, Spassky and Pustynsky.

1605 In the noble Tokarevsky family in Ovruch, a son was born, named Macarius, the future Saint Macarius of Pinsk, Venerable Martyr of Kanevsky.

1648 Cossack Colonel I. Golota took possession of Ovruch, and until the end of the Russian-Polish War (1667) it remained the capital city of the Kyiv Regiment.

1671 After 10 years of continuous struggle with the Uniates and Dominican monks, Archimandrite Macarius left the monastery, in which not a single monk remained, and went to the Kiev Pechersk Lavra for spiritual exploits

1720 In Ovruch there was a castle, a church and a Dominican monastery.

1773 Ovruch elder Jan Stetsky built a palace in the classicist style on the site of the castle, designed by the Polish architect Merlini. Now it is a boarding school.

1793 Annexation of Ukrainian lands to the Russian Empire.

1797 Ovruch became a district town of the newly formed Volyn province.

1840 On the territory of the Volyn province, the Polish-Lithuanian statute and Magdeburg law were abolished.

1846 According to researcher Verbitsky, the mound near Ovruch, considered the grave of Prince Oleg, was excavated in 1846 by order of the Kyiv Archaeological Commission - several arrows and stone hammers were found.

April 27, 1865. Vladimir Germanovich Tan-Bogoraz, revolutionary, publicist, scientist, writer, one of the last leaders of Narodnaya Volya in Russia (1885-1886), political exile, was born in Ovruch.

1897 There are 3,445 Jews in Ovruch (out of a total population of 7,393 people).

1908-1909. Architect A. Shchusev drew up a restoration project, after the implementation of which the St. Vasilyevskaya Church was returned to its original appearance. The buildings of the Vasilyevsky Monastery have been restored nearby.

During the Civil War, the city changed hands 15 times.

1920 Establishment of Soviet power.

1923 The Ovruch district was created in the northeastern part of the Zhitomir region, Ovruch became the regional center.

1937 By order of Kaganovich, the Transfiguration Cathedral was barbarically blown up.

1993 The white-stone Transfiguration Cathedral was rebuilt on the site of a temple destroyed during Soviet times. In the 17th century there was a Jesuit church here, which then became a Uniate church, and in the 19th century. was rebuilt into an Orthodox church.

More interesting things:

• In the north of the Zhitomir region in the Ovruch district, the so-called Ovruch language has been preserved, which is connected with the language of Kievan Rus by its roots. A choir has been created at the Kiev University of Culture, performing songs in the Ovruch language.
• Jan Nalepka - Hero of the Soviet Union and National Hero of Czechoslovakia, commander of the Slovak partisan detachment - died from wounds received during the liberation of Ovruch.
• The coat of arms of Ovruch, depicting the Archangel Michael in a red field with a sword and scales in his hands, standing in a cloud, was granted to Ovruch by the Polish king Vladislav IV under the privilege of 1641. In the same form, but with the addition of Russian symbols (double-headed eagle), he entered the Russian heraldry

Although the name Polesie is closely associated with Belarus, we should not forget that about half of this ancient region remained with Ukraine. Moreover, Ukrainian Polesie is older than Belarusian: if the indigenous population there were Dregovichi, then here they are the Drevlyans, the same ones who were destroyed by Princess Olga. Almost all of the local cities are over a thousand years old: Korosten (945, 915 or even 705), Zhitomir (883), Malin (890), Olevsk (977), but as old as they are, they are not historical: there are even monuments of the Russian Empire here. I have already told you about the Drevlyan capital, the city, but now let’s go even further north - to the town of Ovruch (17 thousand inhabitants) in the Chernobyl contamination zone, where the Drevlyans moved their capital after the fall of Iskorosten, and where one of the few pre-Mongol churches in Western Rus' was preserved .

From Korosten to Ovruch it’s only an hour’s journey, and from Zhitomir it’s about three hours. The road leads further to Mozyr, but communication between Ukraine and Belarus is not very developed, there are no direct flights from Zhitomir to its neighbors at all, in Ovruch there are only a few passing from Kyiv. Beyond Korosten there is real Polesie with dense pine forests, in some places reminiscent, if not of the taiga, then at least of some Tver region. In some places the crowns almost close over the highway. And in an hour’s journey from Korosten to Ovruch, the bus crosses the railway 7 times.

Both people and villages match nature. The villages are becoming completely wooden in the Russian way, with real log huts... sorry, huts. You need to see the faces of the local rural girls, their sharp, completely witchy looks. One of them may well turn out to be the same Olesya. I didn’t have a chance to talk to the villagers, but I heard that these are mostly real Poles, or “Tuteishi” (“local”) - a very strange semi-people with their own extremely specific dialect (“Polesie microlanguage”), in Belarus they are considered Belarusians, in Ukraine - Ukrainians, but equally different from both. Polesie is one of those regions where you just need to visit, since the most powerful thing there is not individual views and monuments, but the general atmosphere.

This is what the southern entrance to Ovruch looks like:

And in principle, if you are coming by car from Zhitomir (however, Russians often come here from the north), then there is no need to go deeper into the city - all the most important things are right here. To the left of the entrance is the modern Transfiguration Cathedral on the former Castle Hill:

On the right is Vasilievskaya Church (1190), the part visible from here is, however, a remake by Shchusev:

The bus station is located literally at the other end of Ovruch, and Ovruch turns out to be a surprisingly large town. No, of course, 17 thousand is not so much, but still more than 5 thousand, and “by eye” Ovruch seems larger than according to statistics. In general, it takes about half an hour to walk from the bus station to the church. Next to the bus station is the railway station on the Korosten-Mozyr line:

Pay attention to the monument: as in Belarusian Polesie and the Russian Bryansk region, partisans are treated here with almost mystical awe. Opposite the station there is a very picturesque factory:

Basically, Ovruch is incredibly dull - an endless wooden private sector, where there is simply nothing for the eye to grab onto. Typical Ovruch house:

Four proto-Khrushchev buildings stand out from Soviet architecture (these were actively built in many cities of the Ukrainian SSR on the eve of the war):

Local church:

At the intersection of the street leading to the station and the main street there is a park with figures:

And in the park the darkest memorial is the Bell of Chernobyl:

Ovruch, like most of Polesie, fell into the contaminated zone of the Chernobyl disaster. As far as I understand, the only cities that suffered more severe damage were Chernobyl and Pripyat themselves, which were resettled. Ovruch ended up somewhere on the edge, that is, it was not subject to resettlement, but... Judging by the line at the bus ticket office, about every tenth person here has a Chernobyl certificate. An alley of stones placed in memory of the resettled villages leads to the monument:

On the main street, some fragments of the Old Town, apparently destroyed by the war, were miraculously preserved. Separate county houses and Stalin's pre-war:

City Administration. There is also a district one, occupying a 4-story parallelepiped:

In general, the atmosphere of the poor, almost devoid of architectural beauty, bloodless by war and contaminated with radiation of Ukrainian Polesie seemed to me exceptionally gloomy, especially in gloomy November, and it’s details like these that you really appreciate here:

We go to the center. The most important county building was probably the old council house. Adjacent to it is a local communications house (post office, telecom, etc.) and a hotel, behind which is the already mentioned district administration:

Opposite is the house of culture, which, according to Ukrainian tradition, has become a house of trade:

And as soon as you get off the main street, the landscape looks like this:

Quite a capital public building (department store?):

And the street leads to the square:

At the other end of which stands Vasilievskaya Church:

Most likely, the Drevlyans moved their capital to the city of Vruchey after the fall of Iskorosten. It has been reliably known since 977, when Prince Oleg Svyatoslavovich, Olga’s grandson, died under its walls during the war with his brother Yaropolk, buried here under a mound, but according to Christian rites. The Ovruch appanage principality was a fairly strong state that participated in the general struggle for Kyiv, to which it was formally subordinate. Ovruch even had its own craft specialization - the production of spindle whorls from pink slate stone, the only deposit of which is located nearby: they were exported throughout Rus', the best examples are found in excavations in the Crimea and Volga Bulgaria, many are marked with the autographs of the owners, which indicates their value.

But then the principality was destroyed by the Mongols, and its remnants were gradually absorbed first by the Smolensk principality, and then by Lithuanian Rus. The church has been known here since 997, and it was rebuilt in stone in the 1180s by Prince Rurik Rostislavovich, under whom Ovruch reached its peak:

Under the Litvinians, the center of Ovruch shifted several hundred meters to where the Transfiguration Cathedral now stands. The church, like the overwhelming majority of pre-Mongol churches in Western Rus', gradually deteriorated, was passed on first to one, then to another, was destroyed, and only by some miracle, unlike 95% of Western Russian churches, albeit in the form of a shapeless ruin, stood until the beginning 20th century, when interest in ancient Russian architecture revived in the capitals and they began to restore it:

Vasilyevskaya Church was lucky - Alexey Shchusev himself took up its restoration, and restored the temple so successfully that he was awarded the title of academician of architecture. True, it is now generally accepted that the Vasilyevskaya Church actually looked a little different, but I never found any drawings of how it should have been, and Shchusev’s work looks really beautiful and convincing, although if you look closely, of course, you can understand that the top part of the church is 100% modern.

Shchusev also retained some of the original features: for example, the brickwork here is inlaid with boulders, as in, and the two staircase towers on the facade are especially impressive. In general, this detail is, in principle, characteristic of pre-Mongol churches: small, light and very tall churches did not allow making a staircase in the main room or inside the wall, so special towers were attached to them - but only the Ovruch church has two of these towers.
The decoration of the church is from the beginning of the twentieth century, and among the artists who painted it was Petrov-Vodkin:

The finest embossing also dates back to the beginning of the 20th century, but some of the icons are from the 16th century, belong to the Novgorod school, and came here during restoration from the Church of the Savior on Nereditsa, which was later destroyed during the war.

In front of the entrance to the church there is a monument to the “defender of the Orthodox faith” Macarius (Tokarevsky), a native of Ovruch, archimandrite, who in 1678 led the defense of the cathedral in Kanev during a Turkish raid and was quartered by the Turks.

Behind the church is a convent, built in the same years 1906-10 in the Novgorod style, so fashionable at the beginning of the twentieth century precisely when arranging women's monasteries. Nicholas II himself came to the consecration of the revived church in 1911.

The monastery is small, the nuns are very friendly. I also attended a service, after which nuns and parishioners carried baskets and bags of food into the winter church. They offered to help me, as they would have offered to any man in the temple, and I helped by asking permission to take some photographs in the church. That rare case when church life leaves the impression of a “common cause” and not a mechanical ritual.

Behind the monastery is an inconspicuous monument to the victims of the fascist occupation. The most terrifying thing about the list of surnames is that entire families are listed.

Taking a last look at the Transfiguration Cathedral on Castle Hill, I headed back to the bus station. In principle, an hour and a half is enough to explore the city, and buses also stop at the central square.

But for comparison, here is an equally ancient town, which I would call the heart of Belarusian Polesie.

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Ukrainian Polesie (Zhytomyr region)
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Ovruch. In the depths of Ukrainian Polesie.
Zhytomyr. Provincial city.
Zhytomyr. Podol and canyon.
The same Berdichev.
Rivne and Ternopil regions.
Volyn region.
Sokalshchyna.
A little bit of Galicia.

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Ovruch (Ukrainian Ovruch) is a city in Ukraine known since ancient times, the administrative center of the Ovruch district in the Zhytomyr region. Located on the Norin River (Pripyat basin). Railway junction (lines to Korosten, Kalinkovichi, Yanov, Belokorovichi). The asteroid (221073) Ovruch is named after the city.

Population

It was first mentioned in the “Tale of Bygone Years” under the year 977 as the Drevlyan city of Vruchiy in connection with the death under its walls of Prince Oleg Svyatoslavich, the son of Svyatoslav Igorevich. Oleg died as a result of the struggle with his brother Yaropolk for the Kiev throne (he fell on stakes placed in the defensive ditch). He was buried in the city, but then his body was transported to Kyiv. Now in Ovruch there is a monument to Prince Oleg. In the XII-XIII centuries, Ovruch, along with Belgorod and Vyshgorod, was one of the main specific centers of the Kyiv land, allocated by the Grand Duke of Kyiv to his younger relatives as a part of the Russian land, and was mainly ruled by the princes of the Smolensk branch of the Rurikovichs. Ovruch was the center of handicraft production associated with the slate industry in its surroundings. Ovruch slate whorls in the 11th - early 13th centuries had a wide market in the Russian principalities, as well as in Poland, Volga-Kama Bulgaria and Chersonese. Ovruch was subjected to the Mongol invasion, then it was ruled by the Golden Horde Baskaks, and in 1362, together with other southern Russian lands, it became part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Listed in the chronicle “List of Russian cities near and far” (late 14th century). In 1641 the city received Magdeburg rights. Under the terms of the Polish-Lithuanian Union of 1569, it became part of Poland. From the second partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1793) as part of the Russian Empire. In 1897, 7,393 people lived in the city, including Jews - 3,441, Ukrainians - 3,119, Russians - 649, Poles - 152. In 1911, Nicholas II visited Ovruch.

Culture

There is a local history museum in the city. On the site of the Ovruch Castle stands the Transfiguration Cathedral. Of the pre-Mongol monuments, the Church of Basil from the end of the 12th century has been preserved. It is attributed to the architect Peter Milonegus; restored in 1907-09 by architect A.V. Shchusev. This is a brick 4-pillar cross-domed church with 2 round towers adjacent to the western facade.

Famous natives of the city

Yosef Yitzchok Schneerson from Ovruch - famous rabbi Bogoraz, Vladimir Germanovich - ethnographer and revolutionary, born in Ovruch; Lavrynovych, Alexander Vladimirovich - People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VI convocation (Party of Regions faction), First Vice-Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the VI convocation; Stefano Ittar - Italian architect, representative of the Sicilian Baroque; Trakhtman, Yaakov-Shmuel Halevi - writer, born in Ovruch. Luchinskaya, Irina Vasilievna - Hero of Ukraine, born in Ovruch. Shmuylo, Sergei Trofimovich (1907-1965) - Soviet military leader, born in Ovruch.