Attractions of Sosnytsia

The Oleksandr Dovzhenko Literary Memorial Museum was opened in the homeland of the film director in Sosnytsia. He was born in 1894 in a large rural family on the farm Vyunishche within the present town of Sosnytsia. From here he went to study at the Glukhiv Teachers' Training Institute, then to Zhytomyr and pre-revolutionary Kyiv. His complex biography included service in the UPR troops, detention in the Bolshevik concentration camp, joining the Communist Party, Polish captivity, work in the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs, and so on. Dovzhenko won the world fame of the founder of the Ukrainian National School of Cinematography after the release of his outstanding films "Zvenigorod" and "Earth", the latter of which are now on the lists of the best films of all times and peoples. The creation of the director's museum in Sosnytsia began in 1957, after his death. Dovzhenko's parents' house has been preserved, which recreates the atmosphere that surrounded him in his youth. The literary exposition presents collections of his stories and film stories. An impressive, expressive monument to Dovzhenko (sculptor O. Fuzhenko, architect O. Ignatenko) has been erected in the yard of the estate.