Izium is one of the oldest towns in Slobozhanshchyna and the third-largest in the Kharkiv region. The town's official date of birth is considered to be 1681, but the settlement arose much earlier. The town's coat of arms and flag depict bunches of grapes, and one version of the toponym's origin is linked to dried kishmish berries. But it is not vineyards, but expanses of pine forest, that frame Izium, the Oskil Reservoir and the blue ribbon of the Siverskyi Donets.
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| Izium. Kharkiv region. A view from Mount Kremenets |
Izium's pine forests and other highlights draw travellers to this district centre of the Kharkiv region.
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| Izium. The Siverskyi Donets |
Thousands of pilgrims come here to venerate
the shrines of the Izium area, to drink healing water from the holy spring
Kyrychenkova Krynytsia.
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| The Holy Ascension Cathedral. 1826 |
Another revered place is the historical and natural landmark,
Mount Kremenets with its memorials and statues of Cuman warriors.
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| Mount Kremenets. The war memorial |
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| Mount Kremenets. Cuman warriors |
Connoisseurs of architectural masterpieces may be interested in the cultural heritage of this former Cossack settlement — the surviving monuments of civil architecture of the 19th-20th centuries.
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| A commercial building. Soborna Street, 31. The former district consumer union |
The oldest educational institution in the Kharkiv region, located in the town park, deserves attention. The former real school, built in 1882, has not lost its educational function, and today it houses School No. 4.
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| Staropochtova Street, 31. The former real school. School No. 4 |
The premises of the former girls' gymnasium now house a polyclinic.
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| Pokrovska Street, 34. The former girls' gymnasium. The polyclinic |
The Bureau of Technical Inventory occupies the building of the former People's House, where at the beginning of the 20th century dance evenings, exhibitions and concerts were held.
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| Pokrovska Street, 57. The former People's House. The BTI |
The modern hub of culture, together with the district administration and the polyclinic, frames the central square.
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| The Central Square. The former "Spartak" cinema. The House of Culture |
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| The Central Square. The district state administration and the polyclinic |
The new medical building has turned into an endless unfinished project, while in the thickets of the hospital park the old buildings of the county hospital stand closed.
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| The hospital's unfinished building |
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| The old hospital buildings |
The children's polyclinic was left a pre-revolutionary building.
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| Izium. The children's polyclinic |
Secondary medical education can be obtained at the medical college, which is housed in the building of the former zemstvo board.
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| Staropochtova Street, 41. The former zemstvo board. The medical college |
The military enlistment office occupies two mansions with attics and elegant brick ornamentation.
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| Staropochtova Street, 37. The military enlistment office |
In Izium, during the First World War, future military commanders trained in the craft of war at the non-commissioned officers' school, among them Marshal of the Soviet Union G. K. Zhukov.
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| Soborna Street, 56. The former non-commissioned officers' school. The employment centre |
On the very oldest streets you can see houses that have kept the atmosphere of a county town.
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| Staropochtova Street, 39. A police station |
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| Soborna Street, 14. The music school |
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| Soborna Street, 19 |
Not all of them are in proper condition, but they make up the century-old development in the historic centre.
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| John Lennon Square, 8. The House of Culture |
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| Soborna Street, 40. A residential building |
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| Soborna Street, 27. A residential building |
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| Dontsia-Zakharzhevskoho Street, 18. A residential building |
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| Dontsia-Zakharzhevskoho Street, 16. A residential building |
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| Soborna Street, 9. A residential building |
The rescue and preservation of cultural sites is carried out by the staff of the local history museum, whose founder was M. V. Sibilov, a researcher of the archaeological monuments of Slobozhanshchyna and the Donetsk region.
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| Soborna Street, 12. The M. V. Sibilov Local History Museum. A memorial plaque to the local historian, scholar and founder of the museum |
A collection of artworks and sculptural compositions by local artists is gathered in the Izium vernissage, not far from the Holy Ascension Cathedral.
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| Moskovska Street, 36. The Izium vernissage |
In former times, buildings were decorated with ornate stucco and intricate brick patterns. Modern artists decorate buildings with wall paintings and cover the walls with creative murals.
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| John Lennon Square, 3. A mural depicting the frontman of The Beatles, after whom Lenin Square was renamed |
In Izium, the Kharkiv artist Andrii Palval approached the task with heart, believing that "a town does not tolerate emptiness; someone will fill it with advertising, someone will plant grapes whose vine will start to weave along the wall, and I paint." His highlights turn up on the most unexpected objects, giving the streets warmth and singularity.
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| Soborna Street, 43. A mural on a building |
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| A transformer substation. The mural "A fish can't fall. Neither can we" |
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| An old transformer substation. The inscription: "The first generator of good" |
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| John Lennon Square. A mural on the ruins of a building |
You can come to Izium by passenger and suburban trains from
Kyiv,
Ivano-Frankivsk,
Lviv, Kharkiv,
Kramatorsk,
Sloviansk,
Kostiantynivka.
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| The railway station |
Motor transport runs along the M-03 (E-40) highway, passing through the town from north to south and crossing the famous Mount Kremenets.
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| Izium. The M-03 (E-40) motorway. The bridge over the Siverskyi Donets |
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| The bus station |
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