TOWER TYPE OF WOODEN CHURCH IN KYIV GOVERNANCE: SIGNS OF REGIONAL SPECIFICITY

The article highlights the specifics of the tower-type wooden church in the territories of different districts of the Kyiv province. It is noted that this type of dereyan church directly influenced the formation of brick tower churches of the Ukrainian Baroque era. The direct connection between the compositions of tower churches of 3-5 log houses with separate tops open to the zenith and brick churches of the tower type, where the principles of wooden architecture are essentially embodied in bricks, is highlighted. The gradual spread of the number of such churches and their varieties in the direction from the northern counties of the Kyiv province to the southern counties, where this type essentially becomes dominant, is traced.The analysis of the three-dimensional composition of wooden churches of the Kyiv province made it possible to determine the list of territories where this type became dominant and developed into several varieties.it was concluded that the dominant autochthonous type of Ukrainian wooden church on the territory of the Kyiv province was the type of three-log three-story church. However, the type of tower church was not dominant everywhere: it was not characteristic of the northern counties, instead it is the main one for the Dnieper territories of Kyiv County, Kaniv County, Taraschan County, Lipovets County, Uman, Cherkasy, and Chigyryn County.Therefore, the tower Cossack church type was most widespread in the territories with a strong Cossack movement. However, several types of tower churches can be distinguished:- more archaic, with tent tops (Trypillya, Ulyanyki village);- slender multi-story (Dybyntsi village, Tarasha city, Velika Berezyanka village);- a powerful monumental image of a multi-story building (Sverdlikyv village, Moshuriv village, Torgovitsa town;- a complicated composition (Medvediv Monastery).