Almost 40 kilometers from Kiev in the village of Plyuty of the Obukhiv district of the Kiev region there is an archive-museum complex “Literary and Art Plutys”, which is a department of the Central State Archive-Museum of Literature and Art of Ukraine.

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The village of Plyuty is located in an extremely picturesque area with fabulously picturesque nature at the place where 3 rivers converge: Dnipro, Kozynka and Stugna. The village has long been famous for its beautiful landscapes, sandy beaches, abundant fishing, an abundance of mushrooms and berries. Next to the noisy industrial metropolis of Plyuta is an island of peace, harmony, beauty and comfort. Attractive natural features of the Plutes attracted the attention of the inhabitants of the capital since the XIX century. Since then, the village has hospitably received those wishing to relax in the environment of a beautiful and generous nature.

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The history of “Literary and Artistic Plutes” begins in 1954, when here, on the banks of the Kozinka River, according to the project of the outstanding architect Vladimir Zabolotny, a country house was erected for the playwright and statesman Oleksandr Korniychuk. After his death in 1972, the Archival Department under the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR on the basis of a certificate of the right to inheritance accepted a house-cottage in the village. Spits as a gift from the widow of the writer — Marina Korniychuk and his sister — Maria Korniychuk. Subsequently, on August 1, 1972, in p. The literary and memorial house-museum of O. IS. Korniychuk is a branch of the Central State Archive-Museum of Literature and Art of the USSR.

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The institution received its current name with the independence of Ukraine, when in 1993 the archive and museum complex “Literary and Artistic Plutes” was created. In 2000, it was taken on the balance sheet of the CDAMLM of Ukraine.

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Since the middle of the twentieth century. Pluts are one of the centers of creative life for domestic artists. Permanent guests of the villa were prominent Ukrainian writers and poets, artists and sculptors, actors and directors, including Andriy Malyshko with Liubov Zabashta, Mikhail Deregus, Boris Hmyria, Pavel Zagrebelny, Plato and Georgy Mayborody, Ivan Kaveri Rabitz, Valentin Litvinenko, Nikolai Glushchenko, Alexander Levada, Vasily Kasyan, Arkady Filipenko, Mikhail Chabanovsky and many others.

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Of course, such a rich history and associated artistic traditions make it possible to position the “Literary and Artistic Pluses” as a place to find inspiration, creative enthusiasm, discovery and multiplication of artistic abilities.

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Guests of the archival and museum complex have the opportunity to contemplate live the reflection of the past of the pleiad of iconic figures of Ukrainian art and culture. The expositions in the language of archival and museum objects tell about the everyday life, life and leisure of the artistic elite of the mid-twentieth century.

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Here you can see the furnished living room “in the spirit of the times” together with an exhibition of furniture, porcelain and works of fine art of the 50-70s of the XX century, a veranda with a demonstration of a collection of fishing tools and blocks, an exhibition of illustrations for children's books by Honored Artist of Ukraine O. Tkachenko and Ukrainian painter and graphic artist D. Shavikina, exhibition of printed publications (kin. XVIII century — 80s XX century), artistic photo portraits of the legend of Ukrainian opera singing Oksana Petrusenko, as well as an exhibition of national decorative and applied art.

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A good tradition of “Literary and Artistic Plutes” is the annual holding of the art festival “Spring in Pluty”. For more than 40 years since the first celebrations were held, outstanding art devotees have been honored here. Among the participants of the celebrations are dozens of professional and amateur teams and performers: the National Academic Drama Theater named after I. Franko, Kyiv National Academic Operetta Theater, Kharkiv Academic Ukrainian Drama Theater named after T. Shevchenko and many others.

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The peculiarity of the work of “Literary and Artistic Pluses” is the holding of multilevel educational mass events, during which elements of training, conversations, consultations, concerts, performances and even tastings are combined. Last year, the literary competition for children and youth organized by the Central Academy of Sciences of Ukraine started work named after M. Chabanovsky “Nature gentle shoot”. Its goal is, within the framework of the global movement for a green future, to provide children with the opportunity to realize their creative abilities and directly contribute to the solution of global environmental problems, to create a wave of literature based on the perception of the representatives of the next generations of the future planet; to attract the attention of the general public to environmental problems which are currently standing exceptionally sharp.

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