St Elijah's Church, Subotiv
Khmelnytsky's burial church of 1653 — the one from the five-hryvnia note.
Subotiv was the family estate of the Khmelnytskys, and Hetman Bohdan built the masonry St Elijah's Church here as a family burial place. Sources give the date differently: according to the ESU, 1653 (other data say 1656); according to the Chyhyryn community, 1651–1653, with consecration in August 1653; and the head of the Subotiv Historical Museum, Nadiia Kuksa, citing an episcopal visitation of 1751, names 1651. Walls up to 2 metres thick with loopholes made the church a fortification as well. In 1657 Bohdan Khmelnytsky was buried here, to the right of the altar; in 1664 Subotiv was captured and destroyed by the Polish army, and the fate of the grave is still unclear — a ground-penetrating radar survey in 2019 revealed signs of an entrance shaft to a crypt. In 1869 a bell tower and a gallery were added, and in 1977 the gallery was dismantled and the church was returned to its original appearance. The church is pictured on the reverse of the 5-hryvnia banknote; today it is a working church of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine within the Chyhyryn reserve.
Subotiv is about 10 km from Chyhyryn (Telegraf, 09.07.2025) — a natural pair with the hetman capital. The church is in use and belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (cherkasy.info, 14.05.2026); the rector, Fr Volodymyr Hladkovskyi, says it is open daily from morning till evening (Suspilne Cherkasy, 26.10.2025).