Nova Kakhovka

The Literary Memorial Museum of the Ukrainian poet Anatoliy Bakhuta was opened in 1992 in the house where he lived since childhood in Nova Kakhovka.

The exposition includes 640 of more than 3,000 exhibits, including 1,765 manuscripts.

Graphic portraits of the poet's parents, friendly cartoons and self-portraits, drawn by him in pencil in 1970-1980, are kept here.

The exposition of the museum of Nova Kakhovka, which opened in 1990, is dedicated to the short history of the young southern city of energy workers.

More than 3,000 exhibits in 5 halls tell about different periods of the history of the Kakhovka region, starting from the time of the Scythian kingdom of Atheus.

A separate exposition is devoted to the creation of the Kakhovka hydroelectric junction and the South Crimean Canal.

The city of Nova Kakhovka was under Russian occupation on the very first day of the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Viktor Vasylyev, the director of the City History Museum in Nova Kakhovka, which is a branch of the Kherson Regional Museum of Local Lore, joined the enemy and helped the Russians loot the museum. The museum building was seriously damaged as a result of Russian shelling.

The family recreation center with a mini-zoo "Kazkova Dibrova" was organized in the central park of Nova Kakhovka by local entrepreneur and sculptor-carver Mykhaylo Navrotsky in the mid-1990s.

The owner is the author of 150 wooden sculptures of fairy-tale heroes that decorate the well-kept park with ponds and streams. In the zoo you can see mouflons, peacocks, owls, wild geese and many other animals.

There is a cafe with a green summer terrace on the territory, where you can taste Ukrainian and Tatar cuisine.

On the night of June 6, 2023, during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russian troops blew up the Kakhovska HPP. "Kazkova Dibrova" was flooded as a result of the explosion of the HPP dam. About 300 animals died in the zoo. The park itself was destroyed.

The Museum of House Vintage Cognacs "Tavriya" operates in Nova Kakhovka at the agro-industrial company "Tavriya" - one of the largest wine-making enterprises of Ukraine with a history of more than a century.

TThe enterprise was established in 1929 on the basis of nationalized wine farms of Swiss colonists with a central estate in the village of Osnova. Now the enterprise produces up to 7 million liters of ordinary, vintage and collectible cognacs per year, starting from the ordinary "Borysfen" and "Kakhovsky" and ending with the elite brands "Askania", "Kherson", "Imperial".

The exposition of the Museum of House Vintage Cognacs "Tavriya" is devoted to the history of winemaking in the region. The company organizes group and individual wine tours.

The city of Nova Kakhovka was under Russian occupation on the very first day of the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, February 24, 2022. At the beginning of November of the same year, the mayor of Nova Kakhovka, Volodymyr Kovalenko, reported that the Russians had robbed the Tavriya cognac factory - they took away all the equipment, including with automatic bottling lines, and spirits for a unique collectible cognac.

The Albin Havdzynsky Nova Kakhovka Art Gallery was founded in 1967.

It bears the name of the People's Artist of Ukraine Albin Havdzynsky, a landscape painter, a master of genre painting and portraiture. In the 1950s, he created a cycle of 237 works about the construction of the Kakhovka HPP, which he gave to the city to create a gallery, for which he received the title of honorary citizen of Nova Kakhovka.

In addition to the works of Havdzynsky, the exposition of the Nova Kakhovka art gallery presents etchings by the People's Artist of Ukraine Vasyl Myronenko, illustrations by the People's Artist of Ukraine Valentyn Lytvynenko and others.

During the large-scale Russian military invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the city of Nova Kakhovka was under Russian occupation. On November 1, the Russian invaders robbed the Nova Kakhovka Art Gallery and took away all the art collections: works of painting, graphics, sculptures (more than 1,000 works of art).