The village of Zakharivka is located in the upper reaches of the Berezivka River, 25 kilometers north of Oleksandriia. Administratively, it is a part of Velyka Andrusivka hromada of Oleksandriia district of Kirovohrad region.
During the time of the Hetmanship, the Cossack villages of Buhalka and Makrahovo existed at this place, which were first marked on the map of the famous French military engineer Danyil de Bosket in 1775. Later, lieutenant Pavlo Furman became the owner of Makrahovo farm, renaming it Furmanivka, and his son Zakhariy Furman gave the village its modern name.
A wooden pantry from 1869 has been preserved, which could be moved from place to place on oak logs.
During the Holodomor, 428 people died in Zakharivka. A monument to the soldiers of the 116t ...
Zakharivka History Museum
Museum / gallery
The History Museum in Zakharivka is considered one of the largest rural museums in the Kirovohrad Region - its holdings include more than 13,000 objects from the main holding alone. The exhibition is housed in 15 rooms of the former kindergarten.
The basis of the museum's collection is the materials about the 116th Kharkiv Rifle Division, which liberated Zakharivka from the German occupiers in 1943. Searchers managed to establish the names of about a hundred fallen heroes buried in a mass grave on the territory of the village. Fragments of weapons and military equipment are presented.
The ethnographic section exhibits things preserved by the inhabitants of the villages of the Novoheorhiyvka district, which were flooded in the 1960s by the waters of the Kremenchuk Reservoir during the construction of the Kremenchuk HPP. Among them are furniture, household items, work tools, photos, toys, postcards. A collection of embroidered fabrics and antique towels is presented, including a wedding towel embroidered in 1813.
Impressive collections of ancient musical instruments, as well as hand, pocket and wall clocks, which are presented about 1.5 thousand copies.
Administrative status | village |
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Founded / first mentioned | 1775 |
Latitude | 48.847584 |
Longitude | 32.977406 |
Population | 829 |
Postal codes | 27545 |
Region | Kirovohrad |