Attractions of Dnipro district

The Sursko-Lytovske Memorial Art Museum of Fedir Reshetnykov was opened in 1990 in the native village of the artist, at the local high school.

Fedir Reshetnykov was born in 1906 in the family of a local icon painter. He lived in the village of Sursko-Lytovske until he was 14 years old, where he began to paint. Subsequently, he became a polar explorer, took part in the world-famous expedition to the Chelyuskin icebreaker, from where he brought many sketches on Arctic subjects.

Reshetnykov is considered one of the main representatives of socialist realism in painting. The most famous for him were paintings on everyday subjects: "Low Marks Again", "Arrive on Vacation", "Took a prisoner", as well as the anti-war picture "For Peace".

Reshetnykov bequeathed 22 originals of his works to the school museum in Sursko-Lytovske. In 1997, the Fedir Reshetnykov Memorial Art Museum received the title of People's Museum. In addition to paintings, materials about the life and work of the artist are stored here.

The historical and ethnographic complex "Cossack Hundred" in Petrykivka represents the historical, ethnographic and cultural heritage of the Petrykivka region of the XVIII-XIX centuries as one of the centers of folk art and crafts.

Also here you can see and feel how the inhabitants of different regions of Ukraine lived and what they did in ancient times. The Museum of Ethnography and Life "Grazhda" operates - a copy of Hutsul hut-grazhda with residential and commercial buildings of the 18th century, where ceramics, household items and tools of the inhabitants of the Dnipro region are exhibited.

A model of the Cossack fortress "Sich" is presented, a training range for shooting with ancient Cossack weapons (crossbow, bow, rifle), a mini-zoo (ostriches, peacocks, wild ducks, wild boars, goats, sheep, donkeys, horses), a children's playground, arena for horse shows and beach volleyball court.

Master classes are held, in particular on Petrykivka painting.

The Museum of the History of the Dnipro Metro was founded in 1996, shortly after the opening of the first metro line in the city of Dnipro. The museum is located in one of the premises of the administration building of the Dnipro metro.

The exhibition opens with a panoramic photo of the Metalurgiv metro station with a diagram of the entire line and its prospective sections. The exhibition presents documents and photos illustrating the history of the construction of the facility and the current day-to-day operation of the subway. You can see samples of rocks through which the subway builders drove, samples of building structures and technological equipment, symbolic keys from each station of the first line and from the entire subway, a sample of a typical station lamp.

Excursions to the Museum of the History of the Dnipro Metro are available only for organized groups upon prior agreement with the administration.

Museum of Dnipropetrovsk Region Financial System History was opened in 2002 at the Main Financial Department of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration.

The history of the financial system of the region is presented in the museum since 1787, when the then Katerynoslav was founded. Today, the museum's collections include more than 1,700 exhibits. Among them are the originals of currency signs, calculators and arithmetic meters, ancient accounting equipment, samples of financial documents. In particular, the decree of Empress Catherine II on the creation of treasury chambers is presented, as well as the metal plates that were hung on the houses given as collateral.

The central element of the exposition is a reconstruction of the workplace of a financier in the middle of the 20th century with a wax figure of officeman.

The Museum of History of Local Self-Government of the Dnipropetrovsk Region was opened in 2008 as a branch of the Dnipropetrovsk National Historical Museum named after Dmytro Yavornytskyi.

The museum is located on the second floor of the building of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council, which was built in 1905 for the Katerynoslav Commercial School and rebuilt in 1935 to meet the needs of the local self-government body.

The exhibition with an area of 200 square meters reflects the history of the development of local self-government institutions in the Dnipropetrovsk region from the Middle Ages to the present day.

The museum has more than 600 exhibits, including personal belongings of officials of different times, interior items and office equipment, stationery, historical documents and photos, gifts of village councils from various regions of the region. Portraits of many leaders of the city of Dnipro (former Katerynoslav, Dnipropetrovsk) and Dnipropetrovsk region (former Katerynoslav province) are presented.

The Museum of the History of Pilots of the Dnipro Rapids is located in the Lots-Kamyanka Culture House on the southern edge of the Dnipro, in the village of Lotsmanska Kamyanka, where the Dnipro pilots, descendants of the Zaporozhzhian Cossacks, lived long ago.

Before the construction of DniproGES, pilots guided ships through rapids on the Dnipro. The Museum of the History of Pilots and the Pilot Craft was created on the basis of the private collection of the last Dnipro pilot Hryhoriy Omelchenko.

About 200 exhibits are housed in a small room of the House of Culture: anchors, oars, pilot's clothes, embroidered towels and shirts, chests, jugs, folk paintings and dozens of photographs.

The Holy Exaltation Church on Diyivka is one of the oldest in the Dnipro.

Founded in 1803. It was built in a classical style using the traditions of Ukrainian architecture.

During Soviet times, the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross was closed, and a club was located there.

Today, the church is located among the high-rise buildings of the Pokrovskyi housing estate. Recently, the temple was thoroughly restored and opened for visitors.

Kelnskyi Boulevard is a new pedestrian zone in the center of Dnipro. It is also called "New Arbat".

A cobbled boulevard is decorated with an alley of fountains. Shopping centers, cafes and restaurants are located here. The lights of shop windows and "Arbat" lanterns in the evening give Kelnskyi Boulevard a European charm.

One night, anonymous people secretly installed a bronze sculpture of a sitting man on the boulevard, which they called a "monument to an unknown oligarch" (an extravagant gift to one of the wealthy townspeople, Hennadiy Akselrod).

Now it is one of the favorite places for walks and recreation of the townspeople.

The remains of the ramparts of the Polish fortress Kodak are located in a picturesque place on the high bank of the Dnipro in the village of Stari Kodaky on the southern edge of the Dnipro.

The Kodak Fortress was built by the French engineer Levasser de Boplan on the orders of the Polish King Vladyslav IV to control the Zaporizhzhians Cossacks. It was captured twice by Zaporizhzhian troops (in 1910, on the initiative of historian Dmytro Yavornytskyi, an obelisk was erected in honor of the capture of the fortress in 1648). Later, Katerynoslav (Dnipro) was founded nearby, a little further north, by Prince Hrihoriy Potomkin.

Soon the Kodak Fortress lost its importance, and in 1944 it was almost completely destroyed by a granite quarry.

The main center of literary life of Dnipropetrovsk region is the Literary Prydniprovya Museum, the department of the Dnipropetrovsk National Historical Museum after Dmytro Yavornytsky.

It was opened in 1983 in the historic "Inzov House", built in the early XIX century to house the Office of Guardianship of Novorossiysk foreign settlers. For some time it was headed by Lieutenant General Ivan Inzov, who in 1820 was repeatedly visited by the Russian poet Oleksandr Pushkin. The house is also associated with the activities of the literary and artistic society Mykola Hohol, many other cultural and public figures.

The museum's collections include manuscripts of works of art, books, documents, photographs, and personal belongings of prominent writers, folklorists, and theater figures of the 18th and 20th centuries that were related to the Dnipropetrovsk region.

Part of the exhibition is located on the ground floor of the house. The second floor of the "Inzov House", where the renovation has not been completed, has become a museum laboratory. Every year about 30 art exhibitions and up to 70 scientific and educational events are held here.

The public information and exhibition center Mediaprostir in Dnipro operates on the basis of the former Center for Innovative Technologies "Rocket Park", located in the park next to the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council.

The museum-exhibition complex with life-size models of three rockets produced by the "Pivdenmash" plant was created in 2013. One of the first Soviet ballistic missiles 8K11 (R-11), the first missile with a mobile launch developed by KB "Pivdenne" 8K99 (RT-20P) and the three-stage launch vehicle "Zyklon-3" are presented at the exhibition site.

This is one of the main locations of the "Dnipro Space" tourist route. The exhibition hall of the complex is currently used as a venue for public events and presentations.

The monument at the place of death of Prince Svyatoslav Ihorovych in Mykilske-Na-Dnipri is one of the oldest monuments dedicated to Ancient Rus.

According to legend, one of the most militant and active Kyiv princes Svyatoslav Ihorovych, the son of Princess Olha, died in a battle with the Pechenegs near the famous Dnipro rapid "Nenasytets", returning after an unsuccessful campaign to Constantinople. During his reign (964-972), he managed to defeat the Khazar Khaganate, conquer the Vyatichi, and carry out military campaigns to Bulgaria and the North Caucasus.

A cast-iron slab on a granite boulder on the bank of the Dnipro was installed in 1872 at the probable place of the prince's death. The inscription on it says: "In 972, near the Dnipro rapids, a Rus knight, Prince Svyatoslav Ihorovych, died in an unequal battle with the Pechenegs."

The monument is located on the territory of the Children's Health Camp. Visitors are accompanied by security.

The museum center of Olena Blavatska and her family in Dnipro is being created in a landmark building on the territory of the old Fadyeyevy family estate in Katerynoslav, built at the beginning of the 19th century.

In 1816-1834, the estate belonged to Andriy Fadyeyev, Blavatsky's grandfather, and she herself was born here in 1831.

Having traveled all over the world and researched ancient Eastern teachings in India and Tibet, Olena Blavatska became famous throughout the world as an outstanding theosophist, religious scholar, writer, creator of the International Theosophical Society. Her works were not influenced by the worldview of Mykola Roerich, Vasyl Kandinsky, Tomas Edison, Mahatma Gandhi.

The Blavatska Museum in Dnipro has been established since 2004. Pilot expositions are developed, a scientific library works, and club meetings are held.

A memorial plaque dedicated to Olena Blavatska has been installed on the building.

The ethnographic museum-manor "Mykolyn Khutir" in the village of Mala Petrykivka in Dnipropetrovsk region was founded in 2019 by famous masters of Petrykivka painting Mykola and Valentyna Deka.

They receive guests in their own village house over a hundred years old, which is decorated with traditional paintings in the Petrykivka style and turned into a museum of traditional peasant life. A prominent place in the interior is occupied by a traditional Ukrainian stove. You can also see an antique loom, a painted chest, embroidered clothes and towels.

Visitors are offered master classes in Petrykivka painting and motanka dolls, as well as lunches with homemade dishes.

The main attraction of the Khutir is "Traveling Hut" – a painted house on wheels, which can travel around the village.

National Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater named after Taras Shevchenko was founded in Dnipro (at that time Sicheslav) in 1918 by the government of Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky as the first professional theater of Ukraine.

The building was added as a theater and concert hall to the former English club (architect Fedir Bulatsel). Reconstructed in 1978-1979. Cartouches with the numbers "1838" and "1913" have been preserved - the dates of the club's foundation and its 75th anniversary. The facade is decorated with a sculptural triptych reflecting the stages of the theater's creative journey. The rounded corner is crowned with the figure of a muse.