Attractions of Dnipro district

The Cathedral of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin in Mala Petrykivka was founded in 1772 on the initiative of the chieftain of Zaporizhzhia Sich, Petro Kalnyshevskyi, who is considered the founder of the village.

According to church records, the church was moved to the site of a new settlement from the village of Kurylivka. In 1812, the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin was rebuilt in stone. A three-part temple with a rectangular central part, a semicircular apse and a projecting vestibule. On the western facade - a four-column portico, completed by a triangular pediment.

An architectural monument of national importance.

Currently, the right of ownership of the cathedral is being registered by the Petrykivka settlement community, which will be able to decide to whom and under what conditions it will be transferred for use by the relevant religious community.

In dire need of restoration.

Park named after Lazar Hloba is the central park of the Dnipro.

It was founded in the 18th century by the Zaporozhzhian Cossack Lazar Hloba on the territory of his manor. Until 1858, the park was called the Katerynoslav State Garden, and from the 1920s, the city authorities divided it into the City Garden and the Technical Garden. During the Soviet rule, the park was named Chkalov.

There is a children's railway, city attractions, a karting center and a summer concert venue. In the middle of the park there is a large lake with beautiful swans.

A monument to Lazar Hloba was erected on his grave.

The Pidhorodne People's History and Local Lore Museum is named after the local bandurist and carver Oleksa Koval. It was he who founded the local history museum in Pidhorodne in 1967.

The museum is located in a separate building near the city council. Its funds include more than 19,000 storage units. In particular, a large ethnographic selection is presented, including traditional clothes, ancient Ukrainian tableware, tools of peasant work.

Among the exhibits of the museum are banduras made by Oleksa Koval.

The Petrykivka painting exhibition is open at the Petrykivka Folk Art Center.

The traditional Petrykivka decorative painting became famous as early as the 19th century, it was managed to be preserved and even put on the assembly line in Soviet times.

The "Petrykivka" folk art center was established in the early 1990s as the first enterprise owned by the folk craftsmen themselves, and now unites about 40 masters of Petrykivka painting.

The exhibition hall is open all the time, workshops are open for visits, tours and master classes for children are held. The exposition presents paintings, painted household items, decorations. Here you can buy or order all kinds of souvenirs.

The Petrykivka museum of ethnography, everyday life and folk art was created in 2010 on the basis of an exhibition of Petrykivka paintings at the Druzhba factory.

There are 2,500 objects in the museum's collections that tell about the history of Petrykivka, the ethnography of this region, the development of applied folk art, and the technique of Petrykivka painting.

Of particular value are the products of folk masters of Petrykiv decorative painting Fedir Panko, Andriy Pikush, Nataliya Rybak and others.

The museum holds master classes on various techniques of folk crafts.

Saint Nicholas Church is the oldest church in the Dnipro. It is located on the territory of the former city of Novi Kodaky, the center of the Kodak palanka of Zaporizhzhia Sich, which over time became part of the current city of Dnipro.

The stone church in the style of classicism was built instead of the wooden Cossack church that existed since 1650. Cross-shaped, with a strongly elongated western branch and a semicircular apse, with small square extensions.

Paintings from the beginning of the 20th century have been preserved.

The Saint Tikhvin Convent in Dnipro was founded in 1866 on land donated to the community by the former priest of the Sunday Church of Katerynoslav Cemetery, Zosymovych, as well as state peasants Yukhym Shaposhnykov and Fedir Habanenko.

In 1868, the church of Saint Barbara, a cell building and a refectory were built. In 1874, the construction of the stone three-throne cathedral in the name of the Tikhvin icon of the Mother of God was completed.

During its history, the monastery was closed twice by the authorities (in 1925, and then after 17 years of vitality - in 1959). In its premises was boarding school No. 1 for children with disabilities. The Saint Tikhvin Cathedral, which was damaged during the Second World War, was blown up in 1959, and a boarding school for people with hearing impairments was built in its place.

Since 1999, the Saint Tikhvin Convent has been operating again. It belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The Historical and Local Lore Museum of the village of Spaske in the Dnipropetrovsk region was founded in 1978 by a local historian teacher, Opanas Matviyenko. The museum is located in the premises of the old school.

The museum's collections include 1,500 exhibits. The exposition in five halls tells about the history of Spaske from its foundation in 1650 to the present day. Separate expositions are devoted to the Holodomor and the events of the Second World War.

Technical Museum "Time Machines" in Dnipro presents the private collection of rare cars of the Dnipro collector Mykhaylo Prudnikov.

It is located in an abandoned workshop of thermoplastic machines near the center of Dnipro. The hall recreates the atmosphere of a city street in the 1950s and 1960s.

In the museum garage there are about 25 cars, mostly of Soviet production, with a slight bias towards sports. "Zaporozhets", "Muscovit", "Zhigul", "Volga", "Peremoga", "Chaika" of various modifications and years of production, as well as SUVs, trucks and buses are presented.

There is a cafe decorated in retro style at the museum of retro cars.

The Museum of Ukrainian Painting in Dnipro presents the Ekaterynoslav-Dnipro school of painting of the 20th century, near the origins of which were artists Mykhaylo Panin, Mykola Pohrebnyak, Oleksandr Kuko.

The museum was opened in 2013 in a modern building next to the Trinity Cathedral.

The main exhibition, which includes more than 200 works, is dedicated to Dnipro artists of the 20th century.

Albums, exhibition booklets from the 1960s and 1970s, personal belongings of artists, slides with photos from family archives are also presented.