Attractions of Dnipro district

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.

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.

The Roman Catholic Church of Saint Joseph was founded in Katerynoslav (Dnipro) in 1872 at the expense of the numerous Polish community of the city, a significant part of which was immigrants deported here by the tsarist government after the January Uprising of 1863.

Construction was completed in 1877. The temple in the Neo-Gothic style was painted with frescoes, some of which have survived to our time, in particular. inscriptions on the walls made in Polish.

In 2009, the dilapidated church was returned to the Catholic community of the city of Dnipro, and reconstruction was carried out. Currently, the church of Saint Joseph is active.

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 Three Saints Church is one of the oldest churches of the Dnipro.

The blue dome of its belfry with golden stars symbolizing the sky and the central golden dome are today lost among the high-rise buildings of the urban development of the Amur-Nizhnyodniprovsky district on the left bank of the Dnipro. At the beginning of the 20th century, it was a large settlement at a wagon repair plant. In 1900, they began to build a church on the land belonging to the enterprise. In 1902, the church was solemnly consecrated in honor of three saints: Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, and John Chrysostom.

The author of the project of the Three Saints Church is unknown. In plan, the temple has the shape of a regular cross. It is crowned by a dome and a traditional cross acquired at that time.

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.