Attractions of Pokrovsk district

The communal cultural and educational institution "People's Museum of the Novomykhailivka Village History" is located in the former premises of the Zemstvo school.

The museum funds include more than 3,000 exhibits. The exposition presents ancient tools, household items, money of different times. The most notable exhibits are an old carriage and a retro car "Moskvich-401".

During the large-scale Russian aggression in 2022, the museum was destroyed, a large part of the exposition was destroyed.

The Pokrovsk Historical Museum, founded in 1967, is located on the ground floor of a high-rise building in the center of Pokrovsk.

The museum has 14,000 museum items. Among the archeological monuments there is a ritual vessel found at the excavations of the Novovasylivsky mound with an ornament-icon of a map of the starry sky with a weekly schedule of the summer sun in the middle of winter, as well as a stone depicting the starry sky from an ancient altar.

In the ethnographic exposition you can see collections of irons, samovars, Easter eggs, towels, postcards.

A separate exhibition tells about the Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych, who at the beginning of the XX century worked for 4 years as a singing teacher at the railway school in Pokrovsk.

Polovtsian stone babas are installed in front of the entrance.

In the register of miraculous sources of the Russian Empire, the Avdiivka source of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker dates back to 1700.

According to legend, the phenomenon of Nicholas the Wonderworker was observed here many times.

In 1930, the activists of the Union of Atheists covered up this source, but it broke through again. There were several more attempts to destroy it, but the source exists and is still a place of pilgrimage for believers.

The chapel of the Mother of God "Handcuffs of Sinners" was built above the source.

Drive in from the Donetsk - Kostyantynivka highway according to the sign.

The single-seat Saint Peter and Paul Church in the village of Sontsivka was built in 1840 at the expense of the then owner of the estate, the Oryol Governor Petro Sontsov.

In the second half of the 19th century, the mother of the future composer Serhiy Prokofyev was the guardian of the Sunday school that operated at the church. Little Serhiy Prokofyev himself was baptized in this church, and until 1904 he sang in the church choir. Later, being famous, the composer came to his native village to pray at the temple.

Peter and Paul Church was restored in 1991 for the 100th anniversary of Prokofyev's birth. Her silhouette is depicted on the village coat of arms.

The world's only museum of the composer Serhiy Prokofyev was opened in the village of Sontsivka, where he was born in 1891.

The exposition is located in the building of the former village school, where the composer's mother, Mariya Prokofyev, who later took over the patronage of the school, taught.

The composer's personal belongings, his works, and a fragment of his parents' interior are presented in three halls of the museum.

The memorial area, dedicated to the life and work of the composer, also includes a magnificent concert hall for 120 seats, a monument to Serhiy Prokofyev by the sculptor Vasyl Polonyk, the Saint Peter and Paul Church, where little Serhiy was baptized, and a memorial sign on the site of the house- estates of his parents.

The healing spring in the village of the same name is called "Zolotyi Kolodiaz" (Golden Well).

According to legend, the name was given to this settlement by the Russian Tsar Peter I. Returning from a successful Azov campaign in 1696, the Tsar rested in these places, and was offered a cup of healing water from a miraculous well. "Ah, the water is golden!" - uttered Peter I, took out a gold coin from his pocket and threw it into the well, loudly prophesying: "From now on he will be the Zolotyi Kolodiaz!"

Now, a historic log cabin has been restored at the legendary spring, and a four-ton figure of Peter I, sitting on a well log cabin with a bucket in his hands, has been installed nearby (sculptor Yuriy Artemov).

The water in the spring is a mineral treatment-dining room. Its composition includes chlorides, bicarbonates, sulfates, magnesium, sodium and calcium. When significant volumes of the spring were established, a water pump appeared and the "Zolotyi Kolodiaz" mineral water bottling plant was opened.