Attractions of Kropyvnytskyi district

The monument "Students of all times" was installed in Kropyvnytskyi in 2012 on the square in front of the Central Ukrainian National Technical University, which is now called Studentska.

At the heart of the composition of the monument to students is a bench, near which a male and a female student are sitting with books in their hands. The bench is a Mebius strip (a surface with only one side) engraved with the names of the higher education institution at different times.

The museum complex of the National Aviation University Flight Academy in Kropyvnytskyi unites a number of museum institutions and exhibition spaces dedicated to the history of Ukrainian aviation in general and the educational institution in particular.

The center of the complex is the Aviation Museum, which has been operating since 1971. The exposition presents many aircraft models, photos, souvenirs from different countries, awards and gifts. The most popular exhibit is the cabin of the An-24 aircraft, which was used as a training exercise for cadets. Samples of on-board recorders - so-called "black boxes" are also presented.

Kozhedub Square behind the main training building of the academy was created in 2010 around a memorial sign in honor of the stay of Ukrainian ace pilot Ivan Kozhedub in Kirovohrad Oblast. The square also features a forged commemorative sign "Shpakivnia forever" in honor of all graduates, a memorial plaque dedicated to the two-time Hero of the Soviet Union Amet Khan Sultan, stands with information about outstanding aviators whose activities are related to Kirovohrad region, etc.

Alley of Aviators was laid in 2010 from Chobanu Street to BC "Aviator" in honor of the 100th anniversary of the first flight into the sky of Yelisavetgrad. There are real airplanes and models, stands and creative compositions, a fountain in the form of an airplane and much more.

The Aeronautical square is located between the second educational building and the training center - here the composition "Rose of the Winds" and samples of aeronautical equipment, which was operated at the airfield "Kirovohrad" in different years, are presented.

The museum exposition of historical local history is also a part of the complex.

Bobrynets City Museum of Local Lore in Kirovohrad Region bears the name of Mykola Smolenchuk, a Ukrainian writer and researcher of the life and work of luminaries of the Ukrainian theater, who founded this institution in 1959.

Now the museum has more than 5,500 exhibits. In particular, the archeological collection, household items of different epochs, ancient weapons and money are presented.

The main exposition presents photos, documents, letters, invitations related to the figure of Marko Kropyvnytskyi. Among the unique things - a shawl of the famous Ukrainian actress Mariya Zankovetska, as well as furniture from the houses where the luminaries stopped during a tour in Bobrynets.

Preserved authentic table, chair, mirror, gramophone. The "Ukrainian Room" hall tells about the traditional life of the region's inhabitants.

The military hall presents materials about the Second World War and modern war in eastern Ukraine, and a corner in memory of the Hero of the Heavenly Hundred Viktor Chmilenko has been opened.

The Kropyvnytskyi Museum of Musical Culture named after Karol Shymanovskyi was founded in 1991 on the initiative of musicologist Olha Levtonova. At this time, it temporarily does not have its own premises, the exhibits are stored in storage rooms.

The museum is dedicated to the Yelysavethrad period in the life of the outstanding Polish composer Karol Shymanovskyi, who was born in 1882 in Ukraine - in the family estate in the Chyhyryn region. In Yelysavethrad, where his family lived during the winter, he studied at the music school of Neuhaus, where he began his concert and journalistic activities.

The memorial building of the Shymanovskyi on Hoholya Street, which was in a state of disrepair, was actually rebuilt in 1991-1997, but the construction was never completed. The museum was temporarily located in Music School No. 1 named after Heinrich Neuhaus, but in 2020, in connection with the major renovation of the school building, the museum exhibits were dismantled.

The museum's collections include about 10,000 exhibits. Among them, the most valuable are autographs, belongings and portraits of Karol Szymanowski, documents and photographs of the Neuhaus and Blumenfeld families.

Currently, the Karol Shymanovskyi Museum of Musical Culture organizes separate exhibitions at other venues, conducts thematic tours of the city and works online.

The monument-fountain "Natalka Poltavka" is dedicated to the main character of the play of the same name by Ivan Kotlyarevskyi. Opened in 2013 for the 259th anniversary of the city of Kropyvnytskyi.

The sculpture represents the image of a young girl in Ukrainian national dress who came to the spring for water with a rocker on her shoulders. Next to her on both sides are buckets, and a stream of water runs down the center of the sculpture. The 1.9-meter-high composition is made of artificial marble, and the sculptor Hryhoriy Savchenko spent nine months on its production.

The Oleksandr Osmyorkin Memorial Art Museum was created in 1985 on the basis of the memorial building in Kropyvnytskyi, where this outstanding artist and teacher spent his childhood and youth.

The building is an architectural monument of national importance, built in 1899 according to the own project of the famous Yelisavetgrad architect Yakiv Pauchenko, the artist's uncle. The project of its reconstruction was developed by the artist's widow, architect Nadiya Osmyorkina.

The exposition of the museum is placed in three halls. The memorial hall invites visitors to get acquainted with the life and work of Oleksandr Osmyorkin. Painting and graphic works of the master, studio drawings of the 1920s and 1930s, his personal belongings, including items of creative work - easel, palette, sketch book, brushes, still life collection, memorial items from the Pauchenko-Osmyorkin house are presented.

Painting and graphic works of Osmyorkin's students, who donated more than 50 of their works on the eve of the museum's opening, are exhibited in two exhibition halls.

A monument to the mayor Oleksandr Pashutin was erected on the square in front of the Kropyvnytskyi City Council in 2009 for City Day.

Pashutin held the post of mayor of the city for 27 years (1878-1905) and was highly respected by the city's residents. He was engaged in charity work, took an active part in the work of the Red Cross, was an honorary justice of the peace, was awarded many orders, medals and other awards, including a precious ring with the monogram of Oleksandr III. During his reign, the city of Kropyvnytskyi experienced its heyday: in 1893, a water supply system was launched, in 1882, the first professional theater was opened, and in 1897, a city tram was launched.

His motto "Serving the community should be the goal of life" can be read on the pedestal of the monument. Architect Vitaliy Kryvenko and sculptor Lyubomyr Yaremchuk depicted Pashutin standing, his hand resting on the back of a chair, symbolizing the inheritance of power, and Pashutin ceding it to his successors.

The Oleksandrivka Museum of Local Lore was opened in 1987 on the initiative of the public of the Oleksandrivka urban-type village. The basis of the exposition was archeology items, Tsvitne ceramics, Ukrainian embroidered towels, weapons from the Second World War and other materials collected by enthusiasts.

The first hall depicts the history of Oleksandrivka and the entire region from the earliest times until 1917. The exposition about the era of the Cossacks is especially interesting, because the nearby village of Birky was owned by Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, here he received ambassadors of foreign countries, gathered troops for the campaign against Poland, as evidenced by numerous objects of the 17th century found in Birky. Also interesting is the exposition "Ukrainian house of the early twentieth century", which presents various objects of folk life.

The second hall is dedicated to the troubled times of 1920-1930, when the Soviet-Ukrainian war, collectivization and the Holodomor were raging in the region. The history of the region during the Second World War is an exposition of the third hall. The fourth hall is dedicated to the history of the region in the postwar period and the present. There is a department of nature and an art department, where the works of local masters are presented.

Branches of the Oleksandrivka Museum of Local Lore are the Levko Matsievych Room-Museum in Oleksandrivka and the Rozumivka Village History Museum.

The People's Memorial Museum of the outstanding pianist Henrikh Neyhauz was opened in 1981 at Music School No. 1 in the city of Kropyvnytskyi (then Kirovohrad), which he was the founder of and which now bears his name.

Since 1933, the music school has been located in a two-story building in the center of the city, which once belonged to the family of the composer Yuliy Meytus, and is now an architectural monument. This is one of the oldest state music schools in Ukraine.

The initiators of the opening of the museum of a country musician at the school were its director Viktor Revenko and teacher of the piano department Ella Torhovetska. They were the main collectors of museum funds.

Historical documents, photographs and personal belongings belonging to Henrikh Neyhauz and his family are presented in two exhibition halls of the museum. 16 editions in different languages of the world of the main theoretical work of Henrikh Neyhauz "On the Art of Piano Playing" are exhibited. The grand piano and bureau of the composer and musicologist Heorhiy Polyanovskyi are also presented.

On the 125th anniversary of the musician, a commemorative plaque was unveiled on the facade of the building of the music school, and a bust of Henrikh Neyhauz by the Lviv sculptor Volodymyr Tsisaryk was installed in front of the building.

The building of the railway station "Fundukliyivka" of the Odesa Railway was built in Oleksandrivka in 1876 at the expense of Kyiv governor Ivan Fundukley, a scientist and philanthropist who owned the surrounding estates in the second half of the 19th century.

Named in his honor.

The Ivan Tobilevych (Karpenko-Kary) State Reserve-Museum "Khutir Nadiya" was created on the territory of the same name estate in Mykolaivka near Kropyvnytskyi that belonged to the playwright in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The estate was named after Tobilevych's wife, Nadiya from the Tarkovsky family. The founder of the Ukrainian theater settled here in 1887 after being exiled, turning the estate into a creative oasis in the middle of the Ukrainian countryside. Rehearsals of the first Ukrainian theater troupe under the leadership of Marko Kropyvnytskyi were held here, many luminaries of the Ukrainian theater were there, and Karpenko-Kary himself wrote his best works: "One Hundred Thousand", "The Master" and others.

The Tobilevych house, outbuildings, a summer theater, a park with a pond, and a Chumak well have been preserved.

Theatrical-literary and memorial exposition includes more than 7,000 items, a significant part of which was handed over by the Tobilevych-Tarkovsky family. In the rooms, the interior of those times has been restored, in the halls you can familiarize yourself with the life path of the luminaries of the Ukrainian theater.

Now the Ivan Tobilevych State Reserve-Museum "Khutir Nadiya" is a branch of the Central Ukrainian Regional Museum of Local Lore. The theater festival "September Gems" is held here every year.

The Rozumivka Village History Museum was founded in 1967. Initially, it was located in the premises of the Ascension of Cross Church – the burial place of the Rayevsky family, thanks to which the church was preserved.

Now the museum is located on the second floor of the Rozumivka House of Culture. The updated exposition tells about the symbolism of Rozumivka, archaeological research in the region, about the history of the village at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries, about the Holodomor of 1932-1933 and Stalin's repressions in the village, about the Soviet period and the war in Afghanistan, about the participants in the Russian-Ukrainian war.

A separate exposition tells the events of the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917–1921, in particular about the leader of the Black Raven (Mykola Sklyar), who died near Rozumivka together with three hundred Cossacks (a memorial is being created). The exposition is complemented by thematic stained glass windows.

The Rozumivka Village History Museum is a branch of the Oleksandrivka Museum of Local Lore.

Saint Nicholas Church in Bobrynets was built in 1853 according to a typical project at the expense of Princess Dmytryanska.

At first, the church was built in the style of late classicism, but in 1863, partitions and a bell tower were added to it, which added neo-Rus features to the building.

The Church of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker in Birky was built in 1648 by Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi on the lands that belonged to him.

The wooden temple was planned to be removable and portable. Previously, the Saint Nicholas Church stood near the old cemetery. It was moved to its current location in 1820. There are four graves of abbots in the church yard.

The temple is in very good condition. Services are held on Sundays until 12:00 p.m. Belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Church of Saint Paraskeva was built in Krymky in 1914. It is an architectural monument of local importance.

The Church of Saint Paraskeva is active, the interior is in a state of restoration. It belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.