Attractions of Kropyvnytskyi district

The Ustynivka History Museum is located in the premises of the House of Culture of the urban-type village of Ustynivka. It was opened in 2003 on the initiative of local historians Hryhoriy and Tetyana Musenko. It was they who formed the main exposition about the history of the then Ustiniv district from ancient times to the present day.

The archaeological collection of the museum presents the stone tools of primitive people: silicon scrapers, cutters, manual stone chisels.

The ethnographic collection includes embroidered towels, ancient clothing, wooden tools and household items. Also presented is a whole series of products of master blacksmiths, which were made in local forges: forged nails, horseshoes, fishing rods, stirrups, cattle chains, etc. The collections of metal sickles and irons are interesting.

The Ustynivka History Museum has a permanent exhibition devoted to the defenders of Ukraine of all generations, in particular to the heroes of the Russian-Ukrainian war.

The public history museum of the village of Moshoryne is located on the second floor of the Moshoryne secondary school. It has two sections: ethnographic and historical.

The ethnographic section recreates the interior of a traditional Ukrainian house with a stove, benches, chests, bowls shelf, icons and embroidered towels. Here are presented items of rural life: nightstands, a barrel, a measuring cup, a bread bowl, a sieve, a rubel for ironing, a rocking chair, wicker products from bark and vines. You can also see agricultural tools: a sickle, a flail, a grain grinder, a hand mill and a yoke for oxen.

The historical section is devoted mainly to the events of the Second World War. About 200 portraits of Moshoryne residents who died at the front are presented. Among the exhibits: a rifle butt, a bayonet knife, machine-gun belts, grenades, helmets, flasks, a German-style gas mask.

The new exposition is dedicated to the natives of the Moshoryne village who took part in the Russian-Ukrainian war.

The first private gallery "Yelysavethrad" in Kropyvnytskyi opened in 2011 in the historical quarters of the city, on the street named after the mayor Oleksandr Pashutin. The two-story building of the gallery was built at the end of the 19th century by the local baker Oleksiyenko.

The exhibition includes several dozen paintings by famous Ukrainian, including Kirovohrad, artists, in particular, the brothers Anatoliy and Serhiy Shapovalovy, Semen Ravskyi, Borys Vintenko, Fedir Klymenko and others. One of the works of Petro Ossovsky is presented.

There is a permanent exhibition of documents, photographs, objects related to the history of the city of Kropyvnytskyi. Thematic exhibitions of household items and art of the Soviet period, coins and banknotes of the world, household items of the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century, porcelain dolls, etc., are also popular.

The gallery regularly holds thematic exhibitions and painting workshops.

The People's Memorial Museum of Yuliy Meitus in Kropyvnytskyi has been operating since 1985 at Music School No. 2, which also bears the name of the outstanding Ukrainian composer, founder of Ukrainian opera of the 20th century, Yuliy Meitus.

The foundation of the exposition is made up of more than 200 unique exhibits donated to the museum by the family of Yuliy Meitus. Among them are manuscripts, posters, photo documents, pianos, letters, music collections, books and personal belongings of the composer.

In addition to excursions, the museum hosts musical evenings, author's concerts, competitions and festivals, lessons-concerts, workshops, presentations of new exhibits.

The Literary Memorial Museum of the writer Yuriy Yanovsky is located in the village of Nechaivka, where he was born in 1902. The museum building was erected in the center of the village in 1972 on the initiative of fellow villagers.

The Yanovsky family was of Cossack origin, they were distant relatives of the Hohol-Yanovsky. They lived on the Mayorivka farm, which is now part of the Nechaivka village (a memorial sign has been installed on the site of the homestead). Yuriy Yanovsky lived here for the first 15 years of his life, studied at the local Zemstvo school. In 1917, the family moved to Yelysavethrad, but memories of the native village were reflected in the writer's work.

The design of the museum exposition was executed by the monumentalist artist Volodymyr Volokhov, realizing in artistic form the two main themes of Yuriy Yanovsky's work - the steppe and the sea.

The basis of the museum exposition is Yuriy Yanovsky's personal belongings, books, photo albums, documents, order books, a membership card of the Writers' Union. The interior of the writer's dining room and office in his Kyiv apartment is reproduced. Decorations for performances staged based on Yanovsky's plays, theater posters are also exhibited.