Attractions of Kirovohrad region

The Holovanivsk Town-type Village History Museum was opened in 1985 as the Holovanivsk District Museum of History and Local Lore. It is located on the second floor of the village center of culture and leisure. The museum's funds include more than 7,600 exhibits.

The exposition in nine halls tells about the historical events of the Holovanivsk region from the settlement of the region to the present day. In particular, objects from the Stone Age, artifacts of the Trypillia culture, and things from the time of the Cossacks are presented.

In the exposition "Ukrainian Room" you can see a reproduced fragment of a Ukrainian house with a stove, household items of antiquity and mannequins in Ukrainian clothes. Cones, spindles, spinning wheels and details of workbenches, yokes and chains, rakes and pitchforks, roof tiles give an idea of the traditional life of a Ukrainian village.

The following expositions tell about the revolutionary events of 1917-1922, the Holodomor of 1932-1933, the Second World War and the reconstruction of the national economy. The exhibition "Holovanivsk region artisans" presents the works of local masters of decorative and applied art and visual arts.

The Holdenberh Water Hospital was built in Yelysavethrad (now Kropyvnytskyi) at the end of the 19th century.

The Moorish-style building was built according to the project of Yakiv Pauchenko at the expense of Isaak Holdenberh, a specialist in the treatment of nervous diseases. Decorated with decorative tiles, carved plaster, colored bricks, carved doors in the "eastern" arch of the portal.

The Holdenberh Hospital was a popular medical institution among wealthy Yelysavetgrad residents and guests of the city. Natural and perhaps the most progressive procedures at that time were used here: therapeutic baths, a complex of showers, ultraviolet irradiation, aerotherapy. A set of high-quality spa equipment of the European level contributed to the growth of the health resort's popularity. The wife of Dr. Isaak Holdenberh kept a Rhine cellar in the basement of the hospital and sold wine.

Currently, the building houses City Hospital No. 3.

The Holy Epiphany Convent in Dykivka was founded in 1996 on the basis of an ancient church built in 1875 by the Serbian army under the command of Colonel Khorvat.

In 1953, the temple was closed by the Soviet authorities and turned into a granary, and then converted into a hospital.

In 1993, the temple with the adjacent buildings was handed over to the church community and the creation of the first women's monastery in the Kirovohrad region began.

The Dykivka monastery is called a family monastery, because the nuns live there with their children, and relatives come to them in the summer.

The interior decoration of the monastery church is filled with a large number of icons, including the miraculous icon of Saint Nicholas.

When entering the temple, you must take off your shoes. The territory of the monastery is well-kept, there are many flowers.

The blue church with green domes in honor of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary is located in Kropyvnytskyi to the west of the headquarters complex of the military town.

It was built on the site of a wooden church in 1787. The money for the construction of the stone building was allocated in 1824 by the merchant Petro Shchedrin. The project was developed by the architect Kostyantyn Ton, the construction was supervised by the city architect Andreev. The temple is made in the neo-Rus style of cult architecture. Details of 17th century architecture are also used.

In the interior of the Intercession Church, the remains of a painting from the second half of the 19th century (Fedir Kozachinsky) have been preserved.

In 1932, the church was closed, although it resumed work for a short time during the Second World War. Returned to believers in 1988.

The Holy Intercession Church in the village of Nerubaika in the Kirovohrad region is one of the oldest churches in the region, an architectural monument of local importance. According to some sources, it was built in the 18th century as a Catholic church at the expense of the Polish Count Stanislav Potocki.

Since after the accession of these lands to the Russian Empire, the number of Catholic population of Nerubaika decreased, in 1837 the church was rebuilt and rededicated as the Orthodox Church of Saint George. In 1917, it was named the Church of the Holy Intercession.

The church in the style of classicism has a squat silhouette. The thickness of the gray granite walls reaches one meter. The interior is decorated with paintings.

The Literary and Memorial Museum of Ivan Karpenko-Kary was opened in Kropyvnytskyi in 1995 on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the well-known Ukrainian playwright, the luminary of the Ukrainian professional theater Ivan Karpenko-Kary (Tobilevych).

The museum is located in the memorial building where the writer lived in Yelysavethrad (then the name of the city) from 1872 to 1883. Here he began his literary activity, writing the short story "New Recruit" and the first two plays - "Shepherd" and "Not so gentlemen, as mister". Famous cultural figures of the second half of the 19th century visited him, including: Mykola Lysenko, Marko Kropyvnytskyi, Mykola Sadovskyi, Panas Saksahanskyi, Mykola Arkas, Mariya Zankovetska, Mykhaylo Starytskyi and others.

The main exhibition "Ivan Karpenko-Kary: life paths of a luminary" highlights the Yelisavetgrad period of the writer's life, his role on the amateur and professional scene. Lifetime editions of Karpenko-Kary's works, original photographs of luminaries of the Ukrainian theater, theater posters are presented.

In the second and third halls there are temporary exhibitions: "Khutir Nadiya - the theater mecca of Ukraine", "Voices of literary Kirovohrad region" (history of the literary life of the region for 80 years), "A word about the city above Ingul" (references to the city of Kropyvnytskyi in the works of famous writers).

The monument to Janitor was opened near Kropyvnytskyi in 2011. The monument to the birth was erected on Velyka Perspektyvna Street, then moved to Teatralna.

The sculptor Serhiy Slinkin called his work “Janitor”, and now represents a assembled image of a doorman of the 19th century.

The sculpture is about 180 centimeters high in the vicinity of metal. The Janitor wears a shirt, a vest, an apron and wide trousers, a cap on his head, a broom in his hands, and a whistle on his neck, with which the doorkeepers of these hours informed the policemen about the violators of the great order. On the apron there is a badge with the number of the plot, which is attached to the Janitor.

The Church of Saint John the Baptist in Holovanivsk is the oldest architectural building in the village, an architectural monument of local importance. Located in the center of Holovanivsk.

The church was founded in 1764 as a Greek-Catholic church at the expense of the Polish magnate Frantsishek Saleziy Potocki, who at that time owned the town. It was probably originally made of wood.

In the future, the temple was rebuilt several times, in particular in the middle of the 19th century, when it acquired its current appearance.

The complex of buildings of the former Junker Cavalry School in Kropyvnytskyi was built in the middle of the 19th century on the territory of the former suburb of Kovalivka.

It was one of the largest military schools in the country. The military town included a three-story palace, headquarters and training buildings, officers' meeting, arena, and stables.

The buildings are located around the current Cavalry Park, on the site of which there used to be a parade ground where military parades and reviews were held. The complex is still in the hands of the military.

The Kamyanets Museum of Local Lore is located in the center of the town of Kamyanets. Founded in 1974 at the local cultural center, it has been operating in the current premises since 1991.

The exhibition "Archaeological finds of Kamyanets region" presents research materials of two mounds located near Kamyanets, belonging to different archaeological cultures - from the 3rd millennium BC to the 8th-9th centuries AD. The oldest exhibit is an ammonite (fossilized shell) about 25 million years old, found in the Kamyanets quarry.

The exhibition "Kamyanets region - Cossack Territory" is devoted to the period of the founding of Kamyanets in the second half of the 18th century. Household items and weapons from the Cossack period are exhibited here. The ethnographic collection exhibits towels of the 19th and 20th centuries, clothes, jewelry, household items and tools.

A special exhibit is a unique towel dedicated to the 25th anniversary of Ukraine's independence, started by the Petrokorbivka hromada, which was embroidered by 25 craftsmen from each rural hromada of the district over the course of two years.

Employees conduct tours of museum exhibits and organize trips along tourist routes of the region.

The picturesque tract "Kaskady " in the valley of the Buky River is located southwest of the village of Zlynka.

A geological monument of local importance with an area of ​​2.5 hectares - the place where a massive block of Lower Proterozoic granites and migmatites of the Ukrainian shield, the oldest tectonic structure of Ukraine (2 billion years), came to the surface. Thanks to huge granite boulders, a whole complex of beautiful falls and mini-waterfalls was formed here.

Perhaps, in the 1st millennium BC, this place served as a Scythian sanctuary (in the past, individual petroglyphs could be seen on the walls of flooded caves).

Plant groups of petrophytic, shrub and meadow steppes have been preserved in the "Kaskady" tract. 9 species of plants are included in the European Red List and the Red Book of Ukraine.

The Kostyantynivsky coal mine is one of the two "graveyards of excavators" in the Oleksandriia area, where you could see unique mining equipment.

The Kostyantynivsky quarry is located in the village of Berezivka, north of Oleksandriia . This is the youngest coal section of the "Oleksandriiaugugil" HCC - put into operation in 1987. In the best times, more than a million tons of coal were mined here a year. Until recently, the Kostyantynivsky cut remained the only active coal mining enterprise of the Oleksandrivskyi lignite complex, but since 2010 it has been inactive and the pit is gradually being filled with groundwater.

Here you could see a preserved 16-bucket rotary excavator ERSHRD-5250 weighing 4,100 tons, over 30 meters high with a summer conveyor length of 190 meters. The German multi-bucket TAKRAF chain excavator was also available for inspection.

Currently, the Kostyantynivskyi coal mine is a pit flooded with groundwater with an island in the middle.

Kremenchuk HPP is the third stage of the Dnipro cascade of hydroelectric power plants.

In operation since 1959, when the 1st unit was put into operation. The last, 12th unit, was launched in 1960.

The reservoir of the Kremenchuk HPP is one of the largest in Ukraine (the area of the mirror is 2,250 square kilometers). The power of the station is 700.4 MW, the average annual electricity production is 1506 million kWh.

Excursions to the Kremenchuk HPP are conducted by prior agreement.

The palace of Princess Kudasheva is one of the few architectural monuments of Mala Vyska. The two-story building with a one-story side gallery was built in 1889.

Today, the Mala Vyska station of young technicians is located in the former palace of Kudasheva.

The Room-Museum of Levko Matsiyevych in Oleksandrivka was opened in 2003 in the house where this outstanding Ukrainian public figure, designer, aviation pioneer was born in 1877.

Levko Matsiyevych was the author of the world's first aircraft carrier project, the project of one of the world's first seaplanes, and many submarine projects. He was among the founders of the Revolutionary Ukrainian Party (RUP) - the first political party in Trans-Dnipro Ukraine. He died in a plane crash during the first All-Russian Aviation Festival in 1910 near St. Petersburg.

The exhibition of Levko Matsiyevych's Room-Museum presents some of his personal belongings, photographs and documents, which were donated to the museum by a descendant of the Matsiyevych family, Ukrainian politician and public figure Yuriy Sakhno. A model of the Farman-4 plane, on which the aviator flew and died, was also presented.

A memorial plaque has been installed on the facade of the museum.

The Room-Museum of Levko Matsiyevych is a branch of the Oleksandrivka Museum of Local Lore.