Attractions of Kirovohrad region

The Malovyskivshchyna History Museum named after Oleksandr Kovtun was opened in 1979 in the premises of the House of Culture of the Mala Vyska city. The founder and first director of the museum was the famous teacher and local historian Oleksandr Kovtun.

The museum exposition includes about 9,000 exhibits of the main and research and auxiliary funds. All of them reveal the history of Malovyskivshchyna from ancient times to the present.

A separate exposition is devoted to the events of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Its central exhibit is the same ceramic cockerel produced by the Vasylkiv majolica factory, which became a symbol of Ukrainian resilience thanks to photographs of Borodianka, destroyed by the occupiers.

The memorial museum of Marko Kropyvnytsky in the city of Kropyvnytskyi was opened in 1982 in the building where the luminary of the Ukrainian theater lived for almost 20 years. Here the playwright wrote his classic plays, and in the early 1880s, he formed a celebrated Ukrainian theater troupe.

The exposition of the museum consists of several chapters that tell about the family of the playwright and actor, about his childhood and studies at the gymnasium and university, about his path in art as the founder of the first professional Ukrainian theater - the Theater of Corypheivs.

The Marko Kropyvnytsky Memorial Museum is a branch of the Central Ukrainian Regional Museum of Local Lore.

A monument to Marko Kropyvnytsky was erected near the Coryphaei Theater.

The Historical and Local Lore Museum of the village of Mohylne was opened in the premises of the Mohylne comprehensive school in 1986 on the initiative of history teacher Vasyl Derezovsky.

The museum exposition is divided into four thematic sections, which are arranged in chronological order and reflect the most characteristic stages of the historical development of the region.

The exposition "Our Region in Ancient Times" presents objects of the Trypillyan culture found near the village (tools made of flint and bone, fragments of ceramic dishes).

The exposition "The Tragedy of the Ukrainian People" in documents and photographs testifies to the terrible crimes of the Soviet regime and the Holodomor of 1932-1933.

A large exposition is dedicated to the events of World War II, the Chornobyl tragedy and the war in Afghanistan.

The museum is decorated with objects of peasant life, including a cart on wooden wheels, a painted stove, a variety of jugs and dishes, embroidered towels, peasant clothing, etc.

The new exhibition is dedicated to the events of the Revolution of Dignity and honoring the memory of the Heroes of the Russian-Ukrainian War.

The landscape complex "Monastyryshche Tract" is located on the banks of the Ingul river between the villages of Inhulske and Zavutrovo.

This is a pre-Christian temple, a pagan religious building with altars and pagan symbols on the stone. In the center of the tract is a large oval rock, which is washed by the Ingul River on one side, and is framed by a wide circular amphitheater on the other. The height of the rock is 13 meters, length - 50 meters, width - 20 meters. The northern, eastern and western walls are vertical, and the southern one is sloping. The whole building is paved with huge rectangular stone blocks. On the upper platform in various places there are many large shaped blocks - the result of the glacier's descent and weathering (according to another version, the figures were once carved by hand).

According to legend, a Cossack treasure is hidden in the rock. The entrance to the treasury is somewhere above, the exit is underwater in the middle of the river.

Plants characteristic of the southern part of the steppe region have been preserved on the slopes of the canyon and adjacent areas of Ingul.

Today it is a landscape reserve of national significance "Monastyryshche".

The monument "Guardian Angel of Ukraine" was installed in Kropyvnytskyi for the 2000th anniversary of the birth of Christ and for the 250th anniversary of the city.

Along the perimeter of the base of the column is the inscription: "God, save Ukraine."

During the creation of the monument, the craftsmen used granite from the Kapustinsky, Krupsky and Voynovsky deposits. The monument to the Guardian Angel was created by sculptor Anatoliy Honchar and architect Vitaliy Kryvenko.

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

The Morozivsky quarry is located near the village of Pantaivka, west of Oleksandriia. Commissioned in 1970. It was one of the largest lignite quarries in the country. The planned capacity is 2.75 million tons of brown coal per year.

In 2004, production stopped due to financial problems of the enterprise, which was decided to be liquidated. The quarry is gradually flooded with groundwater. Unique mining equipment is cut into scrap. In particular, the giant step-rail rotary excavator ERSHR-1600 with a weight of about 4,000 tons and a productivity of 1,600 cubic meters per hour.

From one bank of the quarry to the other, the only transport and disposal bridge in Ukraine with a length of more than 300 meters has been thrown. The bridge and two excavators are pre-war, German-made.

Museum and nature reserve "Tobilevychi" in the village of Arsenivka was founded as a reserve "Fatherland of Ivan Karpenko-Karyi" to the 150th anniversary of the birth of this outstanding Ukrainian writer, playwright and theater actor.

It was in Arsenivka that Ivan Tobilevych was born in 1845 - the future great artist Karpenko-Karyi.

The Tobilevych family lived in Arsenivka for ten years. Karpenko-Karyi's father, Karpo Tobilevych, managed the estate of landowner Zolotnytskyi here. An old classicist manor house still stands in the park on the shore of the pond, and nearby is a manor cellar. Historical buildings have preserved authentic elements of contemporary architecture.

On the territory of the former manor estate, built in the first half of the 19th century, where there was a school in Soviet times, the Museum and Nature Reserve "Tobilevychi" is now located. Its exposition part still needs filling and design.

In 2021, the territory of the manor estate was declared a 8.7-hectare park-monument park of garden and park art "Tobilevychi". Here you can meet representatives of the red book flora and fauna of Ukraine.

A commemorative sign has been installed on the territory of Nizhny Skver, where the Tobilevych house was located, where Ivan Tobilevych was born.

Museum and nature reserve "Tobilevychi" is a branch of the Central Ukrainian Regional Museum of Local Lore.

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 Museum Room of Novomyrhorod Archaeological and Local History Exploration was opened in 2013 at the initiative of the famous researcher of the history of the region Petro Ozerov. It is located on the first floor of the Novomyrhorod City Council.

The exposition presents about 2,000 exhibits, a large part of which was found by Petro Ozerov during archaeological and local history research in the territory of Novomyrhorod region.

In particular, the tools of the people of the Stone Age, fragments of Trypillyan ware, artifacts from Scythian settlements (in particular, the akinak sword), weapons and jewelry from the time of the expansion of the Goths, iron objects from the period of Kyivan Rus, Cossack weapons and ammunition, as well as documents and photographs are exhibited. and household objects of the townspeople of the 19th and 20th centuries.

During tours, the museum owner allows visitors to touch the exhibits, take them in their hands, and some even try to use them for their intended purpose.

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 Nerubaika People's Museum of Local Lore was founded in 1967. Located in five rooms on the second floor of the House of Culture of the village of Nerubaika.

Considerable attention is paid in the exposition to the Cossack period of the region's history and the emergence of the village of Nerubaika in the 17th-18th centuries. A large collection of weapons from different eras is presented.

The pride of the Nerubaika Historical and Local Lore Museum is the collection of samples of national material culture, which is presented in the interior of a traditional Ukrainian house. In it, you can see the figures of the hosts in authentic Ukrainian clothes. A loom for making canvas, a spinning wheel, table and kitchen utensils and other household items of Ukrainians are located here. The floor is covered with homemade paths that were donated to the museum by local residents.

Two more museum halls are devoted to the revolutionary events of the beginning of the 20th century, the Holodomor of 1932-1933, episodes of the Second World War and the post-war period connected with these regions.

The Novoarkhanhelsk Museum of Local Lore in the Kirovohrad Region was founded in 2003 and is located in the building of the former Ukraina cinema on the central square of Novoarkhanhelsk.

The museum's collection includes more than 5,500 exhibits that tell about the history of the region from Paleolithic to modern times. In particular, collections of rocks and minerals, coins and banknotes are presented.

The Hall of Arts acquaints visitors with the artistic heritage of the region - products of decorative and applied arts, paintings by local artists.