Attractions of Kirovohrad region

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 Oleksandriia City Museum Center named after Antonina Khudyakova was created in 1967.

For a long time, the museum worked on a public basis, in 1991 it received state status. It bears the name of Antonina Khudyakova, who was the director of the museum in 1980-1991.

The total number of exhibits of the main fund is over 17,000 items. The exposition of the museum is located in two departments - historical and natural.

In addition, the ethnography of the region is represented separately by a model of a Ukrainian house and various household items: dishes, household utensils, work tools, etc.

The museum houses collections of paper money and coins of different eras and countries, a selection of old photographs.

Among the museum's valuable exhibits are personal belongings, a spacesuit, devices, equipment for training and work at the orbital station of cosmonaut Leonid Popov, a native of Oleksandriia.

"Dmytro Chyzhevsky's House" is a branch of the Oleksandriia City Museum Center named after Antonina Khudyakova.

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 Onufriivka Local Lore Museum opened in 1994 in the building of the former Zemstvo administration, built by Count Mykhailo Tolstoy at the beginning of the 20th century. The exposition in 15 halls introduces various stages of the history of the Onufriivka region and the culture of its inhabitants.

The historical expositions present tools of the Stone Age, things from the Scythian period, materials about the foundation of the village in the 18th century and its stay as part of New Serbia. The exhibition "Ukrainian House" demonstrates the daily life and customs of the Ukrainian people - the biggest attention here is a huge needle about a meter long, intended for sewing the roof.

The history of the Tolstoy family - the largest landowners in the Onufriivka region - is revealed in the exhibition "To multiply, protect, love, grateful memory calls." In the chapter on the period of the First World War and three revolutions, the panorama "Battle of Denikinites with a detachment of Red Army men" is presented. The expositions "Swinging bells of memory: times of repression", "Onufriivka region in the Second World War", "The era of socialism in the territory of Onufriivka region", "Russian-Ukrainian war" tell about difficult pages of history.

An exhibition of works of decorative and applied art and a gallery of famous people of Onufriivka region are also presented.

The ancient Onufriivskyi Park with a cascade of ponds is a monument of garden and park art of the second half of the 19th century. This is one of the most attractive objects of natural tourism in the Kirovohrad region.

The landscape park with an area of 51.7 hectares is located in the floodplain of two rivers Omelnyk and Omelnychok, on the territory of the former count estate Tolstoy in Onufriivka. The Tolstoy family founded the park in the early 1820s. In the 1880s, the construction of a new part of the park was completed, a greenhouse, a greenhouse, a stable, a water tower, a boat station, a summer dance floor, a wine cellar, original gazebos, and bridges were built. An embankment island with a gazebo and a swimming pool (now known as the "Island of Love") was arranged. The main entrance, the White dining room and the ruins of some other buildings have been preserved.

About 50 exotic and rare species of plants have been preserved in the Onufriivskyi park: Japanese pagoda tree, Virginian juniper, Common hackberr, Crimean pine, European larch, etc. Bicentennial willows grow along the banks.

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 Petrove Museum of Local Lore is located in the center of the urban-type village of Petrove, in a neat square next to the village cultural center. Works since 1967.

The exposition in four halls tells about the nature, history and culture of the part of the Kirovohrad region, where the village is located. In particular, some archaeological materials, an ethnographic selection, household objects of the XIX-XX centuries are presented.

The Second World War section has a large collection of fragments of weapons, cartridges, cartridges, military uniforms and equipment, found or given to the museum for preservation by eyewitnesses.

A special place is dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933, when a large part of the inhabitants of this region suffered from the artificial famine arranged by the Bolsheviks.

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.

The Church of Saint Illina in Novomyrhorod is the oldest architectural building of the Kirovohrad region, an architectural monument of the 18th century of national importance.

The brick temple in the transitional style from baroque to classicism was built in 1786 at the expense of the merchant Mykola Gojiy. The tetraconch building has the shape of a cross in plan, crowned by a high octagonal tribune and a dome. Visually similar to wooden Cossack temples.

There are three burial grounds around the church, the oldest of which is the grave of merchant Sokolova (1843).

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.