Attractions of Kirovohrad region

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 People's Museum of the Kalnybolota Village History has been operating at the Kalnybolota Village House of Culture since Soviet times.

The exposition tells about the history of the settlement from the time of the founding of the wax settlements on these areas in the 18th century.

There are also many old things that reflect the traditional life of the villagers.

The People's Museum of the Nadlak Village History is located in the premises of the Village House of Culture. It was opened in 1973 on the initiative of local high school teachers. The exhibition in four rooms highlights the history and culture of this region from the earliest times.

The exhibits of the first room tell about the ancient life in this area, about the emergence of the village of Nadlak in the middle of the 18th century and about its development until 1917. In particular, you can see stone molds for the manufacture of metal tools.

The second room is dedicated to the period between the two world wars. It houses exhibits that visually demonstrate the life and culture of the Nadlak village of that time - from a wooden plow to an iron plow.

The third hall of the museum is devoted to the Second World War and the life of people during the occupation. Old photographs, letters and objects found on the battlefields are presented here: uniforms, soldier's flasks, cartridge cases, cartridges, machine gun belts and others.

The fourth hall of the museum acquaints visitors with the post-war period, restoration and development of the village of Nadlak. A separate museum exposition is devoted to friendly relations between Ukrainian and Bulgarian farmers.

The Pidvysoke Village History Museum was opened in 1967. It is located on the second floor of the Village House of Culture, in three rooms with a total area of about 170 square meters.

The first room of the museum acquaints visitors with the history of the area from the Bronze Age to the collapse of the Russian Empire. Fragments of Trypillya ware, household items of later eras, materials about the founding of the village of Pidvysoke in the first half of the 18th century are presented. The past of the Haydamaks is illustrated by the diorama of the storming of the city of Uman by the detachments of Maksym Zalizniak and Ivan Honta. In the ethnographic exhibition you can see a loom, a spinning wheel, various household appliances and dishes.

The central element of the composition about the Second World War is a large diorama, which reproduces one of the battles of 1941, which were fought near Uman by the 6th and 12th Soviet armies surrounded by the Germans.

In the third room, you can familiarize yourself with the post-war history of Pidvysoke and see numerous artifacts of Soviet propaganda.

The Kamyaneche Village History Museum was opened in 1966 on the initiative of local historians. It is located in the premises of the House of Culture in the center of the village.

A large part of the exposition is dedicated to the Haydamaks movement in the territory of Novoarkhanhelsk region, because in the forests near the village there were forges where the rebels made weapons. Presented items found at the place of production. You can learn about local legends and stories related to this page of Ukrainian history.

The exposition also tells about other stages of the development of Kamyaneche and about the traditional village life of its inhabitants.

The Vilshanka Ukrainian-Bulgarian Historical Museum bears the name of its founder, Ivan Hurzhos, who during his lifetime collected a large collection of local history materials on the history of his native Vilshanka and the Vilshanka region.

The main exposition is devoted to the resettlement of more than 400 families of Danube Bulgarians who took part in the Russian-Turkish war of 1768–1774 on the side of Russia. The most valuable exhibit is the icon of St. John the Merciful (1874), painted for the 100th anniversary of the settlement of Bulgarians in the Vilshanka region.

Also among the exhibits: the Bulgarian national musical instrument – a gaida, saber and scabbard produced by the Zlatoustiv factory, Bulgarian national women's clothing, a Cossack pipe, works of local carpet makers and embroiderers, etc.

Special attention should be paid to the reprint edition of "Vilshanka Village Chronicle", written by the priest of the Church of Saint John the Merciful Volodymyr Lobachevsky, who described the period from 1773 to 1885.

The picturesque ruins of a water mill on the Pivdenny Buh River in Lupolove always attract lovers of water tourism.

The three-story building of the mill was built in 1901 on the branch of the Pivdenny Buh, which washes one of the islands. The dam and the waterfall, which used to turn the water wheel, are called "Jacuzzi" by the locals and are used for bathing.

The recently started reconstruction for the purpose of creating a recreation complex is currently suspended.

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.

The History Museum in Zakharivka is considered one of the largest rural museums in the Kirovohrad Region - its holdings include more than 13,000 objects from the main holding alone. The exhibition is housed in 15 rooms of the former kindergarten.

The basis of the museum's collection is the materials about the 116th Kharkiv Rifle Division, which liberated Zakharivka from the German occupiers in 1943. Searchers managed to establish the names of about a hundred fallen heroes buried in a mass grave on the territory of the village. Fragments of weapons and military equipment are presented.

The ethnographic section exhibits things preserved by the inhabitants of the villages of the Novoheorhiyvka district, which were flooded in the 1960s by the waters of the Kremenchuk Reservoir during the construction of the Kremenchuk HPP. Among them are furniture, household items, work tools, photos, toys, postcards. A collection of embroidered fabrics and antique towels is presented, including a wedding towel embroidered in 1813.

Impressive collections of ancient musical instruments, as well as hand, pocket and wall clocks, which are presented about 1.5 thousand copies.