Attractions of Kryvyi Rih

The railway station "Kryvyi Rih - Main" is one of the oldest architectural monuments of Kryvyi Rih.

The station was opened in 1884, originally it was called "Dolhintsevo" after the surname of General Dolhintsev, on whose land it was built. In 1905, an extension was made on the southern side of the station, and in 1912, reconstruction was carried out.

On the station square there is a steam locomotive-monument Em 733-69, built in 1934 in Luhansk. Established in 1997 as a memorial sign to drivers and other workers of Ukrainian railways.

The Kryvyi Rih railway annually provides up to 17% of the national volume of all rail freight transportation.

The museum-apartment of the artist Hryhoriy Synytsia is a branch of the Kryvyi Rih City Museum of History and Local Lore.

Well-known artist-Boychukist, author of the concept of "Ukrainian Color School", Honored Artist of Ukraine Hryhoriy Synytsia lived and worked in Kryvyi Rih from 1968 until his death in 1996. Here he completed his fundamental theoretical aesthetic and philosophical work "Color in Fine Arts", as well as worked on a new technique "Floromosaic".

The memorial museum-apartment of the artist exhibits about 200 of his works, made in different techniques.

Kryvyi Rih City Museum of History and Local Lore was founded in 1960.

It is located in a Soviet building in the central part of the city.

Natural and archeological collections, ethnographic and numismatic materials, works of fine and folk arts, photos and documentary sources on the history of Kryvyi Rih of the XIX-XX centuries are presented.

The rocks of MODR in Kryvyi Rih are a geological monument of nature, a kind of museum of geology in the open air.

Picturesque rock outcrops are located on both banks of the Inhulets River along the former mining village of MODR (International Organization of Assistance to Fighters of the Revolution) within the city of Kryvyi Rih. It is a unique geological section of iron ore rocks that were formed about 2 billion years ago.

The Rocks of MODR consist of two massifs: Velyka Orlynka (Eagle's Nest) and Mala Orlynka. The latter is particularly interesting for the caves and grottos located here, where the ancient Scythians and Ulich Slavs mined ore.

According to legend, in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Cossacks hid their treasure here.

Individual rocks reach a height of 28 meters, which makes the rocks of MODR attractive for climbers. One of the most beautiful panoramas of Kryvyi Rih opens from here.

The Kryvyi Rih Museum of Jewish Culture and Holocaust History was created at the Beis Stern Shulman Synagogue on the initiative and on the basis of the personal collection of patron Mykhaylo Marmer.

The exposition of the Mykhaylo Marmer Museum tells about the everyday life of Kryvyi Rih Jews in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including the tragic side of history - the Jewish pogroms. Rare objects that tell about the religious tradition of the Jewish people are presented.

The exhibition "Catastrophe" about the events of the Second World War consists of five separate sections: on the eve of the tragedy, death factories, ghettos, the Holocaust in Dnipropetrovsk region, the Jewish resistance movement, and the memorial exhibition.

The latest exposition optimizes the logical content of the museum, telling about the progressive development of Jewish life in Ukraine.

The quarry of the Southern Mining and Processing Plant is the main attraction of industrial tourism in Kryvyi Rih.

Southern Mining and Processing Plant is one of the main producers of iron ore raw materials in Ukraine. The Southern Mining and Processing Plant quarry is one of the largest in the world. Its depth is 370 meters, length - 3000 meters, width - 2500 meters, the number of horizons - 25, the total length of highways in the quarry - 37 kilometers.

Access to the observation deck - with passes.

The Ternivka branch of the Kryvyi Rih City Museum of History and Local Lore was founded in 1970 as a school museum in the village of Veseli Terny, which is now part of the city of Kryvyi Rih.

Since 1981, the museum has a separate two-story building. Today the exposition presents archeological finds from the mounds of Kryvyi Rih, objects of the Cossack era, materials about the "Iron Fever" in Kryvyi Rih at the end of the XIX century and others.

There are constant expositions about the nature and ethnography of the region.

The White Stones waterfall on the rapids of the Inhulets River is also known as the Karachun Waterfalls, as it is formed by two river branches flowing from the dam of the Karachun Reservoir in Kryvyi Rih.

The waterfall was created in 1932-1938 during the construction of a reservoir dam intended to supply water to the Kryvyi Rih metallurgical plant and the Kryvyi Rih water intake. It consists of the Western and Eastern waterfalls, which flow down the granite ledges from the dam in powerful streams. The cascade of the Western waterfall reaches 12 meters in height. It looks most impressive from below. It is especially beautiful in winter, when the water freezes on the fireplace with white stalactites.

Near the White Stones waterfall, there is a railway bridge over Ingulets (height 53 meters, length 161 meters), built in the 19th century according to the project of the architect Boholyubsky. This is the highest bridge of the Kryvyi Rih Basin.