Attractions of Zaporizhia region

The Architecture Museum of Zaporizhzhia acquaints visitors with the main architectural and town-planning directions and styles of the city. This is the first in a series of so-called "craft museums" that tell the story through "live", an interactive exhibition that demonstrates the urban development from the first Alexander's fortress to modern neighborhoods. The museum consists of four departments dedicated to the construction of Stary Oleksandrivsk, Mennonite colonies, the era of industrial modernization, the postwar reconstruction of the city. Copies of old Oleksandrivsk doors created by masters, video installations and carefully preserved architectural elements are woven into the design of the museum space.

The municipal institution "Balky Historical and Local History Museum" of the Mala Bilozerka village council of the Zaporozhye region has been operating since 1970. The museum fund has more than 10 thousand exhibits. The archeological exposition presents some of the treasures of the Gaimanova Mohyla mound, including amphorae and a copper cauldron. The ethnographic exposition "Ukrainian Room" recreates a fragment of the interior of a village house with a stove, household items, embroidered clothes, towels, a samovar. The Hall of Fame tells about the events of the Ukrainian Revolution and the Second World War.

Berdyansk Art Museum was founded in 1930 on the initiative of painter and graphic artist, doctor of art history and professor, collector Isaac Brodsky. The exhibition is based on his personal collection of paintings, including paintings by Ilya Repin, Konstantin Korovin, Mikhail Vrubel, Nikolai Roerich, Isaac Levitan, Konstantin Makovsky, Valentin Serov, Alexander Benoit, Marc Chagall and others, as well as the work of Brodsky himself. Currently, the museum fund consists of 4.5 thousand works of painting, sculpture, graphics and applied arts. In particular, the museum presents a painting by Ivan Aivazovsky & quot; Storm at Sea & quot; (1896).

The Museum of the History of the city is the youngest of the museums in Berdyansk. Opened in 2005 for the City Day. The exposition, formed on the basis of a part of the collection of the museum of local lore, covers the history of Berdyansk since its foundation in the early XIX century. to this day. In particular, the collections of samovars and irons of the XIX-XX centuries are presented.

Berdyansk Museum of Local Lore named after V. Kravchenko was founded in 1929. Located on the ground floor of a three-story apartment building in the middle of the XX century. The objects of the Scythian period of the IV century are presented. BC The interior of the Ukrainian peasant house of the XIX century was reconstructed. Separate expositions tell about Greeks and Bulgarians of the Black Sea coast. In the square in front of the museum there is a collection of Polovtsian stone women, as well as an ancient cannon, raised in the middle of the XIX century. from the ship "Fighter" sunk during the Crimean War.

The Scythian Estate Memorial and Tourist Complex is located on the highest point of the island of Khortytsia (59 m above the level of the Dnieper), which is crowned by the largest of the preserved Khortytsia mounds "Zorova Mohyla". A copy of a sculpture of a Scythian warrior is installed on the mound. At the beginning. XX century on the island of Khortytsia there were 129 mounds. Of the 28 cemeteries that once belonged to the Zorova Mohyla mound group, only 3 have survived. Area. The open-air museum has collected many stone artifacts: a millstone (symbol of prosperity and fertility), a skating rink or a threshing floor (a device for threshing grain), stupas (for crushing grain), statues, anthropomorphic stelae, and others.

DniproHPP is a unique hydroelectric facility, the first hydroelectric power station in the USSR and the largest in Europe at that time.

The construction was led by academician Oleksandr Vinter with the assistance of American consulting engineers - Frank Feifer, Wilhelm Maffei, Friedrich Vinter, Georg Binder and "General Electric" engineers Charles John Thomson and Hugh Cooper. As a result of the construction of the dam, the Dnipro rapids were flooded, which ensured navigation along the entire course of the Dnipro. Thanks to the construction of the station, the rapid economic development of the city began.

Next to the building of the HPP directorate is the massive building of the DniproHPP museum. Currently, two halls with expositions on the construction, restoration and construction of the second stage of the hydroelectric power station are available. During the tour, you can see the layout of the station, operating turbines in the engine room.

In the south-eastern part of the island of Khortytsia, in the area of Plavni, there is a folklore and ethnographic equestrian theater "Zaporizhzhia Cossacks", which carefully preserves ancient Cossack traditions.

At the request of large tourist groups, equestrian performances and folklore performances are held here with the performance of folk ensembles and demonstrations of traditional Cossack crafts (the date and time of the next performance should be ascertained in advance by phone). After the performance, you can ride horses, and also buy souvenirs, made in front of your eyes by a blacksmith and a potter.

On the territory there is a cafe "Cossack Zastava" (traditional Ukrainian cuisine) with a banquet hall, two huts and summer canopies. A Cossack seagull and a brigantine from 1736-39, which were raised from the bottom of the Dnipro in 1999-2007, are stored nearby in the hangar, with which archaeologists and restorers are working.

The Holy Intercession Cathedral is the main Orthodox shrine of Zaporizhzhia. The cathedral was rebuilt on the site of the five-headed stone Pokrovsky temple destroyed by the Bolsheviks (the Komsomolsky recreation park was laid on its site).

The exterior and magnificent interiors of the cathedral are reproduced from old photographs.

Huliaipole Museum of Local Lore is located in the historic building of the former bank of mutual credit in the center of Huliaipole. The exposition of the museum consists of 9 sections with a fund of 17 thousand exhibits, which tell about the ancient history of these lands, the era of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, the life of peasant and bourgeois housing, crafts of Huliaipole region and more. The most interesting part of the exhibition tells about the life and work of the famous anarchist, leader of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army Nestor Makhno. In particular, the legendary wheelbarrow is presented - a mobile firing point invented by the Makhnovists on horseback. There is a monument to the wheelbarrow in the yard.

Khortytsia is the largest Dnipro island, which is now located in the middle of the city of Zaporizhzhia.

Long ago, this natural fortress served as reliable protection for the tribes that settled here, traces of which have been preserved in abundance. In particular, the "Scythian State" complex exhibits barrows and stone statues from the Scythian times, a pagan sanctuary has been preserved from the Old Slavic times, and the remains of the Protolche settlement from the Old Rus times.

In the 16th century, Zaporizhzhia Sich was founded on the island of Mala Khortytsia - a fortified camp of Ukrainian Cossacks, which later became the center of the Cossack state, changing its location several times (a copy of the Cossack fortress was restored).

Khortytsia impresses with picturesque rocks, granite shores and small islands. Khortytsky floodplains in the southern part of the island are a nature reserve. There are many sanatoriums and recreation centers in the eastern and western parts of Khortytsia.

In 1965, a State (then National) historical and cultural reserve was created on the island, which is currently being transformed into a large museum complex.

Melitopol City Museum of Local Lore is located in the old three-story house of a merchant of the 2nd Guild of Chernikov. Currently, the museum has 48,000 items. A unique collection of Scythian gold (IV century BC) from the excavations of the Melitopol mound is presented. The pride of the numismatic collection is the treasure of silver coins of 1895-1925. release. Of the exhibits of the art gallery, the graphic and painting works of the world-famous artist Oleksandr Tyshler are of great value.

During the large-scale Russian invasion in 2022, the Melitopol City Museum of Local Lore was under occupation. According to the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, the occupiers stole 1,841 pieces of museum objects, including historical weapons, jewelry from the Melitopol Scythian mound (Scythian gold), ancient coins, orders and medals of the Soviet era.

Museum of History of Tavriya State Agrotechnological University named Dmytro Motorny was opened in 1982 in honor of the 50th anniversary of the school. The exposition tells about the history of the university, the creation of various faculties, famous teachers and graduates. A separate place is reserved for gifts presented to the school for different years during the celebrations.

"Museum of Phenomenal Power", dedicated to the history of prominent Zaporizhzhia athletes, opened in Zaporizhzhia in 2021. This is the second of the so-called "craft museums", which provide an opportunity to get acquainted with the history up close, interacting directly with some exhibits. In the museum you can learn about the history of various sports, see retro photos of important sporting events in Zaporizhzhia, get acquainted with the stories of the most outstanding athletes of our city. The exhibition presents 125 original exhibits, including personal belongings of athletes, awards, videos from their private archives. Among them - a ticket to the Olympics in Tokyo famous Ukrainian weightlifter Leonid Jabotynsky, where he won the first Olympic "gold" in 1964, swimsuit swimmer Olga Strazheva, in which she competed at the Olympics in 1988-1989, medal medalist of the 2000 Olympic Games Olena Zhupina and others. In addition, visitors can enjoy interactive elements of the museum space, including table football, treadmill, arm wrestling table and more.

The informal museum of the Cossack fleet on Khortytsia was created on the basis of two ancient ships raised from the bottom of the Dnieper in these places. The decision to establish a shipyard on Khortytsia was made in 1737, at the height of the first Russo-Turkish war, when Russian ships could not pass to the Black Sea through the Dnieper rapids. Here were built dowel-boats and ships of the Cossack type - kayaks and boats, similar to the Cossack seagulls, as well as brigantines "Russian style". In 1739, about 400 ships of the Dnieper flotilla were based on Khortytsia. Some of them sank during the flood. The hull of a Cossack seagull, preserved at the bottom under the sand, was discovered in 1998, and a year later the ship was raised to the surface. In 2007, the brigantine found there was lifted, and later - a dowel-boat, a kayak and a single-decker boat. The finds were preserved and placed in a restoration shed near the Equestrian Theater, work is underway to restore their appearance. The charitable foundation created by the singer A. Makarevich provides active support to the restorers. Excursions are conducted. It is planned to create a Museum of Navigation (Museum of the Dnieper Flotilla).