Attractions of Obodivka

The Obodivka Museum of Local Lore was established in 1959.

For a long time, the exhibition was located in four halls of a small room near the House of Culture in the center of Obodivka. Now the museum has partially moved to the renovated premises of the former charity hospital, built in 1890 by the Sobansky family, which owned Obodivka for 130 years.

The museum has about 5,000 items, including household items from the 19th and 20th centuries, tools, military equipment, numismatic and archaeological finds, documents, letters, photographs, awards, literary works by local authors. The exposition of the museum is located in four halls, each of which recreates the history of Obodivka of a certain period. The first hall acquaints with the history of the village from the XVI century to 1924. In particular, photos and things of the Sobanski family are presented here. The materials of the second hall tell about the socio-economic development of the village during 1924-1941. The following halls tell about the events of the Second World War and the Russian-Ukrainian war, famous people from Obodivka and about the historical places of the village.

The ethnographic exposition presents a collection of embroidered towels with embroidery from different regions, an exhibition of decorated eggs, thimbles, motanka-dolls of the local talented master of decorative and applied arts Lyubov Syvoroh.

The palace of the Sobansky family in Obodivka was built in 1800.

First, a house with a tower was built in the style of Romanticism with elements of the Italian Neo-Renaissance. The central building of the palazzo is connected by a two-story covered gallery with a four-story tower and a U-shaped building that form an inner courtyard.

The park, which descends to a 17-hectare pond, was created by the famous Irish park builder Dionysius Mickler.

During the reconstruction in 1900, the third floor of the left wing of the palace was added, the front part of the palace was decorated with an open terrace, which offers a panorama of the park and pond.

After the Bolshevik coup of 1917, the Bessarabian Commune was housed in the palace, and after the Second World War, it housed the district executive committee, district committee of the party and other district organizations. In 1959, the palace and park were handed over to the Obodivka boarding school.

Currently, the building of the Sobansky Palace is in a state of disrepair.