Attractions of Cherkasy region

The private manor-museum "Paradise Corner", or, as it is also called, "Oleksiyivsky Park" was created in the Ukrainian retro style on the homestead of Oleksiy Chernyk from Cherkasy.

Here you can see a mini-museum in the open air: from a mazanka house with a thatched roof to an old cannon. Almost all museum exhibits are in operation.

You can walk through a birch alley to the shores of the Dnipro Strait, admire the mini waterfall, fry a barbecue on an old-fashioned barbecue.

Maryanivka Manor was founded in 1880-1885 by a landlady named Maryana, who owned these lands at that time.

A 40-hectare park was laid out at the manor. Seedlings and tree seeds were imported from Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, as well as from North America (Canadian and silver linden and Canadian pine, which have survived to our time).

The main manor house was built at the beginning of the 20th century by the landowner Kozakovsky, who married Maryana's daughter. Other manor buildings are in a dilapidated state.

"Green house" is part of the former estate of the Davydov family in Kamyanka.

It is located in the depth of the alley that goes from Heroyiv Maydanu Street along the Tyasmin River. It was built at the beginning of the 19th century as one of the outbuildings of the Davydov family.

It got its name because of the predominant green color: green roof, green shutters, green gallery. Part of the Davydov library, a billiard room and tables for games were located in this outbuilding, which is why it is also called the "House of Cards".

Here, the Davydovs usually accommodated their guests who came to Kamyanka for a few days. It included poet Oleksandr Pushkin, composer Petro Chaykovsky, as well as officers belonging to the secret Southern Society of the Decembrists.

To the right of the central alley are the monument to Chaykovsky (1975, sculptor Mariya Konstantynova, architect Vasyl Hnyezdylov) and the summer theater.

In 1937, the Pushkin Museum was opened in the Green House. In 1940, the institution was replenished with the department of the composer Chaykovsky and received the name "Pushkin and Chaykovsky Literary Memorial Museum". Since 2022, the museum bears the historical name of the building where it is actually located - Green House Memorial Museum.

The exposition presents memorial items of the Davydov family, Chaykovsky's personal piano, a lifetime portrait of the composer painted in Kamyanka.

The Mezhyrich settlement is one of the four sites discovered in Europe by primitive people of the Late Paleolithic era.

Discovered in 1965 by a local resident who was digging a cellar. Archaeologists found four well-preserved dwellings made of mammoth bone tusks. Inside each was a hearth, kitchen appliances. Many stone and bone tools and even musical instruments were found. One of them was reconstructed and exhibited in the Paleontological Museum in Kyiv.

The American Museum of Natural History in New York has equipped a panorama of the Mezhyrich settlement lot of ancient hunters. The remains of another dwelling were left in place and protected by a metal structure.

A life-size model of an armored train was installed in Kaniv for the 35th anniversary of Victory in World War II.

Perpetuates the feat of the crew of the armored train BP 56 NKVD troops to protect the railways, which operated in 1941 near the Kaniv crossing. It covered the retreat of Red Army units across the railway bridge, which was later destroyed and not rebuilt (supports can be seen from the hydroelectric dam). The №56 armored train had two armored platforms with four 76-mm guns and sixteen machine guns, an armored locomotive and two cover platforms, one of which was equipped with an anti-tank gun and an anti-aircraft machine gun. The crew was over 100 people. The model was created on the basis of a locomotive of the "Ov" series and two wagons lined with sheet iron.

In 2012, the museum was reconstructed and the exposition was updated.

Art Gallery of the Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi State Historical and Cultural Reserve is located on the third floor of a three-story outbuilding of the Stanislav Ponyatovsky Palace in Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi, and is part of the research department of the reserve.

Paintings, graphics and sculptures of the 18th-21st centuries are exhibited in 14 museum halls. In particular, three works by the famous Ukrainian artist and pedagogue of the XIX century, one of Taras Shevchenko's closest friends Ivan Soshenko are presented: "Forum of Julius in Ancient Rome", "Temple of Vesta - an ancient Italian temple in Rome", "Port in Kumy. Italy". During the restoration of Soshenko's latest painting on the reverse, an engraving "Port in Kumy" by the famous Italian artist and engraver Domenico Cunego with a similar plot was discovered, which now occupies a special place in the exhibition.

Also presented are paintings by Luigi Iorini, Oleksandr Lopukhov, Vasyl Nepiypyvo, Andriy Chebykin, Mykola Yesipenko, some modern masters.

The Mirror Illusions Museum in Uman opened in 2025 near the Taras Shevchenko Square, opposite the Uman Museum of Local Lore. The attraction combines science and art, which together create the effect of immersion in a parallel world.

Visitors to the museum enter a space of complex mirror reflections, bright light effects and unexpected optical illusions, where they find themselves as if in a "looking glass" or in other dimensions, losing the sense of reality.

The museum has eight locations, each of which creates its own unique optical effect: "Matrix", "Labyrinth", "Universe", "Deformation Tunnel", "Pillow Field", "Flower Alley" and others.

The entire complex Mirror Illusions Museum can be rented for individual photo shoots.

Monastyryshche Museum of Local Lore tells about the history of the region from ancient times to the present day.

Presented materials about the life of the region in ancient Rus times, the Liberation War of the Ukrainian people of 1648-1654, the history of the creation of Monastryshche; the culture of the region in the XVIII-XIX centuries, collectivization and crimes of the communist regime, the events of the Second World War, the restoration of the region in 1945-1960.

Monument to Maksym Zaliznyak and Ivan Gonta, the leaders of the 1768 "Koliyivshchyna" Haydamaks uprising, was erected in 2015 on the site of the Uman fortress in the area of the "Megometer" plant.

In 1968, for the 200th anniversary of "Koliyivshchyna", a memorial stone was installed here, but the construction of the monument was delayed for almost half a century. The first sketch project of the equestrian monument, depicting the moment of the meeting of the two leaders of the Haydamaks near Uman, was developed by the Kyiv sculptor Ivan Honchar even then. In the final version, the bronze sculpture was made by the sculptor Ihor Zarichny.

The monument to Zaliznyak and Gonta was built on the initiative of the "Uman Cossacks" organization at the expense of the residents of Uman.

A huge monument to Rosych, a legendary inhabitant of the historic Korsun, was erected in Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi in 1982 on Zeleny Island, which is located half a kilometer upstream from the HPP dam.

Officially, the monument is called "Cities-Outposts of Kyivan Rus", but primarily it symbolizes the version of the origin of the name of the ancient Slavic state of Rus and the Rusychi people (Rosychy) from the toponym Ros.

Authors of the monument: sculptor Edvard Kuntsevych and architect Borys Mykytenko.

A monument to the moonshine apparatus was erected in Cherkasy in 2008. The model was designed by the artist Ivan Fizer, the sculpture was made by the sculptor Mykola Churkanov.

The two-meter sculptural composition depicts a mustachioed Ukrainian with a glass, behind whom a moonshine apparatus bubbles, and a cat sits next to a water bottle, where fiery water flows from the apparatus.

Initially, they wanted to install the monument on the square next to the "Rosava" hotel, but the city authorities did not agree to display this sculpture on the streets of the city. Then the hotel complex bought it and installed it in the pink hall of the "Rosava" restaurant.

The device itself is operational, restaurant visitors can taste the drink.

A granite stone with indentations resembling the prints of bare feet is called the "Foot of the Mother of God".

It is located on the southwestern edge of the village of Korzhovyi Kut, 1.5 kilometers from Korzhova.

Local residents believe that the traces were left by the Mother of God and Saint Nicholas, attributing miraculous features to them. People record testimonies of miraculous healings in a notebook kept in the chapel of Saint Nicholas next to the granite traces.

A steep and long staircase, built by the villagers, leads to the stone. There is a healing spring nearby.

The "Monument to the Mother" in Brovakhy was erected in 1984 in honor of a simple woman, Yevdokiya Lysenko, who raised 11 sons and 5 daughters. 10 sons fought on the fronts of the Second World War and all returned home alive.

On the initiative of Literary Gazeta and with the participation of the mother of the first cosmonaut Yuriy Haharin, a monument was opened, ten poplars and five willows were planted (according to the number of Yevdokiya's children), and a museum room of the Lysenko family was opened in the village school. Among other things, the museum preserved 10 pairs of boots and 10 overcoats, in which sons returned from the war, and materials dedicated to Kateryna Stepanova from Belarus, who lost all 9 of her sons during the war.

The historical-ethnographic museum complex in Boiarka was started in 2005 by the Suprun family of famous Ukrainian politicians. In 2006, the complex was included in the "Golden Horseshoe of Cherkasy Region" program due to the large number of archaeological monuments of different periods.

The complex is located on the territory of the village of Boiarka , which since 1967 has included the village of Poradivka.

The complex consists of the church of Faith, Hope, Love and their mother Sofiya, a bell tower, a museum in an ethnographic style and a park with a cascade of ponds, islands, gazebos, etc. Currently, the museum is closed.

The building of the College of Music named after Semen Hulak-Artemovskyi was built in 1903 as a male gymnasium.

The author of the project was a prominent Kyiv architect of Polish origin, Vladyslav Horodetskyi.

In the second half of the 20th century, after the construction of a modern extension, the building housed a music college.