Attractions of Cherkasy region

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.

Park of the Maksymovych Estate, founded in the 18th century on Mykhaylova Hill above the Dnipro.

Since 1845, after he retired, the outstanding Ukrainian scientist, folklorist, the first rector of Saint Volodymyr Kyiv University Mykhaylo Maksymovych lived here for 30 years.

Mykola Hohol visited Maksymovych on several occasions. According to legend, this is where the writer collected material for the story "Viy" (however, the story was written in 1834 - before Maksymovych settled in Prokhorivka). The Hohol pine grows in the park.

Shevchenko also visited Prokhorivka, painting portraits of the owners of the estate. In 1859, the poet was arrested on the way to Mykhaylova Hill, and since then he has not returned to Ukraine. The Shevchenko oak has been preserved, a memorial sign has been installed on the bank of the river, and the creation of a memorial complex is planned.

Now this is the territory of the "Zhovten" sanatorium and the "Prokhorivka" holiday home, the entrance is free.

The Literary Memorial Museum of Mykhaylo Starytsky was opened in 1980 in his native village of Klishchyntsi.

The prominent Ukrainian writer and theater actor Mykhaylo Starytsky was born here in 1840, and later became one of the founders of the professional Ukrainian theater.

The museum collection includes more than 1,500 exhibits, including photo documents, personal belongings of Mykhaylo Starytsky, furniture of the Starytsky family, etc.

The National Historical and Cultural Reserve "Chyhyryn" was established in 1989 as the Chyhyryn State Historical and Cultural Reserve. It covers 13 separate areas with a total area of 1,161 hectares in the city of Chyhyryn, the villages of Subotiv, Stetsivka, Medvedivka, the Kholodnyi Yar tracts and the Atamanskyi Park. The most popular route for tourist trips is the one that runs from Chyhyryn through Subotiv to Kholodnyi Yar.

In Chyhyryn, tourists get acquainted with the history of the Ukrainian Cossack state and its capital in the Bohdan Khmelnytsky Museum, visit the recreated church of the Holy First Apostles Peter and Paul and its authentic remains of the Middle Ages, visit the recreated complex of buildings of the Hetman's residence and climb Castle Hill to the remains of the Chyhyryn Castle and the majestic monument to Bohdan Khmelnytsky.

When entering Subotiv from the Chyhyryn side, the majestic Church of St. Elijah appears, built in the 17th century by order and at the expense of Bohdan Khmelnytsky as a family tomb. Nearby, on the castle site, you can see the stone foundations of a defensive tower and authentic 19th-century village estates, and at the other end of the village, there are three wells also associated with the name of Khmelnytsky.

A tour of Kholodnyi Yar is worth starting with the local lore museum in the village of Medvedivka. Nearby is a 19th-century architectural monument - the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and a monument to Maksym Zalizniak. The further route through Kholodnyi Yar includes the Motronynsky Monastery, monuments of the Kholodnyi Yar Republic, the 1000-year-old oak of Maksym Zalizniak, etc.

The National Historical and Cultural Reserve "Chyhyryn" includes:
- Castle (Bohdanova) Hill;
- Residence of Bohdan Khmelnytsky;
- Bohdan Khmelnytsky Museum;
- Archaeological Museum;
- Subotiv Historical Museum;
- Saint Elijah Church;
- Three Wells;
- Stetsivka Ethnographic Museum;
- Branch "Kholodnyi Yar".