Attractions of Cherkasy region

The Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin Mary in Cherkasy was built in 1905. In the period from 1910 to 1924, the courtyard of the Zhabotyn Saint Onufriy Monastery was located at the place of her arrival.

In Soviet times, it was the only active church in the city. In 2002, the monastery was restored as the Cherkasy Men's Monastery of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The wooden church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin in Nechaivka was built in the second half of the 18th century.

The ornate white temple with green carved borders looks like a new building from afar, as it was recently reconstructed at the expense of the village community.

The wooden church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin Mary in Rebedaylivka is a Cossack-style church typical of the Dnipro region.

The church was built in 1796 on a steep hill in the center of the village. In 1813, a church and parish school was opened with it.

The characteristic wooden Cossack temple fits well into the surrounding rural landscape.

The large and magnificent three-seated Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin in Zhurzhyntsi was built in 1832 at the expense of the court adviser Vasyl Protopopov, who owned large land plots here, and his palace and park were located in the village itself.

During Soviet times, the palace was destroyed, and the temple was turned into a warehouse, which saved it.

In the 1990s, the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin was returned to the parishioners, and in the 2000s, its restoration was carried out.

The temple is made in the style of classicism, the bell tower is crowned with a high spire.

The Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin in Kutsivka was built in the style of late classicism by the architect Mezensky in 1846 at the expense of the then owner of Kutsivka, Major General Orlov.

The temple was built without cement, with forged nails and hewn clapboards.

Until the middle of the 20th century, the church was in operation, then it was closed and an attempt was made to destroy it, but even the cross on the bell tower did not give in - it could only be bent.

The future writer Todos Osmachka, who was born in Kutsivka in 1895, was baptized in the Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin.

The Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin Mary in Vyhraiv was restored in 2008 on the site of the original church. The wooden church at this place was built back in 1723. In 1855, it was rebuilt according to a new plan and expanded.

Destroyed by the Bolsheviks. Restored according to the old plans.

The Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin in Vyhraiv belongs to the Moscow Patriarchate.

The crippled and half-dead, unpresentable in appearance, but at the same time beautiful wooden church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin is located in the center of Verbivka near Kamyanka.

Built in 1768, the church is famous for the fact that in 1860 Lev Davydov, the son of the Decembrist Vasyl Davydov, was married in it to Oleksandra Chaykovska, the sister of the composer Petro Chaykovskyi.

The church was rebuilt twice: in 1794 and 1857. The last time - at the expense of Colonel Olena Staal, who donated funds for the construction of the temple due to a personal tragedy - the death of her 17-year-old daughter. This circumstance led to an architectural feature - the presence of a second side altar, under which the girl was buried.

Since 1935, the church was closed by the Soviet authorities, in 1946 the bell tower was removed. Only in 1973, the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Verbivka was registered as an architectural monument.

Currently, the church is in a deplorable state and needs urgent restoration.

The Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Virgin was built in the village of Khalaidove in 1913 on the site of an old wooden church founded in 1745.

The current majestic five-domed stone church is made in the eparchial style.

The windmill in Ivkivtsi was built in 1906 by a resident of the village, Oksentiy Odynets. The Odyntsivsky mill operated until the early 1970s.

The windmill was restored in 2008 by the efforts of the public.

The old bridge in the Nadezhdivka tract near Melnykivka and Rotmistrivka, according to some sources, was built by the Germans during the Second World War.

There is also an assumption that these are the remains of an old manor house.

A two-story palace in the style of classicism was built in the middle of the 19th century on the outskirts of Shpola, which is called Verkhnya Dariivka, by the famous financier and statesman Oleksandr Abaza, who bought the Shpola estate from Count Orlov.

The main facade with white columns looks very simple and austere, but on the garden side there is an open terrace with a cast-iron colonnade with ornaments on plant motifs and monograms with the letter "A".

An outhouse from the beginning of the 20th century with wooden carvings has also been preserved.

In a small park with an artificial pond, local species of trees are presented, as well as several exotic ones: pyramidal oak, ironwood and others.

In the 19th century, the estate passed as a dowry to the daughter of Oleksandr Abaza Pelaheya, who married the diplomat Lev Urusov. In 1917, the Urusovs were forced to leave the estate and emigrate abroad, and a shelter for orphans and children of the repressed was placed in the palace. Now it is a specialized boarding school.

The town Orbita near Chyhyryn does not have the formal status of a settlement.

The history of the ghost town began in 1977, when the builders of the future Chyhyryn State Power Plant arrived here, in the area of ​​the village of Vitove. Soon they built housing for their families and started building a station, as well as social infrastructure for energy workers. In 1981, the construction of the GRES and the city was suspended and preserved. There were plans to use the construction site of the station for the construction of the Chyhyryn NPP. However, in 1989, 3 years after the accident at the Chornobyl NPP, construction was finally stopped under public pressure.

Many construction workers stayed to live in two five-story buildings in the middle of the unfinished buildings of the ghost town of Orbita.

Otamansky Park in the area of ​​Kholodny Yar is a protected forest area between the villages of Holovkivka and Medvedivka, which has a long history.

In the second half of the 18th century, for his merits in the battle with the Tatars near Chyhyryn, this forest was presented to Prince Romodanovsky, who held the rank of chieftain - hence the name of the park. Later, the chieftain sold it to the Krasnokutskyi princes. Ivan Fundukley, who bought the ​​Kholodny Yar forests from Bezradetsky, in the middle of the 19th century dug out eight ponds here, laid 6 kilometers of firebrick roads, built 8 guardhouses for forest protection. In 1850-1855, Artem Tereshchenko became the owner of Otamansky Park, who built two landowner's houses near the village of Holovkivka, and swimming pools on the lakes. His son Mykola in 1869 carried out the first forest management - at that time there were about 30 trees in the park aged from 300 to 500 years.

In 1972, Otamansky Park was given the status of a nature reserve. Forest plantations occupy 367 hectares in the park. In the forest grow pedunculate and red oaks, common and black pines, spruces, 8 types of poplars, 12 - willows, maples, birches, alder, linden, ash, elm, birch, cherry, cherry and aspen. Roe deer, wild boars, foxes, hares, badgers and martens live here.

The "Zhyvun" Source is noteworthy, the water composition of which is close to the Truskavets "Naftusya".

Park "Sosnovy Bir" in Cherkasy is a monument of landscape architecture, the best park in the city.

Founded in 1967 by landscape architect Heohiy Ursatiy and landscaping engineer Yevdokiya Smyrnova.

It is located on the banks of the Dnipro on the territory of 49 hectares. A system of ponds has been created here, the water from which cascades and waterfalls descends to the Dnipro. The central element of the composition is a pond with a sculpture of a mermaid. More than 70 valuable and exotic tree species grow in the park.

In 2009, Sosnovy Bir Park was cleared and restored after a period of desolation.

A picturesque view of the Dnipro opens from the "Bridge of Love", which is thrown over the ravine.

The estate in Budyshche was built in 1828 by Baron Pavlo Enhelhardt (son of Senator Vasyl Enhelhardt, hero of the Second Turkish War) as his summer home (the Engelhardts' main residence was in Vilshana).

A park with a cascade of ponds and ancient oak trees was laid out nearby. According to legend, the young Taras Shevchenko, who served Enhelhardt as a Cossack in 1828-1829, hid his children's drawings in the hollow of one of the oak trees. This oak is preserved in the territory of the landscape park, it is called Shevchenko`s.

During Soviet times, the manor housed an eight-year school, which occupies the premises even now.

The park was reconstructed, arches, benches, and fountains were built to reproduce the atmosphere of Shevchenko times.