Attractions of Cherkasy region

The giant Trypillya settlement, on the basis of which the State Historical and Cultural Reserve "Trypillian culture" was created in 2003, is located between the villages of Lehedzyne and Talianky. Belongs to III-IV millennia BC. It occupies an area of 450 hectares.

It was the largest known human settlement of that time - up to 15,000 people lived here. Up to 3,000 wooden houses of Trypillyans were located in concentric circles, which were surrounded by a protective rampart.

Currently, the reserve includes 11 hillforts within the Cherkasy region.

In Lehedzyne, the Museum of Giant Settlements was created, where Trypillya ceramics and other finds are presented. The creation of an open-air museum (open-air museum) is underway, where visitors can already live in reconstructed Trypillya houses and take part in archaeological excavations.

The private historical and ethnographic museum-reserve "Cossack Lands of Ukraine" was founded in the village of Veremiivka in 2006 by art critic, historian, artist Volodymyr Nedyak with the funds of the Shevchenko Prize, which he received for the book "Ukraine - Cossack State".

At the moment, the "Cossack Farm of Colonel Taras Bulba" is almost finished: operating mills, stables, cowsheds, a stable for oxen, a well, storerooms, a cellar. The construction of the "Hetman's Mansion" is being completed.

A large ethnographic collection is presented in the museum exhibition. Several authentic Polovtsian (Scythian) women are on display.

The highlights of the open-air museum are the animals. Sheep, cows, goats, rabbits, horses, oxen and buffalo graze on a specially sown area of the steppe. You can play with animals, and ride horses.

Later, a restaurant, hotel and other infrastructure for recreation and entertainment are planned.

The house of the estate manager in Kamyanka is part of the former estate of the Decembrist Vasyl Davydov's family.

The house was built by the son of the Decembrist Lev. Since his father was exiled to Siberia and deprived of his property, the son had no right to his father's inheritance. Then he was invited to the position of chief manager of the Kamyanka estate. That is, de facto he managed his estate, but de jure it did not belong to him.

He built a house for his family and office premises on the plot allocated to him. Petro Chaykovsky, whose sister was married to Davydov, often stayed in this house.

In the 1920s, the Kamyanka NKVD was located here, later a polyclinic and a children's music school named after Chaykovsky.

Currently, the Kamyanka Historical Museum, the Kamyanka Art Gallery and the office of the Kamyanka Historical and Cultural Reserve are located here.

A monument to the heroes of Mykhaylo Starytskyi's play "Behind two hares", Svyryd Holokhavstov and Pronya Prokopivna, is erected in Cherkasy, although this city has nothing to do with the events described in the play.

The images of popular characters, embodied by Oleh Borisov and Marharyta Krynitsyna, are taken from the film comedy "Behind two hares", filmed based on Starytskyi's play at the Oleksandr Dovzhenko Kyiv Film Studio.

The sculpture, made of fiberglass and painted bronze, was commissioned by the owners of the "House of Fashion" located here, as the characters of the play were distinguished by their love for fashionable clothes. Sculptor Oleksandr Hulbis.

The People's Museum of the village of Holovkivka is located in the center of the village. Founded in 2004 at the expense of patron Borys Kuzyk.

The exhibition is housed in 5 small halls. On a large topographical map, the memorial places of the village are marked.

The archaeological department presents tools and decorations of the Bronze Age, Roman coins, agricultural tools of the Cossack age.

A separate hall is dedicated to the Holodny Yar events of the first half of the 20th century.

The wonderful church in honor of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul is one of the most beautiful churches in the Cherkasy region.

The Peter and Paul Church was built in 2007 according to the project of architect Anatoliy Ditkovsky at the expense of patron Volodymyr Movchan.

Inside, there is a five-tiered iconostasis in the Ukrainian Baroque style. The church has seven domes, the belfry has 11 bells, the largest of which weighs 1,950 kilograms.

The entrance to the temple is decorated with bronze bas-reliefs of the holy apostles Peter and Paul, above which a mosaic image of the icon of the Holy Mother of God is installed.

The majestic Holy Dormition Cathedral in honor of the Assumption of the Mother of God was built in Zolotonosha at the beginning of the 20th century, but its history begins with a wooden church built in the 18th century.

A hundred years later, the temple burned down, and in 1845 a stone cathedral was built on its place, but it also burned down 60 years later. The new cathedral became one of the largest temple buildings in central Ukraine.

In 1937, the Dormition Cathedral was closed, and the baths were removed from it.

Now it is a functioning church of the Orthodox Church.

The Holy Intercession Cathedral is the main Orthodox church of Smila.

The construction of the stone church began here in 1859 at the expense of prominent patrons of the Counts of Bobrynskyi.

The Smila Church of the Intercession in Byzantium was built according to the plan of the St. Petersburg Annunciation Life Guard of the cuirassier regiment of the church, but it has larger dimensions and only one central dome.

The wooden church of the Holy Intercession is located in the village of Letychivka, a suburb of Monastryshche, on the shore of the Kuravskyi Pond.

It was built in 1880 on the site of the old church, known since 1776.

The church is functional and in good condition.

Holy Intercession Krasnohirsky women's monastery was founded at the beginning of the 17th century, until 1790 it was a male monastery.

According to legends, a hermit monk from Constantinople settled in Krasna Hill near Zolotonosha in ancient times. After learning about this, the owner of the land, the Cossack Ivan Shebet-Slyuzhka, gave it to a monk to found a holy monastery. The first buildings were wooden.

The stone Transfiguration Cathedral was built in 1767-1771 according to the project of the Ukrainian architect Ivan Hryhorovych-Barsky. The Church of the Intercession (1859) and other buildings have also been preserved.

In 1922, the monastery was closed, all the shrines were transferred to the museum of the city of Cherkasy. Restored in 1941.

The icon of the Mother of God, named Dubenska, because it appeared on an oak tree, is considered the main shrine of the Holy Intercession Krasnohirsky Monastery.

The Holy Kazan Cathedral in Chyhyryn was restored in 2004 on the site of the old church in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, built in 1888 on the donation of sailors born in Chyhyryn.

The majestic temple with two domes and a bell tower was built of light brown bricks. The walls and vaults were painted with icons of saints. During the Soviet rule, until 1934, the Kazan Cathedral remained the only active temple of Chyhyryn. After the church was closed, the cathedral building was dismantled for building materials.

The Holy Kazan Cathedral was revived thanks to the help of patrons in 2004. The lower temple is consecrated in honor of Saint George.

The Holy Trinity Cathedral was restored in Cherkasy in 1991 next to Castle Hill, on which the main Orthodox church of the city used to be located.

The wooden Cossack Trinity Church in Cherkasy was built in 1671. It was rebuilt several times. The stone temple was built in 1863 on the territory of the former Cherkasy castle.

In 1961, the Holy Trinity Church was demolished, as the construction of the "Hill of Glory" memorial complex began on this site.

The Trinity Cathedral was restored in the 1990s, but it had to be moved to another place, being attached to one of the buildings on Slavy Square. Belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The building of the former "Slovyanska" hotel in Cherkasy was built at the end of the 19th century at the expense of the entrepreneur Skoryna.

Made in the Art Nouveau style with pseudo-Gothic elements. The corner of the building, taking into account the town planning site, is decided by a pentagonal volume topped by a tall pointed tent. The facade of the building is decorated with numerous decorative details, thin towers with needle domes and elegant columns. The house had three balconies, one of which extended more than 2.5 meters and rested on thin cast-iron columns. It was under it that the entrance to the "Slovyanska" hotel was located.

In Soviet times, it was the Dnipro Hotel. Currently, the building belongs to "Ukrsotsbank".

The Literary Museum of Hryhoriy Skovoroda in the village of Kovrai was created in 1972.

In 1753-1759, the Ukrainian poet, philosopher, man of letters and musician Hryhoriy Skovoroda lived in the Kovrai estate and worked as a tutor in the family of Stepan Tomara. Skovoroda taught Tomara's eldest son various sciences, and he devoted his free time to literary creativity.

In Kovrai, he wrote many poems, which were later included in the famous cycle "The Garden of Divine Songs", including the most famous of them - "Fortune and rights to every city...".

A cellar has been preserved on the site of the Tomara manor.

The museum is located on the territory of the secondary school. In 2012, reconstruction was carried out, the museum exposition was significantly expanded. Next to the monument to Hryhoriy Skovorodi, there is a broken park.

The defensive Illinska church-tomb of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi is the only surviving building of the Khmelnytsky family estate in Subotiv.

The church was built in 1653 at the expense of Bohdan Khmelnytsky in the Cossack Baroque style (depicted on the modern 5 hryvnia banknote). It is located on the castle grounds, where the fortified country residence of the hetman was located. It served as one of the fortification nodes of the Subotiv fortress, as evidenced by the keyholes in the embrasures on the gable.

After the death of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi in 1657, the hetman was buried in his ancestral church-tomb.

The foundation of the defense tower, over which a protective pavilion was built, has also been preserved from the manor. Nearby - stone crosses of the 18th century, a Cossack cannon, a restored Ukrainian hut of the 18th century.

During Soviet times, the memorial museum of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi was opened in the premises of the Illinska Church.

Today, the church is active, although part of the exposition of the Subotiv historical museum, located on the territory of the former Khmelnytsky manor, remains in it.