Attractions of Cherkasy region

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.

At the entrance to the Cherkasy "Vodokanal" in honor of his 90th birthday, a monument to plumber Uncle Vasya was erected.

This is the only professional (specialized) attraction in Cherkasy. The sculpture is a cast-iron plumber in a cap and with keys climbing out of a well. Next to it lies a hatch with the inscription: "I gave you water." Sculptor Vladyslav Dymyon.

Nearby is an ancient fire hydrant found in one of the utility pits on the territory of "Vodokanal".

Remains of manor buildings and a large 18th-century park near the former estate of Princess Varvara Holitsyna, wife of Prince Serhiy Holitsyn.

The princely couple settled in Kozatske in 1797. The personal secretary and teacher of the prince's children was the biker Ivan Krylov for 4 years. Here he wrote the play "Triumph or Pinch", the comedy "Pie", the fable "The Pig under the Oak".

In the center of the estate was a palace in the pseudo-Gothic style - with towers, galleries and halls. The luxurious landscaped park had a pond with a mounded island, waterfalls, gazebos and a family mausoleum. Only the Governor's House, in which Krylov's "Pydshchypa" was placed, the ruins of the wing, as well as several buildings of the end of the 19th century, which were erected by the next owners of the manor - Kyiv Governor Ivan Fundukley, Baroness Vranhel, and Princes Kurakin, have survived.

Currently, these premises are occupied by Vocational Training School No. 37, the building is in a state of disrepair. One of the buildings houses the church of Saint Barbara.

The spring "Rozhena Krynytsya" is located on the northwestern outskirts of the village of Buchak (convenient drive-in from the village of Ivankiv).

The name of the spring is connected with the name of the legendary beauty Rozhena. According to local legend, Rozhena treated the Kyiv princes Svyatoslav, Ihor and Volodymyr, who were on their way to the battle with the Polovtsy, with their wives.

A large ancient Rus settlement and burial ground were discovered on the hill closer to the river.

Saint Michael's Cathedral in Cherkasy is the largest Orthodox church in Ukraine (it reaches 72 m in height).

It was built in 8 years according to the project of Archbishop Sophronius of Cherkasy and Kaniv in the Byzantine style. It can simultaneously accommodate up to 12 thousand people. The construction of a bell tower with a height of more than 100 meters is planned.

It belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

Saint Nicholas Cathedral in Uman is an architectural monument of the 19th century. It is located in the center of the city, on the territory of the former fortress.

It was built by the architect Tomash Etlinher with donations from the townspeople in honor of the victory over Napoleon on the site where a Catholic church once stood. In 1843, it acquired the status of a cathedral. In 1911, the interior of the cathedral was remodeled and decorated with ornaments and icons similar to the Kyiv Saint Volodymyr Cathedral (artist Vereshchak).

During the Soviet rule in the early 1930s, the Saint Nicholas Cathedral was closed, first it was transferred to the balance of the Megommeter plant for a club, then in 1977 it was transferred to the local history museum to create a museum of atheism. In the process of restoration work, all wall paintings were lost.

In 1989, the church was handed over to the UOC church community of the Moscow Patriarchate and consecrated in honor of Saint Nicholas.

The architecturally unusual Church of the Transfiguration was built in Moshny in 1830-1840 by the city architect of Odesa, Dzhordzho Torrichelli, on the order of Count Mykhaylo Vorontsov.

Those who have seen the Vorontsov Palace in Alupka will immediately understand the architectural affinity of the Crimean palace and the village Orthodox church. Experts define this style as a romantic mixture of Tudor Gothic and oriental motifs.

The Transfiguration Church is a unique temple. Despite the oriental decor, the construction followed the principles of the Orthodox "cross dome". The side branches of the cross are greatly shortened, and the central one, on the contrary, is elongated. According to the fashion of the 19th century, it connects the temple with the 39-meter bell tower into a single entity. Above the central cross is the largest dome facing east. The special charm of the building is given by numerous elegant towers, which, together with the pointed windows, make the tall quadrangular belfry Gothic.

The museum of the singer and composer Semen Hulak-Artemovsky in Horodyshche is located in an old one-story house in the center of the city.

Hulak-Artemovskyi was born in Horodyshche in 1813. He is known as one of the founders of Ukrainian classical music, the author of the first Ukrainian opera "Zaporozhets za Dunayem".

Shcherbyna House is the most luxurious mansion of pre-revolutionary Cherkasy, nicknamed the "Palace of Happiness" in Soviet times, because the city's civil registry office was located here.

Built in 1892 by entrepreneur Opanas Shcherbyna. It is distinguished by extraordinary lightness and elegance of architecture, rich decor.

For some time, the Zemska administration was housed here, in 1919 the premises were occupied by the district revokkom, then by the Council of Workers', Peasants' and Soldiers' Deputies. After the Second World War, the Cherkasy City Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine and the Komsomol City Committee were located here.

Since 1970, the building has been used as a Palace of Marriages.

At the foot of Tarasova (Chernecha) Mountain in Kanev, in 2007, an avenue of 19 sculptures appeared, dedicated to the characters of Taras Shevchenko's works.

Sculptors from different parts of Ukraine worked for more than a month on their creation from blocks of sandstone and limestone. Initially, the monuments were planned to be built from the Dormition Cathedral to Chernechaya Hill - along the route of Kobzar's last journey. However, the sculptures were collected together, where at the foot of Tarasova Mountain they form a kind of sculpture park called "Shevchenko Alley".

Taras Hill (Tarasova Hora) in Kaniv is a national shrine of the Ukrainian people, a place of worship to the memory of the outstanding poet-prophet Taras Shevchenko. The poet's grave and the surrounding natural landscapes are protected by the Shevchenko National Reserve, founded in 1925.

The reserve is located on Chernecha Hill above the Dnipro, on the southeastern outskirts of Kaniv. According to legend, the mountain got its original name back in the 11th-12th centuries, when the Kaniv cave monastery existed on it. Later, the Cossack Intercession Monastery was founded here.

In the middle of the 19th century, after visiting these places, Taras Shevchenko wanted to buy a plot of land here to build a manor, but his plans were not destined to come true. After his death in St. Petersburg, Shevchenko was first buried at the Smolensk cemetery, however, at the request of the public, on May 10, 1861, the coffin with the poet's ashes was brought to Kaniv.

According to the will, he was buried on a high Dnipro cliff, which has since been called Taras Hill. A mound was placed on the grave and a monumental cast-iron cross monument was installed. In 1939, the largest monument to Shevchenko in Ukraine was erected on the grave. There are 342 steps leading to the monument from the foot of the mountain with the Lily fountain.

The first folk museum of the poet "Tarasova svitlytsia" was opened at the end of the 19th century in the former house of the overseer of the Shevchenko grave, Ivan Yadlovsky. After the construction of the new museum complex, "Tarasova Svitlytsa" was restored in its original form at another place, near Yadlovsky's grave.

In 1939, the literary and memorial museum of Taras Shevchenko was opened near Shevchenko's grave, built according to the project of the outstanding architect Vasyl Krychevskyi, who is considered the founder of Ukrainian architectural modernism. After a long restoration in 2003-2010, the museum has a modernized interactive exposition, which presents memorial items and etchings of Shevchenko, rare editions of his works, works of art on Shevchenko themes, etc.

To mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Taras Shevchenko, the historic Cossack Church of Intercession of Holy Virgin has been recreated in the Monastirok tract on the slope of Taras Hill. The pavilion of the "Tarasova Hora" passenger pier, where ships from Kyiv sometimes arrive, was also renovated for the anniversary. There is a cafe on the pier, and there is a souvenir shop nearby. The main parking lot of the reserve for tourist buses is located at the foot of the stairs to Taras Hill. You can go directly to the mountain by car, where there is also a small parking lot.

The Shevchenko National Reserve also includes the Kaniv Historical Museum, the Kaniv Museum of Folk Decorative Art, and the Literary Kaniv Region Museum, which are located in the center of the city.

The complex of shopping premises (shopping rows) was built in 1780 according to the project of the architect Tepinger at the expense of the Potocki family.

The building was square in plan, made of brick, had a spacious courtyard with four entrances. Inside the courtyard there were more than 40 storerooms for the storage of goods by visiting merchants. The east and west wings of the shopping rows had two floors each and towers at each corner of the building. There were underground passages from the basements under the building. The main trade was conducted in the courtyard, in the center of which stone benches were built. This layout of houses for trade refers to the period of construction of courtyards-fortresses of the late 17th and early 18th centuries and is very rare.

In 1838, Fessinger completely rebuilt the building, adapting it to accommodate the city hall, county court, audience seats, treasury, as well as a prison. Later, the four corner towers and the second floors above the northern and southern passages were dismantled.

The building of shopping rows is still used for its intended purpose - it is part of the Uman city market.

The Smila Museum of Local Lore is located in the building of the branch of the St. Petersburg Loan Bank, built in 1909 in the style of provincial art nouveau.

The main funds of the museum include more than 3,500 storage units. The exposition presents cartographic materials of the 19th and 20th centuries; exhibits that tell about the family of the former owners of the city, Counts Bobrynsky; archaeological finds made in the Dnipro region.

Among the unique exhibits are a casket made by Italian jewelers of the 18th century, a padlock from the middle of the 19th century, etc.

The construction of a hydroelectric power station on the rapids of the Ros River in Steblev was launched in 1931 in accordance with the GOELRO plan, which provided for the creation of a whole network of small hydroelectric power stations throughout the country.

As a result of the construction of the dam and the rise of the water level in the river, the landscape changed significantly - two thirds of the picturesque rocks and rapids were under water.

The dam was damaged during World War II. In 1952, it was restored and brought to a capacity of 2.8 thousand kW. It is currently rented from a private company.

The waterfall formed by the station is called one of the most powerful lowland waterfalls in the country.

The Subotiv History Museum is located on the grounds of the ancestral estate of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi in Subotiv.

The estate was founded in 1616 by the hetman's father Mykhaylo Khmelnytskyi (Khmil). After the death of his father, Bohdan Khmelnytskyi inherited the estate and built his fortified residence here with a defensive rampart, a fortress tower, and the Illinska Church, which also played the role of a fortification element of the fortress.

In 1648, during the absence of the owner, the Subotiv manor was seized by Danylo Chaplinskyi, the sub-mayor of Chyhyryn, who constipated Khmelnytskyi's young son to death and took possession of his bride Motrona (Helena) by force, which became the impetus for the uprising of the Cossacks under the leadership of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi.

Ruling the Cossack state from Chyhyryn, Khmelnytsky often lived in Subotov. A few years after the death of the hetman, the estate was destroyed by the Poles, the fortress was destroyed. The foundation of the fortress tower, above which the pavilion was erected, has been preserved. The wooden watchtower and the entrance gate of the manor have been reconstructed.

The museum complex also includes two estates of the late 19th and early 20th centuries "Ukrainian House", one of which reproduces the interior of a potter's workshop. A Cossack cannon is installed on the castle grounds.