Attractions of Cherkasy region

The wooden church in the village of Melnykivka was built in the first half of the 19th century and consecrated in the name of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin.

Due to restrictions on the use of traditional Ukrainian style in church architecture, the church turned out to be unusual, with pronounced features of classicism.

Probably, the Intercession Church served as a burial place for landowners Morozov or Zolotaryov, who owned Melnykivka in the 19th century. The graves of the Zolotaryovs have been preserved on the church bypass.

The wooden church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin was built in Vereshchaky in 1775.

It belonged to the 7th class of the state classification and had 46 hectares of land.

As a result of the Soviet anti-religious campaign in 1961, the Intercession Church was closed.

It was reopened for church services in the early 1990s.

The stone Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin with a bell tower was built in 1829 by Major General Oleksiy Orlov, who then owned the village of Burty.

Thanks to the native of the village, the outstanding musician and actor Vasyl Vasylko-Milyayev, the church had a good church choir.

The rich church library was looted, the bell tower was destroyed, and the church itself was closed during the infamous anti-religious campaign of the Bolsheviks.

Already after Ukraine gained independence, the Intercession Church was restored and overhauled.

Irdynskyi Vynohradskyi Holy Assumption Monastery with a complex of caves is located in the middle of forests and swamps near the village of Male Starosillia to the west of Smila.

It was probably founded in the 16th century, but it was first mentioned in documents in 1656, when Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi issued a license for the construction of a new monastery complex. Khmelnytsky's son Yuriy hid in this monastery and accepted monasticism under the name of monk Gedeon. Haydamaks also hid in the monastery caves.

15 hectares of the large territory of the monastery was the first to be explored by Count Oleksiy Bobrynskyi at the end of the 19th century. The diagram of the underground passageways drawn up by him shows that they ran for hundreds of meters. However, neither the count nor modern local historians managed to reach the end and find out where the tunnels dug by the monks led. Archaeologists discovered an underground church in the caves.

The monastery, which was closed by the Bolsheviks after numerous destructions and fires, was never restored to a psycho-neurological boarding school on its territory. Only surviving caves are open to tourists.

The monument to Ivan Gonta in Khrystynivka is the first monument in Ukraine in honor of the Uman centurion, one of the organizers of the 1768 Haydamac uprising.

Gonta was born in the village of Rozsishky near Khrystinivka, he also owned the neighboring Oradivka. Together with Maksym Zaliznyak, he became the leader of the Koliiv Oblast - the national liberation movement on the territory of Right Bank Ukraine.

The Gonta monument by Viktor Sulyma is installed at the entrance to Khrystynivka from the Oradivka side, on a mound in Ivan Gonta Park. The height of the monument is 12 meters.

The Horodyshche Literary and Memorial Museum-Estate of the Writer Ivan Le was founded in 1983 with the participation of the writer's wife Irina and son Rikhard, who donated the house and estate to the museum. The house project was developed personally by Ivan Le at one time and he took an active part in the construction work.

The museum's exposition includes more than 7 thousand exhibits, including the writer's manuscripts, various materials for his works, books written by him, personal belongings, documents, photographs, tools, gifts from friends, etc.

The Literary Memorial Museum of the outstanding Ukrainian writer Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky was opened in Stebliv in the house where he was born in 1838.

He lived here from 1851 to 1909.

The exposition tells about the life and creative activity of a classic of Ukrainian literature, who was treated with great caution both during the times of Tsarist Russia and during the Soviet regime. The writer's office has been recreated, and his personal belongings have been collected.

Next to the museum, behind the house of culture, on Spasa Hill are the graves of Nechuy-Levytsky's grandfather and father.

A monument to the work of sculptor Halyna Kalchenko has been installed near the museum, and nearby is a sculpture of "Nymydora" (the heroine of the story "Mykola Dzherya").

The Literary and Memorial Museum of Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky in Stebliv is a department of the Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi State Historical and Cultural Reserve.

The wooden church of Saint John Chrysostom was built in Nadtochaivka in 1773 on the site of the old Cossack temple founded in the 17th century.

In 1912, the church was reconstructed, but soon Soviet atheists stripped it of its domes and demolished the bell tower. The premises were used as a warehouse and a club.

Now the Church of John the Chrysostom is functioning again.

The wooden church of Staint John the Theologian was built in Sukha Kalyhirka at the end of the 19th century on the site of the old church founded in 1734.

The temple was built of oak timbers according to a typical synodal project common at that time in the territory of the Kyiv diocese.

The restoration was carried out in 1995.

The Church of Saint John the Theologian in Stebne is a large wooden church built in 1885 with one dome and an attached bell tower.

The cruciform church was built in the Cossack style.

During the Soviet period, the church of Saint John the Theologian in Stebny was the only active one in the entire district.

The Church of Saint John the Theologian was built in Holovkivka at the beginning of the 19th century. on the foundation of the old church, known since 1775.

The church is four-domed, cruciform in plan. An authentic belfry with bells has been preserved. The construction of the monastery building is underway.

The Church of John the Theologian in Rohy was built at the end of the 19th century on the site of an old church.

The wooden church of John Chrysostom was founded in 1765 as a Greek Catholic church. It was handed over to the Orthodox Church in 1768. A new brick temple was built on the site of the dismantled wooden one.

Since 2005, a women's monastery in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Abbess of Mount Athos" has been operating at the Church of John the Theologian in Rohy.

The Local Lore Museum of the city of Kalynopil  was founded in 1976 as a non-profit museum. In 1992, it received the status of a "State Museum". It is located in the city House of Culture. In 2017, the museum underwent a major renovation and all the main exhibits were updated.

Today, the museum collection has over two thousand exhibits. The main exhibits are dedicated to the history of ancient man in the region, Trypillya culture, the formation of the ancient Rus state, the events of the Liberation War led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky in 1648-1654, the history of the emergence of Kalynopil, the culture of the region in the late 18th - first half of the 19th century, collectivization and criminal actions of the communist regime, the events of World War II, as well as prominent natives of the region - Serhii Yefremov, Pavlo Fylypovych, Viacheslav Chornovil, Vadym Hetman, Semen Hryzlo.

The decision to create a historical museum in Kaniv was made in 1963, but it was actually opened only 28 years later. It is located in an old building in the center of the city.

The first exposition was dedicated to the Trypillia culture, the next - the history of the Kaniv region from the Paleolithic to the Ancient Rus state.

The permanent exhibition "Antiquities of Kaniv" with ethnographic material of the 19th century, several thematic exhibitions have also been opened.

Kaniv HPP is the youngest hydroelectric power station of the Dnipro Cascade, it is its second stage.

The hydroelectric dam forms the Kaniv reservoir with an area of 675 square kilometers. During the creation of the reservoir, many residents of neighboring villages were forcibly relocated, some villages were flooded.

The station was put into operation in 1972, and reached full capacity 4 years later (444 MW). It was also planned to create a hydraulic storage station, but the work was stopped in 1992.

The structures of the hydroelectric hub include: the HPP building, a complex of navigation and lock structures, earthen dams and protective structures on the right bank, and others. Road and railway bridge crossings are laid from above.

From the dam, you can see the supports of the railway bridge over the Dnipro, destroyed during the Second World War.