Attractions of Cherkasy region

The Museum of the History of the Village of Khudiaky was opened in 1982 in the premises of the House of Culture. The village of Khudiaky is unique in that over the years of its existence, during the forced resettlement from the bottom of the Kremenchuk Reservoir, it took over the neighboring village of Taldyky, and the museum, accordingly, is dedicated to the fate and history of the two villages.

Since 1995, the museum of the village of Khudiaky has been conducting active archaeological research, thanks to which four previously unknown settlements from the 3rd - 2nd and 1st millennia BC have been discovered, 9 previously unknown ones have been added to the 24 known burial mounds. Photographic recording of archaeological finds from the territory of ancient settlements is underway. A new version of the Turkic origin of the name of the village of Khudiaky has been investigated. An archival clarification of the lists of victims of the 1932-1933 famine, residents of the villages of Khudiaky and Taldyky repressed by the totalitarian regime in the USSR, and soldiers who died during World War II has been made.

The museum also exhibits unique wax impressions of rare seals of the Hetman of Ukraine Bohdan Khmelnytsky, the regimental "palanka" seal of the Zaporizhzhian army, and the seal of the Svyatonikolsky Medvediv Monastery.

Of particular interest is the recently created model of the flooded villages of Khudiaky and Taldyky.

The Tsybulsky House in Cherkasy is a historic building in the center of the city, built in the middle of the 19th century.

It belonged to a family of merchants of the first guild, and was the tallest building in the city at the time. From July 18 to 22, 1859, Taras Shevchenko stayed here with his friend Yukhym Tsybulsky.

In Soviet times, a museum of one book - Shevchenko's "Kobzar" - was opened here. The museum exposition presents the writer's lifetime and posthumous publications, in particular the rare "Kobzar" of 1840.

Korsun-Shevchenkivska HPP is one of the first small hydroelectric power stations in Ukraine.

It was commissioned in 1934. According to its technical indicators, it was one of the best stations of that time, and became the basis of the first rural power system in the USSR.

The dam is located on the Ros River, forming a small reservoir.

In 2007, the Korsun-Shevchenkivska HPP dam was reconstructed. Today, the power plant has a capacity of 100 kW.

The memorial museum of Kyrylo Stetsenko was created in 1959 in the composer's native village in the Korsun region.

Kyrylo Stetsenko was born in the village of Kvitky in 1882.

The museum is located in the restored building of the Zemstvo school, where Stetsenko studied. About 400 exhibits tell about his life and creative activity. Despite a rather short creative life, Kyrylo Stetsenko managed to create a number of outstanding works, including patriotic and spiritual works.

Since 1994, the museum has been a branch of the Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi Historical and Cultural Reserve.

A monument to Kyrylo Stetsenko was erected near the museum.

The complex of Light and music fountain "Pearl of Love" was opened in 2017 in Taras Shevchenko Square in Uman.

Located both on land and on water, the Uman fountains are among the three largest in Ukraine. The complex includes the main bowl of the fountain on land with a light-music show and a show on the water screen, a light-dynamic floating fountain on the Ostashivsky Pond and three static fountains with light-dynamic illumination, the color of which does not repeat during the day.

The bowl of the main fountain has an area of 450 square meters, the water screen is almost 200 square meters. The height of the water jet of the floating fountain on the Ostashivsky pond is 19 meters, and the static one is 1.9 meters.

In light and music mode, the fountains work on weekdays from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and on weekends from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. From Friday to Sunday at 19:30 there is a light and music show on the water screen.

The light-dynamic musical fountain in Cherkasy, in the square behind the Regional State Administration, was revived in 2008 after it had been inactive for 10 years.

Reconstructed at the initiative of the city authorities at the expense of sponsors.

The local lore museum of the village of Zalizniachka was opened in 2024 in the premises of the Zalizniachka village library, a branch of the Yerky public central library.

The exposition presents a model of a traditional stove with all the necessary remains, ceramic pots, mugs and bowls, ancient items of folk use, pots and tubs, embroidered shirts, towels and pillows, paintings by folk artists. All these things are collected for the indifferent inhabitants of the village.

The Lysianka Historical Museum was created in 1967, and in 1992 it was granted state status.

The exposition, which is spread over 5 halls, tells about all periods of the history of the Lysianka region. In the first hall, archeology, prehistory, Trypillya culture, princely era, Cossacks are presented.

In the following halls, you can familiarize yourself with the events of the 18th-20th centuries, collectivization and the Holodomor, the Second World War and modern times.

Ethnographic collection, numismatics, products of local craftsmen, valuable historical collections are presented.

Maksym Zaliznyak's Oak in Kholodny Yar is one of the oldest oaks in Ukraine (perhaps the oldest). According to various estimates, it is from 1000 to 1200 years old.

The patriarch oak grows on the southern slope of the Kyrykivsky Yar tract on the territory of the Kholodny Yar tract on the outskirts of the Buda village. It is the largest in Ukraine and one of the ten largest trees in Europe. Its girth is 8.9 meters, height - 24 meters. The trunk was struck by lightning six times.

Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, Severyn Nalivayko, Taras Shevchenko rested under its crown, but it is named after Maksym Zaliznyak - the leader of the Haydamak uprising, which was active in these places. The Zaliznyak oak is considered a symbol of Kholodny Yar, as well as one of the symbols of the Ukrainian Cossacks.

A monument to the residents of the village of Buda, who died during the Second World War, has been erected nearby.

There is a cafe and a souvenir shop at the entrance to the reserve.

The impressive building of the Male gymnasium in Uman was built according to the project of the architect Vladyslav Horodetskyi. At one time it was a famous educational institution.

Currently, the building is occupied by the Uman Agricultural College.

The Mankivka Village Museum of Local Lore was established in 1989 on the initiative of the famous ethnologist, archaeologist and museologist Vadym Mytsyk as the "Dzenzelivka Village History Museum". A group of artists from Kyiv was invited to design the museum. The museum is located in the historical building of the former Higher City College, built in 1912.

In 2004, the museum acquired the status of a district museum and became the "Mankivka District Museum of Local Lore". After the last administrative reform in Ukraine, it received the status of a "Village Museum of Local Lore".

Over the 35 years of its existence, the museum has collected more than seven thousand exhibits. Among the unique ones are ceramic dishes from the Early Bronze Age and a sword from the times of Kyivan Rus. Main expositions: "Pre-Trypillya period", "Trypillya period", "Kyiv Rus, "Cossack country", "Soviet period before World War II", "World War II", "History of bread", "Life in the 19th-20th centuries".

The private manor-museum "Paradise Corner", or, as it is also called, "Oleksiyivsky Park" was created in the Ukrainian retro style on the homestead of Oleksiy Chernyk from Cherkasy.

Here you can see a mini-museum in the open air: from a mazanka house with a thatched roof to an old cannon. Almost all museum exhibits are in operation.

You can walk through a birch alley to the shores of the Dnipro Strait, admire the mini waterfall, fry a barbecue on an old-fashioned barbecue.

Maryanivka Manor was founded in 1880-1885 by a landlady named Maryana, who owned these lands at that time.

A 40-hectare park was laid out at the manor. Seedlings and tree seeds were imported from Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, as well as from North America (Canadian and silver linden and Canadian pine, which have survived to our time).

The main manor house was built at the beginning of the 20th century by the landowner Kozakovsky, who married Maryana's daughter. Other manor buildings are in a dilapidated state.

"Green house" is part of the former estate of the Davydov family in Kamyanka.

It is located in the depth of the alley that goes from Heroyiv Maydanu Street along the Tyasmin River. It was built at the beginning of the 19th century as one of the outbuildings of the Davydov family.

It got its name because of the predominant green color: green roof, green shutters, green gallery. Part of the Davydov library, a billiard room and tables for games were located in this outbuilding, which is why it is also called the "House of Cards".

Here, the Davydovs usually accommodated their guests who came to Kamyanka for a few days. It included poet Oleksandr Pushkin, composer Petro Chaykovsky, as well as officers belonging to the secret Southern Society of the Decembrists.

To the right of the central alley are the monument to Chaykovsky (1975, sculptor Mariya Konstantynova, architect Vasyl Hnyezdylov) and the summer theater.

In 1937, the Pushkin Museum was opened in the Green House. In 1940, the institution was replenished with the department of the composer Chaykovsky and received the name "Pushkin and Chaykovsky Literary Memorial Museum". Since 2022, the museum bears the historical name of the building where it is actually located - Green House Memorial Museum.

The exposition presents memorial items of the Davydov family, Chaykovsky's personal piano, a lifetime portrait of the composer painted in Kamyanka.

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.