Attractions of Dnipropetrovsk region

The huge and majestic Holy Trinity Cathedral in Novomoskovsk is the only nine-bay wooden church in Ukraine.

It was built in 1775-1778 by the order of the last basket chieftain of the Zaporizhzhia Sich, Petro Kalnyshevsky, under the leadership of Colonel Antin Holovaty of Samara, at the expense of the Zaporizhzhia Army.

The complex 9-log structure was assembled from 559 logs without a single nail by Yakym Pohrebnyak, a self-taught craftsman from Nizhny Vodolaha, Kharkiv province, having first made a model. Colonel Antin Holovaty of Samara Palanka supervised the construction. The foundation of the temple took place a few days before the liquidation of Zaporizhzhia Sich.

After the fire of 1855, the Trinity Cathedral was restored in its former form. Collection of funds for the restoration was conducted by the outstanding historian Dmytro Yavornytskyi. At the beginning of the 20th century, oil painting in the domes was added to the original handmade wooden friezes.

In 1930, the temple was closed and was used as a grain warehouse. The services were restored in the period from 1942 to 1963, then the Historical and Local Lore Museum was placed in the premises.

In 1988, the Trinity Cathedral was returned to believers, although until now the architectural monument was used by the Dnipropetrovsk Art Museum for the exposition of the department of decorative and applied arts. The list of the icon of the Mother of God of Samara, the original of which disappeared at the beginning of the 20th century, is stored here. Restoration has been underway since 2012.

The construction of the Transfiguration Cathedral was started in 1787 during Kateryna II's tour of the southern territories. The empress personally laid the first stone, which is considered to be the moment of the foundation of the city. However, the continuation of the works dragged on for 48 years and ended only in 1835.

The cathedral is located in the middle of a green square in the historical part of the Dnipro. It has a high architectural and artistic value as a building that reflected the traditions and techniques of the Russian classical school during its heyday.

During the years of Soviet power, at the request of academician Dmytro Yavornytskyi, a museum of atheism was opened in the cathedral, thanks to which it was possible to save the temple from destruction and preserve the interiors. The cathedral briefly resumed work during the German occupation. Restored in 1975. In 1992, it was handed over to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

Nearby is the verst "Katerynynska Mile".

The Aerospace Museum in Dnipro was created on the basis of the Oleksandr Makarov National Aerospace Educational Center of Youth.

The center is named after the Ukrainian rocket engineer, who in 1961-1986 headed the Southern Machine-Building Plant ("Pivdenmash") – a leading Ukrainian enterprise in the production of rocket and space equipment.

The exhibition in the main hall is dedicated to famous rocket builders and the space technology they created. Samples and models of space vehicles, in particular, orbital stations, are presented. On the open-air exhibition area, samples of military equipment are presented: intercontinental ballistic missiles (including the legendary Satana R-36M), the S-200 anti-aircraft missile complex, a model of the German V-2 missile, etc.

Free viewing of the exposition is available on Tuesdays. To organize group excursions, you need to issue an application letter.

The Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary in Novoselivka was founded in 1780.

The wooden temple served the parishioners properly until the 1930s, then it was closed by the Bolsheviks. Divine services were restored during the Second World War. The church operated until 1960, then it was closed again, and the building was equipped with a gym, then a warehouse. In 1981, the village council decided to destroy the church building: the wooden structure was broken with difficulty, and the granite plinth and foundation could not be destroyed even with a bulldozer.

In 1985, a small church in the name of Archangel Gabriel was built on the foundation. In 2003, a place was consecrated for the construction of a new temple, the construction of the walls of which was completed in 2008. Soon, the first divine service was held in the lower church of the Assumption Church.

The Museum "Public feat of the inhabitants of Dnipropetrovsk region in the events of the anti-terrorist operation", which recreates the main events of the war in eastern Ukraine and honors Ukrainian soldiers, is a department of the Dnipropetrovsk National Historical Museum after Dmytro Yavornytsky.

Created in 2016-2017 at the initiative of anti-terrorist operation participants and volunteers. The open-air street exhibition "Ways of Donbass" has more than 400 exhibits that are symbols of war: a typical reinforced concrete checkpoint, anti-aircraft gun ZU-23-2, ambulance, infantry fighting vehicle BMP-2, T-64 tank turret, military SUV, road signs of the cities of Donbass, a sculptural composition "Soldier and the girl".

Even more exhibits are presented in an internal exhibition of more than 500 square meters, which tells about the military, volunteers, migrants, journalists, chaplains and medics.

In the "Hall of Bright Memory of Heroes" 500 photo portraits of the fallen soldiers of the Armed Forces and volunteer formations from Dnipropetrovsk region are presented. In the hall of panoramic video you can watch the documentary "Dnipropetrovsk region in the events of the anti-terrorist operation" with the effect of presence.

The complex of buildings of the Berhman brothers' manor in the urban-type village of Solone is a rare example of a German-Mennonite manor, built in the second half of the 19th century in the neo-Gothic style of eclecticism.

In 1862, part of the lands of Solone (then Enhelhardivka) was purchased by the Mennonite family of Abram and Suzanne Berhman from West Prussia. Between the mid-1870s and the early 1890s, their sons Herman and Abram built two manor houses on either side of the man-made pond that bisects the village.

Only the farm buildings on Usenka Street remained from the southern estate of Herman Bergman. Instead, the main one-story brick house with Neo-Gothic elements in architecture has been preserved on the territory of the northern estate of Abram Berhman's younger brother. The main height accents of the facade are risalites, which end with complex neo-Gothic triangular pediments with arrow-shaped attic window openings. The decoration of the gables is characterized by skillfully made brick decor. A high faceted bay window tower faces the pond, which ends with a complex octagonal tent covered with tiles in the form of carp scales. Elements of the original decor have been partially preserved in the interior of the house.

During the Moscow-Bolshevik invasion, the property of the estate was looted, and the owners were shot. During Soviet times, the Berhmans' house housed the authorities, later the Palace of Pioneers and the library.

Since 1992, part of the premises has been occupied by the Museum of the History of Solone, founded in 1976. The museum's collections include 2,000 exhibits. In particular, the exposition tells about the history of the Berhman family and their contribution to the development of the region's economy.

The Berhman House is an architectural monument of local importance. The building needs restoration.

The Catherine's Mile in Voloske is a road sign established in 1784-1787 on the route of Empress Catherine the Great during her journey through Novorossiya to the Crimea.

Similar signs were placed by order of Prince Hryhoriy Potomkin on the path of Catherine every 10 versts.

Catherine's mile is the lower part of a column of the Tuscan order with a hexagonal intercept in the middle and a cone-shaped finish, installed on a square pedestal.

On the southern outskirts of the village of Voloske is one of the five Catherine's miles preserved in the territory of Ukraine. It is located at the exit from the village towards Maiorka.

The Complex History Museum is a communal institution of the Tsarychanka settlement council.

The museum in Tsarychanka was founded in 1959, from 2021 it will be located in the new premises of the Cultural and Business Center of the Tsarychanka community.

The exposition introduces the history, culture, flora and fauna of the Oril river area. In particular, ceramics of the Bronze Age, Cossack pipes and powder kegs of the 17th-18th centuries, household items and tools of the local peasantry are presented.

On the basis of the museum there is a tourist information space "Guide to the Tsarychanka hromada". The museum has modern multimedia equipment for seminars and meetings.

The Ethnographic Park "Cossack Farm Halushkivka" is a recreation of the village founded by the Cossack Halushka at the end of the 18th century on the outskirts of the village of Hrechane by the enthusiasts of the public organization "Cossacks of Naddnipryanshchyna".

The complex includes a model of a Cossack fortress and several peasant estates of the 19th century. The ethnographic museum contains an exposition dedicated to the rural life of the region, including two wedding towels over 150 years old.

The art gallery presents the works of the artist Volodymyr Vyborny - portraits of Cossack hetmans and chieftains, landscapes of the Halushkivka hamlet, and genre paintings.

The artist's house is equipped for the accommodation of guests. Workshops on Petrykivka painting, pottery, and Motanka dolls are held in the master's yard.

The farmhouse can accommodate up to 70 guests at the same time. A traditional Cossack dinner is offered: kulish, varenyki, halushki, uzvar.

Excursions, horse shows, and national holidays are held by prior order.

Museum-diorama "Battle for the Dnipro near the villages of Vyskove-Vovnihy" is a department of the Dnipropetrovsk National Historical Museum named after Dmytro Yavornytsky.

Opened in 1975 to mark the 30th anniversary of the Victory in World War II in a new building attached to the back of the main building of the museum. This is one of the largest dioramas in Europe - its total area of the canvas is 840 square meters, viewing radius - 230 degrees. Created by masters of battle painting Mykola But and Mykola Ovechkin from the Studio of Military Artists named after Hrekov.

The plot of the diorama tells about the events of forcing the Dnipro on the bridgehead Vyskove-Vovnihy and the liberation of the city of Dnipro from German occupation in late September 1943. Deep subject plan, consisting of the remains of fortifications, weapons, means of crossing and other military attributes, special lighting of the hall, sound effects create the effect of the audience's direct presence at the site of the storming of the Dnipro by Soviet soldiers. Fighters in the foreground of natural growth.

A collection of Soviet military equipment is on display at the exhibition site next to the museum: T-34-85 and T-70 tanks, a BM-13 Katyusha jet launcher based on the ZIS-151, several World War II cannons, and an surface-to-air launcher missile system S-125.

The memorial house-museum of Academician Dmytro Yavornytsky in Dnipro is the only residential estate of old Katerynoslav that has survived to this day.

It was built in 1905 according to the project of architect Leonid Brodnytsky opposite the Potemkin Palace in the current Shevchenko Park. Dmytro Yavornytsky, a prominent Ukrainian historian, archaeologist, and public figure, lived and worked in this small red-brick house with a belvedere and a carved wooden veranda for 35 years. Heading the Dnipropetrovsk Historical Museum, he became famous as a researcher of the history of the Zaporizhzhian Cossacks.

The interiors of the rooms of Yavornytsky's house were recreated as they were during his life: the lobby, the hall, the study, the living room, the dining room, the mezzanine. The exhibition presents many memorial items: student notebooks from the time of study at the Kharkiv gymnasium, workbooks exhibited his own things, documents, letters, photographs, paintings. Among personal belongings: embroidered shirt, stick, glasses, etc.

In front of the house you can still see pine and poplar planted by Yavornytsky.

Dmytro Yavornytskyi Avenue is the main street of Dnipro and one of the oldest thoroughfares in the city.

It began to take shape simultaneously with the founding of Katerynoslav at the end of the 18th century. From 1834 to 1923, it was called Katerynynskyi Avenue, until 2016 - Karl Marks Avenue. Today it bears the name of the outstanding Ukrainian historian Dmytro Yavornytskyi, who lived and worked in Katerynoslav for a long time.

The avenue is lined with houses of various styles from the 19th and 20th centuries. The Governor's House (1840-1850), "Khrinnykov's House" (1910-1913, now the grand hotel "Ukraine"), the post office building, etc. have been preserved. A pedestrian zone - Kelnskyi Boulevard, nicknamed "New Arbat" - has been organized in the area of the central square of Heroiv Maidanu.

Nearby on the boulevard is a vernissage, where you can buy paintings by local artists and handicrafts, including Petrykivsky painting.

The Dnipro Academic Theater of Drama and Comedy is located in the premises of the former Winter Theater of Katerynoslav, built in 1906-1907 in the Art Nouveau style according to the project of architect Fedir Bulatsel.

In 1927, based on the decision of the executive committee of the city council, a theater of Russian drama was created on the basis of the troupe of the Moscow Maly Theater, which was touring in the city at that time.

Before the Second World War, the theater building was reconstructed and took on more classical forms - the facade was decorated with columns, pilasters and sculptural images of art muses.

The Dnipro Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet is a modern musical theater with a wide range of genres, stage forms and means.

Created in 1931 as the Dnipropetrovsk Workers' Opera Theater, in 1941 it was evacuated to Krasnoyarsk, where it merged with the Odesa troupe. After the Second World War, it officially ceased operations.

Reborn in 1974. The performance "Bohdan Khmelnytsky" of the Dnipro Opera and Ballet Theater was awarded the Taras Shevchenko National Award.

The Dnipro City Art Museum was opened in 1914 on the initiative of members of the art commission of the Katerynoslav Scientific Society.

Initially, the exhibition was housed in the Potomkin Palace (now the Palace of Students of DNU), then in the Khrennikov building (now the Ukraine Hotel).

During Soviet times, the collection was replenished with works by domestic and Western European masters from the collection of Dmytro Yavornytskyi, as well as from the Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow) and the Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg). In 1936, the Dnipro Art Museum received a gift from the painter Isaac Brodsky over 300 works, which are still the basis of the exposition.

To date, the museum's collection includes 8.5 thousand works of painting, sculpture, graphics and objects of decorative and applied art of the 16th-21st centuries. The permanent exhibition includes works by Volodymyr Borovykovsky, Ivan Shyshkin, Isaac Levitan, Kostyantyn Korovin, Valentyn Syerov, Illya Repin, Mykola Pymonenko, Oleksandr Murashko and others. The pearl of the collection is considered to be the works of the Ekaterinoslav symbolist artist Mykhaylo Sapozhnikov.

A special place in the museum collection is occupied by the works of famous masters of Petrykivka decorative painting.

Until 2021, the Dnipro Art Museum had regional status, now it is a communal institution of the Dnipro City Council.