Attractions of Dnipropetrovsk region

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.

Children's Railway in Dnipro (Mala Prydniprovska) is a narrow-gauge railway in the park named after Lazar Hloba.

Introduces children to railway specialties. Opened in 1936, the Dnipro Children's Railway became the first children's railway in Ukraine and the second in the USSR. It was designed by schoolchildren from Dnipro, project documentation was prepared by students of the Dnipro Institute of Transport Engineers, construction was carried out by the method of Komsomol workers, the first locomotive was built independently by Komsomol members of the locomotive repair plant.

The total length of the road is 2 kilometers (ring road). One stop. There are three artificial structures - two tunnels and a crossing. Currently, the rolling stock consists of TU2-134 and TU2-172 diesel locomotives, as well as several PAFAWAG passenger cars.

The mound of Dovha Mohyla is located on the eastern edge of the Dnipro River, near the village of Chapli.

It is considered the highest point of the left bank of the Dnipro on the outskirts of this city. The height above sea level is 170 meters. There is a geodetic triangulation mark on the mound.

From this place there are wonderful views of the Dnipro.

The 50-meter long "Family bench" in Dnipro is the longest bench in Ukraine.

Installed in 2011 on the Dnipro embankment near the Festival pier. The one-piece bench is made of metal and pine beams, decorated with 7 installations that reflect the family's life path and eternal family values.

Located in a free Wi-Fi zone.

The Museum of Honored Artist of Ukraine, Ukrainian master of folk decorative painting and folk decorative graphics, Honored Master of Folk Art of the USSR, founder of the Petrykivka painting factory Fedir Panko was opened in 2013 in his native village Petrykivka in Dnipropetrovsk region.

The museum is located in the local house of culture. The main part of the exhibition consists of works from the personal collection of the Panko family.

The exposition demonstrates different stages of formation of Petrykivka painting traditions.

The Sursko-Lytovske Memorial Art Museum of Fedir Reshetnykov was opened in 1990 in the native village of the artist, at the local high school.

Fedir Reshetnykov was born in 1906 in the family of a local icon painter. He lived in the village of Sursko-Lytovske until he was 14 years old, where he began to paint. Subsequently, he became a polar explorer, took part in the world-famous expedition to the Chelyuskin icebreaker, from where he brought many sketches on Arctic subjects.

Reshetnykov is considered one of the main representatives of socialist realism in painting. The most famous for him were paintings on everyday subjects: "Low Marks Again", "Arrive on Vacation", "Took a prisoner", as well as the anti-war picture "For Peace".

Reshetnykov bequeathed 22 originals of his works to the school museum in Sursko-Lytovske. In 1997, the Fedir Reshetnykov Memorial Art Museum received the title of People's Museum. In addition to paintings, materials about the life and work of the artist are stored here.

The historical and ethnographic complex "Cossack Hundred" in Petrykivka represents the historical, ethnographic and cultural heritage of the Petrykivka region of the XVIII-XIX centuries as one of the centers of folk art and crafts.

Also here you can see and feel how the inhabitants of different regions of Ukraine lived and what they did in ancient times. The Museum of Ethnography and Life "Grazhda" operates - a copy of Hutsul hut-grazhda with residential and commercial buildings of the 18th century, where ceramics, household items and tools of the inhabitants of the Dnipro region are exhibited.

A model of the Cossack fortress "Sich" is presented, a training range for shooting with ancient Cossack weapons (crossbow, bow, rifle), a mini-zoo (ostriches, peacocks, wild ducks, wild boars, goats, sheep, donkeys, horses), a children's playground, arena for horse shows and beach volleyball court.

Master classes are held, in particular on Petrykivka painting.

The Museum of History and Local Lore in Krynychky was founded in 1980, and now it functions on the basis of the Krynychky Center for Student Youth.

The museum's collections include about 1,800 exhibits that reveal the history of the Krynychky region from the 18th century, local culture and natural features. The ethnographic collection in the "Ukrainian room" provides an opportunity to get acquainted with the life of a traditional Ukrainian peasant house of the 19th century. The exhibition "Room of Bread" consists of eight sections dedicated to the history of bread production. The exhibition of old and modern dolls is constantly open in the creative workshop "Lyalyn svit".

A separate exhibition dedicated to Anatoliy Maslakov, a local teacher, traveler, and tourism development enthusiast in the Krynychan region, was opened in 2016.

The Mahdalynivka Museum of History and Local Lore named after Dmytro Kulakov was founded in 1962 in the urban-type village of Mahdalynivka in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

It bears the name of its founder – historian and local historian Dmytro Kulakov. In 1985, the museum received a separate building in the center of Mahdalynivka, next to the village council.

The museum's funds include 2,500 exhibits. In particular, the ethnographic corner presents household objects of the 18th-19th centuries. The diorama of the battle of local partisans with the German invaders on the outskirts of the village of Krymynivka is dedicated to the partisan movement in Pryorillya during the Second World War.

The Museum of the History of the Dnipro Metro was founded in 1996, shortly after the opening of the first metro line in the city of Dnipro. The museum is located in one of the premises of the administration building of the Dnipro metro.

The exhibition opens with a panoramic photo of the Metalurgiv metro station with a diagram of the entire line and its prospective sections. The exhibition presents documents and photos illustrating the history of the construction of the facility and the current day-to-day operation of the subway. You can see samples of rocks through which the subway builders drove, samples of building structures and technological equipment, symbolic keys from each station of the first line and from the entire subway, a sample of a typical station lamp.

Excursions to the Museum of the History of the Dnipro Metro are available only for organized groups upon prior agreement with the administration.

Museum of Dnipropetrovsk Region Financial System History was opened in 2002 at the Main Financial Department of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration.

The history of the financial system of the region is presented in the museum since 1787, when the then Katerynoslav was founded. Today, the museum's collections include more than 1,700 exhibits. Among them are the originals of currency signs, calculators and arithmetic meters, ancient accounting equipment, samples of financial documents. In particular, the decree of Empress Catherine II on the creation of treasury chambers is presented, as well as the metal plates that were hung on the houses given as collateral.

The central element of the exposition is a reconstruction of the workplace of a financier in the middle of the 20th century with a wax figure of officeman.

The Museum of History of Local Self-Government of the Dnipropetrovsk Region was opened in 2008 as a branch of the Dnipropetrovsk National Historical Museum named after Dmytro Yavornytskyi.

The museum is located on the second floor of the building of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council, which was built in 1905 for the Katerynoslav Commercial School and rebuilt in 1935 to meet the needs of the local self-government body.

The exhibition with an area of 200 square meters reflects the history of the development of local self-government institutions in the Dnipropetrovsk region from the Middle Ages to the present day.

The museum has more than 600 exhibits, including personal belongings of officials of different times, interior items and office equipment, stationery, historical documents and photos, gifts of village councils from various regions of the region. Portraits of many leaders of the city of Dnipro (former Katerynoslav, Dnipropetrovsk) and Dnipropetrovsk region (former Katerynoslav province) are presented.

The Museum of the History of Pilots of the Dnipro Rapids is located in the Lots-Kamyanka Culture House on the southern edge of the Dnipro, in the village of Lotsmanska Kamyanka, where the Dnipro pilots, descendants of the Zaporozhzhian Cossacks, lived long ago.

Before the construction of DniproGES, pilots guided ships through rapids on the Dnipro. The Museum of the History of Pilots and the Pilot Craft was created on the basis of the private collection of the last Dnipro pilot Hryhoriy Omelchenko.

About 200 exhibits are housed in a small room of the House of Culture: anchors, oars, pilot's clothes, embroidered towels and shirts, chests, jugs, folk paintings and dozens of photographs.

The Holy Exaltation Church on Diyivka is one of the oldest in the Dnipro.

Founded in 1803. It was built in a classical style using the traditions of Ukrainian architecture.

During Soviet times, the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross was closed, and a club was located there.

Today, the church is located among the high-rise buildings of the Pokrovskyi housing estate. Recently, the temple was thoroughly restored and opened for visitors.