Attractions of Dnipropetrovsk region

The Church of the Holy Intercession in the village of Orlivshchyna was built at the end of the 20th century on the site of a destroyed wooden church founded in 1782.

In the 1920s, the Church of the Holy Intercession was destroyed by the Bolsheviks. In 1992, the revival began, and 6 years later, the solemn consecration of the new stone Holy Intercession Church took place.

Shrines: the ancient Athos icon of the Protection of the Mother of God, an image with a portion of the relics of the holy martyr Mykola Iskrivsky.

There is a parish Sunday school, the church takes care of orphans who live in the "Horobynochka" children's boarding school.

The Holy Intercession Church in the village of Rubanivske stands on the picturesque bank of a pond on the Solomchyna River. It used to be called the "Red Church" because of the color of the brick walls.

The temple was built in the middle of the 19th century by Kateryna Vasylenko, the widow of Ivan Vasylenko's court adviser. Later, returning from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, she decided to leave worldly life and build a Znamyansky women's monastery at her own expense in the name of the icon of the Mother of God "Sign".

The Znamyansky monastery was officially founded in 1906, and a year later its founder was elevated to the rank of abbess under the name of Yelyzaveta.

Having survived the persecution of the church during the Soviet era, the church still stands proudly above the village, impressing with its calmness, grandeur and amazing bell. In the Church of the Holy Intercession rest the relics of Abbess Yelyzaveta and the holy martyr Priest Oleksandr, tortured by the Bolsheviks in 1918. Near the church, the burials of priests and the founder of the village, the Cossack Ruban, have been preserved.

The museum-apartment of the artist Hryhoriy Synytsia is a branch of the Kryvyi Rih City Museum of History and Local Lore.

Well-known artist-Boychukist, author of the concept of "Ukrainian Color School", Honored Artist of Ukraine Hryhoriy Synytsia lived and worked in Kryvyi Rih from 1968 until his death in 1996. Here he completed his fundamental theoretical aesthetic and philosophical work "Color in Fine Arts", as well as worked on a new technique "Floromosaic".

The memorial museum-apartment of the artist exhibits about 200 of his works, made in different techniques.

The house-museum of Ivan Manzhura, a famous Ukrainian folklorist and storyteller, poet and ethnographer, was opened in the village of Rubanivske near the Holy Intercession Church.

The temple was built by the Vasylenko family of philanthropists near their estate, where in the early 70s of the 19th century Ivan Manzhura worked as an usher at the invitation of the owners. Ivan Vasylenko, a descendant of the Zaporizhzhia Cossacks, a Zemstvo official from Katerynoslav, a man of advanced democratic views, took care of the talented Ivan Manzhura. The name of his ancestor, Hryhoriy Vasylenko, nicknamed Tromsyn, who was listed in the Zaporizhzhia Sich as a scribe of the Kodak transport, entered the history of the settlement of the Dnipro region at the end of the 18th century.

To his good friend, Ivan Manzhura dedicated the poem-tale "Tromsyn Bogatyr" about the brave Cossack knight - Tromsyn, a faithful and reliable defender of all the oppressed and disadvantaged. Thanks to the Vasylenkos, Manzhura traveled almost the entire southern steppe Ukraine, collecting pearls of folklore. This is how his books of fairy tales were born.

Memorial days and creative evenings of Ivan Manzhura are traditionally held in Rubanivske twice a year - in May and November.

The Kamyanske City History Museum is located in a large constructivist building built in 1985. Before that, it occupied the premises of the Saint Nicholas Church for a long time.

The museum exposition is located in two halls on an area of about 2.5 thousand square meters and reproduces the history of the city from the earliest times to the present day.

Its constituent part is a separate section "Leonid Brezhnyev and his time", dedicated to the life and activities of the statesman and politician Leonid Brezhnyev, who lived and worked in the city for a long time.

The stock collections include more than 90,000 items of preservation, including archaeological and ethnographic collections , numismatics, philately, bonistics, a collection of gifts to Leonid Brezhnyev, etc.

Kelnskyi Boulevard is a new pedestrian zone in the center of Dnipro. It is also called "New Arbat".

A cobbled boulevard is decorated with an alley of fountains. Shopping centers, cafes and restaurants are located here. The lights of shop windows and "Arbat" lanterns in the evening give Kelnskyi Boulevard a European charm.

One night, anonymous people secretly installed a bronze sculpture of a sitting man on the boulevard, which they called a "monument to an unknown oligarch" (an extravagant gift to one of the wealthy townspeople, Hennadiy Akselrod).

Now it is one of the favorite places for walks and recreation of the townspeople.

The remains of the ramparts of the Polish fortress Kodak are located in a picturesque place on the high bank of the Dnipro in the village of Stari Kodaky on the southern edge of the Dnipro.

The Kodak Fortress was built by the French engineer Levasser de Boplan on the orders of the Polish King Vladyslav IV to control the Zaporizhzhians Cossacks. It was captured twice by Zaporizhzhian troops (in 1910, on the initiative of historian Dmytro Yavornytskyi, an obelisk was erected in honor of the capture of the fortress in 1648). Later, Katerynoslav (Dnipro) was founded nearby, a little further north, by Prince Hrihoriy Potomkin.

Soon the Kodak Fortress lost its importance, and in 1944 it was almost completely destroyed by a granite quarry.

Kryvyi Rih City Museum of History and Local Lore was founded in 1960.

It is located in a Soviet building in the central part of the city.

Natural and archeological collections, ethnographic and numismatic materials, works of fine and folk arts, photos and documentary sources on the history of Kryvyi Rih of the XIX-XX centuries are presented.

The main center of literary life of Dnipropetrovsk region is the Literary Prydniprovya Museum, the department of the Dnipropetrovsk National Historical Museum after Dmytro Yavornytsky.

It was opened in 1983 in the historic "Inzov House", built in the early XIX century to house the Office of Guardianship of Novorossiysk foreign settlers. For some time it was headed by Lieutenant General Ivan Inzov, who in 1820 was repeatedly visited by the Russian poet Oleksandr Pushkin. The house is also associated with the activities of the literary and artistic society Mykola Hohol, many other cultural and public figures.

The museum's collections include manuscripts of works of art, books, documents, photographs, and personal belongings of prominent writers, folklorists, and theater figures of the 18th and 20th centuries that were related to the Dnipropetrovsk region.

Part of the exhibition is located on the ground floor of the house. The second floor of the "Inzov House", where the renovation has not been completed, has become a museum laboratory. Every year about 30 art exhibitions and up to 70 scientific and educational events are held here.

Marhanets City Museum of Local Lore has been operating since 1969 in a room on the ground floor of a residential building in the central square of Marhanets.

The museum's collection includes about 6,000 exhibits that tell about the history, archeology, ethnography, nature of the region. Among them are many geological, paleontological, archaeological materials and household items of different eras.

The exposition about the period of German occupation during the Second World War presents documents, money, photos, Auschwitz, awards, personal belongings of partisans.

A separate exposition tells about the history of the Marhanets Mining and Processing Plant, presents the tools of mining and household items of the middle of the XX century.

Mavrynsky Maidan is a huge, mysterious, complex configuration of an earthen structure on the eastern outskirts of Mezhyrich.

From a bird's eye view, it resembles a crab or a mysterious symbol. It has the shape of a truncated cone with a hollow, from which snake-like earthen ramparts depart symmetrically. Nearby is an ordinary, unremarkable, although rather high hill.

There are several versions regarding its purpose. According to one of them, the Zaporizhzhia Cossacks used it as a defensive structure. There is a hypothesis that the Mavrynsky Maidan was formed as a result of looting excavations of ordinary barrows or after the installation of saltpeter workings in them. Finally, some researchers see a connection between the construction of Mavrynsky Maidan and the position of the sun at different times of the year. Perhaps it used to be a temple, a religious and cult building where ancient residents gathered for rituals, or a calendar-observatory complex like the English Stonehenge.

The public information and exhibition center Mediaprostir in Dnipro operates on the basis of the former Center for Innovative Technologies "Rocket Park", located in the park next to the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council.

The museum-exhibition complex with life-size models of three rockets produced by the "Pivdenmash" plant was created in 2013. One of the first Soviet ballistic missiles 8K11 (R-11), the first missile with a mobile launch developed by KB "Pivdenne" 8K99 (RT-20P) and the three-stage launch vehicle "Zyklon-3" are presented at the exhibition site.

This is one of the main locations of the "Dnipro Space" tourist route. The exhibition hall of the complex is currently used as a venue for public events and presentations.

The municipal institution of culture "Historical and local lore museum" of the Mezhova village council was founded in 1976 and is located in the premises of the Mezhova House of Culture.

The museum has 2400 exhibits. The exposition presents archeological finds of Scythian times, historical materials of the period of the Ukrainian revolution, years of Stalinist repressions, the Second World War, Russian-Ukrainian war.

The interior of the Ukrainian house of the XIX - early XX centuries is recreated: benches, wicker crib, samovars, makitry, rockers, rubles, irons, spinning wheel.

In the section "Outstanding people of Mezhova region" there are materials about writers Sava Bozhko, Ivan Kostyr and others.

A monument to the literary and folklore hero Lieutenant Rzhevsky was erected near the central passageway of the Pavlohrad Chemical Plant.

It is believed that the hero of Oleksandr Hladkov's play "Once Upon a Time", Lieutenant Dmytro Rzhevsky, served in the Pavlohrad Hussar Regiment, although the play does not directly mention this.

The image of a reckless hussar became popular after the release in 1962 of Eldar Ryazanov's film comedy "Hussar's Ballad". Since then, many frivolous anecdotes with sexual undertones have been born about the lieutenant with vulgar mannerisms. Other real and literary characters of the 19th century hussar era often appear in anecdotes.

The Belarusian sculptor Volodymyr Zhbanov depicted lieutenant Rzhevsky, who carelessly sits on the back of a bench and carelessly twists his mustache.

The monument at the place of death of Prince Svyatoslav Ihorovych in Mykilske-Na-Dnipri is one of the oldest monuments dedicated to Ancient Rus.

According to legend, one of the most militant and active Kyiv princes Svyatoslav Ihorovych, the son of Princess Olha, died in a battle with the Pechenegs near the famous Dnipro rapid "Nenasytets", returning after an unsuccessful campaign to Constantinople. During his reign (964-972), he managed to defeat the Khazar Khaganate, conquer the Vyatichi, and carry out military campaigns to Bulgaria and the North Caucasus.

A cast-iron slab on a granite boulder on the bank of the Dnipro was installed in 1872 at the probable place of the prince's death. The inscription on it says: "In 972, near the Dnipro rapids, a Rus knight, Prince Svyatoslav Ihorovych, died in an unequal battle with the Pechenegs."

The monument is located on the territory of the Children's Health Camp. Visitors are accompanied by security.