Attractions of Dnipropetrovsk region

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.

The rocks of MODR in Kryvyi Rih are a geological monument of nature, a kind of museum of geology in the open air.

Picturesque rock outcrops are located on both banks of the Inhulets River along the former mining village of MODR (International Organization of Assistance to Fighters of the Revolution) within the city of Kryvyi Rih. It is a unique geological section of iron ore rocks that were formed about 2 billion years ago.

The Rocks of MODR consist of two massifs: Velyka Orlynka (Eagle's Nest) and Mala Orlynka. The latter is particularly interesting for the caves and grottos located here, where the ancient Scythians and Ulich Slavs mined ore.

According to legend, in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Cossacks hid their treasure here.

Individual rocks reach a height of 28 meters, which makes the rocks of MODR attractive for climbers. One of the most beautiful panoramas of Kryvyi Rih opens from here.

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.

The monument at the end of the Battle of Zhovti Vody was erected in the village of Zhovtooleksandrivka for the 350th anniversary of the beginning of the Liberation War.

At this place, next to the tract of Knyazhi Bayraky, in 1648 the Cossack troops of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, with the support of the Crimean Tatars Tuhay Bey, finally defeated the retreating Polish army, which became the first major victory of the Ukrainian people's War of Liberation.

Authors of the monument: architect Viktor Shulha, sculptor Stepan Zhylyak. On one of the two granite blocks, the coat of arms of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi is engraved, on the other - the coat of arms of the Crimean Tatar family Hirey. A stylized Ukrainian towel turns into a battle flag - a symbol of military prowess and the union of the Zaporizhzhian Cossacks and the Crimean Tatar army, which won a legendary victory on Zhovti Vody.

The Museum "Jewish Soul" ("A Yiddishe Neshume") in Kamyanske is located in the modern building of the synagogue "Beit Reuven", built in 2008. The architecture and facade of the building are a copy of the synagogue 770 in New York.

The creation of the museum was initiated in 2024 by the Jewish community of the city. She has gathered a considerable collection of valuable exhibits: old photographs from the family archives of the Jews of Kamyanske (formerly Dniprodzerzhynsk) and numerous household items from the past and the century before last. A separate section is devoted to the Holocaust.

Among the unique artifacts are the bricks from which the building of the previous synagogue in Kamiansky was erected. In its place is now the charitable center "Beit Baruch" and the large synagogue "Beit Reuven". The same bricks were laid in the foundation of the modern complex.

The Museum of Rare Motorcycles "Retrogarage Motosvit" ("Motomir") was created in Kamyanske by a private collector and restorer of motorcycles, Oleksandr Frolov, in 2019. His collection of motorcycles is called one of the best in Ukraine.

Oleksandr Frolov began collecting retro machinery in 2011. The first specimen was the Soviet road motorcycle "Izh-49" of 1951.
Currently, about 60 exhibits are presented on two floors of the museum.

The oldest of them is a homemade motorbicycle from 1893 from Hungary, which was manufactured before the production of the first serial motorcycles began.

A whole series of early German and French motorcycles from the beginning of the 20th century is exhibited. Most of the BMW motorcycle model range from the mid-20th century is presented. You can see military motorcycles that were used in World War II on the fronts of Europe and Africa. The American motorbike industry is represented by individual copies of Harley-Davidson bikes.

All the motobikes presented in the museum have been carefully restored. Most of the motorcycles are running. Also presented are old scooters, mopeds, bicycles. Part of the exhibition is the interior of a village hut that stood on the site of the museum before, where various old household items are collected.

The museum center of Olena Blavatska and her family in Dnipro is being created in a landmark building on the territory of the old Fadyeyevy family estate in Katerynoslav, built at the beginning of the 19th century.

In 1816-1834, the estate belonged to Andriy Fadyeyev, Blavatsky's grandfather, and she herself was born here in 1831.

Having traveled all over the world and researched ancient Eastern teachings in India and Tibet, Olena Blavatska became famous throughout the world as an outstanding theosophist, religious scholar, writer, creator of the International Theosophical Society. Her works were not influenced by the worldview of Mykola Roerich, Vasyl Kandinsky, Tomas Edison, Mahatma Gandhi.

The Blavatska Museum in Dnipro has been established since 2004. Pilot expositions are developed, a scientific library works, and club meetings are held.

A memorial plaque dedicated to Olena Blavatska has been installed on the building.

The ethnographic museum-manor "Mykolyn Khutir" in the village of Mala Petrykivka in Dnipropetrovsk region was founded in 2019 by famous masters of Petrykivka painting Mykola and Valentyna Deka.

They receive guests in their own village house over a hundred years old, which is decorated with traditional paintings in the Petrykivka style and turned into a museum of traditional peasant life. A prominent place in the interior is occupied by a traditional Ukrainian stove. You can also see an antique loom, a painted chest, embroidered clothes and towels.

Visitors are offered master classes in Petrykivka painting and motanka dolls, as well as lunches with homemade dishes.

The main attraction of the Khutir is "Traveling Hut" – a painted house on wheels, which can travel around the village.

The Kryvyi Rih Museum of Jewish Culture and Holocaust History was created at the Beis Stern Shulman Synagogue on the initiative and on the basis of the personal collection of patron Mykhaylo Marmer.

The exposition of the Mykhaylo Marmer Museum tells about the everyday life of Kryvyi Rih Jews in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including the tragic side of history - the Jewish pogroms. Rare objects that tell about the religious tradition of the Jewish people are presented.

The exhibition "Catastrophe" about the events of the Second World War consists of five separate sections: on the eve of the tragedy, death factories, ghettos, the Holocaust in Dnipropetrovsk region, the Jewish resistance movement, and the memorial exhibition.

The latest exposition optimizes the logical content of the museum, telling about the progressive development of Jewish life in Ukraine.

National Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater named after Taras Shevchenko was founded in Dnipro (at that time Sicheslav) in 1918 by the government of Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky as the first professional theater of Ukraine.

The building was added as a theater and concert hall to the former English club (architect Fedir Bulatsel). Reconstructed in 1978-1979. Cartouches with the numbers "1838" and "1913" have been preserved - the dates of the club's foundation and its 75th anniversary. The facade is decorated with a sculptural triptych reflecting the stages of the theater's creative journey. The rounded corner is crowned with the figure of a muse.