Attractions of Dnipropetrovsk region

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 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.

The Church of the Nativity of Holy Virgin is the oldest church in Nikopol region, one of the few preserved from pre-revolutionary times.

It is located on the western outskirts of the city.

The Nativity of Holy Virgin Church was built in 1812-1820 in the style of classicism. In the interior, paintings of the 19th century, made by the outstanding poet and artist Maksymilian Voloshyn, have been preserved.

The Cathedral of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin in Mala Petrykivka was founded in 1772 on the initiative of the chieftain of Zaporizhzhia Sich, Petro Kalnyshevskyi, who is considered the founder of the village.

According to church records, the church was moved to the site of a new settlement from the village of Kurylivka. In 1812, the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin was rebuilt in stone. A three-part temple with a rectangular central part, a semicircular apse and a projecting vestibule. On the western facade - a four-column portico, completed by a triangular pediment.

An architectural monument of national importance.

Currently, the right of ownership of the cathedral is being registered by the Petrykivka settlement community, which will be able to decide to whom and under what conditions it will be transferred for use by the relevant religious community.

In dire need of restoration.

The Nikopol Museum of Local Lore was established in 1919 as the Museum of Fine Arts on the basis of an art collection requisitioned from the local landowner Nechayev.

Initially, the museum was located in a historic house of the early twentieth century, but now this architectural monument has been in disrepair for a long time, so the exposition is located in a temporary building in the center of Nikopol.

The most valuable part of the collection was lost during World War II.

Now the museum's funds include more than 45 thousand exhibits that tell about the nature and history of the region from ancient times to the present.

The exposition of the department of nature and ecology introduces the characteristics of the geographical position of the region, its flora and fauna, minerals, paleontology, environmental ecology.

The exposition of the departments of archeology and ancient history and the Zaporizhzhia Cossacks and modern history has three sections: "Archaeological monuments of the region", "Zaporizhzhia Sich and Zaporizhzhia Cossacks on the territory of the region", "Our region under the rule of the Russian Empire".

The exposition of the Department of Contemporary and Contemporary History consists of two stationary exhibitions: "Ukraine. The Path to Independence" and "Our Land during the Second World War".

The Department of Arts organizes and exhibits temporary and permanent art and ethnographic exhibitions. The museum also regularly hosts lectures, master classes, and thematic events.

Park named after Lazar Hloba is the central park of the Dnipro.

It was founded in the 18th century by the Zaporozhzhian Cossack Lazar Hloba on the territory of his manor. Until 1858, the park was called the Katerynoslav State Garden, and from the 1920s, the city authorities divided it into the City Garden and the Technical Garden. During the Soviet rule, the park was named Chkalov.

There is a children's railway, city attractions, a karting center and a summer concert venue. In the middle of the park there is a large lake with beautiful swans.

A monument to Lazar Hloba was erected on his grave.

The Pavlohrad Museum of History and Local Lore is located in the city center, next to the Cathedral of the Non-Manufactured Savior.

The exposition tells about the history of the city, including the famous 135th Pavlohrad Hussar Regiment, which became famous in the Franco-Russian War of 1812.

There is an interesting ethnographic collection and exposition that tells about the Cossacks of Samarska Palanka.

One of the most interesting exhibits is a well-preserved Cossack boat of the 15th century.

The Pidhorodne People's History and Local Lore Museum is named after the local bandurist and carver Oleksa Koval. It was he who founded the local history museum in Pidhorodne in 1967.

The museum is located in a separate building near the city council. Its funds include more than 19,000 storage units. In particular, a large ethnographic selection is presented, including traditional clothes, ancient Ukrainian tableware, tools of peasant work.

Among the exhibits of the museum are banduras made by Oleksa Koval.

The People's Museum of History of PJSC "Dnipro Metallurgical Combine" is housed in the former Kamyanske engineering club, built at the beginning of the 20th century.

The exposition in four halls tells the history of the enterprise, starting from the moment of the first smelting at the then Dnipro Metallurgical Plant in 1889. The museum funds include more than 15,000 exhibits: archival materials, unique book editions, ancient tools, household items and ethnoculture, rare photographs, fragments of real technological equipment, personal belongings of factory workers.

A special place is occupied by the exposition of the plant's products on the open area in front of the museum. And the main exhibit is the factory horn, which signaled the start and end of the shift for more than 100 years.

The History and Local Lore Museum in Petropavlivka was founded in 1967 and is now located in the Cultural Center Kvitka.

The exposition consists of four sections: "Our region from the earliest times to the beginning of the 20th century", "Our region in 1900-1940", "Tests of war and reconstruction", "Development of the region" and the ethnographic hall "Ukrainian room".

In front of the entrance to the building is the exhibition "Stone witnesses of the history of the region", which presents stone idols of the Scythian-Sarmatian period.

The Petrykivka painting exhibition is open at the Petrykivka Folk Art Center.

The traditional Petrykivka decorative painting became famous as early as the 19th century, it was managed to be preserved and even put on the assembly line in Soviet times.

The "Petrykivka" folk art center was established in the early 1990s as the first enterprise owned by the folk craftsmen themselves, and now unites about 40 masters of Petrykivka painting.

The exhibition hall is open all the time, workshops are open for visits, tours and master classes for children are held. The exposition presents paintings, painted household items, decorations. Here you can buy or order all kinds of souvenirs.

The Petrykivka museum of ethnography, everyday life and folk art was created in 2010 on the basis of an exhibition of Petrykivka paintings at the Druzhba factory.

There are 2,500 objects in the museum's collections that tell about the history of Petrykivka, the ethnography of this region, the development of applied folk art, and the technique of Petrykivka painting.

Of particular value are the products of folk masters of Petrykiv decorative painting Fedir Panko, Andriy Pikush, Nataliya Rybak and others.

The museum holds master classes on various techniques of folk crafts.