Attractions of Nerubaika

The Holy Intercession Church in the village of Nerubaika in the Kirovohrad region is one of the oldest churches in the region, an architectural monument of local importance. According to some sources, it was built in the 18th century as a Catholic church at the expense of the Polish Count Stanislaw Potocki.

Since after the accession of these lands to the Russian Empire, the number of Catholic population of Nerubaika decreased, in 1837 the church was rebuilt and rededicated as the Orthodox Church of St. George. In 1917, it was named the Church of the Holy Intercession.

The church in the style of classicism has a squat silhouette. The thickness of the gray granite walls reaches one meter. The interior is decorated with paintings.

The Nerubaika People's Museum of Local Lore was founded in 1967. Located in five rooms on the second floor of the House of Culture of the village of Nerubaika.

Considerable attention is paid in the exposition to the Cossack period of the region's history and the emergence of the village of Nerubaika in the 17th-18th centuries. A large collection of weapons from different eras is presented.

The pride of the Nerubaika Historical and Local Lore Museum is the collection of samples of national material culture, which is presented in the interior of a traditional Ukrainian house. In it, you can see the figures of the hosts in authentic Ukrainian clothes. A loom for making canvas, a spinning wheel, table and kitchen utensils and other household items of Ukrainians are located here. The floor is covered with homemade paths that were donated to the museum by local residents.

Two more museum halls are devoted to the revolutionary events of the beginning of the 20th century, the Holodomor of 1932-1933, episodes of the Second World War and the post-war period connected with these regions.