Attractions of Kremenchuk district

The pedagogical-memorial house-museum of the outstanding teacher Anton Semenovych Makarenko was opened in his parents' house in Kremenchuk in 1951.

Anton Makarenko spent 1905-1911 and 1917-1919 in this house. The Kremenchuk Museum became the first museum of a famous teacher in the former USSR.

Currently, the museum exposition has about 34 thousand exhibits, including personal belongings of Anton Makarenko (chess, glasses, antimony, violin), furniture and books of his parents.

The Kremenchuk Museum of the History of Aviation and Cosmonautics was opened in 2014 at the initiative of enthusiast and amateur historian Anatoliy Byshenko, 6 years after the start of work.

The museum is located in the basement of the building, next to which the activists of the public organization "Kremenchuk Museum of the History of Aviation and Cosmonautics" previously broke a square and erected a monument to the fallen pilots from Kremenchuk.

The museum covers events related to the city's history of aviation, but in general, the exposition is built on the theme of World War II. The museum presents military and civilian uniforms of pilots (both modern and from the time of the Soviet Union), documents, photographs, awards, household items, samples of weapons, models of military aircraft, etc.

The burial pyramid in Komendantivka, based on the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs, is a 15-meter granite tetrahedron.

Oleksandr Bilevych, an officer of the Russian fleet, who participated in the Russian-Turkish war and fought in the Balkans, being in Egypt in the early 1860s as part of a limited contingent of Russian troops, impressed by the pyramids he saw there, built a pyramid temple in 1864 in to his estate near the village of Komendantivka.

The pyramid was built from granite blocks mined in a local quarry, which were pulled up by wooden chutes with cables. Since the blocks were held together with an expensive lime mortar with the addition of cattle blood and egg whites, construction took 13 years.

The building is three-story. The underground tier consisted of three funeral chambers connected by passages. An Orthodox church with an iconostasis and an altar was located on the first above-ground level. The upper tier served as a belfry. The building was crowned with an Orthodox cross.

In 1877, Bilevych's wife Sofia was buried in the tomb, and in 1916 - the builder of the Komendantivka Pyramid, which was consecrated as the Orthodox Church of Saint Sophia, was buried.

In the middle of the 20th century, the graves of the Bilevichs were destroyed, and a fertilizer warehouse was built in the pyramid.

Currently, the service has been restored by the UOC parish of the Moscow Patriarchate, and the church is being repaired. An extension was made to it, which with its modern appearance violates the compositional integrity of the architectural monument.

The granite rock on the banks of the Dnipro in Kremenchuk is a geological monument of nature and an ancient geodetic mark.

Until the middle of the 20th century, it was used as a rapper - a sign fixing a point on the earth's surface, the height of which in relation to the original leveled surface was determined by leveling.

The rock is an outcrop of gray biotite-plagioclase magmatites 2.5-3 billion years old. It is also called a granite register.

On the rock, which rises 5-6 meters above the river level, there are marks of the highest water levels during floods on the Dnipro since the 18th century. These floods occurred in 1789, 1820, 1845, 1877, 1888, 1889, 1895, 1945.

Since 1970, the granite rapper has been a natural monument of local importance.

The Holy Intercession Church in Kamyani Potoky has been known since 1692. Then it was made of wood and soon burned down during a thunderstorm.

Probably, since those times, the church was rebuilt several times, and was finally dismantled only at the beginning of the 20th century. The construction of the brick temple of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin was completed in 1913. At that time, the temple was the largest in the district.

Now the temple is active.

The renovated art salon in Kremenchuk is an active creative platform that combines an exhibition space, a democratic bar, a platform for creative experiments, a designer store and a literary house.

This is a space for the presentation of creative works, freedom of creative expression, communication between the artist and the viewer. Workshops, cultural and educational programs, round tables, discussions, master classes, lectures, seminars, meetings with young and prominent representatives of modern culture are held here.

Kremenchuk Museum of Local Lore was opened in 1975. The exposition of the museum is located in 11 halls and covers geography, history, ethnography and art of the region.

The number of exhibits stored in the funds of the Museum of Local Lore is over 66 thousand units. The paleontological collection of the museum is the largest in Poltava region. The funds contain a wonderful collection of minerals and rocks, as well as a unique sample of fossil amber weighing 525 grams, which is over 30 million years old. The archeological collection of the museum includes more than 6,000 items, covering the time range from the Mousterian Paleolithic to the excavation materials of the late medieval fortress Kremenchuk.

The oldest manuscript document stored in the museum dates back to 1813. The thematic collection "Life of Kremenchuk citizens at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries" is significant.

The Manuilivka Literary and Local Lore Museum in the village of Verkhnia Manuilivka began working on July 13, 2022. It was created on the basis of the Literary and Memorial Museum of Maksym Horky, which was closed in May 2022 by the decision of the village council as part of decommunization.

The museum is located in five halls of a post-war building in the park of the former estate of the landowner Oleksandra Orlovska.

Currently, the format of the museum is being changed. A special working group, created from local local historians and specialists from Poltava, is working on the filling of new museum exhibits.

The museum is formally working, but the exposition is just beginning to be created.

The monument to plumbers in Kremenchuk was created at the expense of employees of the local water utility. It is designed to perpetuate the difficult work of locksmiths and plumbers.

The monument was installed at the entrance to the utility company "Kremenchukvodokanal" on the occasion of the company's 95th anniversary.

The sculpture depicts two workers twisting the valve of a water supply.

The local lore museum of Horishni Plavni has been operating since 2000. The exposition tells about the history of construction of the city of Horishni Plavni and the local mining and processing plant, as well as about the ancient history of the region.

Paleontological and archeological collections are exhibited. The ethnographic exposition "Ukrainian House" recreates the interior of a rural house. The lecture hall contains a mineralogical collection and an art gallery.

The "Shrine" exposition in the courtyard of the Museum of Local Lore presents a collection of "stone chests" - burial structures of archeological culture of the Eneolithic period, found during archeological excavations of local mounds, as well as anthropomorphic or amorphous gravestones and over-mound hewn slabs.

The majestic Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin in Kozelshchyna was built in 1906 on the site of the first church founded in 1882. Emperor Nicholas II visited the construction site.

Paintings by Oleksandr Murashko, iconostasis have been preserved. The main shrine is the miraculous Kozelshchyna icon of the Mother of God, which was brought from Italy in the 18th century by the Kozelsky nobles and inherited by the Counts of Kapnist. In 1880, after a fervent prayer near this icon, the seriously ill daughter of Count Volodymyr Kapnist Mariya, who could no longer be helped by doctors, was healed.

In 1886, the Nativity of the Virgin Convent was founded. After the construction of the new cathedral, a hotel for pilgrims, a hospital building, an icon-painting workshop, men's and women's schools, a brick factory, a waterworks, workshops and utility rooms were also built.

After 1917, the property of the monastery was nationalized, a theater was built in the cathedral.

Since 1992, the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin has been restored, the Kozelshchyna Nativity of the Virgin Convent has been revived.

Mount Pyvykha in Hradyzk on the shore of the Kremenchuk Reservoir is considered one of the highest points of the Left Bank of Ukraine (169 meters).

It arose as a result of the onset of continental ice during the Ice Age. There are outcrops of blue marl - a rare highly calcareous clay used in construction.

It is believed that the name of the mountain is connected with the settlement that existed here in ancient times, which belonged to the boyars Pyva.

In the 16th century, the Pyvohorsky Monastery was founded, near which the settlement of Horodyshche, and later the present Hradyzk, arose.

After the construction of the Kremenchuk Reservoir, Mount Pyvykha is gradually collapsing. It is a historical and geological reserve.

The All-Ukrainian Museum of the Uniform History in Kremenchuk was founded by collector Roman Patsovsky in 2018 with the support of veteran organizations. Since 2020, the exhibition has been housed in the second building of the Kremenchuk Gymnasium No. 27.

The collection of the Uniform Museum includes about 4,000 uniforms of state structures operating on the territory of Ukraine in the 20th-11th centuries. Samples of clothing and equipment of the Soviet Army, Navy and Air Force of the USSR, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the KGB, the SBU, border troops, the prosecutor's office, military educational institutions, the fiscal service, the customs service, the civil sea and river fleets, civil aviation, postal services, Ministry of Emergency Situations, forest protection, executive service, service of execution of punishments, railway transport.

Museum employees conduct thematic tours of the city of Kremenchuk.

A branch of the Uniform History Museum is the Kremenchuk Military History Museum, located in the same building.