Attractions of Kremenchuk district

The Memorial Museum of Mykola Lysenko operates in his native village of Hrynky in Poltava region. It was here that the outstanding composer was born in 1842 in the family of a local landowner, Colonel Vitaliy Lysenko. Here his mother Olha Lysenko gave her son his first music lessons.

A small museum exhibition is located in one of the rooms of the Hrynky Village Council building with original stained glass windows.

The museum exhibition tells about the life and work of Mykola Lysenko. Documents, photographs, as well as some original personal belongings of the Lysenko family from their former house in Hrynky are presented.

The Nataliya Yuzefovych Art Gallery in Kremenchuk was founded in 2002 to exhibit the works of contemporary Ukrainian artists, primarily the outstanding Kremenchuk artist Nataliya Yuzefovych, whose name the gallery bears.

The artist Nataliya Yuzefovych was a master of lyrical landscapes, picturesque still lifes, unique portraits and subject paintings, one of the best colorists of her time. She lived in Kremenchuk for four decades, starting in 1971. She donated 167 of her best works to this city.

The gallery has three exhibition halls, two of which introduce visitors to Yuzefovych's work. Many of her works on display are dedicated to Kremenchuk, where she often painted in the Dnipro Park.

The gallery updates its exhibition three times a year, and also holds personal and collective exhibitions of artists, photographers, and masters of decorative and applied arts.

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.

The Ocheretuvate Local Lore Museum in Poltava region was founded in the 1970s by the famous local historian and writer Yevhen Butenko. In 1990, the museum received the title of peoples.

The exposition tells about the history of the village of Ocheretuvate, the culture and life of its inhabitants, the nature of this region.

The museum's collection includes about 35,000 exhibits. They are presented in the departments of history, nature, and military glory. The Ocheretuvate Local Lore Museum also has an art gallery, where about 70 works by local artists are exhibited.

The Museum of Hero of Ukraine Oleksandr Bilash was founded in 2004 in his native Hradyzk - in the premises of the Hradyzk Gymnasium, which bears the name of this outstanding Ukrainian composer. The initiator of the creation of the museum was the director of the educational institution Alla Salimon.

The exhibition presents items of Oleksandr Bilash's musical and literary heritage, which have historical and artistic value. In particular, the composer's daughter Olesia Bilash donated his personal belongings, awards, collections of poems, musical works, and gifts to the museum.

Currently, the museum has over 500 exhibits, which are placed in seven exhibition sections: "Childhood of Oleksandr Bilash", "Education of the future composer and poet", "Beginning of literary activity", "The flowering of creative talent and cooperation with outstanding figures of culture and art of Ukraine", "Poetic achievements", "Family roots and family of Oleksandr Bilash", "Last years of life".

In the courtyard of the gymnasium in 2012, a bust of Oleksandr Bilash was installed.

"Peace Park" (Park Myru) was established in Kremenchuk in 1983 on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the liberation of the city from the German-fascist invaders.

The only Peace Gong in Ukraine - the Indonesian symbol of peace - has been installed on the territory of the park. There is also an open-air museum of military equipment and a parking lot, there are children's and sports grounds, and a chess club.

In 2012, a Sakura Avenue was planted in the park. In 2017, a memorial sign "To the Righteous of the World" was unveiled in Peace Park, on the territory of which more than 20,000 civilians were shot during the years of German-fascist occupation.

The observation deck of Peace Park offers a wonderful view of the central part of Kremenchuk.

The sculpture of a plumber, looking waist-deep from a sewer hatch, is one of the new sights of Horishni Plavni.

The plumber is depicted with a wrench in his hand and, judging by the expression on his face, a little tipsy. A dog is sitting opposite him on the hatch cover.

The author of the monument is sculptor Oleh Ryabo.

Pyvykha Mountain in Hradyzk on the banks of the Kremenchuk Reservoir is considered the highest point on the left bank of the Dnieper or the Dnieper Lowland (168 meters). It is sometimes mistakenly called the highest point of Left-Bank Ukraine.

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 Semenivka Local Lore Museum is located in a large two-story building in the center of the urban-type settlement of Semenivka in the Poltava region. It opened in 1962 and introduces visitors to the history and life of the region.

The main exposition of the museum has seven sections: "Svitlytsia", "Ethnography", "Culture, Science, Art", "Nature", "Russian-Ukrainian War", "World War II", "Historical".

The museum's art gallery hosts exhibitions of folk craftsmen and local artists, including Vasyl Artikulny, Ivan Peretiatko and others.

A monument to Taras Bulba, the hero of Mykola Hohol's work of the same name, was erected in Keleberda to mark the 200th anniversary of the writer's birth.

The bronze sculpture depicts the Zaporizhzhian chieftain Bulba sitting on a stone with a pipe in his mouth on a high rocky promontory and looking thoughtfully at the wide expanse of the Dnipro. A horse grazes next to him, and a Cossack cannon stands nearby.

The authors of the sculptural composition are artist Volodymyr Chepelyk and his son, sculptor Oleksiy Chepelyk.

Nearby is the Transfiguration Church (2005) and a monument to the soldiers who died during the crossing of the Dnipro in 1943.

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.