Attractions of Kherson region

The stone three-arch bridge over the Burhunka Balka was built in the 1780s to facilitate the visit of Catherine II to the Crimea in 1787.

The arched bridge is made in the style of Roman viaducts. It is located directly opposite the turn to the village of Burhunka from the Kherson-Beryslav highway.

Beryslav Historical Museum was created in 1958 on public grounds. In 1967, it received the status of a national museum. Since 1981, it has been a department of the Kherson Regional Museum of Local Lore.

It is located in the building where in 1920 the headquarters of the commander of the 51st Rifle Division of the Red Army, Blucher, was located.

The funds of the Beryslav Historical Museum include more than 7,500 exhibits. Among them are interesting archaeological finds (tools, jewelry, household items), items of clothing of the 18th-20th centuries, a numismatic collection, a selection of posters and photos from the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century, documents.

During the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the Beryslav Historical Museum suffered significant destruction as a result of shelling of Beryslav by the Russian army on March 23, 2023.

The Bilozerka Museum is located in the center of the village of Bilozerka. It was founded in 1969. The museum received a second life in 2021, changing the concept and updating the exposition.

Currently, the museum has four permanent interactive expositions, where visitors can interact with the exhibits - touch and understand them by touch, dress them, play with them, smell them and even drink. In the Bilozerka Museum, instead of the usual "Do not touch anything", they offer "Touch history with your own hands".

The exhibition "Culture by Touch" is dedicated to the life story of Olha Skorokhodova, a native of the village of Bilozerka, who, being blind and deaf, became an outstanding scientist and wrote a number of scientific works that are still used by defectologists around the world. The principle of constructing the exhibition is aimed at the tactile perception of objects. During interactive excursions, visitors "examine" exhibits with their hands, participate in activities at the "art table", during which you can learn to write in Braille, work with art materials blindly, get acquainted with objects using different senses, getting to know them from other sides.

The exhibition "Ukrainian Fitting Room" presents traditional Ukrainian clothing, which is in the museum's collection. In addition, visitors are offered to dress up in a fitting room in copies of the most interesting costumes and take a photo as a souvenir to feel how their ancestors lived 200-300 years ago, what they looked like had, what clothes were sewn then.

The exposition "Our Bondarchuk" is dedicated to the famous director, Oscar winner, native of Bilozerka Serhiy Bondarchuk. The museum houses an analog film projector "Ukraine" with little-known films, where Bondarchuk plays the roles of Taras Shevchenko and Ivan Franko. Visitors can "charge" the projector themselves and arrange film screenings for themselves and friends.

The exposition "Amazing Reed" tells about the use of reed (Southern Reed) in the everyday life of the inhabitants of the Dnipro region in past centuries.

The two-story bishop's house in Kherson was built in the style of classicism. It was also used as the house of the Chief of the Admiralty.

In the architectural and planning decision, the combination of civil and religious buildings is used.

Currently in a state of reconstruction.

The Church of the Holy Martyr Oleksandra in Kherson was founded in 1898. The elegant church was built according to the project of the provincial architect Kazymyr Kvinto as the home church of the Second Mariyinska Girls' Gymnasium.

The tented ends of the main room and the belfry were originally crowned with bulbous capitals. In the architecture of the temple, the influence of Moscow architecture of the 17th century with the use of the Romanesque style can be felt.

In the interior, stucco decoration has been preserved, as well as carved marble kiots, which survived from the original iconostasis of the work of the famous sculptor Borys Eduards.

Currently, the church belongs to the community of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The exposition of the museum of Nova Kakhovka, which opened in 1990, is dedicated to the short history of the young southern city of energy workers.

More than 3,000 exhibits in 5 halls tell about different periods of the history of the Kakhovka region, starting from the time of the Scythian kingdom of Atheus.

A separate exposition is devoted to the creation of the Kakhovka hydroelectric junction and the South Crimean Canal.

The city of Nova Kakhovka was under Russian occupation on the very first day of the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Viktor Vasylyev, the director of the City History Museum in Nova Kakhovka, which is a branch of the Kherson Regional Museum of Local Lore, joined the enemy and helped the Russians loot the museum. The museum building was seriously damaged as a result of Russian shelling.

The Church of the Corpus Christi in Pravdyne (formerly Tsarevodar) was built in the second half of the 19th century by Polish Catholic immigrants.

The temple is made in the style of eclecticism with Gothic and Renaissance elements. The windows were decorated with stained glass.

During Soviet times, the church was closed, but it has survived to this day. Sometimes services are held for the small Catholic community of Pravdyne.

Hola Prystan City Culture House "Suzirya" was opened in 2007. It has a cinema, art gallery and museum.

Permanent exhibitions: "City of the Cossack Land" (history of the founding and development of the Hola Prystan), "Long Echo of War": Heroes of the Hola Prystan Region "to the 66th anniversary of the liberation of Ukraine and the 67th anniversary of the liberation of the Hola Prystan from German invaders during World War II war), "Chosen by time" and "Afghan - I!" (dedicated to participants in hostilities in other countries), "Family good of the Ukrainian house" (collection of antique household items), "Dark Strip" (for the Day of the Chornobyl tragedy).

The obelisk with a sundial and a bas-relief is erected in honor of the English reformer lawyer, doctor and philanthropist Dzhon Hovard.

In Europe, he built hospitals and homes for the elderly, fought for the rights of convicts. In 1789, an enthusiastic doctor came to Kherson to fight the typhus epidemic that broke out here. Having become infected himself, he died a year later and was buried there.

Having become infected himself, Dzhon Hovard died a year later and was buried in Kherson.

The crypt of the Falts-Feyns in Novochornomorya is a dilapidated stone chapel-burial mound on a mound, which offers a magnificent view of the surrounding area.

In the 19th and 20th centuries, the village of Novochornomorya belonged to the Falts-Feyns family.

In 1897, Oleksandr Falts-Feyn, the brother of the founder of the "Askania-Nova" nature reserve, built a mausoleum with an Orthodox chapel on a mound near the Round Lake, in which his wife Sofiya Stepanivna, who died early, was buried. The mound was surrounded by a 12-sided brick fence with an overseer's house, which also served as a gate. In 1908, Baron Falts-Feyn himself was buried in the same mausoleum.

The Orthodox chapel was built in Pravdyne in the second half of the 19th century at the expense of the rich landowners of the local region - the Savun family.

Served as a family tomb. It is located in the village cemetery. The small temple is made in pseudo-Byzantine style.

Now the chapel is in a neglected state and needs restoration.

The family recreation center with a mini-zoo "Kazkova Dibrova" was organized in the central park of Nova Kakhovka by local entrepreneur and sculptor-carver Mykhaylo Navrotsky in the mid-1990s.

The owner is the author of 150 wooden sculptures of fairy-tale heroes that decorate the well-kept park with ponds and streams. In the zoo you can see mouflons, peacocks, owls, wild geese and many other animals.

There is a cafe with a green summer terrace on the territory, where you can taste Ukrainian and Tatar cuisine.

On the night of June 6, 2023, during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russian troops blew up the Kakhovska HPP. "Kazkova Dibrova" was flooded as a result of the explosion of the HPP dam. About 300 animals died in the zoo. The park itself was destroyed.

The "Frigate" memorial sign on the embankment of Kherson is the most famous symbol of the city.

The monument in the form of a sailboat on a high pedestal was erected in 1972 in honor of the first ships of the Black Sea Fleet: the 66-gun battleship "Glory to Kateryna" and the 50-gun frigate "George the Victorious". They were launched from the docks of the Kherson admiralty shipyard in 1783.

The monument is made of sheet copper, concrete and granite. Sculptors Ivan Bilokur, Volodymyr Potrebenko, Vasyl Shkuropad, architect Yuriy Tarasov.

The popular roadside fish market in the village of Chornobaivka, on the Kherson district road, specializes in dried and smoked river fish, of which white carp is considered the king.

The residence of the Kherson governor is a neoclassical building, a model of an official ceremonial residence.

In 1917, the provincial congress was held here, which recognized the Kherson region as an integral part of the Ukrainian People's Republic, and the Central Council as the highest authority.

After the establishment of Soviet power in Kherson, the building housed the first Council of Trade Unions and the Union of Working Youth. In 1963, the premises were given to the children of the city. Currently, the former governor's residence houses the Kherson Palace of Children's and Youth Creativity.