Attractions of Kherson region

The Skadovsk of History and Local Lore Museum is located in an ancient building called the "House with Columns".

The two-story house with antique columns was built at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century and belonged to one of the founders of the city, Professor Mettelshteyn of the Odesa Technical University. This is the only pre-revolutionary mansion preserved in the city.

The main exhibition tells about the history of the city and its founder, Serhiy Skadovsky, the leader of the nobility of the Tavria province.

There is also an exhibition dedicated to the liberation of Skadovsk from fascist occupation, an art gallery and a hall of the nature of the region.

The building of the provincial government, where in 1792-1794 lived and worked the commander Oleksandr Suvorov, who oversaw the completion of the construction of the Kherson fortress. Under the command of General Anshef, the strengthening of the approaches to the fortress and the defense of the Kinburn district were carried out.

Now Suvorov's building houses shops and offices. A memorial plaque hangs on the building, on the left is a bas-relief of the work of Kherson sculptor Ivan Bilokur "Soldiers of Suvorov in battle".

At the beginning of the Suvorov pedestrian street, a monument to the commander was erected, cast in 1904 by master Mykola Rukavyshnikov. In 2022, during the occupation of Kherson by Russian troops during the Russian-Ukrainian war, on the eve of the retreat from the city as a result of a successful counteroffensive operation by the Ukrainian army, the Russian occupiers dismantled the monument and took it out of the city.

The remains of defensive structures on the banks of the Dnipro in the village of Tiahynka belong to Lithuanian and Turkish times.

Back in the 14th century, the Lithuanian Tyahyn castle with three round towers at the corners was built on the island of Velyke Horodyshche.

In 1491, after seizing these lands from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Crimean Khan Mengli-Girey rebuilt the Tyahyn fortress, which became one of the strongholds for Tatar raids on Ukrainian lands.

In 1492, Zaporizhzhia Cossacks captured and destroyed a Turkish ship under the walls of Tyagin fortress, which is considered to be the first mention of Cossacks and the date of foundation of Zaporizhzhia Cossacks.

In 1673, Ataman Ivan Sirko marched on the Tyahyn fortress, and in 1693, Colonel Semen Paliy defeated a Tatar detachment here. The fortress was finally destroyed in the 18th century.

In 1992, a monument in honor of the 500th anniversary of the Ukrainian Cossacks "Cossack Slava" was erected on the site of the hillfort in the form of a column with the figure of Saint Michael the Archstrategist. Fragments of the fortress walls were preserved near the old bridge.

The Historical and Local Lore Museum of the village of Vysokopillia in the Kherson region was founded in 1980 on the initiative of the head of the district department of culture, Oleksiy Pushkarov.

Since 2011, the museum has been located in the building of the former German school built in 1880. The museum's exposition is presented in five halls: "History of the Foundation of Vysokopillia-Kronau", "Ethnographic Hall", "Room of Battle Glory of Internationalist Soldiers, ATO and JFO", "Room of Battle Glory of the Second World War", "Post-war Period of the Development of Vysokopillia (exhibition dedicated to the liquidators of the consequences of the Chornobyl NPP accident)"

At the beginning of 2022, the museum presented a new exposition - "Room of Life of the Second Half of the 20th Century".

The water tower, which supplied water to Prince Trubetsky's estate, was built on the basis of the ruins of an ancient watchtower of the 14th century by the owner of the local manor, Prince Petro Trubetsky, at the end of the 19th century.

According to one version, the tower was built during the time of Prince Vitovt (XIV century), when the border of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania passed through these lands. Later, a fourth tier with arrow windows in the pseudo-Gothic style was added.

Currently not in use.