Attractions of Kharkiv region

The sculpture "Fiddler on Roof" was installed on the building of the Kharkiv Conservatory - an architectural monument of the 19th century.

The author of the composition is Seyfaddin Hurbanov. The prototype of "Fiddler" was the famous violist Yuriy Bashmet, but the image is considered collective, and the monument is dedicated to all Kharkiv artists, artists and musicians - people of creative professions.

"Fiddler on the Roof" became a symbol of the "People's Recognition" award - the "Kharkiv Oscar", which is awarded every year in the nominations "Music", "Fine Art", "Literature", "Theatre" and "Architecture".

In 2017, the monument was moved to the roof of the Platinum Plaza building.

Nataliyivka Park is a masterpiece of garden and park architecture of the 19th century.

The estate on the bank of the Merchyk River was founded by the famous industrialist and philanthropist Ivan Kharytonenko, naming it in honor of his youngest granddaughter Nataliya (married Horchakova). Construction was continued by his son Pavlo.

A manor house, outbuildings, outbuildings, and a playpen were built among the ancient timber (some trees are up to 300 years old). The park was surrounded by an elegant fence with a front gate in the form of a wide arch with a pointed roof.

The decoration of the estate is the Transfiguration Church (1913), built by the academician of architecture Oleksiy Shchusev, who designed the Lenin Mausoleum and the Kazan railway station in Moscow. The temple is made in the style of Pskov-Novhorod Orthodox architecture. The walls are decorated with ornaments and relief medallions by the sculptor Oleksandr Matvyeyev, the sculpture "Crucifixion" by Serhiy Konenkov is located near the southern wall. According to legend, an exact copy of the Transfiguration Church is located in Nice, but in fact Shchusev designed a similar church in Bari, Italy.

During the Second World War, the main building of Nataliyivka Estate was destroyed. Tuberculosis sanatorium "Volodymyrivskyi" was located in the outbuildings. Partial restoration has been carried out in recent years.

Currently, one of the buildings of the manor is in the care of the National Nature Park "Slobozhansky", repair work is underway, the creation of a visitor center and a museum of ecological and nature conservation orientation is planned.

Sharivka Palace and Park Complex, known as "Koenig Castle", is one of the best aristocratic estates of Slobozhanshchyna, a monument of cultural heritage of national importance.

Retired second major Sava Olkhovsky (according to other sources, his son, court councilor Petro Olkhovsky) slaughtered the manor house in Sharivka on the banks of the Merchyk River in 1836, building a manor house and breaking up a large park on the slope of a two-kilometer beam. Later, the estate in Sharivka passed to the Goebenstein brothers, who enriched the park with many exotic plants, built a church and a school.

At the end of the 19th century, the new owner, a German sugar confectioner Leopold Koenig, overhauled the Sharivka Palace, giving it a neo-Gothic feature with Renaissance elements. Two stylized defensive towers give the building the look of a medieval castle. The main entrance is made in the same style: a gate with fortress teeth, a guard house with arrow windows, a pointed watchtower.

Sharivka Park was reconstructed by the famous park builder Georg Kufaldt, who decorated it with terraces, stairs, a swimming pool, fountains and a stone bridge. The main element of the park was a wide lime alley.

From 1925 until recently, the estate housed a tuberculosis sanatorium, visits were limited.

Currently, it is the Palace and Park Complex "Sadyba" run by the regional utility company "Znakhidka". In recent years, some restoration and conservation work has been carried out. The rich interiors of the two-story Library with a balcony and massive cabinets, the Blue Hall with a painted ceiling and choirs for the orchestra, some other rooms with coffered ceilings, marble fireplaces, tiled stoves, stucco and paintings have been preserved.

Entrance to the territory is paid, excursions are conducted.

The palace in Staryi Merchyk was built in 1786-1788 by the active state councilor Hryhoriy Shydlovsky, a representative of one of the noblest noble families of the Kharkiv region.

On the site of a somewhat modest parental home, he built a magnificent palace in the style of Louis XVI. Presumably, the project was developed by Kharkiv provincial architect Petro Yaroslavskyi (according to other versions - Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli or Vasyl Bazhenov).

The complex belongs to the earliest architectural monuments of the transition from baroque to classicism. A large two-story building on a high plinth, oval in plan, with one facade facing the courtyard with stone wings, and the other facing the parterre with stairs leading to the shore of the pond. The palace had several drawing rooms and a magnificent ballroom decorated with moldings.

The manor park was laid out in 1724, then expanded. Its landscape was formed by age-old trees, ponds, green lawns, gazebos and bridges. Oak, maple, ash, linden grow. There are also silver and Canadian spruce, and a straight-coniferous pine. A total of about 30 species and forms of trees.

The decline of the estate began after Shyldovsky sold it to Count Orlov-Denisov. In the second half of the 19th century, the new owner, entrepreneur Yevhen Dukhivskyi, cared more about the development of the economy.

In the 1920s, an agricultural school was located in the manor, and the palace was seriously re-planned. Since 1997, the palace has remained ownerless.

Krasnokutsk Arboretum is one of the oldest arboreal parks of Ukraine.

It was founded in 1809 (according to other sources, in 1793) by the biologist Ivan Karazin, brother of the founder of Kharkiv University Vasyl Karazin, in their family estate. The father of the Karazin brothers, Nazar Karazin, a colonel in the Russian army, received these lands from Catherine II. His son Ivan Nazarovych carried out reclamation works on the outskirts of the former military settlement, on the site of the Cossack Peter and Paul Monastery (1664), and established an arboretum here.

While traveling the world, he collected many seedlings and seeds of rare plants, which he then acclimatized. Among them: ginkgo, Canadian poplar, western sycamore, Lowa fir, Weymouth pine, Japanese quince, black walnut and others.

Currently, the Krasnokutsk Arboretum is part of the Krasnokutsk Research Station of Horticulture, free entry. The caves of the Peter and Paul Monastery have been preserved on the territory.

The "Hyivka" estate on the south-eastern outskirts of Liubotyn was founded in 1802 by retired major Yona Poznanskyi, who bought this land from ensign Mykola Shcherbinin.

The "Hyivka" estate was created in the 1820s - 1870s. All elements of the estate were located along a single axis connecting the palace, the pond and the church. This technique creates picturesque perspectives. The main axis was emphasized by linden alleys oriented to the side entrances to the palace and a wooden bridge over the pond. There was a landscape park in the northern part.

The palace, service building, church, and a number of farm buildings have been preserved. The palace building with elongated proportions in a style combining elements of classicism, Romanesque and Gothic styles, single-story in the central part with two-story risalites, had pointed windows. In the garden there was a five-room outbuilding built in the 1820s in the style of classicism with columns and a dome.

In 1881, the "Hyivka" estate was purchased by the Governor-General of the Kharkiv Province, Prince Dmytro Svyatopolk-Mirskyi, a hero of the Crimean War. Svyatopolk-Mirski turned out to be the last owners of the estate.

After 1917, the "Hyivka" estate was nationalized, an orphanage was placed there, and then a boarding school. Currently, the building is dilapidated. The manor park has fallen into disrepair, but here you can still see a cascade of lakes, a linden avenue and ancient oaks. Tombstones on the graves of princes Svyatopolk-Mirsky have been preserved.

The regional landscape park "Pechenizke Pole" was created in 1990 on the shore of the Pechenihy Reservoir, on the border of the steppe and forest-steppe.

Its area is about 4.5 thousand hectares. On the territory of the park there is an untouched area of ​​the Ukrainian meadow-steppe, where many rare plants grow, including those listed in the Red Book of Ukraine. There is an agricultural farm here, which restores the population of bustards - rare steppe birds, which, like ostriches, do not fly, but move by running on the ground. The park is also home to baboons and other rare animals.

The territory of the landscape park "Pechenizke Pole" stretches along the streams of Hnyluska and Sulymiv Yar, leading to the Pechenihy Reservoir.

The first wooden church of All Saints was founded in Staryi Merchyk in 1680.

It was replaced by a new stone church in 1778 at the expense of Count Shydlovsky.

During the Soviet era, the temple was closed, revived only in 1994.

Nearby in the park, traces of a pagan cult were found: a stone woman and a stone altar.

The Church of Archangel Michael in Rokytne was built in 1805 at the expense of Colonel Mykhaylo Kulykovsky on the territory of his estate instead of the old wooden church.

The large stone building is made in the style of classicism. In plan, the temple is round, with two porticos protruding from the side of the porch and the altar. It is crowned by a dome on a drum with windows cut into it. In 1827, a graceful two-story stone belfry was erected. Its first tier was surrounded by columns, the second was decorated with flat pilasters. Unfortunately, the bell tower was destroyed during the Soviet era, when the church was closed.

In 1989, the Archangel Michael Church in Rokytne was returned to believers, in 1992 restoration began.

The Museum of Archeology of the Vasyl Karazin Kharkiv National University dates back to 1807, when an antiquity cabinet was established at the university.

In the same year he received artifacts from the excavations of Olbia. They formed the basis of the exposition of the Museum of Fine Arts and Antiquities, established at the university in 1837. At the beginning of the XX century the Archaeological Museum became an independent scientific institution.

The modern exposition is located in the Exhibition Hall in the Main Building of the University. Here are some of the largest in Ukraine collections of objects of the Bronze Age, Scythian era, ancient times, Chernyakhiv and Saltivka cultures.

The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built in Malyzhyne in 1823 by the local landowner Kostyantyn Pavlov.

In 1833, a stone belfry was erected.

The ancient icon of the Mother of God "Recovery of the Dead", transferred from the former wooden temple, was kept here.

Currently, the Church of the Assumption is in a dilapidated state.

AVEC Gallery is one of the main exhibition venues in Kharkiv.

It was opened in 2000 in the Platinum Plaza office and shopping center with the assistance of the AVEC charity fund of the great Kharkiv businessman Oleksandr Feldman.

The best masters of Kharkov have repeatedly exhibited their works in the AVEC gallery. A special place is occupied by the "Dialogue of Cultures" project, which included the following exhibitions: "Images of the Disappeared World", "Foundation of Eternity", "Ethnic Diversity of Ukraine", the exhibition of Nikas Safronov's works "Childhood Memories. With Love for Ukraine" and others.

In the courtyard, there is a light and music fountain in the summer. The sculptural compositions "Orchestra", "Family at Work" and "Enthusiastic Photographer" (2008) by the famous Israeli sculptor Frank Meisler, as well as "Globe of Kharkiv" ("Planet Kharkiv"; 2011) by the artist Mykola Rosenfeld are also installed here.

Free entrance.

The open-air aviation museum was created by enthusiastic aviators from the Kharkiv Aeroclub named after Valentyna Hryzodubova.

At the museum site of the "Korotych" airfield, you can familiarize yourself with the history and models of An-2, MiG-21, MiG-23, MiG-27, Su-17 and Su-27 aircraft, as well as Mi-1 and Mi-2 helicopters. The equipment belongs to the Air Force University.

In addition, the Kharkiv Aeroclub conducts introductory and training jumps with a parachute (with a landing parachute and in the parachute system - "tandem"), flights on airplanes and helicopters.

Competitions (regional, all-Ukrainian and other) in parachute, helicopter and model aircraft sports are also held.

The Babai History and Local Lore Museum is located in the Palace of Culture and Arts of the village of Babai. The exposition in six halls tells about the history and culture of the Slobozhanshchyna region.

In particular, in the hall of ethnography, tools of the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, ancient household items, and samples of traditional Slobozhanshchyna Ukraine clothing are presented.

The history hall of the village of Babai, from its origin to the present, contains information about the Shcherbinin princes, the Archangel Michael Church, as well as about the stay of the Ukrainian philosopher Hryhoriy Skovoroda in the village.

In other halls, materials about prominent residents of Babai, collections of porcelain, clocks and bowed instruments, paintings by local artists, etc. are presented.

The Balakliia Local Lore Museum is located in the oldest building in the city of Balakliia, which was built in 1818 for the headquarters of the Serpukhov Regiment in the style of classicism.

The museum opened in 1979. The basis of his exhibition was a collection of memorial items of the famous opera singer of the 30s and 40s of the 20th century, Oksana Petrusenko, a native of the city of Balakliia. Currently, the museum's collections include about 13,000 items that characterize different periods of the life of the Balakli region.

Before the full-scale Russian invasion of 2022, the museum featured three permanent exhibitions: an ethnographic department with a collection of household items of the 17th-20th centuries; exposition on the history of Balakliia region during the Second World War; exhibition "Oksana Petrusenko - an outstanding Ukrainian singer", where portraits and sculptures of the singer, personal belongings, photographs are presented.

During the Russian occupation of Balakliia in 2022, the museum building was damaged, the occupiers partially looted and damaged the exposition. Now the Balakliia Museum of Local Lore is in need of restoration.