Attractions of Kharkiv region

The monument to Taras Shevchenko in Kharkiv is considered the best of all the existing monuments to the poet.

The project was developed by the sculptor Matviy Manizer. According to the author's plan, the multi-figure sculptural group personifies the struggle of the people for freedom sung by Kobzar. Actors of Kharkiv theater "Berezil" posed for the sculptor.

The grand opening took place on March 24, 1935. At that time, it was the largest bronze composition in the USSR (total height - 16 meters, height of the poet's figure - 5.5 meters).

Some student traditions of students of Kharkiv University are connected with the monument.

The church in honor of the Three Saints - Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom was built in 1915 on the initiative of the head of the City Merchant Society, merchant of the first guild Hryhoriy Holdberh, who had brothers Vasyl and Ivan (probably the choice of the name of the church is connected with this).

The project of the church in the form of a Moscow pentacle with a tent bell tower was developed by the authoritative Kharkiv architect, professor of the Institute of Technology, Mykhaylo Lovtsov, taking as a basis the volume-planning and constructive decision of the church in the St. Petersburg yard of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. The foundation of the church took place in 1906, the construction took 9 years.

Highly artistic interiors are of particular value. The painting was done by St. Petersburg artist Oleksiy Sokol. The original iconostasis was made in Italy according to the drawings of Volodymyr Pokrovsky.

After 1917, the Three Saints Church was turned into a warehouse, but it was reopened in 1925.

The first Kharkiv museum of motor transport "Auto relic" opened in 2010, but it has its history since 1987, when the first retro car GAZ-12 "ZIM" was purchased in the collection.

To date, more than 70 vehicles have been purchased and restored. The museum exposition presents: "Moskvich" 400 (1948), ZAZ 965 (1964), ZAZ 965A (1967), "Volga" GAZ-21 US (1964), GAZ-67B (1943) .).), GAZ-12 WINTER (1952), GAZ M-20 "Victory" (1955) and others.

There are more than 56 vehicles in the museum's storage facilities, which are awaiting the start of restoration work.

The museum is located in the garage cooperative "Chayka" on the northern outskirts of Kharkiv (Zhukovsky village).

The Botanical Garden of the Vasyl Karazin Kharkiv National University was founded simultaneously with Kharkiv University in 1804 on the initiative of Count Severyn Potoski. It is the oldest botanical garden in Ukraine. It is an object of the Nature Reserve Fund of Ukraine of national importance.

The first collection was based on a small plot directly on the territory of the university. Currently, the total area of ​​the Kharkiv Botanical Garden reaches about 42 hectares.

The botanical garden has valuable collections of woody and herbaceous plants: more than seven thousand species of local and world flora are presented in the expositions of the departments of dendrology, natural flora, flower and ornamental plants of open ground and tropical and subtropical plants. The botanical garden has over one thousand species and forms of woody and shrubby plants, over one thousand species of herbaceous plants of natural flora, over two thousand species and varieties of flower and ornamental plants, three thousand taxa of tropical and subtropical plants.

Relict species and endemics are of particular value. 15 species are listed in the European Red List, 95 - in the Red Book of Ukraine. About one and a half thousand species and varieties of woody and herbaceous plants were first introduced in the north-east of Ukraine.

The arboretum of the garden is laid out according to the botanical-geographical principle with elements of phytocenoses: expositions "Europe", "Mediterranean", "Siberia", "Far East", "Central Asia", "North America", "China and Japan". Aboriginal flora is presented in the exposition "Northeast of Ukraine".

Herbaceous plants of the natural flora are presented in the expositions of medicinal, ground cover, mountain plants and the system of angiosperm plants of Ukraine. Collections of flower and ornamental plants are collected for the exposition in the form of separate monoculture gardens and combined sections "Annuals" and "Perennials".

Plants of humid tropical forests, humid and dry subtropics, deserts and semi-deserts (trees, shrubs, grasses) are grown in the greenhouse complex. These are representatives of Australia and New Zealand, Southeast Asia, Africa, the Mediterranean, Central and South America, Japan and China. The most widely represented collections are bromeliads, aroids and succulents.

The museum in the city of Valky was founded in 1977 as a public history museum on the initiative of writers Petro Panch and Vasyl Mynko. In 1978, it received the status of a "People's Museum". In 1992, it was reorganized into the Valky Museum of Local Lore.

It is located in an architectural monument of local importance, built at the beginning of the 20th century.

The museum's collection includes over 12 thousand exhibits that introduce the nature, history and culture of the region. The Valky Local Lore Museum Museum became one of the centers for studying the Holodomor in Ukraine, initiating the creation of the first documentary collections about the events of 1932-1933 in the Valky and Kharkiv regions.

Currently, the museum structure includes departments of history, literature and art, and nature. Among the most valuable exhibits are excavation materials of the Merchyk archaeological expedition (antique dishes, tools, remains of weapons), pottery works by Fedir Hnidiy and Borys Tsybulnyk, personal belongings of Petro Panch, Vasyl Mynko, Viktor Kochevsky, Viktor Haman, Yuliya Bulakhovska, Mykola Chastiy, Mykola Andrusenko; testimonies of victims of the 1932–1933 famine; collections of manuscripts, numismatics, Ukrainian embroidery, stuffed birds and animals.

The Velykyi Burluk Local Lore Museum was founded in 1967. In 1991 it received the status of "People's Museum".

The museum's exposition is located in five exhibition halls and introduces the history of the village of Velykyi Burluk, culture, and occupations of the region's residents over the centuries. The museum collection includes over three thousand exhibits, including peasant tools, crafts, embroidery, and towels. Some of the exhibits are dedicated to Hryhoriy Skovoroda, who visited these regions many times. A significant place is occupied by towels made of homespun linen, and a working loom that is over 200 years old.

The Verkhnii Byshkyn Museum of Local Lore in the Kharkiv Region was founded in 1968.

The exposition of the museum tells about the nature of the region and the history of the village of Verkhnii Byshkyn from ancient times to the present.

The museum has an interesting ethnographic collection.

Thematic exhibitions are held regularly to commemorative dates.

The five-headed church of the Volodymyr icon of the Mother of God in the village of Kochetok was built between 1825 and 1854 on the site of an old wooden church, next to a miraculous spring.

The icon, in honor of which the church is named, was popularly called the "Revealed Icon". Later, a bell tower was added to the church.

In 1934, the church was closed, and it gradually fell into disrepair. In 1989, on the day of St. Nicholas, the church was opened again. It belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The Vovchansk Museum of Local Lore is one of the oldest museums in the Kharkiv region. The museum was established in 1912 on the initiative of the archaeologist, tireless collector of local history materials and antiquities, and discoverer of Saltiv archaeological culture Vasyl Babenko in a specially built building in the Art Nouveau style.

In 1941, during the bombing of the city of Vovchansk, the museum was damaged. In 1963, a new museum of local history was created based on its surviving collections.

The museum's exposition introduces the history of the city and the stages of development of Vovchansk. The collection includes traditional examples of folk art for the region - embroidery, wood carvings, paintings, as well as objects of folk life.

The archeology department presents monuments of Saltiv archaeological culture.

Russian-Ukrainian War

According to the information of the Vovchansk City Military Administration, as of the end of 2024, the city of Volchansk has been practically destroyed by the Russian occupiers. The museum collection has been evacuated to a safe place in advance.

The unique Water Museum was created in 1983. on the basis of the Kochetok water station (today PUVKG "Donets") on the initiative of the talented engineer Serhiy Komar.

More than 2,000 exhibits tell about the history of the Siverskyi Donets River, the construction of a water supply station and the role of water in people's lives in general.

The schemes of the Siverskyi Donets river basin with collections of archaeological finds and samples of minerals are of great interest to visitors.

The water museum is located in the building of the public and cultural center of PUVKG "Donets".

The first, and so far the only, Museum of Women's and Gender History (Gendermuseum) in Ukraine was founded in Kharkiv in 2008 with the support of the Ukrainian Women's Fund, the Global Fund for Women, and the Program for Equal Opportunities and Rights of Women in Ukraine.

The mission of the museum is to promote the ideas of gender equality, create new models of social roles for women and men, and strengthen the international feminist movement.

The Gendermuseum collection includes over 4,000 diverse exhibits collected in Ukraine and transferred from different countries of the world. Among them are documents, books, textbooks, children's toys, discs, personal belongings of gender theorists and practitioners, souvenirs, tools of "light" women's labor, and photographs. The museum's exposition provides an opportunity to experience firsthand how gender construction takes place in society.

The highlight of the project are four panoramas of social roles - panoramas showing the social roles of men and women in different historical eras, photo albums "A World Without Violence".

The Kharkiv Museum of Women's and Gender History is a member of the International Association of Women's Museums.

The Yermilov Center for Contemporary Art was established in Kharkiv in 2012 with the support of the Association of Alumni, Teachers and Friends of the Vasyl Karazin Kharkiv National University in the main building of the university. It is named after the famous Kharkiv artist, representative of the Ukrainian avant-garde Vasyl Yermilov.

The design project of the interior space was created by Kharkiv architects Ihor Ostapenko, Inna Pedan and Andriy Khvorostyanov. The two-story site with a total area of ​​1,500 square meters provides unique opportunities for the creation and presentation of artistic projects.

The Yermilov Center promotes the development of contemporary Ukrainian art, its integration into the world art context, supports young authors, and is a communicative platform for Ukrainian and foreign specialists in the field of contemporary art. The center's areas of activity include curatorial projects, art residencies, lectures and discussions, performances, seminars, film and video installations.

"Yermilov Center" also became a venue for the Non Stop Media youth project festival.

The Zachepylivka Historical and Local Lore Museum was founded in 2000 on the initiative of local historian Yuriy Bulanov. It is located in the premises of the Zachepylivka Library.

The museum's exposition is presented in four thematic halls. The first hall is dedicated to the history of the settlement of the district and the founding of Zachepylivka, which houses stands with antiquities (shirts, towels, jugs, tools).

The second hall is dedicated to the events of World War II, the participation of residents of the Zachepylivka region in the liquidation of the Chornobyl accident and in the Russian-Ukrainian war.

The third hall is dedicated to the Soviet period of history.

The fourth hall presents the work of Zachepylivka artists, embroiderers, poets, and writers. A separate part of the exposition is devoted to the stay of Petro Chaykovsky in the Zachepylivka region.

The Zlatopil Local Lore Museum is located in the north of the city in the building of a former kindergarten.

The museum has three exhibition halls with the following expositions: "Ethnography of the Region", "Zlatopil Region during the Second World War", "Famous Countrymen", "Let's Preserve Peace and Culture", "My Native Land". Exhibitions of local masters of decorative and applied arts and artists are systematically held.

Zmiiv Museum of Local Lore was established in 1991. The museum is located in an old two-story building.

The exposition is based on archeological finds made in the Zmiiv region - more than 10 thousand exhibits. In particular, the tools of the Stone Age, weapons and chain mail from the times of Kiyvan Rus, household items of the XIX century, among which the most interesting are the loom and the primitive sawmill.

The art gallery features the most interesting works by local artists depicting the crash of the royal train and the Spasiv Hermitage, the legendary Kozacha Hill, based on this site.