Attractions of Cherkasy district

The Roman Catholic church in Moshny was built in the 1850s at the expense of Yelyzaveta Vorontsova, the widow of Count Mykhaylo Vorontsov.

During Soviet times, the temple was closed. Until now, the building is used as one of the production buildings of the mill.

The Cherkasy Academic Puppet Theater is located in the central part of the city, in a building that is an architectural monument of the 19th century.

The building belongs to the so-called "model houses", the author of which was the architect Luyidzhi Rusca. At the beginning of the 19th century, he released the album "Exemplary facades", which were used to build many Ukrainian cities. From the moment of construction, not only the walls and ceilings, but also the carpentry, and even the fittings with the monograms of the firm "M. and H. Babashov. 1850" have been preserved.

Since the 1970s, the building has been used by a puppet theater. The front side of the building is decorated with a mosaic with characters from children's fairy tales.

The Cherkasy Regional Art Museum is housed in the former Communist Party's city committee, which was vacated after the August 1991 events.

The exposition is formed from the former private collections of Count Bobrynsky, Princes Lopukhin, Bilokopytov, which were transferred in 1918 to the Cherkasy Historical and Pedagogical Museum named after Taras Shevchenko.

The Department of Decorative and Applied Arts introduces the folk art of the middle Dnipro. The second chapter presents the iconography of the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, the beautiful portrait painting of the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Cherkasy Regional Museum of Local Lore is located in a modern building built in 1985 in the historic center of the city, near the Hill of Glory (Castle Hill). The project was designed by local architects Kondratsky, Sobchuk, Fursenko.

In 30 halls there are sections of the nature of the region, archeology, ethnography, history of the region XIV - beg. XX century, as well as new and modern history from 1917 to the present. A total of 12,000 exhibits were presented.

Cossack flags and a copy of Bohdan Khmelnytsky's first letter to Russian Tsar Oleksiy Mykhaylovych asking for help in the war with Poland, written in Cherkasy on June 8, 1648, are kept here.

Other rare objects of Cossack times are presented, including stove tiles of the second floor. XVII century with a relief plot "Three Musketeers" and the inscription "Zholdak".

The building of the Cherkasy Regional Philharmonic was built in the central part of Cherkasy in 1955, on the site of a pre-revolutionary hotel. The facade was completed in 1961.

According to acoustic data, the Cherkasy Philharmonic Hall ranks third in Ukraine.

In 1957, the famous Cherkasy State Honored Ukrainian Folk Choir was organized at the Philharmonic, which later became a laureate of the republican competition of creative groups and the III World Festival of Youth and Students, laureate of the Taras Shevchenko State Prize.

The Cherkasy Zoo is located in the southwestern part of the city of Cherkasy.

A large number of green plants grow on the territory with a total area of 4 hectares, many plants belong to rare species.

Cherkasy Zoo contains more than 200 species of animals, the total number of which reaches about 500 individuals (including birds, reptiles, and reptiles). Among the representatives of the animal world in the zoo are: two-humped camel, llama, bison, African lion, brown bear, wolf, lynx, baboon and others. Birds are represented by such species as: golden pheasant, Emu ostrich, white-headed vulture, whooper swan, common peacock, mandarin duck.

In recent years, new enclosures for ungulates, carnivores, and monkeys have been built, old unsuitable premises have been reconstructed, and the territory has been significantly improved.

Chernecha Hill in Kaniv is one of the highest Kaniv mountains (244 meters) on the high right bank of the Dnipro, the burial place of the Ukrainian poet-prophet Taras Shevchenko.

According to folk tales, in the 11th and 12th centuries, on the slopes of Chernecha Hill in the Monastyrok tract, there was a cave monastery of Kaniv, where monks (ukr. – chentsi) secluded themselves, which is where the name of the mountain comes from.

During Cossack times, the Holy Intercession Monastery, known since 1702, was located here.

The poet Taras Shevchenko planned to buy a plot of land for his own estate on Chernecha Hill shortly before his death in 1961, after seeing these places during his last visit to Ukraine. Here he was reburied at the request of the public, according to the will. Since then, Chernecha Hill has been called Taras Hill (Tarasova Hora).

Now it is a memorial park, the central element of which is a monument to Taras Shevchenko, erected over his grave in 1939. This bronze monument by the sculptor Matvyi Manizer is considered the highest monument to Shevchenko in Ukraine - 17 meters. There is an observation deck near the monument, which offers a wide panorama of the Dnipro.

From the pier and parking lot at the foot of the mountain, a granite staircase with 392 steps leads to its top, with recreation areas and the "Lilium" fountain (1977, architect Anatoly Moshenskyi).

The landscape park on Chernecha Hill with an area of 45 hectares is a component of the Shevchenko National Reserve "Taras Hill".

The wooden Cossack Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin in the Monastyrok tract at the foot of Taras (Chernecha) Hill in Kaniv was restored in 2014 for the 200th anniversary of the birth of Taras Shevchenko.

The Church of the Intercession existed on this site in the 17th and 18th centuries. It was the spiritual center of the Kaniv Holy Intercession Orthodox Monastery, which gave the name to the tract and Chernecha Hill. The monastery was destroyed by the Poles in 1776, but the Greek Catholics preserved the church and moved it to the Assumption Cathedral, which was destroyed at that time. There he was painted by the outstanding French artist Jean-Henri Muntz. Muntz's drawing became the basis of the project of reconstruction of the Church of the Intercession. It is also called the Tarasov Church.

There is a Cossack memorial in front of the church.

The complex of constructions of the unfinished power plant is located on the bank of the Dnipro near the village of Vitove to the east of Chyhyryn.

The decision to build the Chyhyryn GRES with a capacity of 4,800 thousand kW was made by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine in 1970. It was also planned to build a modern town of energy workers for 20,000 residents. By 1981, after repeated changes to the project, construction was frozen, but soon a decision was made to build a nuclear power plant on the finished site. Construction work was carried out until 1989, when, under public pressure, it was decided to stop construction.

Now the complex of the unfinished nuclear power plant together with the town of Orbita energy workers are abandoned ruins. Empty 9-story residential buildings, administrative buildings, shops and other infrastructure objects have been preserved. Here you can chat with people who still live on the territory of the former construction site, where they worked in Soviet times.

The Museum of Cossack Glory in Vyhraiv reveals the history of Cossack victories through the prism of the fate of their descendants.

The main hall is dedicated to the historical battle of Korsun in 1648, which took place in the Hlyboky Yar on the southwestern edge of the current village of Vyhraiv, which was then called Horokhova Dibrova. In this battle, the Cossack army of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky defeated the Polish troops of Hetman Mykolay Potoski, imposing a battle in unfavorable conditions for the Polish cavalry in the wooded rugged terrain. The ambush arranged in Hlyboky Yar by the regiment of Maksym Kryvonos was of decisive importance.

The museum also has halls of ethnography and rural life: chests, towels, dishes, furniture, spinning wheels, a loom, etc.

A separate exhibition is devoted to the Holodomor of 1932-1933.

The wooden one-story doctor's house was built according to the project of the famous Kyiv architect Vladyslav Horodetskyi, who often visited Moshny in the estate of the Balashov landowners, and also performed various architectural orders for them.

During one of the Balashovs' visits, they asked an architect to design a complex of Zemsky hospital buildings for the village.

In its original form, only one case was preserved, decorated in the "Zemsky" style with bright carvings.

The ethnographic and touristic complex "Cossack Farm" (Kozatsky khutir) near Chyhyryn reproduces the flavor of the Ukrainian village of the Cossack era.

The central element of the exposition of the open-air museum, located on the outskirts of the village of Stetsivka, is the 18th-century Saint Nicholas Church, which was moved here from the village of Drabivtsi in the Zolotonosha region. It is surrounded by typical village houses: the headman's house, the father's house, a tavern, and outbuildings. Construction continues.

And in the center of the village, the Museum of Milling is being built. 14 windmills from all regions of Ukraine are collected here. The construction of a water mill is planned.

The public ethnographic educational and entertainment complex "Zernoland" was founded in the village of Ivkivtsi in 2014 as part of the creation of a "thematic village" of the Polish-Ukrainian project "Invent a new village".

The complex includes an ethnographic museum, a forge, a pottery, a paper factory, a bakery, a variety of entertainment and master classes. In winter - roller skating.

The unusual round water mill building "Green Mill" (green mill) in the park on the bank of the Tyasmyn River in Kamyanka is also called the "Mill of the Decembrists".

The rotunda mill was built by Kaluha masters Havrilov and Dmitriev by order of the owner of the Kamyanka estate, the Decembrist Vasyl Davydov. According to one version, the "Green Mill" was originally conceived by Davydov as a secret room for conspiratorial meetings of the Southern Society of Decembrists, similar to Masonic lodges. According to the traditions of the Davydov family, it was near the mill that Ivan Shervud, a non-commissioned officer of the 3rd Ukrainian regiment, eavesdropped on the conversations of the conspirators, then passed on their content to Emperor Oleksandr I, which caused the failure of the Decembrist uprising.

As part of the Davyd family estate, "Green Mill" is included in the complex of the Kamyanka State Historical and Cultural Reserve.

The historical and architectural complex "Residence of Bohdan Khmelnytsky" in Chyhyryn was built in 2006-2009 as part of the "Golden Horseshoe of Cherkasy Region" program.

Copies of the fortified residence of Khmelnytsky were built on the place where the hetman's capital was located in the middle of the 17th century. The complex consists of defensive walls, an entrance gate with a tower, a hetman's house, a military office, a treasury (treasury), a Cossack guard hut and outbuildings.

Near the residence is the rebuilt defensive church of Saint Peter and Paul. A monument to Metropolitan I. Nelyubovych-Tukalsky, who was the rector of the church in the 17th century, was erected next to it.

Due to the termination of funding, several facilities remain unfinished, and the existing buildings do not have the appropriate interior design and exposition content.