Attractions of Cherkasy district

The house of the estate manager in Kamyanka is part of the former estate of the Decembrist Vasyl Davydov's family.

The house was built by the son of the Decembrist Lev. Since his father was exiled to Siberia and deprived of his property, the son had no right to his father's inheritance. Then he was invited to the position of chief manager of the Kamyanka estate. That is, de facto he managed his estate, but de jure it did not belong to him.

He built a house for his family and office premises on the plot allocated to him. Petro Chaykovsky, whose sister was married to Davydov, often stayed in this house.

In the 1920s, the Kamyanka NKVD was located here, later a polyclinic and a children's music school named after Chaykovsky.

Currently, the Kamyanka Historical Museum, the Kamyanka Art Gallery and the office of the Kamyanka Historical and Cultural Reserve are located here.

A monument to the heroes of Mykhaylo Starytskyi's play "Behind two hares", Svyryd Holokhavstov and Pronya Prokopivna, is erected in Cherkasy, although this city has nothing to do with the events described in the play.

The images of popular characters, embodied by Oleh Borisov and Marharyta Krynitsyna, are taken from the film comedy "Behind two hares", filmed based on Starytskyi's play at the Oleksandr Dovzhenko Kyiv Film Studio.

The sculpture, made of fiberglass and painted bronze, was commissioned by the owners of the "House of Fashion" located here, as the characters of the play were distinguished by their love for fashionable clothes. Sculptor Oleksandr Hulbis.

The People's Museum of the village of Holovkivka is located in the center of the village. Founded in 2004 at the expense of patron Borys Kuzyk.

The exhibition is housed in 5 small halls. On a large topographical map, the memorial places of the village are marked.

The archaeological department presents tools and decorations of the Bronze Age, Roman coins, agricultural tools of the Cossack age.

A separate hall is dedicated to the Holodny Yar events of the first half of the 20th century.

The Holy Intercession Cathedral is the main Orthodox church of Smila.

The construction of the stone church began here in 1859 at the expense of prominent patrons of the Counts of Bobrynskyi.

The Smila Church of the Intercession in Byzantium was built according to the plan of the St. Petersburg Annunciation Life Guard of the cuirassier regiment of the church, but it has larger dimensions and only one central dome.

The Holy Kazan Cathedral in Chyhyryn was restored in 2004 on the site of the old church in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, built in 1888 on the donation of sailors born in Chyhyryn.

The majestic temple with two domes and a bell tower was built of light brown bricks. The walls and vaults were painted with icons of saints. During the Soviet rule, until 1934, the Kazan Cathedral remained the only active temple of Chyhyryn. After the church was closed, the cathedral building was dismantled for building materials.

The Holy Kazan Cathedral was revived thanks to the help of patrons in 2004. The lower temple is consecrated in honor of Saint George.

The Holy Trinity Cathedral was restored in Cherkasy in 1991 next to Castle Hill, on which the main Orthodox church of the city used to be located.

The wooden Cossack Trinity Church in Cherkasy was built in 1671. It was rebuilt several times. The stone temple was built in 1863 on the territory of the former Cherkasy castle.

In 1961, the Holy Trinity Church was demolished, as the construction of the "Hill of Glory" memorial complex began on this site.

The Trinity Cathedral was restored in the 1990s, but it had to be moved to another place, being attached to one of the buildings on Slavy Square. Belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The building of the former "Slovyanska" hotel in Cherkasy was built at the end of the 19th century at the expense of the entrepreneur Skoryna.

Made in the Art Nouveau style with pseudo-Gothic elements. The corner of the building, taking into account the town planning site, is decided by a pentagonal volume topped by a tall pointed tent. The facade of the building is decorated with numerous decorative details, thin towers with needle domes and elegant columns. The house had three balconies, one of which extended more than 2.5 meters and rested on thin cast-iron columns. It was under it that the entrance to the "Slovyanska" hotel was located.

In Soviet times, it was the Dnipro Hotel. Currently, the building belongs to "Ukrsotsbank".

The defensive Illinska church-tomb of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi is the only surviving building of the Khmelnytsky family estate in Subotiv.

The church was built in 1653 at the expense of Bohdan Khmelnytsky in the Cossack Baroque style (depicted on the modern 5 hryvnia banknote). It is located on the castle grounds, where the fortified country residence of the hetman was located. It served as one of the fortification nodes of the Subotiv fortress, as evidenced by the keyholes in the embrasures on the gable.

After the death of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi in 1657, the hetman was buried in his ancestral church-tomb.

The foundation of the defense tower, over which a protective pavilion was built, has also been preserved from the manor. Nearby - stone crosses of the 18th century, a Cossack cannon, a restored Ukrainian hut of the 18th century.

During Soviet times, the memorial museum of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi was opened in the premises of the Illinska Church.

Today, the church is active, although part of the exposition of the Subotiv historical museum, located on the territory of the former Khmelnytsky manor, remains in it.

The decision to create a historical museum in Kaniv was made in 1963, but it was actually opened only 28 years later. It is located in an old building in the center of the city.

The first exposition was dedicated to the Trypillia culture, the next - the history of the Kaniv region from the Paleolithic to the Ancient Rus state.

The permanent exhibition "Antiquities of Kaniv" with ethnographic material of the 19th century, several thematic exhibitions have also been opened.

Kaniv HPP is the youngest hydroelectric power station of the Dnipro Cascade, it is its second stage.

The hydroelectric dam forms the Kaniv reservoir with an area of 675 square kilometers. During the creation of the reservoir, many residents of neighboring villages were forcibly relocated, some villages were flooded.

The station was put into operation in 1972, and reached full capacity 4 years later (444 MW). It was also planned to create a hydraulic storage station, but the work was stopped in 1992.

The structures of the hydroelectric hub include: the HPP building, a complex of navigation and lock structures, earthen dams and protective structures on the right bank, and others. Road and railway bridge crossings are laid from above.

From the dam, you can see the supports of the railway bridge over the Dnipro, destroyed during the Second World War.

The Kaniv nature reserve was created in 1923 to protect the reference and unique natural complexes of the forest-steppe, preserve the biodiversity of forests on the Dnipro hills and islands in the Kaniv region.

The flora of the reserve includes 990 species of vascular plants (20% of the flora of Ukraine), of which 5 species are included in the European Red List, 29 - in the Red Book of Ukraine.

There are 26 species of animals included in the European Red List, 83 in the Red Book of Ukraine.

The central estate of the Kaniv nature reserve is located on the territory of the former estate of academician Mykola Bilyashevsky, who discovered the settlement of the chronicled Rodny, the tribal center of the early Slavs, on Knyazha mountain in Kaniv.

The nature museum of the Kaniv Region was opened in the old memorial house of Bilyashevsky.

The legendary tract of Kholodny Yar is a historical area in the east of Cherkasy region, along one of the tributaries of the Tyasmyn River. It is a whole system of ravines, hills and streams, covered with a relict deciduous forest with an area of 7 thousand hectares.

The common climatic version of the origin of the name is that in the summer it is always cooler in the ravines than in the surrounding areas.

Thanks to the special microclimate of Kholodny Yar, many rare plants can be found here. In particular, the "Bilosnizhny" botanical reserve with an area of 1.5 hectares protects the locality of the island mainland population of the folded snowdrop, the closest place of growth of which is the Crimea. The mass flowering of snowdrops in March attracts thousands of tourists to Kholodny Yar.

On the territory of Kholodny Yar, traces of all archaeological cultures have been found, starting with the Trypillia one. In particular, the ramparts and barrows of the Scythian hillfort (6th century BC) have been preserved, inside which is the ancient Motronynsky Monastery - the informal capital of Kholodny Yar.

At all times, Kholodny Yar served as a refuge for local residents during enemy attacks. At different times, Cossack units, Haydamaks, Ukrainian rebels, and Soviet partisans operated here. Memorable places are "Sklyk" - the gathering place of the Haydamaks, the Haydamatsky pond, where the rebels consecrated their weapons, the grave of the chief ataman of Kholodny Yar, Vasyl Chuchupaka, the monument to the chronicler of Kholodny Yar, Yuriy Horlis-Horsky, etc.

Maksym Zaliznyak's Oak is also an important sacred place of Kholodny Yar, near which in 2015 the wooden church of Saint Peter the Great Suffering (Kalnyshevsky) was built, and the museum-ethnographic complex "Dykyi Khutir" operates.

In 2022, by decree of the President of Ukraine, the National Nature Park "Kholodny Yar" was created, which includes 6,800 hectares of state-owned land for permanent use. The "Kholodniy Yar" branch of the "Chyhyryn" National Historical and Cultural Reserve also operates on the territory of the national park, and the Medvedivka Museum of Local Lore operates.

Highway T-2402 "Chyhyryn - Kamianka" passes through Kholodny Yar, the villages of Medvedivka, Melnyky, and Buda are located along it.

The Tsybulsky House in Cherkasy is a historic building in the center of the city, built in the middle of the 19th century.

It belonged to a family of merchants of the first guild, and was the tallest building in the city at the time. From July 18 to 22, 1859, Taras Shevchenko stayed here with his friend Yukhym Tsybulsky.

In Soviet times, a museum of one book - Shevchenko's "Kobzar" - was opened here. The museum exposition presents the writer's lifetime and posthumous publications, in particular the rare "Kobzar" of 1840.

Korsun-Shevchenkivska HPP is one of the first small hydroelectric power stations in Ukraine.

It was commissioned in 1934. According to its technical indicators, it was one of the best stations of that time, and became the basis of the first rural power system in the USSR.

The dam is located on the Ros River, forming a small reservoir.

In 2007, the Korsun-Shevchenkivska HPP dam was reconstructed. Today, the power plant has a capacity of 100 kW.

The light-dynamic musical fountain in Cherkasy, in the square behind the Regional State Administration, was revived in 2008 after it had been inactive for 10 years.

Reconstructed at the initiative of the city authorities at the expense of sponsors.