Attractions of Cherkasy district

The wooden Holy Transfiguration Church in the village of Kornylivka was built in 1738 (according to other data, in 1722. Before that, there was an old church of the 17th century in the village.

In 1838, the Transfiguration Church was reconstructed. Apparently, at the same time, a belfry with a tent top was added to it.

The temple is three-domed, cross-shaped in plan.

Currently, the Transfiguration Church is a monument of folk architecture of the Middle Dnipro region.

Belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

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 wooden Holy Trinity Church was built in Sunky in 1864, when the village was owned by Sofiya Rayevska, the daughter of the famous general Mykola Rayevskyi.

In 1937, the church was closed by the Soviet authorities and converted into a collective farm utility room, and the domes were removed at the same time. The church was revived in 1941 during the German occupation, and services in it have not stopped since then.

Princess Hanna Yashvil (Orlova), granddaughter of General Rayevskyi, is buried in the courtyard of the Trinity Church. There is another older tombstone, but the inscriptions on it have faded.

The Holy Trinity Church in Mliiv is located next to the Symyrenko manor. It was built in 1858 by the Symyrenko family as a family tomb.

During the Soviet rule, the temple was turned into a village club.

Today the church is active. 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 wooden church in the village of Melnykivka was built in the first half of the 19th century and consecrated in the name of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin.

Due to restrictions on the use of traditional Ukrainian style in church architecture, the church turned out to be unusual, with pronounced features of classicism.

Probably, the Intercession Church served as a burial place for landowners Morozov or Zolotaryov, who owned Melnykivka in the 19th century. The graves of the Zolotaryovs have been preserved on the church bypass.

Irdynskyi Vynohradskyi Holy Assumption Monastery with a complex of caves is located in the middle of forests and swamps near the village of Male Starosillia to the west of Smila.

It was probably founded in the 16th century, but it was first mentioned in documents in 1656, when Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi issued a license for the construction of a new monastery complex. Khmelnytsky's son Yuriy hid in this monastery and accepted monasticism under the name of monk Gedeon. Haydamaks also hid in the monastery caves.

15 hectares of the large territory of the monastery was the first to be explored by Count Oleksiy Bobrynskyi at the end of the 19th century. The diagram of the underground passageways drawn up by him shows that they ran for hundreds of meters. However, neither the count nor modern local historians managed to reach the end and find out where the tunnels dug by the monks led. Archaeologists discovered an underground church in the caves.

The monastery, which was closed by the Bolsheviks after numerous destructions and fires, was never restored to a psycho-neurological boarding school on its territory. Only surviving caves are open to tourists.

The Church of Saint John the Theologian was built in Holovkivka at the beginning of the 19th century. on the foundation of the old church, known since 1775.

The church is four-domed, cruciform in plan. An authentic belfry with bells has been preserved. The construction of the monastery building is underway.

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.