Attractions of Cherkasy district

Maksym Zaliznyak's Oak in Kholodny Yar is one of the oldest oaks in Ukraine (perhaps the oldest). According to various estimates, it is from 1000 to 1200 years old.

The patriarch oak grows on the southern slope of the Kyrykivsky Yar tract on the territory of the Kholodny Yar tract on the outskirts of the Buda village. It is the largest in Ukraine and one of the ten largest trees in Europe. Its girth is 8.9 meters, height - 24 meters. The trunk was struck by lightning six times.

Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, Severyn Nalivayko, Taras Shevchenko rested under its crown, but it is named after Maksym Zaliznyak - the leader of the Haydamak uprising, which was active in these places. The Zaliznyak oak is considered a symbol of Kholodny Yar, as well as one of the symbols of the Ukrainian Cossacks.

A monument to the residents of the village of Buda, who died during the Second World War, has been erected nearby.

There is a cafe and a souvenir shop at the entrance to the reserve.

The private manor-museum "Paradise Corner", or, as it is also called, "Oleksiyivsky Park" was created in the Ukrainian retro style on the homestead of Oleksiy Chernyk from Cherkasy.

Here you can see a mini-museum in the open air: from a mazanka house with a thatched roof to an old cannon. Almost all museum exhibits are in operation.

You can walk through a birch alley to the shores of the Dnipro Strait, admire the mini waterfall, fry a barbecue on an old-fashioned barbecue.

Medvedivka Museum of Local Lore is a branch of the Chyhyryn National Historical and Cultural Reserve.

Located in the former priest's house.

The exposition tells about the history of the Kholodny Yar from ancient times to the Second World War: Scythian times, Kyivan Rus, the Cossack era, Koliivshchyna, the Kholodnoyarska organization, partisan struggle during the Second World War.

A separate exhibition is dedicated to the participation of the residents of Kholodny Yar in the events on the Maidan in 2013-2014.

Museum employees also conduct tours throughout the territory of Kholodny Yar.

"Green house" is part of the former estate of the Davydov family in Kamyanka.

It is located in the depth of the alley that goes from Heroyiv Maydanu Street along the Tyasmin River. It was built at the beginning of the 19th century as one of the outbuildings of the Davydov family.

It got its name because of the predominant green color: green roof, green shutters, green gallery. Part of the Davydov library, a billiard room and tables for games were located in this outbuilding, which is why it is also called the "House of Cards".

Here, the Davydovs usually accommodated their guests who came to Kamyanka for a few days. It included poet Oleksandr Pushkin, composer Petro Chaykovsky, as well as officers belonging to the secret Southern Society of the Decembrists.

To the right of the central alley are the monument to Chaykovsky (1975, sculptor Mariya Konstantynova, architect Vasyl Hnyezdylov) and the summer theater.

In 1937, the Pushkin Museum was opened in the Green House. In 1940, the institution was replenished with the department of the composer Chaykovsky and received the name "Pushkin and Chaykovsky Literary Memorial Museum". Since 2022, the museum bears the historical name of the building where it is actually located - Green House Memorial Museum.

The exposition presents memorial items of the Davydov family, Chaykovsky's personal piano, a lifetime portrait of the composer painted in Kamyanka.

The Mezhyrich settlement is one of the four sites discovered in Europe by primitive people of the Late Paleolithic era.

Discovered in 1965 by a local resident who was digging a cellar. Archaeologists found four well-preserved dwellings made of mammoth bone tusks. Inside each was a hearth, kitchen appliances. Many stone and bone tools and even musical instruments were found. One of them was reconstructed and exhibited in the Paleontological Museum in Kyiv.

The American Museum of Natural History in New York has equipped a panorama of the Mezhyrich settlement lot of ancient hunters. The remains of another dwelling were left in place and protected by a metal structure.

Art Gallery of the Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi State Historical and Cultural Reserve is located on the third floor of a three-story outbuilding of the Stanislav Ponyatovsky Palace in Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi, and is part of the research department of the reserve.

Paintings, graphics and sculptures of the 18th-21st centuries are exhibited in 14 museum halls. In particular, three works by the famous Ukrainian artist and pedagogue of the XIX century, one of Taras Shevchenko's closest friends Ivan Soshenko are presented: "Forum of Julius in Ancient Rome", "Temple of Vesta - an ancient Italian temple in Rome", "Port in Kumy. Italy". During the restoration of Soshenko's latest painting on the reverse, an engraving "Port in Kumy" by the famous Italian artist and engraver Domenico Cunego with a similar plot was discovered, which now occupies a special place in the exhibition.

Also presented are paintings by Luigi Iorini, Oleksandr Lopukhov, Vasyl Nepiypyvo, Andriy Chebykin, Mykola Yesipenko, some modern masters.

A huge monument to Rosych, a legendary inhabitant of the historic Korsun, was erected in Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi in 1982 on Zeleny Island, which is located half a kilometer upstream from the HPP dam.

Officially, the monument is called "Cities-Outposts of Kyivan Rus", but primarily it symbolizes the version of the origin of the name of the ancient Slavic state of Rus and the Rusychi people (Rosychy) from the toponym Ros.

Authors of the monument: sculptor Edvard Kuntsevych and architect Borys Mykytenko.

A monument to the moonshine apparatus was erected in Cherkasy in 2008. The model was designed by the artist Ivan Fizer, the sculpture was made by the sculptor Mykola Churkanov.

The two-meter sculptural composition depicts a mustachioed Ukrainian with a glass, behind whom a moonshine apparatus bubbles, and a cat sits next to a water bottle, where fiery water flows from the apparatus.

Initially, they wanted to install the monument on the square next to the "Rosava" hotel, but the city authorities did not agree to display this sculpture on the streets of the city. Then the hotel complex bought it and installed it in the pink hall of the "Rosava" restaurant.

The device itself is operational, restaurant visitors can taste the drink.

The Museum of Folk Decorative Art is located in Kaniv in the two-story building of the former Basilian school, founded in 1781 by the Uniate priest Bonifatiy Fizykevych at the expense of Count Stanislav Ponyatovsky, who owned the city at the time.

The school was closed in 1838. In the future, the building was also used for its intended purpose as a school. The second floor was built during Soviet times.

In 1990, the Museum of Folk Decorative Art, which was previously located in the neighboring building of the Assumption Cathedral, moved to this premises.

The museum has more than 5,000 exhibits: a collection of glass from the XIII-XVI centuries, wood products, paintings. There is a collection of samples of traditional Ukrainian clothing and household items of the three central regions - Cherkasy, Kyiv and Poltava. In particular, the primitivist works of the People's Artist of Ukraine Mariya Prymachenko, the unique embroidery of the artist Svitlana Ustymenko, and others are presented.

The building of the College of Music named after Semen Hulak-Artemovskyi was built in 1903 as a male gymnasium.

The author of the project was a prominent Kyiv architect of Polish origin, Vladyslav Horodetskyi.

In the second half of the 20th century, after the construction of a modern extension, the building housed a music college.

Park of the Maksymovych Estate, founded in the 18th century on Mykhaylova Hill above the Dnipro.

Since 1845, after he retired, the outstanding Ukrainian scientist, folklorist, the first rector of Saint Volodymyr Kyiv University Mykhaylo Maksymovych lived here for 30 years.

Mykola Hohol visited Maksymovych on several occasions. According to legend, this is where the writer collected material for the story "Viy" (however, the story was written in 1834 - before Maksymovych settled in Prokhorivka). The Hohol pine grows in the park.

Shevchenko also visited Prokhorivka, painting portraits of the owners of the estate. In 1859, the poet was arrested on the way to Mykhaylova Hill, and since then he has not returned to Ukraine. The Shevchenko oak has been preserved, a memorial sign has been installed on the bank of the river, and the creation of a memorial complex is planned.

Now this is the territory of the "Zhovten" sanatorium and the "Prokhorivka" holiday home, the entrance is free.

A life-size model of an armored train was installed in Kaniv to mark the 35th anniversary of the Victory.

Perpetuates the feat of the crew of the armored train BP 56 NKVD troops to protect the railways, which operated in 1941 near the Kaniv crossing. It covered the retreat of Red Army units across the railway bridge, which was later destroyed and not rebuilt (supports can be seen from the hydroelectric dam). The №56 armored train had two armored platforms with four 76-mm guns and sixteen machine guns, an armored locomotive and two cover platforms, one of which was equipped with an anti-tank gun and an anti-aircraft machine gun. The crew was over 100 people. The model was created on the basis of a locomotive of the "Ov" series and two wagons lined with sheet iron.

In 2012, the museum was reconstructed and the exposition was updated.

The town Orbita near Chyhyryn does not have the formal status of a settlement.

The history of the ghost town began in 1977, when the builders of the future Chyhyryn State Power Plant arrived here, in the area of ​​the village of Vitove. Soon they built housing for their families and started building a station, as well as social infrastructure for energy workers. In 1981, the construction of the GRES and the city was suspended and preserved. There were plans to use the construction site of the station for the construction of the Chyhyryn NPP. However, in 1989, 3 years after the accident at the Chornobyl NPP, construction was finally stopped under public pressure.

Many construction workers stayed to live in two five-story buildings in the middle of the unfinished buildings of the ghost town of Orbita.

Park "Sosnovy Bir" in Cherkasy is a monument of landscape architecture, the best park in the city.

Founded in 1967 by landscape architect Heohiy Ursatiy and landscaping engineer Yevdokiya Smyrnova.

It is located on the banks of the Dnipro on the territory of 49 hectares. A system of ponds has been created here, the water from which cascades and waterfalls descends to the Dnipro. The central element of the composition is a pond with a sculpture of a mermaid. More than 70 valuable and exotic tree species grow in the park.

In 2009, Sosnovy Bir Park was cleared and restored after a period of desolation.

A picturesque view of the Dnipro opens from the "Bridge of Love", which is thrown over the ravine.

At the entrance to the Cherkasy "Vodokanal" in honor of his 90th birthday, a monument to plumber Uncle Vasya was erected.

This is the only professional (specialized) attraction in Cherkasy. The sculpture is a cast-iron plumber in a cap and with keys climbing out of a well. Next to it lies a hatch with the inscription: "I gave you water." Sculptor Vladyslav Dymyon.

Nearby is an ancient fire hydrant found in one of the utility pits on the territory of "Vodokanal".