Attractions of Cherkasy district

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 Museum of the History of the Village of Khudiaky was opened in 1982 in the premises of the House of Culture. The village of Khudiaky is unique in that over the years of its existence, during the forced resettlement from the bottom of the Kremenchuk Reservoir, it took over the neighboring village of Taldyky, and the museum, accordingly, is dedicated to the fate and history of the two villages.

Since 1995, the museum of the village of Khudiaky has been conducting active archaeological research, thanks to which four previously unknown settlements from the 3rd - 2nd and 1st millennia BC have been discovered, 9 previously unknown ones have been added to the 24 known burial mounds. Photographic recording of archaeological finds from the territory of ancient settlements is underway. A new version of the Turkic origin of the name of the village of Khudiaky has been investigated. An archival clarification of the lists of victims of the 1932-1933 famine, residents of the villages of Khudiaky and Taldyky repressed by the totalitarian regime in the USSR, and soldiers who died during World War II has been made.

The museum also exhibits unique wax impressions of rare seals of the Hetman of Ukraine Bohdan Khmelnytsky, the regimental "palanka" seal of the Zaporizhzhian army, and the seal of the Svyatonikolsky Medvediv Monastery.

Of particular interest is the recently created model of the flooded villages of Khudiaky and Taldyky.

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.

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.

"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.

A life-size model of an armored train was installed in Kaniv for the 35th anniversary of Victory in World War II.

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.

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.