Attractions of Cherkasy district

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 "Monument to the Mother" in Brovakhy was erected in 1984 in honor of a simple woman, Yevdokiya Lysenko, who raised 11 sons and 5 daughters. 10 sons fought on the fronts of the Second World War and all returned home alive.

On the initiative of Literary Gazeta and with the participation of the mother of the first cosmonaut Yuriy Haharin, a monument was opened, ten poplars and five willows were planted (according to the number of Yevdokiya's children), and a museum room of the Lysenko family was opened in the village school. Among other things, the museum preserved 10 pairs of boots and 10 overcoats, in which sons returned from the war, and materials dedicated to Kateryna Stepanova from Belarus, who lost all 9 of her sons during the war.

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.

The National Historical and Cultural Reserve "Chyhyryn" was established in 1989 as the Chyhyryn State Historical and Cultural Reserve. It covers 13 separate areas with a total area of 1,161 hectares in the city of Chyhyryn, the villages of Subotiv, Stetsivka, Medvedivka, the Kholodnyi Yar tracts and the Atamanskyi Park. The most popular route for tourist trips is the one that runs from Chyhyryn through Subotiv to Kholodnyi Yar.

In Chyhyryn, tourists get acquainted with the history of the Ukrainian Cossack state and its capital in the Bohdan Khmelnytsky Museum, visit the recreated church of the Holy First Apostles Peter and Paul and its authentic remains of the Middle Ages, visit the recreated complex of buildings of the Hetman's residence and climb Castle Hill to the remains of the Chyhyryn Castle and the majestic monument to Bohdan Khmelnytsky.

When entering Subotiv from the Chyhyryn side, the majestic Church of St. Elijah appears, built in the 17th century by order and at the expense of Bohdan Khmelnytsky as a family tomb. Nearby, on the castle site, you can see the stone foundations of a defensive tower and authentic 19th-century village estates, and at the other end of the village, there are three wells also associated with the name of Khmelnytsky.

A tour of Kholodnyi Yar is worth starting with the local lore museum in the village of Medvedivka. Nearby is a 19th-century architectural monument - the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and a monument to Maksym Zalizniak. The further route through Kholodnyi Yar includes the Motronynsky Monastery, monuments of the Kholodnyi Yar Republic, the 1000-year-old oak of Maksym Zalizniak, etc.

The National Historical and Cultural Reserve "Chyhyryn" includes:
- Castle (Bohdanova) Hill;
- Residence of Bohdan Khmelnytsky;
- Bohdan Khmelnytsky Museum;
- Archaeological Museum;
- Subotiv Historical Museum;
- Saint Elijah Church;
- Three Wells;
- Stetsivka Ethnographic Museum;
- Branch "Kholodnyi Yar".

The Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin Mary in Cherkasy was built in 1905. In the period from 1910 to 1924, the courtyard of the Zhabotyn Saint Onufriy Monastery was located at the place of her arrival.

In Soviet times, it was the only active church in the city. In 2002, the monastery was restored as the Cherkasy Men's Monastery of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The wooden church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin in Nechaivka was built in the second half of the 18th century.

The ornate white temple with green carved borders looks like a new building from afar, as it was recently reconstructed at the expense of the village community.

The wooden church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin Mary in Rebedaylivka is a Cossack-style church typical of the Dnipro region.

The church was built in 1796 on a steep hill in the center of the village. In 1813, a church and parish school was opened with it.

The characteristic wooden Cossack temple fits well into the surrounding rural landscape.

The Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin in Kutsivka was built in the style of late classicism by the architect Mezensky in 1846 at the expense of the then owner of Kutsivka, Major General Orlov.

The temple was built without cement, with forged nails and hewn clapboards.

Until the middle of the 20th century, the church was in operation, then it was closed and an attempt was made to destroy it, but even the cross on the bell tower did not give in - it could only be bent.

The future writer Todos Osmachka, who was born in Kutsivka in 1895, was baptized in the Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin.

The Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin Mary in Vyhraiv was restored in 2008 on the site of the original church. The wooden church at this place was built back in 1723. In 1855, it was rebuilt according to a new plan and expanded.

Destroyed by the Bolsheviks. Restored according to the old plans.

The Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin in Vyhraiv belongs to the Moscow Patriarchate.

The crippled and half-dead, unpresentable in appearance, but at the same time beautiful wooden church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin is located in the center of Verbivka near Kamyanka.

Built in 1768, the church is famous for the fact that in 1860 Lev Davydov, the son of the Decembrist Vasyl Davydov, was married in it to Oleksandra Chaykovska, the sister of the composer Petro Chaykovskyi.

The church was rebuilt twice: in 1794 and 1857. The last time - at the expense of Colonel Olena Staal, who donated funds for the construction of the temple due to a personal tragedy - the death of her 17-year-old daughter. This circumstance led to an architectural feature - the presence of a second side altar, under which the girl was buried.

Since 1935, the church was closed by the Soviet authorities, in 1946 the bell tower was removed. Only in 1973, the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Verbivka was registered as an architectural monument.

Currently, the church is in a deplorable state and needs urgent restoration.

The windmill in Ivkivtsi was built in 1906 by a resident of the village, Oksentiy Odynets. The Odyntsivsky mill operated until the early 1970s.

The windmill was restored in 2008 by the efforts of the public.

The old bridge in the Nadezhdivka tract near Melnykivka and Rotmistrivka, according to some sources, was built by the Germans during the Second World War.

There is also an assumption that these are the remains of an old manor house.

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.