Attractions of Cherkasy district

Saint Michael's Cathedral in Cherkasy is the largest Orthodox church in Ukraine (it reaches 72 m in height).

It was built in 8 years according to the project of Archbishop Sophronius of Cherkasy and Kaniv in the Byzantine style. It can simultaneously accommodate up to 12 thousand people. The construction of a bell tower with a height of more than 100 meters is planned.

It belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

Saint Michael's Church in Horodyshche was built in the Neo-Gothic style in 1844 at the expense of Count Mykhaylo Vorontsov, according to the project of the Italian architect Dzhordzho Torrichelli.

In Soviet times, it was closed, the bell tower was dismantled, and a sports hall was built in the church itself. Paintings of the 19th century were whitewashed.

In the 1990s, the church was restored, the bell tower was rebuilt, and the painting "The Last Judgment" (area 102 square meters) was washed and restored.

The architecture of Staint Michael's Church is very unusual for an Orthodox church. Neo-Gothic architecture is reminiscent of Catholic churches, and the tines on the belfry, orange walls and green roof make the temple look like a fairy-tale castle.

The Church of Saint Michael is located in the village of Yurchykha near Kamyanka.

The brick church was built in 1897. The in the form of a cross in the plan. The height of the dome with the cross is 30 meters.

There is a grave of an unknown person on the territory of Sint Michael's Church (the inscription is illegible). Divine services are held on Sunday. The rest of the time the church is closed.

The wooden church of Saint Nicholas in the village of Orlovets was built in 1876-1886 on the site of an even older church, founded in 1779 by the Zaporizhzhian Cossack Kyrylo Polov. Consecrated in 1888.

An icon of Saint Nicholas hangs above the entrance to the church. One of the doors to the temple as a whole is also an icon.

Saint Nicholas Church belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The wooden church of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker in Tubiltsy was founded in 1843 by Prince Mykhaylo Vorontsov.

Initially, the church was planned to be consecrated as Intercession, because that was the name of the previous church in Tubiltsy, but due to the fact that the new one was built from the materials of the dismantled church of Saint Nicholas in Moshny, the built church was also dedicated to this saint.

At the beginning of the 20th century, on the initiative of Countess Kateryna Balashova, the Saint Nicolas Church was reconstructed.

During the Soviet period, the baths were removed from it and turned into a warehouse.

Now it is a working temple again. The dome and bell tower have not yet been restored, but even without them the church looks very colorful. The high stone foundation and huge windows are especially impressive.

The rotunda church of Saint Oleksandra in Lebedivka was built in 1843 by retired captain Porfyriy Krasovsky, who owned the village in the middle of the 19th century. Before that, there was an old wooden temple here.

The current stone church in the style of classicism has an unconventional for Orthodoxy round shape of a rotunda, which is accented on three sides by porticoes of the Tuscan order with paired columns.

The interior is decorated with stucco and monumental painting. Choirs are arranged in the western part of the rotunda, to which the balcony on the facade corresponds.

There is an assumption that the temple was Masonic, which explains its unconventional architecture.

The wooden church of Saints Peter and Paul was built in the village of Chorniavka by order of the Chamber of State Property in 1860, and completed in 1863.

The church was closed for a long time. It was revived in the 1990s, at the same time three small baths, removed during the Soviet era, were restored on the church. The improvised belfry is a piece of pipe hanging on a crane beam.

On July 26, 2015, the Peter and Paul Church in Chorniavka burned down.

The Church of Saint Righteous Petro the Long-suffering (Kalnyshevsky) was built on the Buda farm in 2012 at the initiative of the public organization "Free Cossacks of Kholodny Yar" at the expense of entrepreneurs Olesya and Oleh Ostrovsky, who own the nearby ethnographic complex "Dykiy khutir".

The brick temple is made in the form of traditional Cossack churches and is decorated with wood. This is the first church in Ukraine, dedicated to the last basket chieftain of Zaporizhzhian Sich, Petro Kalnyshevsky, who was canonized in 2008.

Nearby, in 2014, the first monument to the heroes of the "Heavenly Hundred" was erected in Ukraine.

The architecturally unusual Church of the Transfiguration was built in Moshny in 1830-1840 by the city architect of Odesa, Dzhordzho Torrichelli, on the order of Count Mykhaylo Vorontsov.

Those who have seen the Vorontsov Palace in Alupka will immediately understand the architectural affinity of the Crimean palace and the village Orthodox church. Experts define this style as a romantic mixture of Tudor Gothic and oriental motifs.

The Transfiguration Church is a unique temple. Despite the oriental decor, the construction followed the principles of the Orthodox "cross dome". The side branches of the cross are greatly shortened, and the central one, on the contrary, is elongated. According to the fashion of the 19th century, it connects the temple with the 39-meter bell tower into a single entity. Above the central cross is the largest dome facing east. The special charm of the building is given by numerous elegant towers, which, together with the pointed windows, make the tall quadrangular belfry Gothic.

The museum of the singer and composer Semen Hulak-Artemovsky in Horodyshche is located in an old one-story house in the center of the city.

Hulak-Artemovskyi was born in Horodyshche in 1813. He is known as one of the founders of Ukrainian classical music, the author of the first Ukrainian opera "Zaporozhets za Dunayem".

Shcherbyna House is the most luxurious mansion of pre-revolutionary Cherkasy, nicknamed the "Palace of Happiness" in Soviet times, because the city's civil registry office was located here.

Built in 1892 by entrepreneur Opanas Shcherbyna. It is distinguished by extraordinary lightness and elegance of architecture, rich decor.

For some time, the Zemska administration was housed here, in 1919 the premises were occupied by the district revokkom, then by the Council of Workers', Peasants' and Soldiers' Deputies. After the Second World War, the Cherkasy City Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine and the Komsomol City Committee were located here.

Since 1970, the building has been used as a Palace of Marriages.

At the foot of Tarasova (Chernecha) Mountain in Kanev, in 2007, an avenue of 19 sculptures appeared, dedicated to the characters of Taras Shevchenko's works.

Sculptors from different parts of Ukraine worked for more than a month on their creation from blocks of sandstone and limestone. Initially, the monuments were planned to be built from the Dormition Cathedral to Chernechaya Hill - along the route of Kobzar's last journey. However, the sculptures were collected together, where at the foot of Tarasova Mountain they form a kind of sculpture park called "Shevchenko Alley".

Taras Hill (Tarasova Hora) in Kaniv is a national shrine of the Ukrainian people, a place of worship to the memory of the outstanding poet-prophet Taras Shevchenko. The poet's grave and the surrounding natural landscapes are protected by the Shevchenko National Reserve, founded in 1925.

The reserve is located on Chernecha Hill above the Dnipro, on the southeastern outskirts of Kaniv. According to legend, the mountain got its original name back in the 11th-12th centuries, when the Kaniv cave monastery existed on it. Later, the Cossack Intercession Monastery was founded here.

In the middle of the 19th century, after visiting these places, Taras Shevchenko wanted to buy a plot of land here to build a manor, but his plans were not destined to come true. After his death in St. Petersburg, Shevchenko was first buried at the Smolensk cemetery, however, at the request of the public, on May 10, 1861, the coffin with the poet's ashes was brought to Kaniv.

According to the will, he was buried on a high Dnipro cliff, which has since been called Taras Hill. A mound was placed on the grave and a monumental cast-iron cross monument was installed. In 1939, the largest monument to Shevchenko in Ukraine was erected on the grave. There are 342 steps leading to the monument from the foot of the mountain with the Lily fountain.

The first folk museum of the poet "Tarasova svitlytsia" was opened at the end of the 19th century in the former house of the overseer of the Shevchenko grave, Ivan Yadlovsky. After the construction of the new museum complex, "Tarasova Svitlytsa" was restored in its original form at another place, near Yadlovsky's grave.

In 1939, the literary and memorial museum of Taras Shevchenko was opened near Shevchenko's grave, built according to the project of the outstanding architect Vasyl Krychevskyi, who is considered the founder of Ukrainian architectural modernism. After a long restoration in 2003-2010, the museum has a modernized interactive exposition, which presents memorial items and etchings of Shevchenko, rare editions of his works, works of art on Shevchenko themes, etc.

To mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Taras Shevchenko, the historic Cossack Church of Intercession of Holy Virgin has been recreated in the Monastirok tract on the slope of Taras Hill. The pavilion of the "Tarasova Hora" passenger pier, where ships from Kyiv sometimes arrive, was also renovated for the anniversary. There is a cafe on the pier, and there is a souvenir shop nearby. The main parking lot of the reserve for tourist buses is located at the foot of the stairs to Taras Hill. You can go directly to the mountain by car, where there is also a small parking lot.

The Shevchenko National Reserve also includes the Kaniv Historical Museum, the Kaniv Museum of Folk Decorative Art, and the Literary Kaniv Region Museum, which are located in the center of the city.

The hyperboloid water tower in Cherkasy is one of the few works of the outstanding engineer Volodymyr Shukhov that have survived in Ukraine.

The openwork steel Shukhov tower is located on the territory of the communal enterprise "Cherkasyvodokanal". It was built in 1913-1914 to provide drinking water to the city of Cherkasy, which the day before experienced a cholera epidemic.

The engineering structure of the hyperboloid type in the early modern style is one of the highest in Cherkasy. Initially, the construction of the Shukhov Tower was riveted, but after the reconstruction in 1949, some of the fasteners were replaced with welded ones. Restoration is planned.

The Smila Museum of Local Lore is located in the building of the branch of the St. Petersburg Loan Bank, built in 1909 in the style of provincial art nouveau.

The main funds of the museum include more than 3,500 storage units. The exposition presents cartographic materials of the 19th and 20th centuries; exhibits that tell about the family of the former owners of the city, Counts Bobrynsky; archaeological finds made in the Dnipro region.

Among the unique exhibits are a casket made by Italian jewelers of the 18th century, a padlock from the middle of the 19th century, etc.