Attractions of Zvenyhorodka district

The construction of a hydroelectric power station on the rapids of the Ros River in Steblev was launched in 1931 in accordance with the GOELRO plan, which provided for the creation of a whole network of small hydroelectric power stations throughout the country.

As a result of the construction of the dam and the rise of the water level in the river, the landscape changed significantly - two thirds of the picturesque rocks and rapids were under water.

The dam was damaged during World War II. In 1952, it was restored and brought to a capacity of 2.8 thousand kW. It is currently rented from a private company.

The waterfall formed by the station is called one of the most powerful lowland waterfalls in the country.

The national reserve "Batkivshchyna of Taras Shevchenko" unites three villages where the childhood years of the future writer passed: Shevchenkove, Moryntsi, Budyshche.

The reserve was created in 1992 on the basis of the literary and memorial museum of Taras Shevchenko in Shevchenkove. It was here that the manor of Taras' parents was located, in which he spent his childhood years, and which he repeatedly described in his works.

In 1914, the estate was bought by Kyiv cultural figures, and in 1939 a museum was opened here. The parents' house was restored according to Shevchenko's drawings, and the mother's grave was preserved in the garden.

The exposition in the main building of the museum reproduces Kobzar's life path. His personal belongings, first editions of books, documents, portraits and photographs are presented.

The Moryntsi museum complex is a reconstructed country manor in the village of Moryntsi, where the future Kobzar was born in 1814.

His parents, Hryhoriy Shevchenko and Kateryna Boyko, lived for several years in the empty hut of the exiled peasant Kopiy, next to the house of Yakym Boyko, the grandfather of the newborn Taras. Both houses were restored according to the drawings and detailed description of Shevchenko expert Oleksandr Konyskyi in 1989, with careful observance of technology and all the features of folk architecture characteristic of this area. An original wooden external storeroom was moved from the neighboring Kerelivka (Shevchenkove) to the manor.

The modest life of the Shevchenko family is recreated in the interiors of residential buildings. Behind the houses there is a wonderful view of a ravine planted with an orchard. A monument to Kateryna Boyko with little Taras in her arms was installed. A chapel was built.

The Museum of History of Village Vilshana is located in the premises of the House of Culture.

The museum exposition tells about the history of the village and famous personalities whose life path is connected with Vilshana - these are Maksym Kryvonos, Taras Shevchenko, and the Klitschko brothers, whose grandfather - Rodion Klitschko - hails from Vilshana.

In the museum, household items of ancient times are widely represented: rubles and rocking chairs, zhlyukto and bodnia, makitras and kopistiks, bowls on a bowl, a carved yoke and a whip, the first irons and calculators.

No less interesting are photographs of Vilshana from the end of the 19th century, portraits of residents of Vilshana in colorful Ukrainian costumes.

The Manor Museum of the Hero of Ukraine Vyacheslav Chornovil, an outstanding Ukrainian statesman, Soviet dissident, leader of the NRU party, was opened in Vilkhovets in the house where he spent his childhood and youth.

In 1946, at the age of nine, Vyacheslav and his family moved to Vilkhovets from their native Yerky. Here he graduated from high school, and in 1955 he went to Kyiv to enter the philological faculty of Kyiv University.

After his tragic death in 1999, his sister Valentyna Maksymivna donated the house to the Cherkasy Regional Museum of Local Lore. In 2007, in honor of the 70th anniversary of the birth of Chornovil, an exposition dedicated to him was opened in this building, and a bust of him was installed in the yard.

Visitors to the museum of Vyacheslav Chornovil have the opportunity to get acquainted with the original interiors of the rooms, unique photographs and documents, books, and personal belongings of the Chornovil family.