Attractions of Kharkiv district

The church in honor of the holy great martyr and healer Panteleymon was founded in 1882.

Construction under the direction of the architect Fedir Danylov was carried out quickly - already in 1883 the walls, roof and bell tower were ready. The first religious services began in 1885. The temple is made in the Rus-Byzantine style.

In 1897-1818, it was reconstructed by the famous architect Mykhaylo Lovtsov, the author of the Annunciation Cathedral and Dmitrivska Church. He decorated the facade with decorative details that gave the church a festive look.

In 1930, the temple was closed, the tower with a dome, decorative towers were dismantled. A cross was torn from the bell tower. The temple was returned to believers in 1989. Restoration work was completed in 1999.

The estate of the Shcherbynins family in Babai is more than 200 years old. A dilapidated one-story manor house has been preserved, next to which there used to be a garden with ponds.

In the 18th century, the manor belonged to the Babai priest Yakiv Pravytskyi, a friend and student of the philosopher Hryhoriy Skovoroda at the Kharkiv Academy. During his travels through Slobozhanshchyna, Skovoroda often stayed at Pravytskyi's house. Here he wrote his "Fables of Kharkiv".

In the 19th century, the manor became the property of the Shcherbynins. One of them, Colonel Oleksandr Shcherbynin, was a participant in the Battle of Borodino and is mentioned in the novel "War and Peace" by Lev Tolstoy. He was a member of the secret society "Chivalry" and was in the masonic lodge "Iron Cross" (the manor house has masonic signs).

Another representative of the family, lieutenant Mykhaylo Shcherbynin, was a friend of the poet Oleksandr Pushkin, which is the basis of the versions about the visits of the Babai by Pushkin's brother Lev, the poet's friend Baron Delvig, and even Oleksandr Pushkin himself.

The Shcherbynin estate in Babay is recognized as a monument of history and culture of Slobozhanshchyna, but its condition causes concern. One half of the building remains residential, while the other half is vacant and falling apart.

The sourse in the forest to the west of Babai is named after the poet and philosopher Hryhoriy Skovoroda, who visited Babai several times.

According to legend, while walking in the forest, the famous Ukrainian philosopher stuck a stick into the ground, and a cold key came out from under it.

The water in the spring has a peculiar tonic taste.

Currently, Skovorodynivska Well (Krynytsya) has the status of a hydrological monument of nature.

Downstream of the stream is the picturesque Chorne (Black) Lake, on the surface of which multi-colored lilies grow. There is a small cozy restaurant right by the water.

Kharkiv Passenger Railway Station (South Railway Station) is the main passenger station of the Kharkiv Railway .

The first Kharkiv railway station was laid in 1868 on the Arkhiyereyska Levada near Kholodna Hill. In addition to this building, designed by the architect Andriy Ton, a house for the road manager and other residential and commercial buildings were built on Pryvokzalna Square.

The first train arrived in Kharkiv on May 22, 1869, and regular traffic on the Kursk-Kharkiv-Azov railway was soon opened. By the end of the 19th century, the intensity of freight and passenger traffic had increased significantly, and therefore the station building had to be expanded: a new building was added to it on the south side, and then the old premises were reconstructed according to the project of architect Serhiy Zahoskin. The Kharkiv railway station became one of the largest in the Russian Empire. One of the largest buildings of pre-revolutionary Kharkiv was built nearby - the building of the Administration of Southern Railways.

In 1952, the construction of a new building in the style of the "Stalin empire" was completed on the site of the station destroyed during the Second World War. Ten massive columns of white Inkerman stone support the portico, flanked by two towers. On the portico - sculptural groups, stucco decorations. The height of the central hall is 26 meters. All platforms are connected to the station by underground tunnels.

In 2003, the last reconstruction was completed, as a result of which the station received modern equipment.

A monument to father Fedir from "12 chairs" is installed on platform No. 1.

The monument to Taras Shevchenko in Kharkiv is considered the best of all the existing monuments to the poet.

The project was developed by the sculptor Matviy Manizer. According to the author's plan, the multi-figure sculptural group personifies the struggle of the people for freedom sung by Kobzar. Actors of Kharkiv theater "Berezil" posed for the sculptor.

The grand opening took place on March 24, 1935. At that time, it was the largest bronze composition in the USSR (total height - 16 meters, height of the poet's figure - 5.5 meters).

Some student traditions of students of Kharkiv University are connected with the monument.

The church in honor of the Three Saints - Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom was built in 1915 on the initiative of the head of the City Merchant Society, merchant of the first guild Hryhoriy Holdberh, who had brothers Vasyl and Ivan (probably the choice of the name of the church is connected with this).

The project of the church in the form of a Moscow pentacle with a tent bell tower was developed by the authoritative Kharkiv architect, professor of the Institute of Technology, Mykhaylo Lovtsov, taking as a basis the volume-planning and constructive decision of the church in the St. Petersburg yard of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. The foundation of the church took place in 1906, the construction took 9 years.

Highly artistic interiors are of particular value. The painting was done by St. Petersburg artist Oleksiy Sokol. The original iconostasis was made in Italy according to the drawings of Volodymyr Pokrovsky.

After 1917, the Three Saints Church was turned into a warehouse, but it was reopened in 1925.

The first Kharkiv museum of motor transport "Auto relic" opened in 2010, but it has its history since 1987, when the first retro car GAZ-12 "ZIM" was purchased in the collection.

To date, more than 70 vehicles have been purchased and restored. The museum exposition presents: "Moskvich" 400 (1948), ZAZ 965 (1964), ZAZ 965A (1967), "Volga" GAZ-21 US (1964), GAZ-67B (1943) .).), GAZ-12 WINTER (1952), GAZ M-20 "Victory" (1955) and others.

There are more than 56 vehicles in the museum's storage facilities, which are awaiting the start of restoration work.

The museum is located in the garage cooperative "Chayka" on the northern outskirts of Kharkiv (Zhukovsky village).

The Botanical Garden of the Vasyl Karazin Kharkiv National University was founded simultaneously with Kharkiv University in 1804 on the initiative of Count Severyn Potoski. It is the oldest botanical garden in Ukraine. It is an object of the Nature Reserve Fund of Ukraine of national importance.

The first collection was based on a small plot directly on the territory of the university. Currently, the total area of ​​the Kharkiv Botanical Garden reaches about 42 hectares.

The botanical garden has valuable collections of woody and herbaceous plants: more than seven thousand species of local and world flora are presented in the expositions of the departments of dendrology, natural flora, flower and ornamental plants of open ground and tropical and subtropical plants. The botanical garden has over one thousand species and forms of woody and shrubby plants, over one thousand species of herbaceous plants of natural flora, over two thousand species and varieties of flower and ornamental plants, three thousand taxa of tropical and subtropical plants.

Relict species and endemics are of particular value. 15 species are listed in the European Red List, 95 - in the Red Book of Ukraine. About one and a half thousand species and varieties of woody and herbaceous plants were first introduced in the north-east of Ukraine.

The arboretum of the garden is laid out according to the botanical-geographical principle with elements of phytocenoses: expositions "Europe", "Mediterranean", "Siberia", "Far East", "Central Asia", "North America", "China and Japan". Aboriginal flora is presented in the exposition "Northeast of Ukraine".

Herbaceous plants of the natural flora are presented in the expositions of medicinal, ground cover, mountain plants and the system of angiosperm plants of Ukraine. Collections of flower and ornamental plants are collected for the exposition in the form of separate monoculture gardens and combined sections "Annuals" and "Perennials".

Plants of humid tropical forests, humid and dry subtropics, deserts and semi-deserts (trees, shrubs, grasses) are grown in the greenhouse complex. These are representatives of Australia and New Zealand, Southeast Asia, Africa, the Mediterranean, Central and South America, Japan and China. The most widely represented collections are bromeliads, aroids and succulents.

The first, and so far the only, Museum of Women's and Gender History (Gendermuseum) in Ukraine was founded in Kharkiv in 2008 with the support of the Ukrainian Women's Fund, the Global Fund for Women, and the Program for Equal Opportunities and Rights of Women in Ukraine.

The mission of the museum is to promote the ideas of gender equality, create new models of social roles for women and men, and strengthen the international feminist movement.

The Gendermuseum collection includes over 4,000 diverse exhibits collected in Ukraine and transferred from different countries of the world. Among them are documents, books, textbooks, children's toys, discs, personal belongings of gender theorists and practitioners, souvenirs, tools of "light" women's labor, and photographs. The museum's exposition provides an opportunity to experience firsthand how gender construction takes place in society.

The highlight of the project are four panoramas of social roles - panoramas showing the social roles of men and women in different historical eras, photo albums "A World Without Violence".

The Kharkiv Museum of Women's and Gender History is a member of the International Association of Women's Museums.

The Yermilov Center for Contemporary Art was established in Kharkiv in 2012 with the support of the Association of Alumni, Teachers and Friends of the Vasyl Karazin Kharkiv National University in the main building of the university. It is named after the famous Kharkiv artist, representative of the Ukrainian avant-garde Vasyl Yermilov.

The design project of the interior space was created by Kharkiv architects Ihor Ostapenko, Inna Pedan and Andriy Khvorostyanov. The two-story site with a total area of ​​1,500 square meters provides unique opportunities for the creation and presentation of artistic projects.

The Yermilov Center promotes the development of contemporary Ukrainian art, its integration into the world art context, supports young authors, and is a communicative platform for Ukrainian and foreign specialists in the field of contemporary art. The center's areas of activity include curatorial projects, art residencies, lectures and discussions, performances, seminars, film and video installations.

"Yermilov Center" also became a venue for the Non Stop Media youth project festival.