Attractions of Chyhyryn

The Chyhyryn Archaeological Museum is located in a restored one-story building of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The exposition presents objects of material cultures that existed in the Middle Dnipro. In particular, Scythian weapons and armor found on the territory of Scythian settlements in the Kholodny Yar. More than 600 unique exhibits are stored in four exhibition halls.

A monument to Lenin, removed from a pedestal at the foot of Castle Hill in Chyhyryn, has been erected in the courtyard.

The Museum of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi in Chyhyryn is located in the two-story building of the district administration reconstructed in 1995.

The building was built at the beginning of the 19th century at the foot of Castle Hill, where the Lower Town of the Hetman's capital was located.

Museum collections include about 2,000 exhibits. The main place in the exposition is occupied by monuments of the Cossack era: weapons and equipment, objects of decorative and applied art, numismatics, household items. With their help, the material environment in which Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky lived and performed state affairs was recreated.

The pride of the museum is the series of paintings "Hetmans of Ukraine" by the People's Artist of Ukraine Danylo Narbut.

The wings of the building are occupied by the administration of the National Historical and Cultural Reserve of Chyhyryn.

Nearby is the restored Peter and Paul Church, as well as the chapel of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin, in which the remains of 263 Cossacks and city residents who died during the Tatar raids of the 17th century are reburied.

The reconstruction of the complex of the fortified residence of Khmelnytskyi, embassy buildings and other buildings of the hetman's capital, on the basis of which the tourist historical and architectural complex "Residence of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi" was created, is being completed.

The remains of the fortifications of Chyhyryn from Cossack times have been preserved on Castle (Bohdanova) Hill in the center of the city.

The small Chyhyryn fortress, founded in the 16th century, served as an outpost of the Commonwealth of Nations, then as a Cossack fortress. The stone fortification measuring 200 by 150 meters was surrounded by walls with towers and bastions. In 1677, a 120,000-strong Turkish army unsuccessfully besieged the Chyhyryn fortress for 3 weeks, and only the following year did the Turks manage to capture it, returning with 200,000 forces.

Later, hetman Ivan Samoylovych's Cossacks recaptured Chyhyryn with the support of the Moscow army of Voivode Hrihoriy Romodanivskyi.

In the 19th century, the fortifications were almost completely dismantled for building materials, when a quarry was built on Castle Hill. Currently, there is a park here, in which there is a reconstructed Doroshenko bastion (XVI-XVII centuries), a stone cross in honor of the defenders of the Chyhyryn bastion (1912), a monument "Kobzar" at the foot and other sculptures. A majestic monument to Bohdan Khmelnytsky 18.6 meters high (1967-82; sculptors Oleksiy Oliynyk, Makar Vronskyi) was erected on the top of the mountain.

At the foot of the mountain is the chapel of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin, in which the remains of Cossacks from the 17th century cemetery are reburied.

The complex is part of the Chyhyryn National Historical and Cultural Reserve. Excursions are conducted by employees of the Bohdan Khmelnytsky Museum, located near the Hetman's residence at the foot of the mountain.

The historical and architectural complex "Residence of Bohdan Khmelnytsky" in Chyhyryn was built in 2006-2009 as part of the "Golden Horseshoe of Cherkasy Region" program.

Copies of the fortified residence of Khmelnytsky were built on the place where the hetman's capital was located in the middle of the 17th century. The complex consists of defensive walls, an entrance gate with a tower, a hetman's house, a military office, a treasury (treasury), a Cossack guard hut and outbuildings.

Near the residence is the rebuilt defensive church of Saint Peter and Paul. A monument to Metropolitan I. Nelyubovych-Tukalsky, who was the rector of the church in the 17th century, was erected next to it.

Due to the termination of funding, several facilities remain unfinished, and the existing buildings do not have the appropriate interior design and exposition content.

The Holy Kazan Cathedral in Chyhyryn was restored in 2004 on the site of the old church in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, built in 1888 on the donation of sailors born in Chyhyryn.

The majestic temple with two domes and a bell tower was built of light brown bricks. The walls and vaults were painted with icons of saints. During the Soviet rule, until 1934, the Kazan Cathedral remained the only active temple of Chyhyryn. After the church was closed, the cathedral building was dismantled for building materials.

The Holy Kazan Cathedral was revived thanks to the help of patrons in 2004. The lower temple is consecrated in honor of Saint George.

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.