Attractions of Oleksandriia district

The Museum of Dmytro Chyzhevskyi in Oleksandriia opened in 2022 in the house where this outstanding Ukrainian scientist-encyclopedist, culturologist, philosopher and literary critic spent his childhood and youth.

Dmytro Chyzhevskyi was born in 1894 in a noble family, descendants of the wealthy Cossacks and Ukrainian nobility, representatives of one of the branches of the ancient Chizh family. Since 1904, the Chizhevski family lived in a one-story brick house on the current Shevchenko Street, engaged in public and educational activities.

The museum exposition reproduces the atmosphere of provincial life at the beginning of the 20th century. Furniture in the style of that era, a piano, an antique clock, a camera and a telescope similar to Chizhevsky's father's telescope are presented. First editions of Chyzhevsky's books, family documents and photographs are exhibited.

The museum offers tours on the topics "The world of hobbies of the Chizhevsky family", "The role of the Chizhevsky family in the history of the Oleksandriia city", "The foreign period of life and scientific work of Dmytro Chyzhevskyi", as well as an interactive excursion with a game of croquet "Childhood, youth and hobbies of Dmytro Chyzhevskyi" .

The "Dmytro Chyzhevsky's House" is a department of the Oleksandriia City Museum Center named after Antonina Khudyakova.

Kremenchuk HPP is the third stage of the Dnipro cascade of hydroelectric power plants.

In operation since 1959, when the 1st unit was put into operation. The last, 12th unit, was launched in 1960.

The reservoir of the Kremenchuk HPP is one of the largest in Ukraine (the area of the mirror is 2,250 square kilometers). The power of the station is 700.4 MW, the average annual electricity production is 1506 million kWh.

Excursions to the Kremenchuk HPP are conducted by prior agreement.

The Oleksandriia City Museum Center named after Antonina Khudyakova was created in 1967.

For a long time, the museum worked on a public basis, in 1991 it received state status. It bears the name of Antonina Khudyakova, who was the director of the museum in 1980-1991.

The total number of exhibits of the main fund is over 17,000 items. The exposition of the museum is located in two departments - historical and natural.

In addition, the ethnography of the region is represented separately by a model of a Ukrainian house and various household items: dishes, household utensils, work tools, etc.

The museum houses collections of paper money and coins of different eras and countries, a selection of old photographs.

Among the museum's valuable exhibits are personal belongings, a spacesuit, devices, equipment for training and work at the orbital station of cosmonaut Leonid Popov, a native of Oleksandriia.

"Dmytro Chyzhevsky's House" is a branch of the Oleksandriia City Museum Center named after Antonina Khudyakova.

The Petrove Museum of Local Lore is located in the center of the urban-type village of Petrove, in a neat square next to the village cultural center. Works since 1967.

The exposition in four halls tells about the nature, history and culture of the part of the Kirovohrad region, where the village is located. In particular, some archaeological materials, an ethnographic selection, household objects of the XIX-XX centuries are presented.

The Second World War section has a large collection of fragments of weapons, cartridges, cartridges, military uniforms and equipment, found or given to the museum for preservation by eyewitnesses.

A special place is dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933, when a large part of the inhabitants of this region suffered from the artificial famine arranged by the Bolsheviks.

The Svitlovodsk city museum of local lore is located in the historical building in which the original builder of Svitlovodsk Mykhaylo Karpov lived. It started with a museum room at the House of Culture, opened in 1970.

One of the most interesting expositions is devoted to the legendary city of Krylov (since 1822 - Novoheorhiivsk), which fell into the flood zone of the Kremenchuk Reservoir. Photos of the missing city, copies of archival documents were submitted.

Separate expositions are devoted to paleontology, the events of the Second World War, and urban planning.

The Vasyl Sukhomlynsky Memorial Pedagogical Museum was opened in 1971 at the Pavlysh Secondary School, which the outstanding teacher managed from 1948 for 22 years.

Here he conducted his long-term pedagogical experiment, as a result of which he created an original system of raising children.

The museum fund includes more than 20,000 storage units. Pedagogical documentation of the school from the 1950s and 1960s, manuscripts of Sukhomlynsky's literary and scientific and pedagogical works, and personal documents are presented. The interior of the office and apartment of the Sukhomlynsky family has been preserved.

You can inspect the school grounds: several educational premises, a school garden, green classrooms.

The History Museum in Zakharivka is considered one of the largest rural museums in the Kirovohrad Region - its holdings include more than 13,000 objects from the main holding alone. The exhibition is housed in 15 rooms of the former kindergarten.

The basis of the museum's collection is the materials about the 116th Kharkiv Rifle Division, which liberated Zakharivka from the German occupiers in 1943. Searchers managed to establish the names of about a hundred fallen heroes buried in a mass grave on the territory of the village. Fragments of weapons and military equipment are presented.

The ethnographic section exhibits things preserved by the inhabitants of the villages of the Novoheorhiyvka district, which were flooded in the 1960s by the waters of the Kremenchuk Reservoir during the construction of the Kremenchuk HPP. Among them are furniture, household items, work tools, photos, toys, postcards. A collection of embroidered fabrics and antique towels is presented, including a wedding towel embroidered in 1813.

Impressive collections of ancient musical instruments, as well as hand, pocket and wall clocks, which are presented about 1.5 thousand copies.