Attractions of Synelnykove district

The Holy Intercession Church in the village of Rubanivske stands on the picturesque bank of a pond on the Solomchyna River. It used to be called the "Red Church" because of the color of the brick walls.

The temple was built in the middle of the 19th century by Kateryna Vasylenko, the widow of Ivan Vasylenko's court adviser. Later, returning from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, she decided to leave worldly life and build a Znamyansky women's monastery at her own expense in the name of the icon of the Mother of God "Sign".

The Znamyansky monastery was officially founded in 1906, and a year later its founder was elevated to the rank of abbess under the name of Yelyzaveta.

Having survived the persecution of the church during the Soviet era, the church still stands proudly above the village, impressing with its calmness, grandeur and amazing bell. In the Church of the Holy Intercession rest the relics of Abbess Yelyzaveta and the holy martyr Priest Oleksandr, tortured by the Bolsheviks in 1918. Near the church, the burials of priests and the founder of the village, the Cossack Ruban, have been preserved.

The house-museum of Ivan Manzhura, a famous Ukrainian folklorist and storyteller, poet and ethnographer, was opened in the village of Rubanivske near the Holy Intercession Church.

The temple was built by the Vasylenko family of philanthropists near their estate, where in the early 70s of the 19th century Ivan Manzhura worked as an usher at the invitation of the owners. Ivan Vasylenko, a descendant of the Zaporizhzhia Cossacks, a Zemstvo official from Katerynoslav, a man of advanced democratic views, took care of the talented Ivan Manzhura. The name of his ancestor, Hryhoriy Vasylenko, nicknamed Tromsyn, who was listed in the Zaporizhzhia Sich as a scribe of the Kodak transport, entered the history of the settlement of the Dnipro region at the end of the 18th century.

To his good friend, Ivan Manzhura dedicated the poem-tale "Tromsyn Bogatyr" about the brave Cossack knight - Tromsyn, a faithful and reliable defender of all the oppressed and disadvantaged. Thanks to the Vasylenkos, Manzhura traveled almost the entire southern steppe Ukraine, collecting pearls of folklore. This is how his books of fairy tales were born.

Memorial days and creative evenings of Ivan Manzhura are traditionally held in Rubanivske twice a year - in May and November.

The municipal institution of culture "Historical and local lore museum" of the Mezhova village council was founded in 1976 and is located in the premises of the Mezhova House of Culture.

The museum has 2400 exhibits. The exposition presents archeological finds of Scythian times, historical materials of the period of the Ukrainian revolution, years of Stalinist repressions, the Second World War, Russian-Ukrainian war.

The interior of the Ukrainian house of the XIX - early XX centuries is recreated: benches, wicker crib, samovars, makitry, rockers, rubles, irons, spinning wheel.

In the section "Outstanding people of Mezhova region" there are materials about writers Sava Bozhko, Ivan Kostyr and others.

The History and Local Lore Museum in Petropavlivka was founded in 1967 and is now located in the Cultural Center Kvitka.

The exposition consists of four sections: "Our region from the earliest times to the beginning of the 20th century", "Our region in 1900-1940", "Tests of war and reconstruction", "Development of the region" and the ethnographic hall "Ukrainian room".

In front of the entrance to the building is the exhibition "Stone witnesses of the history of the region", which presents stone idols of the Scythian-Sarmatian period.

The Saint Peter and Paul Church in Petropavlivka was built in 1910 on the site of the first wooden church that gave the village its name.

The stone one-domed three-throne temple was built in the style of classicism. The central throne is in honor of the holy apostles Peter and Paul, the left one is in honor of the great martyr Kateryna, the right one is in honor of PrinceOleksandr Nevskyi.

The Vasylkivka Museum of Local Lore was founded in 1973. Located in a separate building in the center of Vasylkivka.

The museum collection consists of 2,600 museum objects that tell about the history, ethnography and nature of this region. Among them are flint tools of primitive man, things from the times of Zaporozhzhian Sich, an ethnographic collection, typical objects of the era of industrialization. Exhibitions of works of folk artists are held regularly.

In front of the entrance to the museum is a collection of Polovtsian stone sculptures.

Velykomykhailivka Museum of History and Local Lore in Dnipropetrovsk region was founded in 1986.

Housed in a historic building erected in the early XX century.

The museum fund has more than 3,000 exhibits. The exposition in eight halls covers the distant past of the region, the history of the founding of the village of Velykomykhailivka (former name – Dibrivka) by the Cossacks in 1776, its development during the XIX - early XX centuries, the Ukrainian revolution and the participation of local residents in the insurgent movement Nestor Makhno, World War II. In particular, the exposition acquaints with the battle route of the 346th Debaltseve Red Banner Rifle Division, which in 1943 liberated the village from German occupation.

Memorial signs have been erected near the museum in honor of the village's founder, the legendary Cossack Mykhaylo, as well as in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Dibrivka battle of the insurgent detachments of Nestor Makhno and Fedosiy Shchus with Austrian troops in 1918.