Kakhovka

Kakhovka Historical Museum is a branch of the Kherson Museum of Local Lore.

Opened in 1957. Located in a spacious room in the center of Kakhovka. There are more than 7,000 exhibits in the funds.

The museum's expositions tell about the main stages of the history of the city and the region, about the events of the Soviet-Ukrainian and World War II, about the creation of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant and the Kakhovka irrigation system, etc.

The most interesting are materials about the Cossack campaigns on Islam-Kermen and the storming of Kizi-Kermen, samples of weapons of Zaporozhian Cossacks and Russian soldiers (flintlock rifles, pistols, sabers, daggers), trophy sabers, guns, nuclei of XVI-XVII centuries, photocopy Borys Sheremetyev to Emperor Peter I about the storming of the fortress and so on.

During the Russian occupation of Kakhovka in 2022, the Russian invaders looted the Kakhovka Historical Museum.

The "Legendary Tachanka" monument in Kakhovka is a grandiose sculptural composition in honor of the mobile firing point, which was widely used during the Soviet-Ukrainian war.

Tachanka was widely celebrated in Soviet literature and art. The units of Nestor Makhno anarchist army were the first to use the "Maxim" machine gun mounted on a horse-drawn carriage in combat operations, but the tachanka became famous while serving in the ranks of the Red Army.

In 1967, a majestic monument of the work of Leningrad sculptors Lokhovytsin, Mykhaylenko, Rodionov and architect Poltoratskyi was erected in the steppe near Kakhovka.

The bronze monument weighs 120 tons.

The monument "Legendary Tachanka" is subject to dismantling in accordance with the law of Ukraine on decommunization.