Kremenchuk

The pedagogical-memorial house-museum of the outstanding teacher Anton Semenovych Makarenko was opened in his parents' house in Kremenchuk in 1951.

Anton Makarenko spent 1905-1911 and 1917-1919 in this house. The Kremenchuk Museum became the first museum of a famous teacher in the former USSR.

Currently, the museum exposition has about 34 thousand exhibits, including personal belongings of Anton Makarenko (chess, glasses, antimony, violin), furniture and books of his parents.

The Kremenchuk Museum of the History of Aviation and Cosmonautics was opened in 2014 at the initiative of enthusiast and amateur historian Anatoliy Byshenko, 6 years after the start of work.

The museum is located in the basement of the building, next to which the activists of the public organization "Kremenchuk Museum of the History of Aviation and Cosmonautics" previously broke a square and erected a monument to the fallen pilots from Kremenchuk.

The museum covers events related to the city's history of aviation, but in general, the exposition is built on the theme of World War II. The museum presents military and civilian uniforms of pilots (both modern and from the time of the Soviet Union), documents, photographs, awards, household items, samples of weapons, models of military aircraft, etc.

The granite rock on the banks of the Dnipro in Kremenchuk is a geological monument of nature and an ancient geodetic mark.

Until the middle of the 20th century, it was used as a rapper - a sign fixing a point on the earth's surface, the height of which in relation to the original leveled surface was determined by leveling.

The rock is an outcrop of gray biotite-plagioclase magmatites 2.5-3 billion years old. It is also called a granite register.

On the rock, which rises 5-6 meters above the river level, there are marks of the highest water levels during floods on the Dnipro since the 18th century. These floods occurred in 1789, 1820, 1845, 1877, 1888, 1889, 1895, 1945.

Since 1970, the granite rapper has been a natural monument of local importance.

The renovated art salon in Kremenchuk is an active creative platform that combines an exhibition space, a democratic bar, a platform for creative experiments, a designer store and a literary house.

This is a space for the presentation of creative works, freedom of creative expression, communication between the artist and the viewer. Workshops, cultural and educational programs, round tables, discussions, master classes, lectures, seminars, meetings with young and prominent representatives of modern culture are held here.

Kremenchuk Automobile Plant (AvtoKrAZ), which has been producing heavy-duty civilian and military vehicles since 1958, opened its own museum back in 1967. Initially, it was a small room in the new engineering building, where several dozen exhibits, documents and photographs were placed. In 1970, the factory museum moved to a spacious room in the new educational building, where it is still located.

The updated museum of the history of the AvtoKrAZ plant opened its doors after a large-scale reconstruction in 2015. Now it houses more than 2,000 exhibits, including models of cars (including military ones), machines and tools, as well as many documents and photographs. The exposition tells about all periods of the establishment and development of the enterprise and about all modifications of KrAZ cars that were produced there.

Among the visitors of the museum over the past half century have been numerous delegations from foreign countries and honored guests of Kremenchuk, including pilot-cosmonaut Oleksiy Leonov, singer Sofiya Rotaru and others.