Attractions of Dnipro district

The Holy Trinity Cathedral is the main temple of the Dnipro. It was founded as the Church of the Holy Spirit on the site of an old wooden church, the construction was carried out with patronage funds of local merchants.

In the 30s of the 20th century, the church was closed by the Bolsheviks, but in 1941 the service was restored and continues to this day.

The main shrine is the Novokaydatska (Samarska) icon of the Mother of God.

The diocesan center is located nearby.

Potemkin Palace is one of the first and most significant buildings of Dnipro, the former Katerynoslav.

The exact date of the building has not been established - construction was carried out between 1786 and 1790. Most likely, the laying took place in 1787-1788, after the construction of the Transfiguration Cathedral began.

The authorship of the project of the large-scale palace in the style of classicism, built for the founder of the city, the governor-general of the Novorossiysk region, Prince Hrihoriy Potemkin-Tavriyskyi, is attributed to the outstanding Russian architect Ivan Starov. Originally, the main building contained a number of ceremonial rooms, including a huge bicolor hall in the central part.

It is believed that Potemkin himself never visited his Katerynoslav palace. After his death, the building stood in desolation for a long time, in 1837 it was reconstructed as a house of noble meetings. In 1952, the completely rebuilt building became the Students Palace of Culture.

According to legend, an underground passage was laid from the basement of the Potemkin Palace to the bank of the Dnipro, in which a person of his entire height could move freely.

The Dnipro embankment is considered the longest in Europe. Its total length is more than 23 kilometers.

It consists of three streets: Zavodska Naberezhna, Sicheslavska Naberezhna and Peremohy Naberezhna. The arrangement of the territory along the Dnipro River, the construction of the embankment and the boulevard in the Dnipro began in the late 1950s. Production waste (slag) from the Dnipro Metallurgical Plant was used to build the dam. Outside, the embankment was lined with granite. The parapet is assembled from cast-iron grid links fixed between granite blocks. Construction continued until the early 1970s.

Today it is a favorite place for local residents to walk, one of the city's hallmarks. There are many monuments, sculptures, cafes and restaurants here. One of the novelties is the "White Swan" fountain. The longest 50-meter "family" bench in Ukraine is located in the free Wi-Fi zone. Sicheslavska Embankment is especially beautiful in the evening illumination.

Monastyrskyi Island is the historical core of the Dnipro River, a favorite recreation spot of the townspeople. A pedestrian bridge across a branch of the Dnipro River was thrown from Taras Shevchenko Park to the island.

According to legend, in the 11th century there was a Byzantine monastery here, where Princess Olha stayed on the stormy road to Constantinople. A memorial cross was erected in honor of the Byzantine monks, the Nicholas Church was built on the cape (1999).

During Soviet times, a monument to Taras Shevchenko was erected, a zoo and an aquarium, as well as a children's amusement park, were opened.

In 2013, the 17-meter decorative waterfall "Porih Revuchy" was opened, which symbolizes the flooded cascade of the Dnipro rapids (it works during the summer period on weekends, and in the evening - on weekdays).

The Aerospace Museum in Dnipro was created on the basis of the Oleksandr Makarov National Aerospace Educational Center of Youth.

The center is named after the Ukrainian rocket engineer, who in 1961-1986 headed the Southern Machine-Building Plant ("Pivdenmash") – a leading Ukrainian enterprise in the production of rocket and space equipment.

The exhibition in the main hall is dedicated to famous rocket builders and the space technology they created. Samples and models of space vehicles, in particular, orbital stations, are presented. On the open-air exhibition area, samples of military equipment are presented: intercontinental ballistic missiles (including the legendary Satana R-36M), the S-200 anti-aircraft missile complex, a model of the German V-2 missile, etc.

Free viewing of the exposition is available on Tuesdays. To organize group excursions, you need to issue an application letter.

A monument to the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel was opened in Dnipro in 2013 on the territory of the memorial park complex "Alfred Nobel Planet".

The memorial was created in 2008 on the territory of the Dnipro University of Economics and Law, which bears the name of Nobel.

The Catherine's Mile in Voloske is a road sign established in 1784-1787 on the route of Empress Catherine the Great during her journey through Novorossiya to the Crimea.

Similar signs were placed by order of Prince Hryhoriy Potomkin on the path of Catherine every 10 versts.

Catherine's mile is the lower part of a column of the Tuscan order with a hexagonal intercept in the middle and a cone-shaped finish, installed on a square pedestal.

On the southern outskirts of the village of Voloske is one of the five Catherine's miles preserved in the territory of Ukraine. It is located at the exit from the village towards Maiorka.

The Complex History Museum is a communal institution of the Tsarychanka settlement council.

The museum in Tsarychanka was founded in 1959, from 2021 it will be located in the new premises of the Cultural and Business Center of the Tsarychanka community.

The exposition introduces the history, culture, flora and fauna of the Oril river area. In particular, ceramics of the Bronze Age, Cossack pipes and powder kegs of the 17th-18th centuries, household items and tools of the local peasantry are presented.

On the basis of the museum there is a tourist information space "Guide to the Tsarychanka hromada". The museum has modern multimedia equipment for seminars and meetings.

The Ethnographic Park "Cossack Farm Halushkivka" is a recreation of the village founded by the Cossack Halushka at the end of the 18th century on the outskirts of the village of Hrechane by the enthusiasts of the public organization "Cossacks of Naddnipryanshchyna".

The complex includes a model of a Cossack fortress and several peasant estates of the 19th century. The ethnographic museum contains an exposition dedicated to the rural life of the region, including two wedding towels over 150 years old.

The art gallery presents the works of the artist Volodymyr Vyborny - portraits of Cossack hetmans and chieftains, landscapes of the Halushkivka hamlet, and genre paintings.

The artist's house is equipped for the accommodation of guests. Workshops on Petrykivka painting, pottery, and Motanka dolls are held in the master's yard.

The farmhouse can accommodate up to 70 guests at the same time. A traditional Cossack dinner is offered: kulish, varenyki, halushki, uzvar.

Excursions, horse shows, and national holidays are held by prior order.

The private museum of cups and antiques in the village of Shevchenko in the Dnipropetrovsk region was opened in 2024 by local resident Nataliya Malchenko. The basis of the exposition was her personal collection of cups, which she started collecting back in 2004.

Now the museum presents more than a thousand cups of various shapes and sizes, made of different materials and with different design methods. The oldest specimens date back to the 18th-19th centuries. Some of the exhibits have their own history, such as a burnt cup from a hospital destroyed by a Russian missile in Kramatorsk.

In addition to cups, the museum presents other tableware and antiques, including embroidered towels, postcards and envelopes, cameras, telephones and even a gramophone. After the excursion, the hostess treats visitors to fragrant tea with goodies.

Dmytro Yavornytskyi Avenue is the main street of Dnipro and one of the oldest thoroughfares in the city.

It began to take shape simultaneously with the founding of Katerynoslav at the end of the 18th century. From 1834 to 1923, it was called Katerynynskyi Avenue, until 2016 - Karl Marks Avenue. Today it bears the name of the outstanding Ukrainian historian Dmytro Yavornytskyi, who lived and worked in Katerynoslav for a long time.

The avenue is lined with houses of various styles from the 19th and 20th centuries. The Governor's House (1840-1850), "Khrinnykov's House" (1910-1913, now the grand hotel "Ukraine"), the post office building, etc. have been preserved. A pedestrian zone - Kelnskyi Boulevard, nicknamed "New Arbat" - has been organized in the area of the central square of Heroiv Maidanu.

Nearby on the boulevard is a vernissage, where you can buy paintings by local artists and handicrafts, including Petrykivsky painting.

The Dnipro Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet is a modern musical theater with a wide range of genres, stage forms and means.

Created in 1931 as the Dnipropetrovsk Workers' Opera Theater, in 1941 it was evacuated to Krasnoyarsk, where it merged with the Odesa troupe. After the Second World War, it officially ceased operations.

Reborn in 1974. The performance "Bohdan Khmelnytsky" of the Dnipro Opera and Ballet Theater was awarded the Taras Shevchenko National Award.

The Dnipro Aquarium is located in Taras Shevchenko Park on Monastyrsky Island. It is under the auspices of the Dnipro National University.

Vertical sun protection, a structure made of glass tubes in the color of sea waves and other details give the two-story structure lightness and uniqueness. There is a small winter garden in the lobby of the first floor.

The aquarium is home to representatives of the marine fauna of Central and South America, Africa, Southeast Asia, Indonesia and the Dnieper basin. Especially rare species: werewolf catfish, clown carp, glass catfish, Chinese auch, pantodon, Japanese colored koi carp.

The Dnipro City Art Museum was opened in 1914 on the initiative of members of the art commission of the Katerynoslav Scientific Society.

Initially, the exhibition was housed in the Potomkin Palace (now the Palace of Students of DNU), then in the Khrennikov building (now the Ukraine Hotel).

During Soviet times, the collection was replenished with works by domestic and Western European masters from the collection of Dmytro Yavornytskyi, as well as from the Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow) and the Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg). In 1936, the Dnipro Art Museum received a gift from the painter Isaac Brodsky over 300 works, which are still the basis of the exposition.

To date, the museum's collection includes 8.5 thousand works of painting, sculpture, graphics and objects of decorative and applied art of the 16th-21st centuries. The permanent exhibition includes works by Volodymyr Borovykovsky, Ivan Shyshkin, Isaac Levitan, Kostyantyn Korovin, Valentyn Syerov, Illya Repin, Mykola Pymonenko, Oleksandr Murashko and others. The pearl of the collection is considered to be the works of the Ekaterinoslav symbolist artist Mykhaylo Sapozhnikov.

A special place in the museum collection is occupied by the works of famous masters of Petrykivka decorative painting.

Until 2021, the Dnipro Art Museum had regional status, now it is a communal institution of the Dnipro City Council.

Children's Railway in Dnipro (Mala Prydniprovska) is a narrow-gauge railway in the park named after Lazar Hloba.

Introduces children to railway specialties. Opened in 1936, the Dnipro Children's Railway became the first children's railway in Ukraine and the second in the USSR. It was designed by schoolchildren from Dnipro, project documentation was prepared by students of the Dnipro Institute of Transport Engineers, construction was carried out by the method of Komsomol workers, the first locomotive was built independently by Komsomol members of the locomotive repair plant.

The total length of the road is 2 kilometers (ring road). One stop. There are three artificial structures - two tunnels and a crossing. Currently, the rolling stock consists of TU2-134 and TU2-172 diesel locomotives, as well as several PAFAWAG passenger cars.