Attractions of Kramatorsk district

The Kramatorsk City Council Art Museum is based on the art gallery opened in 1959.

Its funds were formed by enthusiasts led by the artist Ivan Parkhomenko. Artists from Kramatorsk, Donetsk and Kyiv donated their works to the museum. Now the museum's funds include more than 2,000 works of painting, graphics, sculpture, decorative and applied art.

In particular, the works of famous Ukrainian artists Mykola Hlushchenko, Kostyantyn Trokhymenko, Tetyana Yablonska and others are presented. The

Museum of the History of the City of Kramatorsk is located in the same building.

A 22-meter statue of the famous revolutionary Artem (alias Fedir Serhyeyev) rises above the domes of the Holy Assumption Sviatohirsk Lavra on top of one of the chalk mountains above Siverskyi Donets.

The cubist monument was created in 1927 by the sculptor Ivan Kavaleridze. Most of the work on the construction of the 1,000-ton monument was carried out by hand: on the terrace of the monastery, parts were cast from reinforced concrete, which were lifted up the mountain by truck and installed in place with the help of an ordinary truck crane.

A new monumental complex to the heroes of the Second World War was built nearby.

Mount Karachun is a natural landmark of local importance. Translated from Turkic, "karachun" means "black death". There are many legends about the mountain.

Today, there is a large chalk quarry on Mount Karachun, and chalk tericones are produced nearby. From the mountain and the nearby chalk tericones, a wonderful view of Slovyansk and its surroundings opens up.

Until recently, on the feast of Ivan Kupala, fire dances were held on the mountain and flaming wheels were lowered from it.

Due to the strategic importance of Mount Karachun, its commanding height above the city of Slovyansk, and the location of the TV and radio transmission center on it, during the Russian-Ukrainian war, it became the object of a protracted military confrontation in April-July 2014. On the night of July 1, 2014, as a result of pro-Russian armed formations shelling Ukrainian positions on Mount Karachun, the TV tower was destroyed.

On December 5, 2016, a new TV tower was inaugurated on Mount Karachun.

The "Environment" museum of the history of Oleksandro-Kalynove village was created by local enthusiasts in 2011.

The museum complex is a miniature open-air museum consisting of an ethno-house, an exhibition hall and a courtyard. The ethno-house reproduces the interiors of a rural residence of the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century.

The exhibition hall occupies the premises of the old school. There is an ethnographic collection (towels, embroidery, household items, tools), artifacts of the Soviet past, as well as an exhibition of items related to the Russian-Ukrainian war.

An open-air exposition has been opened in the yard, the central element of which is the ancient UD-2 tractor, which started the creation of the museum. Also in the yard you can see other old agricultural machines, stone millstones, crane well, etc.

The Museum of Folk Architecture, Life and Children's Creativity in the village of Prelesne is the only skansen (open-air museum) in Donetsk region. It was founded in 1983 on the initiative of a local teacher, local historian, and artist Oleksandr Shevchenko.

The complex of wooden buildings reproduces a peasant yard of the 19th century in the Slobozhanschyna region: a typical residential house under a reed roof, a windmill with wooden mechanisms, a storeroom and a forge with tools, a well, beehives.

All these exhibits are authentic, collected in the villages of Donetsk and Kharkiv regions. In the whitewashed wooden house, you can see a stove, furniture, ceramic dishes, icons, towels, and embroidery.

The most interesting is the windmill, in which the working mechanism, millstone and various utensils have been preserved. The exhibition hall presents samples of folk art of Slobozhanshchyna and children's art.

There is a restaurant on the territory that offers visitors traditional Ukrainian cuisine.

The Museum of Folk Architecture in Prelesne is a department of the Donetsk Regional Art Museum.

The People`s Museum of the History of the village of Nekremenne was founded in 1982.

Today the museum has nine exhibition halls and an agricultural exhibition.

Ancient weapons, tools, household items are presented.

The Saint Nicholas Church was built in Druzhkivka in 1900 by the French-Belgian Joint Stock Company, which was the owner of the Druzhkivka Machine-Building Plant. The construction of the church was one of the conditions on which the tsarist government granted foreigners land for use.

The church was designed and built by French specialists. White silicate bricks for the temple were made in France, and the interior was decorated with local red bricks. The temple is built in the shape of a cross. The author of the project of the Saint Nicholas Church is unknown.

During the Soviet rule, the church was closed and converted into a club and cinema, the priest was arrested and shot.

During the Second World War, a shell hit the building of the Saint Nicholas Church, as a result of which a breach was formed in the western wall of the church. During the occupation of the city by German-fascist troops, services were resumed in the church building and renewed cross on the dome. Paintings and the iconostasis were redone, the hole in the wall was closed with a board shield. In 1962, the temple was closed again and a cinema was placed in its building. In 1984, the city art museum was opened in the church building.

In 1988, the temple was returned to the religious community. In 1993, the Saint Nicholas Church became a Cathedral. Active revival of the temple took place in the 2000s.

The People's Museum of History of PRJSC "Novokramatorsk Machine-Building Plant" (NKMZ) is located on the third floor of the left wing of the Palace of Culture and Technology of NKMZ on the central square of Kramatorsk.

The majestic five-story building of the Palace of Culture, erected in 1956-1965 in the style of Soviet classicism, is the only architectural monument in the city.

The exposition of the museum in eight halls tells the history of the development of the largest enterprise in Europe for the production of equipment for the mining and metallurgical industry, which has been operating since 1934.

The central exhibit of the first hall is a diorama of the construction of the giant plant. Working tools and contemporary office equipment, models of Donbas mines with NKMZ equipment, samples of metal structures manufactured at the factory for the construction of famous objects are presented. The models of rotary excavators, the "Sterkh" gantry crane, the line for the production of large-diameter pipes and other large-sized equipment manufactured by NKMZ are most impressive.

A separate exhibition tells about the creation of special equipment for space and combat missile systems, anti-missile and anti-aircraft defense systems, engineering troops.

In the hall of the museum, there are models of early factory equipment, including walking dragline excavators.

Saint George's Church was built in the village of Oleksandro-Shultyne in 1822-1829 by the owner of the village, Lieutenant General Petro Kotlyarevskyi. Stepan Kotlyarevskyi, the father of the general, served as a priest in the church until the end of his life.

During the Second World War, the church was not damaged, but in 1963 the Soviet authorities closed it, the bell tower was destroyed, and the premises were used as an agricultural warehouse. For some time the temple was empty.

In 1991, the temple was handed over to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The Slovyansk Museum of Local Lore, founded in 1970, is housed in a 19th-century merchant mansion near the city center.

The exposition consists of four main sections: the nature of the region, ancient history (archeology and the founding of the city), the city in the period 1917-1990, modern socio-economic development. The pearl of the historical collection is a bronze aquarius (aquamanil) of the XIII century.

Museum and private collections are shown in two exhibition halls.

In front of the entrance are guns from the Second World War.

The Druzhkivka park of stone sculptures "Svyatohir" was created in Druzhkivka on the initiative of the famous athlete Yuriy Artemov, the director of the "Svyatohir" sports and environmental public organization, the head of the "Svyatohir" sports club.

About 50 sandstone sculptures depicting fairy-tale heroes and real historical characters have already been collected here. The heroes of the Rus epic are mainly presented. There is the hero Peresvit, Princess Olha, Volodymyr Monomakh and many others. All paths converge to the center - a mound with the figure of Mother Rus.

The authors of the project set a goal to awaken patriotism, love for history and art in the residents and guests of the city.