Attractions of Kropyvnytskyi district

The Oleksandr Osmyorkin Memorial Art Museum was created in 1985 on the basis of the memorial building in Kropyvnytskyi, where this outstanding artist and teacher spent his childhood and youth.

The building is an architectural monument of national importance, built in 1899 according to the own project of the famous Yelisavetgrad architect Yakiv Pauchenko, the artist's uncle. The project of its reconstruction was developed by the artist's widow, architect Nadiya Osmyorkina.

The exposition of the museum is placed in three halls. The memorial hall invites visitors to get acquainted with the life and work of Oleksandr Osmyorkin. Painting and graphic works of the master, studio drawings of the 1920s and 1930s, his personal belongings, including items of creative work - easel, palette, sketch book, brushes, still life collection, memorial items from the Pauchenko-Osmyorkin house are presented.

Painting and graphic works of Osmyorkin's students, who donated more than 50 of their works on the eve of the museum's opening, are exhibited in two exhibition halls.

The Oleksandrivka Museum of Local Lore was opened in 1987 on the initiative of the public of the Oleksandrivka urban-type village. The basis of the exposition was archeology items, Tsvitne ceramics, Ukrainian embroidered towels, weapons from the Second World War and other materials collected by enthusiasts.

The first hall depicts the history of Oleksandrivka and the entire region from the earliest times until 1917. The exposition about the era of the Cossacks is especially interesting, because the nearby village of Birky was owned by Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, here he received ambassadors of foreign countries, gathered troops for the campaign against Poland, as evidenced by numerous objects of the 17th century found in Birky. Also interesting is the exposition "Ukrainian house of the early twentieth century", which presents various objects of folk life.

The second hall is dedicated to the troubled times of 1920-1930, when the Soviet-Ukrainian war, collectivization and the Holodomor were raging in the region. The history of the region during the Second World War is an exposition of the third hall. The fourth hall is dedicated to the history of the region in the postwar period and the present. There is a department of nature and an art department, where the works of local masters are presented.

Branches of the Oleksandrivka Museum of Local Lore are the Levko Matsievych Room-Museum in Oleksandrivka and the Rozumivka Village History Museum.

The People's Memorial Museum of the outstanding pianist Henrikh Neyhauz was opened in 1981 at Music School No. 1 in the city of Kropyvnytskyi (then Kirovohrad), which he was the founder of and which now bears his name.

Since 1933, the music school has been located in a two-story building in the center of the city, which once belonged to the family of the composer Yuliy Meytus, and is now an architectural monument. This is one of the oldest state music schools in Ukraine.

The initiators of the opening of the museum of a country musician at the school were its director Viktor Revenko and teacher of the piano department Ella Torhovetska. They were the main collectors of museum funds.

Historical documents, photographs and personal belongings belonging to Henrikh Neyhauz and his family are presented in two exhibition halls of the museum. 16 editions in different languages of the world of the main theoretical work of Henrikh Neyhauz "On the Art of Piano Playing" are exhibited. The grand piano and bureau of the composer and musicologist Heorhiy Polyanovskyi are also presented.

On the 125th anniversary of the musician, a commemorative plaque was unveiled on the facade of the building of the music school, and a bust of Henrikh Neyhauz by the Lviv sculptor Volodymyr Tsisaryk was installed in front of the building.

The building of the railway station "Fundukliyivka" of the Odesa Railway was built in Oleksandrivka in 1876 at the expense of Kyiv governor Ivan Fundukley, a scientist and philanthropist who owned the surrounding estates in the second half of the 19th century.

Named in his honor.

The Ivan Tobilevych (Karpenko-Kary) State Reserve-Museum "Khutir Nadiya" was created on the territory of the same name estate in Mykolaivka near Kropyvnytskyi that belonged to the playwright in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The estate was named after Tobilevych's wife, Nadiya from the Tarkovsky family. The founder of the Ukrainian theater settled here in 1887 after being exiled, turning the estate into a creative oasis in the middle of the Ukrainian countryside. Rehearsals of the first Ukrainian theater troupe under the leadership of Marko Kropyvnytskyi were held here, many luminaries of the Ukrainian theater were there, and Karpenko-Kary himself wrote his best works: "One Hundred Thousand", "The Master" and others.

The Tobilevych house, outbuildings, a summer theater, a park with a pond, and a Chumak well have been preserved.

Theatrical-literary and memorial exposition includes more than 7,000 items, a significant part of which was handed over by the Tobilevych-Tarkovsky family. In the rooms, the interior of those times has been restored, in the halls you can familiarize yourself with the life path of the luminaries of the Ukrainian theater.

Now the Ivan Tobilevych State Reserve-Museum "Khutir Nadiya" is a branch of the Central Ukrainian Regional Museum of Local Lore. The theater festival "September Gems" is held here every year.

The Rozumivka Village History Museum was founded in 1967. Initially, it was located in the premises of the Ascension of Cross Church – the burial place of the Rayevsky family, thanks to which the church was preserved.

Now the museum is located on the second floor of the Rozumivka House of Culture. The updated exposition tells about the symbolism of Rozumivka, archaeological research in the region, about the history of the village at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries, about the Holodomor of 1932-1933 and Stalin's repressions in the village, about the Soviet period and the war in Afghanistan, about the participants in the Russian-Ukrainian war.

A separate exposition tells the events of the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917–1921, in particular about the leader of the Black Raven (Mykola Sklyar), who died near Rozumivka together with three hundred Cossacks (a memorial is being created). The exposition is complemented by thematic stained glass windows.

The Rozumivka Village History Museum is a branch of the Oleksandrivka Museum of Local Lore.

Saint Nicholas Church in Bobrynets was built in 1853 according to a typical project at the expense of Princess Dmytryanska.

At first, the church was built in the style of late classicism, but in 1863, partitions and a bell tower were added to it, which added neo-Rus features to the building.

The Church of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker in Birky was built in 1648 by Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi on the lands that belonged to him.

The wooden temple was planned to be removable and portable. Previously, the Saint Nicholas Church stood near the old cemetery. It was moved to its current location in 1820. There are four graves of abbots in the church yard.

The temple is in very good condition. Services are held on Sundays until 12:00 p.m. Belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The manor complex of the landowner Sokolov-Borodkin in Chervonovershka is one of the best-preserved manor estates in the Kirovohrad region, an architectural monument of local importance.

The landowner Vasyl Sokolov-Borodkin bought the estate in Chervonovershka in 1815. His son, State Councilor Kyrylo Sokolov-Borodkin, was the district leader of the nobility. He had several houses in Yelysevethrad, and during the years 1854-1867 he built a summer palace in the Chervonovershka estate. The author of the project was Yelysavethrad architect Andriy Dostoyevsky, the brother of the writer Fedir Dostoyevsky.

The brick two-story palace with an attic is made in an eclectic style with elements of classicism and neo-renaissance. The stairs lead to the second floor, and the third, in the back of the building in the form of a belvedere, can only be reached by a ladder. The palace is surrounded by a park with ponds, in which pines, thuja, firs, larches, and gorse still grow. A summer house, oil mill, vegetable storage, former stables, and a dormitory are also preserved on the territory of the estate.

In Soviet times, a rest house was placed in the Sokolov-Borodkin Palace, then a veterinary technical school was opened. Now the Chervonovershka Lyceum is located here.

The Subotsi Village Council Local History Museum was created in 2005 as the Znamianka district local lore museum. In 2020, the institution came under the control of the Subotsi community and updated its exhibits, which are now devoted mainly to the history and prominent residents of these settlements. But the museum will continue to be located in the city of Znamianka.

The main fund of the museum consists of more than 3,000 objects. Among them are archival documents, unique photographs, archaeological finds, household items, works of decorative and applied art masters.

In particular, the archaeological collection includes fragments of ceramics from the Scythian and Sarmatian era, arrowheads, plowshares, and slag fragments of the famous Melhunovsky mound.

Also presented is a large ethnographic collection of embroidered towels, ancient clothes and household items collected on the territory of the former Znamianka district.

The museum offers 5 tourist routes: "Black Lake - the pearl of Chornolissya", "Guerrilla glory of Chornoliske Dibrov", "Both forest and steppe joined together on the blessed Subottsivka land" (Bohdanivka village), "Cossack glory will not rest, but about itself will tell" (Moshoryne village), "Cast tomb: from the Scythians to the present day" (Trepivka village).

The Technics History Museum at the Central Ukrainian State University named after Volodymyr Vinnichenko in Kropyvnytskyi opened in 2015. It is located in the computer laboratories of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, on the first floor of educational building No. 4.

In the exhibition "Computing and computer technology" are presented pre-mechanical counters, mechanical arithmometers, microcalculators, personal computers of different generations, samples of microprocessors, RAM boards, motherboards, video cards, disk drives, various data carriers (punched cards, diskettes, hard drives).

Of particular interest are the large demonstration calculator "Programmer" based on the standard MK-61 programmable calculator board and a demonstration version of a personal computer with microcircuits and peripheral devices open for inspection.

The Transfiguration Cathedral was built in Kropyvnytskyi in the classicist style as the main Orthodox church of the city after the liquidation of the Trinity Church, which was located on the territory of the abolished fortress of Saint Elizabeth.

In Soviet times, the cathedral was closed by the authorities as a religious building. In 1965, a city art gallery was opened in its premises, which saved it from destruction. With the declaration of Ukraine's independence, the church resumed services. It currently belongs to the UOC community of the Moscow Patriarchate.

In the Transfiguration Cathedral, fragments of the relics of the saints of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, as well as of Nicholas the Wonderworker, are kept. A monument in honor of the 2000th anniversary of the birth of Christ was erected on the territory of the cathedral, a new bell tower was built in the neoclassical style.

The Museum of the Ukrainian Choreographic Art History in Kropyvnytskyi was founded in 2004 as a department of the Central Ukrainian Regional Museum of Local Lore.

For a long time it was located on the territory of the State Museum-Reserve of Ivan Tobilevych (Karpenka-Kary) "Khutir Nadiya" not far from Kropyvnytskyi. It was here that the prominent Tobilevych family lived and worked, with whom the emergence of Ukrainian folk stage dance is associated.

In 2023, the updated exhibition opened on the first floor of the former National Bank administration building, where the Museum's historical and artistic space is now being arranged. The exposition in three halls highlights the development of choreographic art in Ukraine and beyond, the connection between the work of outstanding ballet masters of the past and the development of Ukrainian dance today.

In the first hall, materials on the history of the formation of Ukrainian dance are presented. The second hall is dedicated to the Honored Ukrainian folk dance ensemble "Yatran", which was created in Kropyvnytskyi (then Kirovohrad) in 1949. In the third hall there are photos, posters and costumes of groups that dance Ukrainian dance abroad, as well as children's choreographic groups.

In the gallery before the entrance to the museum, there are portraits of outstanding choreographers of Ukraine.

The Ustynivka History Museum is located in the premises of the House of Culture of the urban-type village of Ustynivka. It was opened in 2003 on the initiative of local historians Hryhoriy and Tetyana Musenko. It was they who formed the main exposition about the history of the then Ustiniv district from ancient times to the present day.

The archaeological collection of the museum presents the stone tools of primitive people: silicon scrapers, cutters, manual stone chisels.

The ethnographic collection includes embroidered towels, ancient clothing, wooden tools and household items. Also presented is a whole series of products of master blacksmiths, which were made in local forges: forged nails, horseshoes, fishing rods, stirrups, cattle chains, etc. The collections of metal sickles and irons are interesting.

The Ustynivka History Museum has a permanent exhibition devoted to the defenders of Ukraine of all generations, in particular to the heroes of the Russian-Ukrainian war.

The public history museum of the village of Moshoryne is located on the second floor of the Moshoryne secondary school. It has two sections: ethnographic and historical.

The ethnographic section recreates the interior of a traditional Ukrainian house with a stove, benches, chests, bowls shelf, icons and embroidered towels. Here are presented items of rural life: nightstands, a barrel, a measuring cup, a bread bowl, a sieve, a rubel for ironing, a rocking chair, wicker products from bark and vines. You can also see agricultural tools: a sickle, a flail, a grain grinder, a hand mill and a yoke for oxen.

The historical section is devoted mainly to the events of the Second World War. About 200 portraits of Moshoryne residents who died at the front are presented. Among the exhibits: a rifle butt, a bayonet knife, machine-gun belts, grenades, helmets, flasks, a German-style gas mask.

The new exposition is dedicated to the natives of the Moshoryne village who took part in the Russian-Ukrainian war.