Attractions of Kirovohrad region

The Holy Intercession Church in the village of Nerubaika in the Kirovohrad region is one of the oldest churches in the region, an architectural monument of local importance. According to some sources, it was built in the 18th century as a Catholic church at the expense of the Polish Count Stanislaw Potocki.

Since after the accession of these lands to the Russian Empire, the number of Catholic population of Nerubaika decreased, in 1837 the church was rebuilt and rededicated as the Orthodox Church of St. George. In 1917, it was named the Church of the Holy Intercession.

The church in the style of classicism has a squat silhouette. The thickness of the gray granite walls reaches one meter. The interior is decorated with paintings.

The Literary and Memorial Museum of Ivan Karpenko-Kary was opened in Kropyvnytskyi in 1995 on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the well-known Ukrainian playwright, the luminary of the Ukrainian professional theater Ivan Karpenko-Kary (Tobilevych).

The museum is located in the memorial building where the writer lived in Yelysavethrad (then the name of the city) from 1872 to 1883. Here he began his literary activity, writing the short story "New Recruit" and the first two plays - "Shepherd" and "Not so gentlemen, as mister". Famous cultural figures of the second half of the 19th century visited him, including: Mykola Lysenko, Marko Kropyvnytskyi, Mykola Sadovskyi, Panas Saksahanskyi, Mykola Arkas, Mariya Zankovetska, Mykhaylo Starytskyi and others.

The main exhibition "Ivan Karpenko-Kary: life paths of a luminary" highlights the Yelisavetgrad period of the writer's life, his role on the amateur and professional scene. Lifetime editions of Karpenko-Kary's works, original photographs of luminaries of the Ukrainian theater, theater posters are presented.

In the second and third halls there are temporary exhibitions: "Khutir Nadiya - the theater mecca of Ukraine", "Voices of literary Kirovohrad region" (history of the literary life of the region for 80 years), "A word about the city above Ingul" (references to the city of Kropyvnytskyi in the works of famous writers).

The Church of Saint John the Baptist in Holovanivsk is the oldest architectural building in the village, an architectural monument of local importance. Located in the center of Holovanivsk.

The church was founded in 1764 as a Greek-Catholic church at the expense of the Polish magnate Frantsishek Saleziy Potocki, who at that time owned the town. It was probably originally made of wood.

In the future, the temple was rebuilt several times, in particular in the middle of the 19th century, when it acquired its current appearance.

The complex of buildings of the former Junker Cavalry School in Kropyvnytskyi was built in the middle of the 19th century on the territory of the former suburb of Kovalivka.

It was one of the largest military schools in the country. The military town included a three-story palace, headquarters and training buildings, officers' meeting, arena, and stables.

The buildings are located around the current Cavalry Park, on the site of which there used to be a parade ground where military parades and reviews were held. The complex is still in the hands of the military.

Kremenchuk HPP is the third stage of the Dnipro cascade of hydroelectric power plants.

In operation since 1959, when the 1st unit was put into operation. The last, 12th unit, was launched in 1960.

The reservoir of the Kremenchuk HPP is one of the largest in Ukraine (the area of the mirror is 2,250 square kilometers). The power of the station is 700.4 MW, the average annual electricity production is 1506 million kWh.

Excursions to the Kremenchuk HPP are conducted by prior agreement.

The Room-Museum of Levko Matsiyevych in Oleksandrivka was opened in 2003 in the house where this outstanding Ukrainian public figure, designer, aviation pioneer was born in 1877.

Levko Matsiyevych was the author of the world's first aircraft carrier project, the project of one of the world's first seaplanes, and many submarine projects. He was among the founders of the Revolutionary Ukrainian Party (RUP) - the first political party in Trans-Dnipro Ukraine. He died in a plane crash during the first All-Russian Aviation Festival in 1910 near St. Petersburg.

The exhibition of Levko Matsiyevych's Room-Museum presents some of his personal belongings, photographs and documents, which were donated to the museum by a descendant of the Matsiyevych family, Ukrainian politician and public figure Yuriy Sakhno. A model of the Farman-4 plane, on which the aviator flew and died, was also presented.

A memorial plaque has been installed on the facade of the museum.

The Room-Museum of Levko Matsiyevych is a branch of the Oleksandrivka Museum of Local Lore.

The Malovyskivshchyna History Museum named after Oleksandr Kovtun was opened in 1979 in the premises of the House of Culture of the Mala Vyska city. The founder and first director of the museum was the famous teacher and local historian Oleksandr Kovtun.

The museum exposition includes about 9,000 exhibits of the main and research and auxiliary funds. All of them reveal the history of Malovyskivshchyna from ancient times to the present.

A separate exposition is devoted to the events of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Its central exhibit is the same ceramic cockerel produced by the Vasylkiv majolica factory, which became a symbol of Ukrainian resilience thanks to photographs of Borodianka, destroyed by the occupiers.

The memorial museum of Marko Kropyvnytsky in the city of Kropyvnytskyi was opened in 1982 in the building where the luminary of the Ukrainian theater lived for almost 20 years. Here the playwright wrote his classic plays, and in the early 1880s, he formed a celebrated Ukrainian theater troupe.

The exposition of the museum consists of several chapters that tell about the family of the playwright and actor, about his childhood and studies at the gymnasium and university, about his path in art as the founder of the first professional Ukrainian theater - the Theater of Corypheivs.

The Marko Kropyvnytsky Memorial Museum is a branch of the Central Ukrainian Regional Museum of Local Lore.

A monument to Marko Kropyvnytsky was erected near the Coryphaei Theater.

The landscape complex "Monastyryshche Tract" is located on the banks of the Ingul river between the villages of Inhulske and Zavutrovo.

This is a pre-Christian temple, a pagan religious building with altars and pagan symbols on the stone. In the center of the tract is a large oval rock, which is washed by the Ingul River on one side, and is framed by a wide circular amphitheater on the other. The height of the rock is 13 meters, length - 50 meters, width - 20 meters. The northern, eastern and western walls are vertical, and the southern one is sloping. The whole building is paved with huge rectangular stone blocks. On the upper platform in various places there are many large shaped blocks - the result of the glacier's descent and weathering (according to another version, the figures were once carved by hand).

According to legend, a Cossack treasure is hidden in the rock. The entrance to the treasury is somewhere above, the exit is underwater in the middle of the river.

Plants characteristic of the southern part of the steppe region have been preserved on the slopes of the canyon and adjacent areas of Ingul.

Today it is a landscape reserve of national significance "Monastyryshche".

The monument "Guardian Angel of Ukraine" was installed in Kropyvnytskyi for the 2000th anniversary of the birth of Christ and for the 250th anniversary of the city.

Along the perimeter of the base of the column is the inscription: "God, save Ukraine."

During the creation of the monument, the craftsmen used granite from the Kapustinsky, Krupsky and Voynovsky deposits. The monument to the Guardian Angel was created by sculptor Anatoliy Honchar and architect Vitaliy Kryvenko.

The monument "Students of all times" was installed in Kropyvnytskyi in 2012 on the square in front of the Central Ukrainian National Technical University, which is now called Studentska.

At the heart of the composition of the monument to students is a bench, near which a male and a female student are sitting with books in their hands. The bench is a Mebius strip (a surface with only one side) engraved with the names of the higher education institution at different times.

Museum and nature reserve "Tobilevychi" in the village of Arsenivka was founded as a reserve "Fatherland of Ivan Karpenko-Karyi" to the 150th anniversary of the birth of this outstanding Ukrainian writer, playwright and theater actor.

It was in Arsenivka that Ivan Tobilevych was born in 1845 - the future great artist Karpenko-Karyi.

The Tobilevych family lived in Arsenivka for ten years. Karpenko-Karyi's father, Karpo Tobilevych, managed the estate of landowner Zolotnytskyi here. An old classicist manor house still stands in the park on the shore of the pond, and nearby is a manor cellar. Historical buildings have preserved authentic elements of contemporary architecture.

On the territory of the former manor estate, built in the first half of the 19th century, where there was a school in Soviet times, the Museum and Nature Reserve "Tobilevychi" is now located. Its exposition part still needs filling and design.

In 2021, the territory of the manor estate was declared a 8.7-hectare park-monument park of garden and park art "Tobilevychi". Here you can meet representatives of the red book flora and fauna of Ukraine.

A commemorative sign has been installed on the territory of Nizhny Skver, where the Tobilevych house was located, where Ivan Tobilevych was born.

Museum and nature reserve "Tobilevychi" is a branch of the Central Ukrainian Regional Museum of Local Lore.

The museum complex of the National Aviation University Flight Academy in Kropyvnytskyi unites a number of museum institutions and exhibition spaces dedicated to the history of Ukrainian aviation in general and the educational institution in particular.

The center of the complex is the Aviation Museum, which has been operating since 1971. The exposition presents many aircraft models, photos, souvenirs from different countries, awards and gifts. The most popular exhibit is the cabin of the An-24 aircraft, which was used as a training exercise for cadets. Samples of on-board recorders - so-called "black boxes" are also presented.

Kozhedub Square behind the main training building of the academy was created in 2010 around a memorial sign in honor of the stay of Ukrainian ace pilot Ivan Kozhedub in Kirovohrad Oblast. The square also features a forged commemorative sign "Shpakivnia forever" in honor of all graduates, a memorial plaque dedicated to the two-time Hero of the Soviet Union Amet Khan Sultan, stands with information about outstanding aviators whose activities are related to Kirovohrad region, etc.

Alley of Aviators was laid in 2010 from Chobanu Street to BC "Aviator" in honor of the 100th anniversary of the first flight into the sky of Yelisavetgrad. There are real airplanes and models, stands and creative compositions, a fountain in the form of an airplane and much more.

The Aeronautical square is located between the second educational building and the training center - here the composition "Rose of the Winds" and samples of aeronautical equipment, which was operated at the airfield "Kirovohrad" in different years, are presented.

The museum exposition of historical local history is also a part of the complex.

Bobrynets City Museum of Local Lore in Kirovohrad Region bears the name of Mykola Smolenchuk, a Ukrainian writer and researcher of the life and work of luminaries of the Ukrainian theater, who founded this institution in 1959.

Now the museum has more than 5,500 exhibits. In particular, the archeological collection, household items of different epochs, ancient weapons and money are presented.

The main exposition presents photos, documents, letters, invitations related to the figure of Marko Kropyvnytskyi. Among the unique things - a shawl of the famous Ukrainian actress Mariya Zankovetska, as well as furniture from the houses where the luminaries stopped during a tour in Bobrynets.

Preserved authentic table, chair, mirror, gramophone. The "Ukrainian Room" hall tells about the traditional life of the region's inhabitants.

The military hall presents materials about the Second World War and modern war in eastern Ukraine, and a corner in memory of the Hero of the Heavenly Hundred Viktor Chmilenko has been opened.

The Museum Room of Novomyrhorod Archaeological and Local History Exploration was opened in 2013 at the initiative of the famous researcher of the history of the region Petro Ozerov. It is located on the first floor of the Novomyrhorod City Council.

The exposition presents about 2,000 exhibits, a large part of which was found by Petro Ozerov during archaeological and local history research in the territory of Novomyrhorod region.

In particular, the tools of the people of the Stone Age, fragments of Trypillyan ware, artifacts from Scythian settlements (in particular, the akinak sword), weapons and jewelry from the time of the expansion of the Goths, iron objects from the period of Kyivan Rus, Cossack weapons and ammunition, as well as documents and photographs are exhibited. and household objects of the townspeople of the 19th and 20th centuries.

During tours, the museum owner allows visitors to touch the exhibits, take them in their hands, and some even try to use them for their intended purpose.