Attractions of Kirovohrad region

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.

The Kropyvnytskyi Museum of Musical Culture named after Karol Shymanovskyi was founded in 1991 on the initiative of musicologist Olha Levtonova. At this time, it temporarily does not have its own premises, the exhibits are stored in storage rooms.

The museum is dedicated to the Yelysavethrad period in the life of the outstanding Polish composer Karol Shymanovskyi, who was born in 1882 in Ukraine - in the family estate in the Chyhyryn region. In Yelysavethrad, where his family lived during the winter, he studied at the music school of Neuhaus, where he began his concert and journalistic activities.

The memorial building of the Shymanovskyi on Hoholya Street, which was in a state of disrepair, was actually rebuilt in 1991-1997, but the construction was never completed. The museum was temporarily located in Music School No. 1 named after Heinrich Neuhaus, but in 2020, in connection with the major renovation of the school building, the museum exhibits were dismantled.

The museum's collections include about 10,000 exhibits. Among them, the most valuable are autographs, belongings and portraits of Karol Szymanowski, documents and photographs of the Neuhaus and Blumenfeld families.

Currently, the Karol Shymanovskyi Museum of Musical Culture organizes separate exhibitions at other venues, conducts thematic tours of the city and works online.

The Nerubaika People's Museum of Local Lore was founded in 1967. Located in five rooms on the second floor of the House of Culture of the village of Nerubaika.

Considerable attention is paid in the exposition to the Cossack period of the region's history and the emergence of the village of Nerubaika in the 17th-18th centuries. A large collection of weapons from different eras is presented.

The pride of the Nerubaika Historical and Local Lore Museum is the collection of samples of national material culture, which is presented in the interior of a traditional Ukrainian house. In it, you can see the figures of the hosts in authentic Ukrainian clothes. A loom for making canvas, a spinning wheel, table and kitchen utensils and other household items of Ukrainians are located here. The floor is covered with homemade paths that were donated to the museum by local residents.

Two more museum halls are devoted to the revolutionary events of the beginning of the 20th century, the Holodomor of 1932-1933, episodes of the Second World War and the post-war period connected with these regions.

The Novhorodka Museum of Local Lore is located in the center of the urban-type village of Novhorodka. Founded in 1974 at the local cultural center, it has been operating in the current premises since 1991.

The exhibition "Archaeological finds of Novhorodka region" presents research materials of two mounds located near Novhorodka, belonging to different archaeological cultures - from the 3rd millennium BC to the 8th-9th centuries AD. The oldest exhibit is an ammonite (fossilized shell) about 25 million years old, found in the Novhorodka quarry.

The exhibition "Novhorodka region - Cossack Territory" is devoted to the period of the founding of Novhorodka in the second half of the 18th century. Household items and weapons from the Cossack period are exhibited here. The ethnographic collection exhibits towels of the 19th and 20th centuries, clothes, jewelry, household items and tools.

A special exhibit is a unique towel dedicated to the 25th anniversary of Ukraine's independence, started by the Petrokorbivka hromada, which was embroidered by 25 craftsmen from each rural hromada of the district over the course of two years.

Employees conduct tours of museum exhibits and organize trips along tourist routes of the region.

The Novoarkhanhelsk Museum of Local Lore in the Kirovohrad Region was founded in 2003 and is located in the building of the former Ukraina cinema on the central square of Novoarkhanhelsk.

The museum's collection includes more than 5,500 exhibits that tell about the history of the region from Paleolithic to modern times. In particular, collections of rocks and minerals, coins and banknotes are presented.

The Hall of Arts acquaints visitors with the artistic heritage of the region - products of decorative and applied arts, paintings by local artists.

The historical building of the Onufriivka Lyceum (former school No. 1) is an architectural monument of local importance. This is one of the few architectural monuments of Onufriivka, preserved from the beginning of the 20th century.

The large two-story school was built in 1906-1911 at his own expense by Count Mykhaylo Tolstoy, who lived with his family in Onufriivka. The red brick building is made in an eclectic style with elements of classicism and modernism, decorated with forged elements. The granite stairs, wrought iron railings, ancient tiles on the floor, original relief decor have been preserved.

From September 1939 to June 1941, the outstanding teacher Vasyl Sukhomlynskyi worked as a teacher in this school (the Sukhomlynsky Museum was opened in nearby Pavlysh). During the Second World War, the German commandant's office was located in the school building.

After a new three-story school building was built nearby in 1974, the old school housed a school library with a reading room and some classrooms.

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 Oleksandriia City Museum Center named after Antonina Khudyakova was created in 1967.

For a long time, the museum worked on a public basis, in 1991 it received state status. It bears the name of Antonina Khudyakova, who was the director of the museum in 1980-1991.

The total number of exhibits of the main fund is over 17,000 items. The exposition of the museum is located in two departments - historical and natural.

In addition, the ethnography of the region is represented separately by a model of a Ukrainian house and various household items: dishes, household utensils, work tools, etc.

The museum houses collections of paper money and coins of different eras and countries, a selection of old photographs.

Among the museum's valuable exhibits are personal belongings, a spacesuit, devices, equipment for training and work at the orbital station of cosmonaut Leonid Popov, a native of Oleksandriia.

"Dmytro Chyzhevsky's House" is a branch of the Oleksandriia City Museum Center named after Antonina Khudyakova.

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 Onufriivka Local Lore Museum opened in 1994 in the building of the former Zemstvo administration, built by Count Mykhailo Tolstoy at the beginning of the 20th century. The exposition in 15 halls introduces various stages of the history of the Onufriivka region and the culture of its inhabitants.

The historical expositions present tools of the Stone Age, things from the Scythian period, materials about the foundation of the village in the 18th century and its stay as part of New Serbia. The exhibition "Ukrainian House" demonstrates the daily life and customs of the Ukrainian people - the biggest attention here is a huge needle about a meter long, intended for sewing the roof.

The history of the Tolstoy family - the largest landowners in the Onufriivka region - is revealed in the exhibition "To multiply, protect, love, grateful memory calls." In the chapter on the period of the First World War and three revolutions, the panorama "Battle of Denikinites with a detachment of Red Army men" is presented. The expositions "Swinging bells of memory: times of repression", "Onufriivka region in the Second World War", "The era of socialism in the territory of Onufriivka region", "Russian-Ukrainian war" tell about difficult pages of history.

An exhibition of works of decorative and applied art and a gallery of famous people of Onufriivka region are also presented.

The ancient Onufriivskyi Park with a cascade of ponds is a monument of garden and park art of the second half of the 19th century. This is one of the most attractive objects of natural tourism in the Kirovohrad region.

The landscape park with an area of 51.7 hectares is located in the floodplain of two rivers Omelnyk and Omelnychok, on the territory of the former count estate Tolstoy in Onufriivka. The Tolstoy family founded the park in the early 1820s. In the 1880s, the construction of a new part of the park was completed, a greenhouse, a greenhouse, a stable, a water tower, a boat station, a summer dance floor, a wine cellar, original gazebos, and bridges were built. An embankment island with a gazebo and a swimming pool (now known as the "Island of Love") was arranged. The main entrance, the White dining room and the ruins of some other buildings have been preserved.

About 50 exotic and rare species of plants have been preserved in the Onufriivskyi park: Japanese pagoda tree, Virginian juniper, Common hackberr, Crimean pine, European larch, etc. Bicentennial willows grow along the banks.

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.