Attractions of Polohy district

The building of the Huliaipole city council was built at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1918-1921, the executive committee of the Huliaipole Council was located here, where the hero of the liberation movement of the southern Ukrainian peasantry, Nestor Makhno, worked. Congresses of front-line insurgents, workers' and peasants' councils, departments of the military field headquarters were held here.

A memorial plaque was installed.

The Huliaipole Museum of Local Lore is located in the historic building of the former Mutual Credit Bank in the city center.

The exposition of the museum consists of 9 sections with a fund of 17,000 exhibits, which tell about the most ancient history of these lands, the era of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, the life of peasant and burgher houses, crafts of the Huliaipole region, etc.

The most interesting part of the exposition tells about the life and activities of the glorified anarchist, leader of the Revolutionary Rebel Army, Nestor Makhno. In particular, the legendary tachanka is presented - a movable point of fire on a horse-drawn vehicle invented by the Makhnovists. A monument to Tachanka was installed in the yard.

During the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the city of Huliaipole was on the front line and under constant fire from the Russian army. At the beginning of 2023, not a single surviving building remained in the city. The local lore museum of Huliaipole also suffered significant destruction.

In August 2024, the building of the Huliaipole Museum of Local Lore burned to the ground as a result of another Russian shelling. The day before, museum employees managed to evacuate most of the exposition, which is part of the Museum Fund of Ukraine.

The monument to Nestor Makhno was erected in 2009 in the center of the city of Huliaipole, in the birthplace of the famous anarchist, the leader of the peasant insurgent movement in the south-east of Ukraine in 1917-1919.

The concrete sculpture is a copy of the plaster monument that was erected a year before in Huliaipole in front of Makhno's older brother's house, which has survived. The commander of the Revolutionary Rebel Army, Nestor Makhno, is depicted sitting in a military uniform and papas with a saber in his hand.

During the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian troops destroyed the Nestor Makhno monument, which was an unofficial symbol of the city, with a missile strike in 2024. However, already in September of the same year, the school was restored.

The Orikhiv Museum of Local Lore was founded in 1972. Since 1993, the museum has been located in the historic building of the city administration, which is an architectural monument of local importance. The building was erected in 1893 in the style of Ukrainian classicism.

The museum's funds include about 7,000 exhibits. The "Archaeology" hall acquaints visitors with the history of the region from the Stone Age to the second half of the 18th century, when the construction of the Dnipro fortified line began and the first Cossack settlement in Orikhiv Balka arose.

The exposition "Orikhiv region at the turn of the 19th – early 20th centuries" tells about the development of the modern city of Orikhiv.

There is an ethnographic exhibition in the exhibition hall, where old household items are presented: clothes, dishes, towels, irons, samovars, etc.

A separate exhibition tells about the events of the Russian-Ukrainian war, starting in 2014.

During the full-scale Russian invasion of 2022, when Orikhiv was close to the front line, the building of the Orikhiv Museum of Local Lore was damaged by shelling of the city by the Russian invaders.

The municipal institution "Polohy Museum of Local Lore" of the Polohy City Council has been located in the manor house of the Sandomyrsky merchants in Polohy since 1968.

The museum fund has more than 12 thousand historical monuments. In six halls there are expositions: "Nature of Polohy region", "Archeology and settlement of the region", "Our region at the beginning of the XX century", "Polohy region on the eve and during the Second World War", "Modernity of the native land".

The pride of the museum collection are stone idols of the Polovtsian period, archeological finds during the excavation of mounds, household items and agricultural equipment of the first settlers, photos and documents testifying to the construction of the Katerynynska Railway and the founding of the city  Polohy.

The exposition is complemented by dioramas "Development of the Polohy deposit of kaolins and refractory clays" and "Kinsko-Rozdorivske reservoir", as well as recreated interiors of a peasant house, houses of a middle-class family, apartments of a railway worker.