Attractions of Cherkasy region

At the entrance to the Cherkasy "Vodokanal" in honor of his 90th birthday, a monument to plumber Uncle Vasya was erected.

This is the only professional (specialized) attraction in Cherkasy. The sculpture is a cast-iron plumber in a cap and with keys climbing out of a well. Next to it lies a hatch with the inscription: "I gave you water." Sculptor Vladyslav Dymyon.

Nearby is an ancient fire hydrant found in one of the utility pits on the territory of "Vodokanal".

Remains of manor buildings and a large 18th-century park near the former estate of Princess Varvara Holitsyna, wife of Prince Serhiy Holitsyn.

The princely couple settled in Kozatske in 1797. The personal secretary and teacher of the prince's children was the biker Ivan Krylov for 4 years. Here he wrote the play "Triumph or Pinch", the comedy "Pie", the fable "The Pig under the Oak".

In the center of the estate was a palace in the pseudo-Gothic style - with towers, galleries and halls. The luxurious landscaped park had a pond with a mounded island, waterfalls, gazebos and a family mausoleum. Only the Governor's House, in which Krylov's "Pydshchypa" was placed, the ruins of the wing, as well as several buildings of the end of the 19th century, which were erected by the next owners of the manor - Kyiv Governor Ivan Fundukley, Baroness Vranhel, and Princes Kurakin, have survived.

Currently, these premises are occupied by Vocational Training School No. 37, the building is in a state of disrepair. One of the buildings houses the church of Saint Barbara.

The stately estate of landowner Volodymyr Rostishevskyi in Kosari is one of the few noble estates that survived in Cherkasy region after the Bolshevik coup of 1917.

A young landowner built it for his bride from Germany. The palace project was developed by a German architect, the executive was also a German. Together, they created an exquisite two-story palace with tall mirrored windows, walls decorated with toothed ornament, granite stairs, and gentle terraces. The construction of the castle cost the Polish nobleman 90,000 rubles.

The house was surrounded by a luxurious garden. Flowers and exotic plants were brought here from the Kyiv Botanical Garden.

However, the young wife of Rostishevsky, who was used to the hectic city life, was bored in the quiet village, and within a year she returned to her homeland. Rostishevsky sold his estate to the Chyhyryn Zemstvo, which in 1912 placed a hospital in the palace. Since 2001, this is a home for the elderly.

The spring "Rozhena Krynytsya" is located on the northwestern outskirts of the village of Buchak (convenient drive-in from the village of Ivankiv).

The name of the spring is connected with the name of the legendary beauty Rozhena. According to local legend, Rozhena treated the Kyiv princes Svyatoslav, Ihor and Volodymyr, who were on their way to the battle with the Polovtsy, with their wives.

A large ancient Rus settlement and burial ground were discovered on the hill closer to the river.

The Rozhytsky manor in the village of Dobra was built in the first half of the 19th century. A nobleman of Polish origin, Florian Rozytskyi, acquired Dobra from Oleksandr Potoski.

Back in the first half of the 18th century, a small palace-castle was built here. Two 500-meter-long underground passages were dug under the palace, and there was an arsenal and a powder warehouse in the basements. The house was surrounded by an embankment with a three-meter fence.

Later, the palace lost its fortification value. During Rozhnytskyi's reign, the defensive walls were completely dismantled, and the palace was completely rebuilt - it turned into an ordinary landowner's one-story house in the style of late classicism with a very modest decor. The central faceted risalite of the main facade of the palace overlooks an open terrace, connected by plowed stairs to the park, which emptyly descends to the pond.

In Soviet times, a club was located here. Currently, the palace is under restoration.

The house-museum of rural life was created in Rohy by enthusiast Serhiy Doroshenko with the support of the Rohy village council.

Old things, furniture, clothes, dishes were collected all over the village. Everything is carefully selected and successfully placed in a specially selected old house, which reproduces the pre-revolutionary life of the peasants.

Serhiy Doroshenko also created a miniature botanical garden "Ukrainian Eden", which contains a unique collection of flowers, herbs, tropical trees and fruit bushes - about a thousand varieties of various plants.

During a tour of the botanical garden, you can listen to a story about plants, taste herbal concoctions and flower desserts, and taste homemade wine in the wine cellar.

The wooden church of Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki was built in 1822 at the expense of Major General Krystian Hrave, a hero of the Franco-Russian War of 1812.

During the war, Hrave managed the Kyiv Arsenal, where the cannons used in the Battle of Borodino were cast. The Saint Demetrius Church was built as Hrave's ancestral tomb. A family crypt with a monument has been preserved next to it.

During Soviet times, the temple was intended to house a museum of the War of 1812, but in the early 1990s it was moved to the school building, and the temple was returned to the faithful.

The baptismal church itself in plan, with the bell tower adjacent to it. Small crosses are located around the entire perimeter of the temple. Above the entrance is an image of Saint Demetrius of Thessalonica with the inscription: "Martyr Saint Demetrius".

The wooden church of Saint Demetrius in the village of Zalizniachka near Yerky was built in 1773 and has survived to this day with some reconstructions.

The church is cruciform in plan, single-headed, with an octagonal central log, made of hewn oak beams. The composition of the building is dominated by the central volume, completed by a flat tent top on a drum. All facades are topped with triangular pediments. In the interior, the side branches are subordinate to the height-opened central volume and are connected to it by arches-cutouts.

The Saint Demetrius Church is considered a unique work of folk wooden architecture of the Right Bank, but the last reconstruction deprived it of its authentic appearance - the church was plastered with a cement "fur coat", dismantling part of the wooden frame.

The Church of Saint George (Yuriy) in Myzynivka was built in 1906-1908 on the site of another church known from the 19th century. When it became too small for the growing parish, the parishioners appealed to the church authorities for permission to build a much larger church.

The new church was consecrated as Saint George's. It had good proportions and a variety of decorative carvings, was quite compact and fit well into the landscape.

During Soviet times, the church was closed, crosses and bells were removed from it. The premises of the temple were turned into a warehouse. During the battle of Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi, the Germans used the bell tower of the church as an observation post. Soviet planes dropped five bombs on the church, but none hit. In the post-war period, grain was again kept in the Mizynov temple. It gradually collapsed.

In 1984, the "Ukrprojekrestavratsiya" institute conducted an examination of the church as an architectural monument, but restoration work began only 20 years later. Currently, Saint George's Church is in good condition. The grave of priest Lysyansky, dated 1897, has been preserved on the church perimeter.

The wooden church of the Saint Great Martyr Paraskeva was built in Tymoshivka in 1914.

There are several old graves with tombstones in the church yard. On one of them you can see the inscription "Holy servant of God Tymofiy". Nearby is a cemetery with a monumental monument to the victims of the Holodomor.

The wooden church of Saint John the Forerunner was built in the village of Sychivka on the site of the old church in 1896.

The temple was built according to a typical diocesan project, but unlike most of its "brothers", it is not painted blue or blue, but white.

The wooden church of Saint Michael the Archangel in Mykhailivka was founded in 1820, but during the fire of 1841 the church was completely destroyed.

Saint Michael's Church was restored at the expense of the local landowner Heorhiy fon Shtal (Staal) in 1845.

The temple was closed by the Soviet authorities in the period from 1920 to 1990. Restoration began in the mid-1990s. In 1997, Saint Michael Church in Mykhailivka was opened for parishioners. Belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The graves of members of the Shtal (Staal) family have been preserved on the territory of the temple.

Saint Michael's Cathedral in Cherkasy is the largest Orthodox church in Ukraine (it reaches 72 m in height).

It was built in 8 years according to the project of Archbishop Sophronius of Cherkasy and Kaniv in the Byzantine style. It can simultaneously accommodate up to 12 thousand people. The construction of a bell tower with a height of more than 100 meters is planned.

It belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

Saint Michael's Church in Horodyshche was built in the Neo-Gothic style in 1844 at the expense of Count Mykhaylo Vorontsov, according to the project of the Italian architect Dzhordzho Torrichelli.

In Soviet times, it was closed, the bell tower was dismantled, and a sports hall was built in the church itself. Paintings of the 19th century were whitewashed.

In the 1990s, the church was restored, the bell tower was rebuilt, and the painting "The Last Judgment" (area 102 square meters) was washed and restored.

The architecture of Staint Michael's Church is very unusual for an Orthodox church. Neo-Gothic architecture is reminiscent of Catholic churches, and the tines on the belfry, orange walls and green roof make the temple look like a fairy-tale castle.

The Church of Saint Michael is located in the village of Yurchykha near Kamyanka.

The brick church was built in 1897. The in the form of a cross in the plan. The height of the dome with the cross is 30 meters.

There is a grave of an unknown person on the territory of Sint Michael's Church (the inscription is illegible). Divine services are held on Sunday. The rest of the time the church is closed.