Attractions of Cherkasy region

The Museum of Ancient Life and Folk Crafts in Pleskachivka recreates the atmosphere of rural life of the XIX century, inviting visitors to immerse themselves in the era of two hundred years ago, try to make a wheel for a cart or grind flour by hand.

Crafts have long flourished in the village (in particular, the production of pottery) (potters were called flatterers, hence the name of the village). Boxes with minted metal were supplied from Pleskachivka to St. Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow.

The museum's exposition includes a working loom and other exhibits that give an idea of ​​folk crafts. A collection of coal irons from Polish, Austro-Hungarian and German life is presented.

The Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Moisivka was the courtyard temple of the Volkhovsky landowners.

It was built in 1808 in a romantic style.

It worked until the 1960s. After the closure, it began to collapse.

The Peter and Paul Church in Moisivka is an architectural monument of national importance. Thanks to inclusion in the State Program "Golden Horseshoe of Cherkasy region", the restoration of the building has begun.

Rakovych's grave is located on the church bypass.

The Chyhyryn Archaeological Museum is located in a restored one-story building of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The exposition presents objects of material cultures that existed in the Middle Dnipro. In particular, Scythian weapons and armor found on the territory of Scythian settlements in the Kholodny Yar. More than 600 unique exhibits are stored in four exhibition halls.

A monument to Lenin, removed from a pedestal at the foot of Castle Hill in Chyhyryn, has been erected in the courtyard.

The Cherkasy City Archaeological Museum of the Middle Dnipro region was created in 2016 on the basis of the archaeological collection of the Cherkasy historian Mykhaylo Syvolap, which contains several tens of thousands of finds of all eras and cultures from the territory of the Middle Dnipro region, starting from the Paleolithic and ending with Cossack times, as well as objects of the XVIII-XX centuries.

Initially, the museum was located in one of the rooms of the "Ukraine" cinema, but in 2024 it moved to new premises on the first floor of a four-story building in the center of Cherkasy. The main exposition and three auxiliary ones are located here.

The exposition presents both fossil artifacts and items of traditional Ukrainian culture that have not yet had time to visit the earth. In particular, you can see fragments of ancient weapons, coins, tiles and restored Cherkasy tableware of the end of the 18th century. A numismatic and bonistic exposition is planned.

In the game hall, there is an interactive exhibition "Popular Archeology for Children", where archaeological workshops and archeological puzzles are offered. Visitors can assemble a model of an ancient vessel with their own hands, focusing on the shape and ornament, feeling like an archaeologist-restorer.

Ukrainian artist and teacher Ivan Soshenko is buried in Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi, where he died in 1876 during a trip to his native Bohuslav.

Soshenko was one of the closest friends of the poet Taras Shevchenko, took an active part in his release from serfdom. Later helped him enter the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts.

A memorial stone with a memorial plaque and a later tombstone - a muse with a palette and brushes in hand above a scroll with a portrait of the artist - were installed on Soshenko's grave.

The wooden Ascension Church was built in the village of Kheilove in the 19th century. The church is single-domed, with an attached belfry, active.

The wooden Church of the Ascension of the Cross in the village of Koshmak was built in 1901 on the site of the old church, which was first mentioned in 1798.

The current church was built according to the standard, so-called diocesan project.

During the Soviet rule, in 1929, the dome was removed from the church and it was transformed into a club. During the years of the German occupation, the church resumed service, but after the Second World War it was closed again and adapted to a collective farm warehouse.

The Church of the Ascension became active in 1997. Since then, permanent repairs have been ongoing. Currently, the temple is in an emergency condition.

Assumption Cathedral was built in 1144 by Prince Vsevolod Olhovych. The type of architecture is close to the Kyiv churches - Kyrylivska and Bohoroditsa Pyrohoshcha.

From the year of foundation of Assumption Church, it is customary to keep the official chronicle of Kaniv, although the city existed earlier. A classic example of Byzantine architecture.

In 1185, a defense against the Polovtsy was being prepared near the walls of this temple after the unsuccessful campaign of Prince Ihor Svyatoslavych of Novhorod-Siverskyi. In 1587, Cossack leader Ivan Podkova, who was executed in Lviv, was buried here. Destroyed by the Turks in the 17th century, the temple was restored in 1805, and in 1861, a funeral procession with the ashes of the poet Taras Shevchenko, brought from St. Petersburg, left for Chernecha Mountain.

The temple is active, it belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The nearby building of the former Basilian school now houses the Museum of Folk Decorative Art, which previously occupied the premises of the church.

Nearby, there is a monument to Saint Makarius Kanivsky, who was the abbot of the Kaniv monastery in the 17th century and died during the Turkish invasion.

The wooden Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin in the village of Vyazivok was built in 1771 instead of the old Assumption Church, known since 1723.

In plan, the church is built in the shape of a cross, ending with a central dome.

During Soviet times, the dome was removed. During the German occupation, the premises were used as a warehouse.

Today, the Assumption Church is once again decorated with a dome painted from the inside by Kyiv artists. In 1996, the entire roof of the church was covered with a new metal sheet. During these works, hidden crosses that were once on the domes were found above the sacristy.

The church has a library of spiritual literature.

The Church of the Assumption of the Mother of God in Chaplynka was founded in the 19th century at the expense of a local landowner.

In 1933, the temple was closed, and after the Second World War it was destroyed.

The Church of the Assumption was restored only in 1993 at the expense of Mykola Suprun, a native of the neighboring village of Poradivka, the husband of People's Deputy Lyudmyla Suprun.

The Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary is located in the center of Smila, on the territory of the city park of culture and recreation.

The church in the neoclassical style was built on the site of the old wooden church in 1818-1827 at the expense of Antoniy Sovetskyi.

In Soviet times, the church, devoid of the central tower and two bells, was used as a cultural center, then as a district library.

In 2003, the Church of the Assumption was returned to the Roman Catholic community of Smila, and restoration is underway. The building of the parish house is located nearby.

The wooden church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary in Zhabotyn was built in 1708. It was rebuilt several times: in 1730, 1765, 1851 and 1881.

In the decorative design of the facades, elements of different stylistic directions are peculiarly interwoven. On the walls of the central volume - a monumental painting on canvas of a horse from the 19th century.

Assumption Church is a rare piece of folk wooden architecture with elements of romanticism on the Right Bank.

The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Medvedivka was built in 1860-1864 at the expense of the Kyiv Civil Governor Ivan Fundukley, who owned Medvedivka in the 19th century.

The church is one-story, cruciform in plan. Its appearance is close to standard diocesan architecture, but at the same time it differs in some modern features.

The Assumption Church in Medvedivka is an architectural landmark of the 19th century of local importance.

The art exhibition "Footstones of Bartosyk Generations" in Ivanky was opened in 2013 by the metal artist Sashko Bartosyk, the son of the famous Ukrainian monumental artist Mykola Bartosyk.

The art gallery is dedicated to the work of the Bartosyk family, where the central place is occupied by plastic compositions made of metal by the artist-blacksmith. The subject of his works: lyrics, love, philosophy of life.

According to the creator's plan, in the future the space of the gallery will be filled with his new sculptures and his daughter's creative works, various entertainment and educational activities will be held here.

The gallery is currently free to visit.

There is a shop on the first floor of the gallery, and a coffee shop in the basement.

The Museum of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi in Chyhyryn is located in the two-story building of the district administration reconstructed in 1995.

The building was built at the beginning of the 19th century at the foot of Castle Hill, where the Lower Town of the Hetman's capital was located.

Museum collections include about 2,000 exhibits. The main place in the exposition is occupied by monuments of the Cossack era: weapons and equipment, objects of decorative and applied art, numismatics, household items. With their help, the material environment in which Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky lived and performed state affairs was recreated.

The pride of the museum is the series of paintings "Hetmans of Ukraine" by the People's Artist of Ukraine Danylo Narbut.

The wings of the building are occupied by the administration of the National Historical and Cultural Reserve of Chyhyryn.

Nearby is the restored Peter and Paul Church, as well as the chapel of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin, in which the remains of 263 Cossacks and city residents who died during the Tatar raids of the 17th century are reburied.

The reconstruction of the complex of the fortified residence of Khmelnytskyi, embassy buildings and other buildings of the hetman's capital, on the basis of which the tourist historical and architectural complex "Residence of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi" was created, is being completed.