Attractions of Cherkasy region

The Holy Intercession Cathedral is the main Orthodox church of Smila.

The construction of the stone church began here in 1859 at the expense of prominent patrons of the Counts of Bobrynskyi.

The Smila Church of the Intercession in Byzantium was built according to the plan of the St. Petersburg Annunciation Life Guard of the cuirassier regiment of the church, but it has larger dimensions and only one central dome.

The wooden church of the Holy Intercession is located in the village of Letychivka, a suburb of Monastryshche, on the shore of the Kuravskyi Pond.

It was built in 1880 on the site of the old church, known since 1776.

The church is functional and in good condition.

Holy Intercession Krasnohirsky women's monastery was founded at the beginning of the 17th century, until 1790 it was a male monastery.

According to legends, a hermit monk from Constantinople settled in Krasna Hill near Zolotonosha in ancient times. After learning about this, the owner of the land, the Cossack Ivan Shebet-Slyuzhka, gave it to a monk to found a holy monastery. The first buildings were wooden.

The stone Transfiguration Cathedral was built in 1767-1771 according to the project of the Ukrainian architect Ivan Hryhorovych-Barsky. The Church of the Intercession (1859) and other buildings have also been preserved.

In 1922, the monastery was closed, all the shrines were transferred to the museum of the city of Cherkasy. Restored in 1941.

The icon of the Mother of God, named Dubenska, because it appeared on an oak tree, is considered the main shrine of the Holy Intercession Krasnohirsky Monastery.

The Holy Kazan Cathedral in Chyhyryn was restored in 2004 on the site of the old church in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, built in 1888 on the donation of sailors born in Chyhyryn.

The majestic temple with two domes and a bell tower was built of light brown bricks. The walls and vaults were painted with icons of saints. During the Soviet rule, until 1934, the Kazan Cathedral remained the only active temple of Chyhyryn. After the church was closed, the cathedral building was dismantled for building materials.

The Holy Kazan Cathedral was revived thanks to the help of patrons in 2004. The lower temple is consecrated in honor of Saint George.

The Church of the Holy Resurrection was built in the village of Bezpalche in the first half of the 19th century.

In Soviet times, it was used as a warehouse.

In the mid-1990s, the Resurrection Church was handed over to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate. Currently, a bell tower has been built and the church building itself is slowly being restored.

The Holy Transfiguration Cathedral in Zvenyhorodka was built in 1820, but in 1936 it was destroyed by the Bolsheviks. A nearby street was paved with broken bricks from the cathedral.

In 1992, the restoration of the Transfiguration Cathedral began, which lasted six years. The project of the cathedral was developed by the architect Volodymyr Necharov according to old drawings and photographs. The new temple became an exact copy of the destroyed one.

The wooden Holy Transfiguration Church in the village of Kornylivka was built in 1738 (according to other data, in 1722. Before that, there was an old church of the 17th century in the village.

In 1838, the Transfiguration Church was reconstructed. Apparently, at the same time, a belfry with a tent top was added to it.

The temple is three-domed, cross-shaped in plan.

Currently, the Transfiguration Church is a monument of folk architecture of the Middle Dnipro region.

Belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Holy Trinity Cathedral was restored in Cherkasy in 1991 next to Castle Hill, on which the main Orthodox church of the city used to be located.

The wooden Cossack Trinity Church in Cherkasy was built in 1671. It was rebuilt several times. The stone temple was built in 1863 on the territory of the former Cherkasy castle.

In 1961, the Holy Trinity Church was demolished, as the construction of the "Hill of Glory" memorial complex began on this site.

The Trinity Cathedral was restored in the 1990s, but it had to be moved to another place, being attached to one of the buildings on Slavy Square. Belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Holy Trinity Church in Drabivtsi was built in the 18th century.

The church is small, single-domed. It is distinguished by a ploughshare coating, which is uncharacteristic for this area, which resembles the shingle coating of Western Ukrainian wooden temples. It seems as if this church was moved to Central Ukraine from Western Ukraine, but this was not actually the case, although there is a connection with Western Ukraine: the last reconstruction was carried out by the team of the Lviv Restoration Workshop.

The Holy Trinity Church in Helmiaziv was built in 1840 at the expense of the Assumption Church (not preserved) with a significant contribution from the rich local Cossack Fedir Savenko.

The temple was built in the style of late classicism. Fragments of frescoes have been preserved.

Now it is an architectural monument of national importance.

The wooden Holy Trinity Church was built in Sunky in 1864, when the village was owned by Sofiya Rayevska, the daughter of the famous general Mykola Rayevskyi.

In 1937, the church was closed by the Soviet authorities and converted into a collective farm utility room, and the domes were removed at the same time. The church was revived in 1941 during the German occupation, and services in it have not stopped since then.

Princess Hanna Yashvil (Orlova), granddaughter of General Rayevskyi, is buried in the courtyard of the Trinity Church. There is another older tombstone, but the inscriptions on it have faded.

The Holy Trinity Church in Mliiv is located next to the Symyrenko manor. It was built in 1858 by the Symyrenko family as a family tomb.

During the Soviet rule, the temple was turned into a village club.

Today the church is active. Belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The building of the former "Slovyanska" hotel in Cherkasy was built at the end of the 19th century at the expense of the entrepreneur Skoryna.

Made in the Art Nouveau style with pseudo-Gothic elements. The corner of the building, taking into account the town planning site, is decided by a pentagonal volume topped by a tall pointed tent. The facade of the building is decorated with numerous decorative details, thin towers with needle domes and elegant columns. The house had three balconies, one of which extended more than 2.5 meters and rested on thin cast-iron columns. It was under it that the entrance to the "Slovyanska" hotel was located.

In Soviet times, it was the Dnipro Hotel. Currently, the building belongs to "Ukrsotsbank".

The Literary Museum of Hryhoriy Skovoroda in the village of Kovrai was created in 1972.

In 1753-1759, the Ukrainian poet, philosopher, man of letters and musician Hryhoriy Skovoroda lived in the Kovrai estate and worked as a tutor in the family of Stepan Tomara. Skovoroda taught Tomara's eldest son various sciences, and he devoted his free time to literary creativity.

In Kovrai, he wrote many poems, which were later included in the famous cycle "The Garden of Divine Songs", including the most famous of them - "Fortune and rights to every city...".

A cellar has been preserved on the site of the Tomara manor.

The museum is located on the territory of the secondary school. In 2012, reconstruction was carried out, the museum exposition was significantly expanded. Next to the monument to Hryhoriy Skovorodi, there is a broken park.

The defensive Illinska church-tomb of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi is the only surviving building of the Khmelnytsky family estate in Subotiv.

The church was built in 1653 at the expense of Bohdan Khmelnytsky in the Cossack Baroque style (depicted on the modern 5 hryvnia banknote). It is located on the castle grounds, where the fortified country residence of the hetman was located. It served as one of the fortification nodes of the Subotiv fortress, as evidenced by the keyholes in the embrasures on the gable.

After the death of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi in 1657, the hetman was buried in his ancestral church-tomb.

The foundation of the defense tower, over which a protective pavilion was built, has also been preserved from the manor. Nearby - stone crosses of the 18th century, a Cossack cannon, a restored Ukrainian hut of the 18th century.

During Soviet times, the memorial museum of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi was opened in the premises of the Illinska Church.

Today, the church is active, although part of the exposition of the Subotiv historical museum, located on the territory of the former Khmelnytsky manor, remains in it.