Attractions of Cherkasy region

Kaniv HPP is the youngest hydroelectric power station of the Dnipro Cascade, it is its second stage.

The hydroelectric dam forms the Kaniv reservoir with an area of 675 square kilometers. During the creation of the reservoir, many residents of neighboring villages were forcibly relocated, some villages were flooded.

The station was put into operation in 1972, and reached full capacity 4 years later (444 MW). It was also planned to create a hydraulic storage station, but the work was stopped in 1992.

The structures of the hydroelectric hub include: the HPP building, a complex of navigation and lock structures, earthen dams and protective structures on the right bank, and others. Road and railway bridge crossings are laid from above.

From the dam, you can see the supports of the railway bridge over the Dnipro, destroyed during the Second World War.

The Kaniv nature reserve was created in 1923 to protect the reference and unique natural complexes of the forest-steppe, preserve the biodiversity of forests on the Dnipro hills and islands in the Kaniv region.

The flora of the reserve includes 990 species of vascular plants (20% of the flora of Ukraine), of which 5 species are included in the European Red List, 29 - in the Red Book of Ukraine.

There are 26 species of animals included in the European Red List, 83 in the Red Book of Ukraine.

The central estate of the Kaniv nature reserve is located on the territory of the former estate of academician Mykola Bilyashevsky, who discovered the settlement of the chronicled Rodny, the tribal center of the early Slavs, on Knyazha mountain in Kaniv.

The nature museum of the Kaniv Region was opened in the old memorial house of Bilyashevsky.

The legendary tract of Kholodny Yar is a historical area in the east of Cherkasy region, along one of the tributaries of the Tyasmyn River. It is a whole system of ravines, hills and streams, covered with a relict deciduous forest with an area of 7 thousand hectares.

The common climatic version of the origin of the name is that in the summer it is always cooler in the ravines than in the surrounding areas.

Thanks to the special microclimate of Kholodny Yar, many rare plants can be found here. In particular, the "Bilosnizhny" botanical reserve with an area of 1.5 hectares protects the locality of the island mainland population of the folded snowdrop, the closest place of growth of which is the Crimea. The mass flowering of snowdrops in March attracts thousands of tourists to Kholodny Yar.

On the territory of Kholodny Yar, traces of all archaeological cultures have been found, starting with the Trypillia one. In particular, the ramparts and barrows of the Scythian hillfort (6th century BC) have been preserved, inside which is the ancient Motronynsky Monastery - the informal capital of Kholodny Yar.

At all times, Kholodny Yar served as a refuge for local residents during enemy attacks. At different times, Cossack units, Haydamaks, Ukrainian rebels, and Soviet partisans operated here. Memorable places are "Sklyk" - the gathering place of the Haydamaks, the Haydamatsky pond, where the rebels consecrated their weapons, the grave of the chief ataman of Kholodny Yar, Vasyl Chuchupaka, the monument to the chronicler of Kholodny Yar, Yuriy Horlis-Horsky, etc.

Maksym Zaliznyak's Oak is also an important sacred place of Kholodny Yar, near which in 2015 the wooden church of Saint Peter the Great Suffering (Kalnyshevsky) was built, and the museum-ethnographic complex "Dykyi Khutir" operates.

In 2022, by decree of the President of Ukraine, the National Nature Park "Kholodny Yar" was created, which includes 6,800 hectares of state-owned land for permanent use. The "Kholodniy Yar" branch of the "Chyhyryn" National Historical and Cultural Reserve also operates on the territory of the national park, and the Medvedivka Museum of Local Lore operates.

Highway T-2402 "Chyhyryn - Kamianka" passes through Kholodny Yar, the villages of Medvedivka, Melnyky, and Buda are located along it.

The Tsybulsky House in Cherkasy is a historic building in the center of the city, built in the middle of the 19th century.

It belonged to a family of merchants of the first guild, and was the tallest building in the city at the time. From July 18 to 22, 1859, Taras Shevchenko stayed here with his friend Yukhym Tsybulsky.

In Soviet times, a museum of one book - Shevchenko's "Kobzar" - was opened here. The museum exposition presents the writer's lifetime and posthumous publications, in particular the rare "Kobzar" of 1840.

Korsun-Shevchenkivska HPP is one of the first small hydroelectric power stations in Ukraine.

It was commissioned in 1934. According to its technical indicators, it was one of the best stations of that time, and became the basis of the first rural power system in the USSR.

The dam is located on the Ros River, forming a small reservoir.

In 2007, the Korsun-Shevchenkivska HPP dam was reconstructed. Today, the power plant has a capacity of 100 kW.

The memorial museum of Kyrylo Stetsenko was created in 1959 in the composer's native village in the Korsun region.

Kyrylo Stetsenko was born in the village of Kvitky in 1882.

The museum is located in the restored building of the Zemstvo school, where Stetsenko studied. About 400 exhibits tell about his life and creative activity. Despite a rather short creative life, Kyrylo Stetsenko managed to create a number of outstanding works, including patriotic and spiritual works.

Since 1994, the museum has been a branch of the Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi Historical and Cultural Reserve.

A monument to Kyrylo Stetsenko was erected near the museum.

The complex of Light and music fountain "Pearl of Love" was opened in 2017 in Taras Shevchenko Square in Uman.

Located both on land and on water, the Uman fountains are among the three largest in Ukraine. The complex includes the main bowl of the fountain on land with a light-music show and a show on the water screen, a light-dynamic floating fountain on the Ostashivsky Pond and three static fountains with light-dynamic illumination, the color of which does not repeat during the day.

The bowl of the main fountain has an area of 450 square meters, the water screen is almost 200 square meters. The height of the water jet of the floating fountain on the Ostashivsky pond is 19 meters, and the static one is 1.9 meters.

In light and music mode, the fountains work on weekdays from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and on weekends from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. From Friday to Sunday at 19:30 there is a light and music show on the water screen.

The light-dynamic musical fountain in Cherkasy, in the square behind the Regional State Administration, was revived in 2008 after it had been inactive for 10 years.

Reconstructed at the initiative of the city authorities at the expense of sponsors.

The local lore museum of the village of Zalizniachka was opened in 2024 in the premises of the Zalizniachka village library, a branch of the Yerky public central library.

The exposition presents a model of a traditional stove with all the necessary remains, ceramic pots, mugs and bowls, ancient items of folk use, pots and tubs, embroidered shirts, towels and pillows, paintings by folk artists. All these things are collected for the indifferent inhabitants of the village.

The Lysianka Historical Museum was created in 1967, and in 1992 it was granted state status.

The exposition, which is spread over 5 halls, tells about all periods of the history of the Lysianka region. In the first hall, archeology, prehistory, Trypillya culture, princely era, Cossacks are presented.

In the following halls, you can familiarize yourself with the events of the 18th-20th centuries, collectivization and the Holodomor, the Second World War and modern times.

Ethnographic collection, numismatics, products of local craftsmen, valuable historical collections are presented.

Maksym Zaliznyak's Oak in Kholodny Yar is one of the oldest oaks in Ukraine (perhaps the oldest). According to various estimates, it is from 1000 to 1200 years old.

The patriarch oak grows on the southern slope of the Kyrykivsky Yar tract on the territory of the Kholodny Yar tract on the outskirts of the Buda village. It is the largest in Ukraine and one of the ten largest trees in Europe. Its girth is 8.9 meters, height - 24 meters. The trunk was struck by lightning six times.

Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, Severyn Nalivayko, Taras Shevchenko rested under its crown, but it is named after Maksym Zaliznyak - the leader of the Haydamak uprising, which was active in these places. The Zaliznyak oak is considered a symbol of Kholodny Yar, as well as one of the symbols of the Ukrainian Cossacks.

A monument to the residents of the village of Buda, who died during the Second World War, has been erected nearby.

There is a cafe and a souvenir shop at the entrance to the reserve.

The impressive building of the Male gymnasium in Uman was built according to the project of the architect Vladyslav Horodetskyi. At one time it was a famous educational institution.

Currently, the building is occupied by the Uman Agricultural College.

The private manor-museum "Paradise Corner", or, as it is also called, "Oleksiyivsky Park" was created in the Ukrainian retro style on the homestead of Oleksiy Chernyk from Cherkasy.

Here you can see a mini-museum in the open air: from a mazanka house with a thatched roof to an old cannon. Almost all museum exhibits are in operation.

You can walk through a birch alley to the shores of the Dnipro Strait, admire the mini waterfall, fry a barbecue on an old-fashioned barbecue.

Maryanivka Manor was founded in 1880-1885 by a landlady named Maryana, who owned these lands at that time.

A 40-hectare park was laid out at the manor. Seedlings and tree seeds were imported from Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, as well as from North America (Canadian and silver linden and Canadian pine, which have survived to our time).

The main manor house was built at the beginning of the 20th century by the landowner Kozakovsky, who married Maryana's daughter. Other manor buildings are in a dilapidated state.

Medvedivka Museum of Local Lore is a branch of the Chyhyryn National Historical and Cultural Reserve.

Located in the former priest's house.

The exposition tells about the history of the Kholodny Yar from ancient times to the Second World War: Scythian times, Kyivan Rus, the Cossack era, Koliivshchyna, the Kholodnoyarska organization, partisan struggle during the Second World War.

A separate exhibition is dedicated to the participation of the residents of Kholodny Yar in the events on the Maidan in 2013-2014.

Museum employees also conduct tours throughout the territory of Kholodny Yar.