Attractions of Dnipropetrovsk region

The Complex History Museum is a communal institution of the Tsarychanka settlement council.

The museum in Tsarychanka was founded in 1959, from 2021 it will be located in the new premises of the Cultural and Business Center of the Tsarychanka community.

The exposition introduces the history, culture, flora and fauna of the Oril river area. In particular, ceramics of the Bronze Age, Cossack pipes and powder kegs of the 17th-18th centuries, household items and tools of the local peasantry are presented.

On the basis of the museum there is a tourist information space "Guide to the Tsarychanka hromada". The museum has modern multimedia equipment for seminars and meetings.

The reconstructed Cossack becket is located on a hill above Samara near the village of Vasylivka.

Cossack observation posts in the form of wooden towers, from which observers controlled the surrounding steppes, were called bekets. Beckets also served as signal baths - in case of danger, signal fires were lit on them.

A beautiful view of the Samara forest opens from the becket near Vasylivka. A wooden cross is installed nearby.

The Ethnographic Park "Cossack Farm Halushkivka" is a recreation of the village founded by the Cossack Halushka at the end of the 18th century on the outskirts of the village of Hrechane by the enthusiasts of the public organization "Cossacks of Naddnipryanshchyna".

The complex includes a model of a Cossack fortress and several peasant estates of the 19th century. The ethnographic museum contains an exposition dedicated to the rural life of the region, including two wedding towels over 150 years old.

The art gallery presents the works of the artist Volodymyr Vyborny - portraits of Cossack hetmans and chieftains, landscapes of the Halushkivka hamlet, and genre paintings.

The artist's house is equipped for the accommodation of guests. Workshops on Petrykivka painting, pottery, and Motanka dolls are held in the master's yard.

The farmhouse can accommodate up to 70 guests at the same time. A traditional Cossack dinner is offered: kulish, varenyki, halushki, uzvar.

Excursions, horse shows, and national holidays are held by prior order.

The private museum of cups and antiques in the village of Shevchenko in the Dnipropetrovsk region was opened in 2024 by local resident Nataliya Malchenko. The basis of the exposition was her personal collection of cups, which she started collecting back in 2004.

Now the museum presents more than a thousand cups of various shapes and sizes, made of different materials and with different design methods. The oldest specimens date back to the 18th-19th centuries. Some of the exhibits have their own history, such as a burnt cup from a hospital destroyed by a Russian missile in Kramatorsk.

In addition to cups, the museum presents other tableware and antiques, including embroidered towels, postcards and envelopes, cameras, telephones and even a gramophone. After the excursion, the hostess treats visitors to fragrant tea with goodies.

Dmytro Yavornytskyi Avenue is the main street of Dnipro and one of the oldest thoroughfares in the city.

It began to take shape simultaneously with the founding of Katerynoslav at the end of the 18th century. From 1834 to 1923, it was called Katerynynskyi Avenue, until 2016 - Karl Marks Avenue. Today it bears the name of the outstanding Ukrainian historian Dmytro Yavornytskyi, who lived and worked in Katerynoslav for a long time.

The avenue is lined with houses of various styles from the 19th and 20th centuries. The Governor's House (1840-1850), "Khrinnykov's House" (1910-1913, now the grand hotel "Ukraine"), the post office building, etc. have been preserved. A pedestrian zone - Kelnskyi Boulevard, nicknamed "New Arbat" - has been organized in the area of the central square of Heroiv Maidanu.

Nearby on the boulevard is a vernissage, where you can buy paintings by local artists and handicrafts, including Petrykivsky painting.

The Dnipro Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet is a modern musical theater with a wide range of genres, stage forms and means.

Created in 1931 as the Dnipropetrovsk Workers' Opera Theater, in 1941 it was evacuated to Krasnoyarsk, where it merged with the Odesa troupe. After the Second World War, it officially ceased operations.

Reborn in 1974. The performance "Bohdan Khmelnytsky" of the Dnipro Opera and Ballet Theater was awarded the Taras Shevchenko National Award.

The Dnipro Aquarium is located in Taras Shevchenko Park on Monastyrsky Island. It is under the auspices of the Dnipro National University.

Vertical sun protection, a structure made of glass tubes in the color of sea waves and other details give the two-story structure lightness and uniqueness. There is a small winter garden in the lobby of the first floor.

The aquarium is home to representatives of the marine fauna of Central and South America, Africa, Southeast Asia, Indonesia and the Dnieper basin. Especially rare species: werewolf catfish, clown carp, glass catfish, Chinese auch, pantodon, Japanese colored koi carp.

The Dnipro City Art Museum was opened in 1914 on the initiative of members of the art commission of the Katerynoslav Scientific Society.

Initially, the exhibition was housed in the Potomkin Palace (now the Palace of Students of DNU), then in the Khrinnykov House (now the Ukraine Hotel).

During Soviet times, the collection was replenished with works by domestic and Western European masters from the collection of Dmytro Yavornytskyi, as well as from the Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow) and the Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg). In 1936, the Dnipro Art Museum received a gift from the painter Isaac Brodsky over 300 works, which are still the basis of the exposition.

To date, the museum's collection includes 8.5 thousand works of painting, sculpture, graphics and objects of decorative and applied art of the 16th-21st centuries. The permanent exhibition includes works by Volodymyr Borovykovsky, Ivan Shyshkin, Isaac Levitan, Kostyantyn Korovin, Valentyn Syerov, Illya Repin, Mykola Pymonenko, Oleksandr Murashko and others. The pearl of the collection is considered to be the works of the Ekaterinoslav symbolist artist Mykhaylo Sapozhnikov.

A special place in the museum collection is occupied by the works of famous masters of Petrykivka decorative painting.

Until 2021, the Dnipro Art Museum had regional status, now it is a communal institution of the Dnipro City Council.

Children's Railway in Dnipro (Mala Prydniprovska) is a narrow-gauge railway in the park named after Lazar Hloba.

Introduces children to railway specialties. Opened in 1936, the Dnipro Children's Railway became the first children's railway in Ukraine and the second in the USSR. It was designed by schoolchildren from Dnipro, project documentation was prepared by students of the Dnipro Institute of Transport Engineers, construction was carried out by the method of Komsomol workers, the first locomotive was built independently by Komsomol members of the locomotive repair plant.

The total length of the road is 2 kilometers (ring road). One stop. There are three artificial structures - two tunnels and a crossing. Currently, the rolling stock consists of TU2-134 and TU2-172 diesel locomotives, as well as several PAFAWAG passenger cars.

The mound of Dovha Mohyla is located on the eastern edge of the Dnipro River, near the village of Chapli.

It is considered the highest point of the left bank of the Dnipro on the outskirts of this city. The height above sea level is 170 meters. There is a geodetic triangulation mark on the mound.

From this place there are wonderful views of the Dnipro.

The Ethnographic Museum "Nation Code" at the Dnipro Gymnasium No. 101 was founded in 1991 on the initiative of the teacher of Ukrainian language and literature Tamara Pochtovyk, who, together with her parents and children, began collecting old household items for the ethnographic corner back in 1990.

Currently, the museum space of the 101st Gymnasium consists of two parts. One of them is a Ukrainian hut, which recreates a 19th-century village estate with a mill, a well, a hut and a real Ukrainian stove. One of the greatest rarities is a 19th-century chest from the Romanenko family. Also presented are spinning wheels from the late 19th - early 20th centuries, old icons, towels, amulets, plates, a rocker.

The second part of the museum is an ethnohub. Here they hold thematic lessons, master classes in Petrykivka painting, pottery, literary events dedicated to the birthday of Taras Shevchenko, Lina Kostenko and other writers.

The 50-meter long "Family bench" was installed in 2011 on the Dnipro embankment near the Festivalny pier.

The one-piece bench is made of metal and pine beams, decorated with 7 installations that reflect the family's life path and eternal family values.

Before being installed on the embankment of the pond on the Utka River in the city of Slavuta in 2012, the bench held the title of the longest in Ukraine.

Located in a free Wi-Fi zone.

The Museum of Honored Artist of Ukraine, Ukrainian master of folk decorative painting and folk decorative graphics, Honored Master of Folk Art of the USSR, founder of the Petrykivka painting factory Fedir Panko was opened in 2013 in his native village Petrykivka in Dnipropetrovsk region.

The museum is located in the local house of culture. The main part of the exhibition consists of works from the personal collection of the Panko family.

The exposition demonstrates different stages of formation of Petrykivka painting traditions.

The Sursko-Lytovske Memorial Art Museum of Fedir Reshetnykov was opened in 1990 in the native village of the artist, at the local high school.

Fedir Reshetnykov was born in 1906 in the family of a local icon painter. He lived in the village of Sursko-Lytovske until he was 14 years old, where he began to paint. Subsequently, he became a polar explorer, took part in the world-famous expedition to the Chelyuskin icebreaker, from where he brought many sketches on Arctic subjects.

Reshetnykov is considered one of the main representatives of socialist realism in painting. The most famous for him were paintings on everyday subjects: "Low Marks Again", "Arrive on Vacation", "Took a prisoner", as well as the anti-war picture "For Peace".

Reshetnykov bequeathed 22 originals of his works to the school museum in Sursko-Lytovske. In 1997, the Fedir Reshetnykov Memorial Art Museum received the title of People's Museum. In addition to paintings, materials about the life and work of the artist are stored here.

The monument to the Heroes of the Ukrainian People's Liberation War of 1648-1654, located in Slavy Park, is central in the city of Zhovti Vody.

The composition of three figures of horsemen, located on the hill, symbolizes the observation post of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi during the historic battle on Zhovti Vody. Next to the famous commander are his glorified associates Ivan Bohun and Maksym Kryvonis.

The authors of the sculptural composition are honored sculptors of Ukraine, Anatoliy Bilostotskyi and Oksana Suprun. The monument was built according to the project of the honored architect of Ukraine Vasyl Hnyezdylov. The total height of the monument is 11.5 meters, the height of the sculptures is 6 meters. The bronze sculptures were cast by specialists of the Kyiv creative and production association "Khudozhnyk".

The monument to the Heroes of the Liberation War in Zhovti Vody was opened in 1992.