Attractions of Dnipropetrovsk region

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 Khrennikov building (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 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.

The historical and ethnographic complex "Cossack Hundred" in Petrykivka represents the historical, ethnographic and cultural heritage of the Petrykivka region of the XVIII-XIX centuries as one of the centers of folk art and crafts.

Also here you can see and feel how the inhabitants of different regions of Ukraine lived and what they did in ancient times. The Museum of Ethnography and Life "Grazhda" operates - a copy of Hutsul hut-grazhda with residential and commercial buildings of the 18th century, where ceramics, household items and tools of the inhabitants of the Dnipro region are exhibited.

A model of the Cossack fortress "Sich" is presented, a training range for shooting with ancient Cossack weapons (crossbow, bow, rifle), a mini-zoo (ostriches, peacocks, wild ducks, wild boars, goats, sheep, donkeys, horses), a children's playground, arena for horse shows and beach volleyball court.

Master classes are held, in particular on Petrykivka painting.

The Museum of History and Local Lore in Krynychky was founded in 1980, and now it functions on the basis of the Krynychky Center for Student Youth.

The museum's collections include about 1,800 exhibits that reveal the history of the Krynychky region from the 18th century, local culture and natural features. The ethnographic collection in the "Ukrainian room" provides an opportunity to get acquainted with the life of a traditional Ukrainian peasant house of the 19th century. The exhibition "Room of Bread" consists of eight sections dedicated to the history of bread production. The exhibition of old and modern dolls is constantly open in the creative workshop "Lyalyn svit".

A separate exhibition dedicated to Anatoliy Maslakov, a local teacher, traveler, and tourism development enthusiast in the Krynychan region, was opened in 2016.

The Mahdalynivka Museum of History and Local Lore named after Dmytro Kulakov was founded in 1962 in the urban-type village of Mahdalynivka in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

It bears the name of its founder – historian and local historian Dmytro Kulakov. In 1985, the museum received a separate building in the center of Mahdalynivka, next to the village council.

The museum's funds include 2,500 exhibits. In particular, the ethnographic corner presents household objects of the 18th-19th centuries. The diorama of the battle of local partisans with the German invaders on the outskirts of the village of Krymynivka is dedicated to the partisan movement in Pryorillya during the Second World War.