Attractions of Dnipropetrovsk region

The Museum of the History of the Dnipro Metro was founded in 1996, shortly after the opening of the first metro line in the city of Dnipro. The museum is located in one of the premises of the administration building of the Dnipro metro.

The exhibition opens with a panoramic photo of the Metalurgiv metro station with a diagram of the entire line and its prospective sections. The exhibition presents documents and photos illustrating the history of the construction of the facility and the current day-to-day operation of the subway. You can see samples of rocks through which the subway builders drove, samples of building structures and technological equipment, symbolic keys from each station of the first line and from the entire subway, a sample of a typical station lamp.

Excursions to the Museum of the History of the Dnipro Metro are available only for organized groups upon prior agreement with the administration.

Museum of Dnipropetrovsk Region Financial System History was opened in 2002 at the Main Financial Department of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration.

The history of the financial system of the region is presented in the museum since 1787, when the then Katerynoslav was founded. Today, the museum's collections include more than 1,700 exhibits. Among them are the originals of currency signs, calculators and arithmetic meters, ancient accounting equipment, samples of financial documents. In particular, the decree of Empress Catherine II on the creation of treasury chambers is presented, as well as the metal plates that were hung on the houses given as collateral.

The central element of the exposition is a reconstruction of the workplace of a financier in the middle of the 20th century with a wax figure of officeman.

The Museum of History of Local Self-Government of the Dnipropetrovsk Region was opened in 2008 as a branch of the Dnipropetrovsk National Historical Museum named after Dmytro Yavornytskyi.

The museum is located on the second floor of the building of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council, which was built in 1905 for the Katerynoslav Commercial School and rebuilt in 1935 to meet the needs of the local self-government body.

The exhibition with an area of 200 square meters reflects the history of the development of local self-government institutions in the Dnipropetrovsk region from the Middle Ages to the present day.

The museum has more than 600 exhibits, including personal belongings of officials of different times, interior items and office equipment, stationery, historical documents and photos, gifts of village councils from various regions of the region. Portraits of many leaders of the city of Dnipro (former Katerynoslav, Dnipropetrovsk) and Dnipropetrovsk region (former Katerynoslav province) are presented.

The Museum of the History of Pilots of the Dnipro Rapids is located in the Lots-Kamyanka Culture House on the southern edge of the Dnipro, in the village of Lotsmanska Kamyanka, where the Dnipro pilots, descendants of the Zaporozhzhian Cossacks, lived long ago.

Before the construction of DniproGES, pilots guided ships through rapids on the Dnipro. The Museum of the History of Pilots and the Pilot Craft was created on the basis of the private collection of the last Dnipro pilot Hryhoriy Omelchenko.

About 200 exhibits are housed in a small room of the House of Culture: anchors, oars, pilot's clothes, embroidered towels and shirts, chests, jugs, folk paintings and dozens of photographs.

The brick Holy Assumption Church was built in Pavlohrad in 1896 with donations from the city's residents. It was placed near the city cemetery on a dry elevated area.

Vasyl Rybnykov, the first head of the church, is buried under its walls. In the 1930s, the temple was closed and converted into a granary. It was reopened in 1943 and has not been closed since then. The painting was finished in 1996.

The main shrines: a rakia with fragments of the relics of Saints Philaret of Moscow and Theodosius of Chernihiv, Reverend Fathers Optinsky, Iona of Kyiv, Lavrentius of Chernihiv, Saint Barbara.

The Sunday school of Saint Nina, the enlightener of Georgia, operates at the church. On the day of the feast of the Assumption of the Mother of God, a procession to the cathedral is held.

The Holy Exaltation Church on Diyivka is one of the oldest in the Dnipro.

Founded in 1803. It was built in a classical style using the traditions of Ukrainian architecture.

During Soviet times, the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross was closed, and a club was located there.

Today, the church is located among the high-rise buildings of the Pokrovskyi housing estate. Recently, the temple was thoroughly restored and opened for visitors.

The Church of the Holy Intercession in the village of Orlivshchyna was built at the end of the 20th century on the site of a destroyed wooden church founded in 1782.

In the 1920s, the Church of the Holy Intercession was destroyed by the Bolsheviks. In 1992, the revival began, and 6 years later, the solemn consecration of the new stone Holy Intercession Church took place.

Shrines: the ancient Athos icon of the Protection of the Mother of God, an image with a portion of the relics of the holy martyr Mykola Iskrivsky.

There is a parish Sunday school, the church takes care of orphans who live in the "Horobynochka" children's boarding school.

The Holy Intercession Church in the village of Rubanivske stands on the picturesque bank of a pond on the Solomchyna River. It used to be called the "Red Church" because of the color of the brick walls.

The temple was built in the middle of the 19th century by Kateryna Vasylenko, the widow of Ivan Vasylenko's court adviser. Later, returning from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, she decided to leave worldly life and build a Znamyansky women's monastery at her own expense in the name of the icon of the Mother of God "Sign".

The Znamyansky monastery was officially founded in 1906, and a year later its founder was elevated to the rank of abbess under the name of Yelyzaveta.

Having survived the persecution of the church during the Soviet era, the church still stands proudly above the village, impressing with its calmness, grandeur and amazing bell. In the Church of the Holy Intercession rest the relics of Abbess Yelyzaveta and the holy martyr Priest Oleksandr, tortured by the Bolsheviks in 1918. Near the church, the burials of priests and the founder of the village, the Cossack Ruban, have been preserved.

The museum-apartment of the artist Hryhoriy Synytsia is a branch of the Kryvyi Rih City Museum of History and Local Lore.

Well-known artist-Boychukist, author of the concept of "Ukrainian Color School", Honored Artist of Ukraine Hryhoriy Synytsia lived and worked in Kryvyi Rih from 1968 until his death in 1996. Here he completed his fundamental theoretical aesthetic and philosophical work "Color in Fine Arts", as well as worked on a new technique "Floromosaic".

The memorial museum-apartment of the artist exhibits about 200 of his works, made in different techniques.

The house-museum of Ivan Manzhura, a famous Ukrainian folklorist and storyteller, poet and ethnographer, was opened in the village of Rubanivske near the Holy Intercession Church.

The temple was built by the Vasylenko family of philanthropists near their estate, where in the early 70s of the 19th century Ivan Manzhura worked as an usher at the invitation of the owners. Ivan Vasylenko, a descendant of the Zaporizhzhia Cossacks, a Zemstvo official from Katerynoslav, a man of advanced democratic views, took care of the talented Ivan Manzhura. The name of his ancestor, Hryhoriy Vasylenko, nicknamed Tromsyn, who was listed in the Zaporizhzhia Sich as a scribe of the Kodak transport, entered the history of the settlement of the Dnipro region at the end of the 18th century.

To his good friend, Ivan Manzhura dedicated the poem-tale "Tromsyn Bogatyr" about the brave Cossack knight - Tromsyn, a faithful and reliable defender of all the oppressed and disadvantaged. Thanks to the Vasylenkos, Manzhura traveled almost the entire southern steppe Ukraine, collecting pearls of folklore. This is how his books of fairy tales were born.

Memorial days and creative evenings of Ivan Manzhura are traditionally held in Rubanivske twice a year - in May and November.

The Kamyanske City History Museum is located in a large constructivist building built in 1985. Before that, it occupied the premises of the Saint Nicholas Church for a long time.

The museum exposition is located in two halls on an area of about 2.5 thousand square meters and reproduces the history of the city from the earliest times to the present day.

Its constituent part is a separate section "Leonid Brezhnyev and his time", dedicated to the life and activities of the statesman and politician Leonid Brezhnyev, who lived and worked in the city for a long time.

The stock collections include more than 90,000 items of preservation, including archaeological and ethnographic collections , numismatics, philately, bonistics, a collection of gifts to Leonid Brezhnyev, etc.

In 2009, the open-air exposition "Kamyanske in signs and symbols" was opened. In particular, there is a sculpture of Prometheus breaking the chains, which is a symbol of the city. Since 1920, the 3.82-meter-tall figure has been standing on a high stele at the corner of Svobody and Gymnazychnnyi avenues. Later, it was replaced by a copy, and the original was exhibited in the courtyard of the historical museum.

Kelnskyi Boulevard is a new pedestrian zone in the center of Dnipro. It is also called "New Arbat".

A cobbled boulevard is decorated with an alley of fountains. Shopping centers, cafes and restaurants are located here. The lights of shop windows and "Arbat" lanterns in the evening give Kelnskyi Boulevard a European charm.

One night, anonymous people secretly installed a bronze sculpture of a sitting man on the boulevard, which they called a "monument to an unknown oligarch" (an extravagant gift to one of the wealthy townspeople, Hennadiy Akselrod).

Now it is one of the favorite places for walks and recreation of the townspeople.

The remains of the ramparts of the Polish fortress Kodak are located in a picturesque place on the high bank of the Dnipro in the village of Stari Kodaky on the southern edge of the Dnipro.

The Kodak Fortress was built by the French engineer Levasser de Boplan on the orders of the Polish King Vladyslav IV to control the Zaporizhzhians Cossacks. It was captured twice by Zaporizhzhian troops (in 1910, on the initiative of historian Dmytro Yavornytskyi, an obelisk was erected in honor of the capture of the fortress in 1648). Later, Katerynoslav (Dnipro) was founded nearby, a little further north, by Prince Hrihoriy Potomkin.

Soon the Kodak Fortress lost its importance, and in 1944 it was almost completely destroyed by a granite quarry.

Kryvyi Rih City Museum of History and Local Lore was founded in 1960.

It is located in a Soviet building in the central part of the city.

Natural and archeological collections, ethnographic and numismatic materials, works of fine and folk arts, photos and documentary sources on the history of Kryvyi Rih of the XIX-XX centuries are presented.

The main center of literary life of Dnipropetrovsk region is the Literary Prydniprovya Museum, the department of the Dnipropetrovsk National Historical Museum after Dmytro Yavornytsky.

It was opened in 1983 in the historic "Inzov House", built in the early XIX century to house the Office of Guardianship of Novorossiysk foreign settlers. For some time it was headed by Lieutenant General Ivan Inzov, who in 1820 was repeatedly visited by the Russian poet Oleksandr Pushkin. The house is also associated with the activities of the literary and artistic society Mykola Hohol, many other cultural and public figures.

The museum's collections include manuscripts of works of art, books, documents, photographs, and personal belongings of prominent writers, folklorists, and theater figures of the 18th and 20th centuries that were related to the Dnipropetrovsk region.

Part of the exhibition is located on the ground floor of the house. The second floor of the "Inzov House", where the renovation has not been completed, has become a museum laboratory. Every year about 30 art exhibitions and up to 70 scientific and educational events are held here.