Attractions of Luhansk region

The municipal institution "Local Lore Museum of the Aidar town territorial community" was founded in the town of Aidar in the Luhansk region in 1960.

Since 1984 it has been located in the former premises of the industrial complex.

The exposition of six chapters tells about the nature of Aidar region, the ancient past of the region and its economic development in the XIX-XX centuries, the traditional culture and life of Slobozhanshchyna residents.

Separate stands highlight the topics of the anti-Bolshevik resistance, the Holodomor, and the Russian-Ukrainian war.

The Aidar Museum of Local Lore also has its own open-air historical and cultural complex "Slobozhanske Podvirya" (Slobozhan courtyard), which presents an original village house of the late 19th century with furniture and other interior items of the time.

The municipal institution "Local History Museum of the Bilokurakyne settlement territorial community" in the Luhansk region was founded in 1978.

The museum fund has more than 3,000 exhibits. The exposition in three halls tells about the nature, archeology and ethnography of Bilokurakyne region, about the main events of the XX century and the present.

The ethnographic exposition presents collections of household items, towels and traditional women's clothing made of home-woven linen, embroidered in bichrome red and black.

Bilovodsk District Museum of Local Lore was founded in 1967.

Today, its funds number more than 5,600 exhibits. The exposition in seven halls tells about nature, ecology, archeology, ethnography and history of the region from ancient times to the present.

In particular, materials on the events of the Ukrainian Revolution, World War II, the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine are presented.

Visitors are very interested in dioramas "The first settlers of Bilovodsk" and "Virgin steppe".

Recently, a new modern exposition "Bilovodsk - the capital of equestrian plants of Ukraine" was opened in the museum, which has two audiovisual multimedia installations: "Bilovodsky steppe" and "Equestrian plants of Bilovodsk region". Two original musical compositions for accompaniment were created by the composer from Uzhhorod Anton Dehtyarov .

Troitske Historical and Local Lore Museum "Vytoky" (Beginnings) was established in Luhansk region in 2016.

It is located in the building of the former Zemstvo school built in 1912, which was formerly called the "red school" because of the color of the brick walls, which are now plastered.

Five exhibition halls acquaint with the nature of the region, history and economic development of the village of Troitske. The highlight of the museum is the ethnographic hall, which recreates the interior of a peasant house.

The exhibition hall houses the Art Studio, which is a creative space for presentations, workshops and art lessons at the museum.

The Kreminna Museum of Local Lore preserves monuments of ancient cultures, the Cossack era, the period of development of the coal industry of the region and the present.

The museum has about 9,000 exhibits.

The museum building is also part of the history of Kreminna, an architectural monument of the late nineteenth century.

In front of the entrance there is a tractor VTZ "Universal" of 1944, on which the first mechanic of Kreminna region worked.

The palace in Oleksandrivsk was founded in 1772 by Kostyantyn Yuzbash, the premier of the Bakhmut hussar regiment, then it became the property of his son Oleksandr Yuzbash.

Later, the estate in Oleksandrivsk was owned by Prince Shirynskyi-Shakhmatov. Perhaps the palace was originally made of wood, then it was rebuilt several times.

A stone two-story manor house in the style of classicism and outbuildings connected to it by a colonnade, as well as wine cellars and the house of the manor manager have been preserved to this day. The complex includes the Resurrection Church (1840).

Until 2006, the premises of the Shirynskyi-Shakhmatov Palace were occupied by a tuberculosis dispensary. The building is in a dilapidated state, the possibility of restoration is being discussed.

Markivka Historical Museum in the village of Markivka in Luhansk region was founded in 2016.

The exposition tells about the history of the village in the upper reaches of the river Derkul from its foundation in 1660 by people from Chernihiv, Poltava and Voronezh provinces to the present day. In particular, about the achievements of Markivka agrarians, who received awards at the World's Fair in Paris in 1907 and 1931, about the events of World War II.

The Merheleva Ridge (literally "Marlstone Ridge", "Marl Ridge") is a geological monument and an archaeological site under study.

The complex of stone and earth buildings with an area of 1.3 square kilometers is located 4 kilometers south of the small village of Stepanivka (Buhaivka settlement).

The Merheleva Ridge was discovered in 1976 by a group of Alchevsk schoolchildren led by Volodymyr Paramonov, the founder of the MIG archaeological club. On a large rocky plateau formed by weathered limestones and marls (hence the name of the ridge), there is a chain of burial mounds of the Bronze Age. Other ridge formations also look man-made.

According to one of the versions, some objects of the Merheleva Ridge ("roads", "walls", stone stelae) are of artificial origin and belong to an unknown civilization 5 thousand years old. According to another version, all objects, except for mounds, have a natural geological origin.

The most interesting object is the so-called "Second Wall of China", made of regular limestone stones, the nature of the formation of which is still not completely clear. Also interesting are the regularly shaped stone circles, which for some reason are called "Ukrainian pyramids". It is probably an ancient sanctuary.

The estate in Seleznivka is the former estate of the industrialist Kazymyr Mstsykhovsky, a Pole by origin.

The estate with a park was founded in 1840 by the landowner Hrafovsky. Mstsykhovsky reconstructed it in the Romanesque-Byzantine style according to the project of the architect Lev Rudnev.

Visitors are greeted by a Gothic gate. Nearby is a temple made of wild stone in a Moorish style unusual for this region.

After the revolution, a shelter for orphans was placed here (according to legend, it was looked after by the legendary father Makhno). Later, a rest house named after Voroshilov was opened on the territory (the hero of social work Oleksiy Stakhanov rested here), then a regional drug dispensary.

Currently, the buildings are in a state of emergency.

Excursions by appointment are conducted by representatives of the Charitable Foundation "Mstsykhovsky Manor".

The Museum of Local Lore of the Novoaidar Village Council tells about the nature, history and ethnography of this region of Luhansk region.

In the first hall the traditional interior of the Slobozhansky house is reproduced. Household items and tools collected in various villages of the district are exhibited.

The collection "Folk costume of Novoaidar region of the late XIX - early XX centuries" presents the costumes of the Ukrainian and Russian peoples, Zaporizhzhia and Don Cossacks, as well as ethnic Ukrainians-Lemkos who were forcibly relocated from Poland and have lived in Luhansk region for more than 70 years.

A separate exhibition is dedicated to the work of sculptor Ivan Chumak.

A monument to Ostap Bender, the hero of the satirical work "12 Chairs" by Ilya Ilf and Yevhen Petrov, is erected in front of the old building of the former female gymnasium in Starobilsk, where the faculty of Luhansk National University named after Taras Shevchenko is now located.

The idea to immortalize Bender belongs to the LNU team. Researchers of the works of Ilf and Petrov believe that the city of Starhorod described in "12 Chairs" is Starobilsk, where the writers worked in 1923.

The sculpture of NLU teacher Andriy Borovoy depicts the scene of the appearance of the "great combiner" in Starhorod, which was accompanied by communication with a homeless person. The words that begin the 5th chapter of the novel are written on the pedestal: "At half past twelve from the northwest, from the side of the village of Chmarivka, a young man of twenty-eight entered Starhorod. A homeless man ran after him..."

Luhansk Park-Museum of Polovtsian Stone Sculptures is one of the largest collections of stone statues of the 11th-12th centuries in Ukraine. It is located on the territory of Luhansk National University.

"Stone Polovtsian Babas" are statues from 1 to 4 meters high, depicting warriors (sometimes women). They were installed on mounds by ancient peoples: Scythians, Polovtsians and others.

These are the only monuments of monumental art of nomadic peoples who have long disappeared, who lived in the territory of the present Luhansk region.

The Popasna Museum of Local Lore was created in 1967 by Semen Ioffe, a local historian from Popasna.

Since 1953, he began collecting exhibits for the museum, which was initially housed in school No. 25, and then moved to a specially spacious room on Hertsena Street.

The museum, to which Ioffe collected more than 13,000 exhibits, became a business card of the city and bears the name of its founder - the Popasna Museum of Local Lore named after Semen Ioffe.

During the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the city of Popasna was on the front line. The Popasna local lore museum was first looted by the Russians, and later destroyed. At the beginning of 2023, the city of Popasna was completely destroyed by the Russian army.

The monument to Prince Ihor in the Stanytsia Luhanska town (north-eastern suburb of Luhansk) was opened for the 65th anniversary of the formation of the Luhansk region.

According to some historians, the legendary northern prince Igor started his campaign against the Polovtsy from the Luhansk steppe, described in the "Words about Ihor's Campaign".

The 14-meter-tall statue of the prince, made of bronze-toned concrete, is installed on a high hill above the Luhansk-Shyrokyi highway. The authors of the monument are the sculptor Mykola Mozhayev, the architect Mykola Pozdnyakov, the artist Viktor Horbulin.

The monument to Prince Ihor was reconstructed in 2008. It is planned to create a historical and cultural complex around it.

The municipal institution "City Museum" in Rubizhne is located in a two-storey building of the middle of the XX century.

The museum fund consists of more than 3,500 exhibits. The exposition consists of six parts: "Native house" (reconstruction of the interior of the Ukrainian house of the XIX century); "Rubizhne - a city on the sand" (history of the city of Rubizhne from 1895 to 1938); "Winners" (World War II); "History in photos and exhibits from the area of anti-terrorist operation 2014 - 2015, Rubizhne district"; hall of open funds; exhibition evil (exhibitions of artists of decorative and applied arts and artists of the city and region).

In particular, you can learn about the first sand quarry in the region, the first paint factory and the development of the Soviet chemical industry.

The museum conducts lectures, excursions, museum readings, temporary exhibitions, field exhibitions, museum events.