Attractions of Bashtanka district

Regional landscape park "Pryinhulskyi" is located in the section of the valley of the Inhul River from the village of Rozanivka to the village of Sofiivka.

Precambrian granites come to the surface here, forming a picturesque landscape. Some of the most visible or colorful outcrops of crystalline rocks have their own names. There are several legends about some of them, such as the "Pugach", "Stovp" (or "Rock of the Stone Heroes"), "Sleeping Beauty", "Stina" or simply "Ustia" rocks near the mouth of the Berezovka River. at the confluence with the Inhul River.

South of the village of Rozanivka there is also "Stina" or "Crow's Rock", on which a pair of crows have been nesting since ancient times.

There are fantastically attractive granite outcrops - the "Stone Chimera Coast", a granite plateau at the confluence of the Stoupova River and the Inhul River, which is called the "Devil's City" and others.

Near the village of Sofiivka, an artificial canyon and a waterfall have been created - the spillway of the Sofiivka hydraulic system for rainwater and snowmelt.

The Novyi Buh People's Historical Museum was opened in 1980 in the premises of the city's cultural center.

Materials on the history of the region are collected in the Novyi Buh museum.

Saint Michael's Pelagia Monastery adorns the rocky banks of the Inрul River on the territory of the "Pryinhulskyi" regional landscape park.

In the center of the complex stands the church of Saint Pelagia, built in 1896-1904 by the brothers Andriy and Mykhaylo Durilin, following the will of father Isidore Durilin, in memory of their mother Pelagia, who died early. An unknown German architect used the modern style fashionable at the turn of the century, embodying it in the "a la Russe" style. The twelve-headed church with domes was crowned with mirror crosses. There are three thrones in the church: Saint Archstrategist Michael, Saint Pelagia and Martyr Andriy Stratilatus. Before the Soviet-Ukrainian war, a parish school operated at the Pelagie church.

During the period of Soviet power, the temple was looted, the premises were used as a warehouse.

In 1994, an Orthodox nunnery of the Moscow Patriarchate was founded at the restored Pelagia Church. The restoration of the temple continues. The construction of the winter church, which is adjacent to the nuns' cells, has been completed.

Saint Peter and Paul Church in Novyi Buh was built in the first half of the 19th century.

It belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The estate of the Tropiny landowners is located on the territory of the Shchaslyvskyi Park on the opposite bank of the Inhul River from Sofiivka, in the village of Shchaslyve (from Sofiivka you can cross a suspended pedestrian bridge).

Brothers Mykola, Ivan, Oleksandr Tropin, sons of the merchant Stepan Tropin, were well-known philanthropists, builders of churches and trustees of educational institutions in Kherson. One of the Kherson hospitals bears their name.

In 1912, Tropiny built a manor house on the left bank of the Inhul and laid out a park. The manor house is poorly preserved, but restoration is already underway with the help of the "Pryinhulskyi" regional landscape park. A cellar has also been preserved, in which a banquet hall is arranged.

In the park, there are century-old aspen trees with a diameter of more than a meter, maples, and mulberries.