Attractions of Zolotonosha district

The Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Moisivka was the courtyard temple of the Volkhovsky landowners.

It was built in 1808 in a romantic style.

It worked until the 1960s. After the closure, it began to collapse.

The Peter and Paul Church in Moisivka is an architectural monument of national importance. Thanks to inclusion in the State Program "Golden Horseshoe of Cherkasy region", the restoration of the building has begun.

Rakovych's grave is located on the church bypass.

The Chornobai Regional Museum was opened in 1969.

The museum's exposition consists of six departments and an exhibition of holograms and paintings, which contain over one thousand exhibits from the history, everyday life and culture of the Chornobai region. Over three thousand exhibits are stored in the museum's storage facility.

The Drabiv Local Lore Museum was founded in 1967. It is located in a historic building built in the second half of the 19th century, in the center of the village of Drabiv. In 1970, it received the status of "People's Museum".

The museum collection includes over three thousand exhibits that illustrate the history of the region from ancient times to the present. A separate exhibition is dedicated to the outstanding Ukrainian artist, a prominent representative of Boychukism, Ivan Padalka, who was born in the Drabiv region and was repressed by the Soviet authorities in 1937.

The Helmiaziv Region Local Lore Museum named after Pavlo Herman is located in the center of the village next to the village council building.

The main exposition is dedicated to the history of the region and its inhabitants. A large ethnographic collection introduces visitors to the features of peasant life at the end of the 19th century. The museum hosts master classes in folk crafts.

The museum collection has a total of over four thousand exhibits.

The private historical and ethnographic museum-reserve "Cossack Lands of Ukraine" was founded in the village of Veremiivka in 2006 by art critic, historian, artist Volodymyr Nedyak with the funds of the Shevchenko Prize, which he received for the book "Ukraine - Cossack State".

At the moment, the "Cossack Farm of Colonel Taras Bulba" is almost finished: operating mills, stables, cowsheds, a stable for oxen, a well, storerooms, a cellar. The construction of the "Hetman's Mansion" is being completed.

A large ethnographic collection is presented in the museum exhibition. Several authentic Polovtsian (Scythian) women are on display.

The highlights of the open-air museum are the animals. Sheep, cows, goats, rabbits, horses, oxen and buffalo graze on a specially sown area of the steppe. You can play with animals, and ride horses.

Later, a restaurant, hotel and other infrastructure for recreation and entertainment are planned.

The wooden church of the holy apostles Peter and Paul was built in Velykyi Khutir in 1892 on the site of the old church founded at the end of the 18th century by Count Petro Zavadovsky.

Cross-shaped in plan, the temple is made in the style of classicism.

In 1931, the Bolsheviks closed the Peter and Paul Church, removed the domes from it and turned the building into a collective farm storeroom. But in 1942, during the German occupation, the service was resumed. Since then, the temple has not been closed, but the domes have not been restored.

On April 22, 2023, by the decision of the assembly of parishioners, the Peter and Paul Church in Velykyi Khutir became Ukrainian - the registered charter of the religious community of the parish of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The majestic Holy Dormition Cathedral in honor of the Assumption of the Mother of God was built in Zolotonosha at the beginning of the 20th century, but its history begins with a wooden church built in the 18th century.

A hundred years later, the temple burned down, and in 1845 a stone cathedral was built on its place, but it also burned down 60 years later. The new cathedral became one of the largest temple buildings in central Ukraine.

In 1937, the Dormition Cathedral was closed, and the baths were removed from it.

Now it is a functioning church of the Orthodox Church.

Holy Intercession Krasnohirsky women's monastery was founded at the beginning of the 17th century, until 1790 it was a male monastery.

According to legends, a hermit monk from Constantinople settled in Krasna Hill near Zolotonosha in ancient times. After learning about this, the owner of the land, the Cossack Ivan Shebet-Slyuzhka, gave it to a monk to found a holy monastery. The first buildings were wooden.

The stone Transfiguration Cathedral was built in 1767-1771 according to the project of the Ukrainian architect Ivan Hryhorovych-Barsky. The Church of the Intercession (1859) and other buildings have also been preserved.

In 1922, the monastery was closed, all the shrines were transferred to the museum of the city of Cherkasy. Restored in 1941.

The icon of the Mother of God, named Dubenska, because it appeared on an oak tree, is considered the main shrine of the Holy Intercession Krasnohirsky Monastery.

The Church of the Holy Resurrection was built in the village of Bezpalche in the first half of the 19th century.

In Soviet times, it was used as a warehouse.

In the mid-1990s, the Resurrection Church was handed over to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate. Currently, a bell tower has been built and the church building itself is slowly being restored.

The Holy Trinity Church in Drabivtsi was built in the 18th century.

The church is small, single-domed. It is distinguished by a ploughshare coating, which is uncharacteristic for this area, which resembles the shingle coating of Western Ukrainian wooden temples. It seems as if this church was moved to Central Ukraine from Western Ukraine, but this was not actually the case, although there is a connection with Western Ukraine: the last reconstruction was carried out by the team of the Lviv Restoration Workshop.

The Holy Trinity Church in Helmiaziv was built in 1840 at the expense of the Assumption Church (not preserved) with a significant contribution from the rich local Cossack Fedir Savenko.

The temple was built in the style of late classicism. Fragments of frescoes have been preserved.

Now it is an architectural monument of national importance.

The Literary Museum of Hryhoriy Skovoroda in the village of Kovrai was created in 1972.

In 1753-1759, the Ukrainian poet, philosopher, man of letters and musician Hryhoriy Skovoroda lived in the Kovrai estate and worked as a tutor in the family of Stepan Tomara. Skovoroda taught Tomara's eldest son various sciences, and he devoted his free time to literary creativity.

In Kovrai, he wrote many poems, which were later included in the famous cycle "The Garden of Divine Songs", including the most famous of them - "Fortune and rights to every city...".

A cellar has been preserved on the site of the Tomara manor.

The museum is located on the territory of the secondary school. In 2012, reconstruction was carried out, the museum exposition was significantly expanded. Next to the monument to Hryhoriy Skovorodi, there is a broken park.

The Literary Memorial Museum of Mykhaylo Starytsky was opened in 1980 in his native village of Klishchyntsi.

The prominent Ukrainian writer and theater actor Mykhaylo Starytsky was born here in 1840, and later became one of the founders of the professional Ukrainian theater.

The museum collection includes more than 1,500 exhibits, including photo documents, personal belongings of Mykhaylo Starytsky, furniture of the Starytsky family, etc.

The Pishchane People`s Museum of Local Lore was opened in 1979 on the basis of materials from a historical club that emerged at the Pishchane secondary school in 1961 after the discovery of the famous Pishchane treasure. The first years it worked on a non-profit basis. In 1982 it received the status of a "People's Museum".

The museum's exposition is presented in four halls: historical, combat, eternal and labor glory. The historical hall contains monuments from different historical eras. There are exhibits from the Stone and Bronze Ages, Scythian and Old Rus times, you can see arrowheads found on the territory of the village, fragments of cold and firearm Cossack weapons, pipes. A rich collection of items from the late 19th - early 20th centuries.

The hall of combat glory contains many front-line relics and photographs of local participants in World War II, their memories. Photos of the deceased villagers are collected in the room of eternal glory.

The exhibits of the Hall of Labor Glory tell about the life of the village of Pishchane in the post-war years.

In total, the museum funds number over 2.5 thousand exhibits. The most valuable exhibits of the museum are a soldier's pistol from the mid-19th century and a carved cupboard for dishes from the estate of the nobleman Kostyukovsky (early 20th century).

The Saint Nicolas Church in Skorykivka was built at the expense of the parishioners by craftsmen from the village of Veremiyivka , Cherkasy region.

The creative approach to architecture is visible in the wood carvings that decorate the roof, eaves and other details.

During 1934-1941, the church of Saint Nicholas was closed by the Soviet authorities. Services were resumed from 1941 to 1962. Until 1990, the building was used as a warehouse.

Saint Nicholas Church has been open to parishioners since 1991. Restored in 1994.