Attractions of Cherkasy

The Patriotic Museum of the Russian-Ukrainian War in Cherkasy was founded in 2018 by a serviceman of the 118th Terrodefense Brigade, volunteer Oleksiy Svyatenko. It is located on the territory of the motor vehicle enterprise.

The museum has collected hundreds of samples of weapons, ammunition and ammunition from the war zone from the beginning of the war in 2014 to the present day. In particular, you can see the tubes from the Javelin, NlAW and Fagot ATGMs, cartridges from the American Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, cartridges for mortars, tanks and guns, various small arms. Fragments of the Russian rocket from the Uragan MLRS, the remains of the Shahed drone shot down over Cherkasy, and samples of Russian military uniforms are also presented.

A separate part of the museum is dedicated to Dmytro Kotsyubaylo "Da Vinchi", who died in March 2023.

Near the entrance to the museum stands an evacuation vehicle, which was used by the fighters of the "Right Sector" military unit during the battles for the Donetsk airport in 2014 and in other hot spots.

The Cherkasy City Archaeological Museum of the Middle Dnipro region was created in 2016 on the basis of the archaeological collection of the Cherkasy historian Mykhaylo Syvolap, which contains several tens of thousands of finds of all eras and cultures from the territory of the Middle Dnipro region, starting from the Paleolithic and ending with Cossack times, as well as objects of the XVIII-XX centuries.

Initially, the museum was located in one of the rooms of the "Ukraine" cinema, but in 2024 it moved to new premises on the first floor of a four-story building in the center of Cherkasy. The main exposition and three auxiliary ones are located here.

The exposition presents both fossil artifacts and items of traditional Ukrainian culture that have not yet had time to visit the earth. In particular, you can see fragments of ancient weapons, coins, tiles and restored Cherkasy tableware of the end of the 18th century. A numismatic and bonistic exposition is planned.

In the game hall, there is an interactive exhibition "Popular Archeology for Children", where archaeological workshops and archeological puzzles are offered. Visitors can assemble a model of an ancient vessel with their own hands, focusing on the shape and ornament, feeling like an archaeologist-restorer.

The largest Buddhist temple "White Lotus" in Europe was founded in Cherkasy in 1988, built in the 1990s by followers of the "Sha-Fut-Fan" school of kung fu.

Its prototype is a Buddhist temple in Laos. The architectural project of the temple complex was initiated by Volodymyr Skubayev, the head of the Cherkasy Society of Buddhism. According to legend, during the laying of the foundation, an ancient stone was found on which the Buddha in the mask of a warrior is depicted. At the entrance to the cell, there are two figures of soldiers brought to Cherkasy from Tibet. In the ritual hall, the floor is covered with carpets, the walls are decorated with wood and velvet.

Followers of Buddhism study Thai boxing and kung fu here.

On Sundays, tours and tea ceremonies are held in "White Lotus". It is possible to organize a wedding ceremony.

The memorial complex with the monument "Motherland" in Cherkasy is located on the territory of an ancient castle, on the site of the Holy Trinity Church, which was destroyed during the Soviet regime.

According to one version, during Cossack times, the Cherkasy fortress was located on this small hill. In fact, in different periods there were three fortresses in Cherkasy. An ancient Rus settlement of the 14th century and the remains of the Cherkasy fortress of the 18th century were located on the site of the current Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Park on Castle Hill  (now there is a stele in honor of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi and a monument to Ivan Pidkova), and on the site of Hill of Glory there was a reserve fortification, on the territory of which in 1863, a stone Trinity Church was built instead of the wooden church of the same name in the lower town.

All architectural and archaeological monuments were completely destroyed during the construction of the Glory monument. The church was blown up in 1961, the cultural layer was removed in 1965 during the construction of the Hill of Glory, and in 1977 the Memorial of Glory with the bronze monument "Motherland" was opened.

A large panorama of the Kremenchuk Reservoir opens from the top of the hill.

The Cherkasy Academic Puppet Theater is located in the central part of the city, in a building that is an architectural monument of the 19th century.

The building belongs to the so-called "model houses", the author of which was the architect Luyidzhi Rusca. At the beginning of the 19th century, he released the album "Exemplary facades", which were used to build many Ukrainian cities. From the moment of construction, not only the walls and ceilings, but also the carpentry, and even the fittings with the monograms of the firm "M. and H. Babashov. 1850" have been preserved.

Since the 1970s, the building has been used by a puppet theater. The front side of the building is decorated with a mosaic with characters from children's fairy tales.

The Cherkasy Regional Art Museum is housed in the former Communist Party's city committee, which was vacated after the August 1991 events.

The exposition is formed from the former private collections of Count Bobrynsky, Princes Lopukhin, Bilokopytov, which were transferred in 1918 to the Cherkasy Historical and Pedagogical Museum named after Taras Shevchenko.

The Department of Decorative and Applied Arts introduces the folk art of the middle Dnipro. The second chapter presents the iconography of the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, the beautiful portrait painting of the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Cherkasy Regional Museum of Local Lore is located in a modern building built in 1985 in the historic center of the city, near the Hill of Glory (Castle Hill). The project was designed by local architects Kondratsky, Sobchuk, Fursenko.

In 30 halls there are sections of the nature of the region, archeology, ethnography, history of the region XIV - beg. XX century, as well as new and modern history from 1917 to the present. A total of 12,000 exhibits were presented.

Cossack flags and a copy of Bohdan Khmelnytsky's first letter to Russian Tsar Oleksiy Mykhaylovych asking for help in the war with Poland, written in Cherkasy on June 8, 1648, are kept here.

Other rare objects of Cossack times are presented, including stove tiles of the second floor. XVII century with a relief plot "Three Musketeers" and the inscription "Zholdak".

The building of the Cherkasy Regional Philharmonic was built in the central part of Cherkasy in 1955, on the site of a pre-revolutionary hotel. The facade was completed in 1961.

According to acoustic data, the Cherkasy Philharmonic Hall ranks third in Ukraine.

In 1957, the famous Cherkasy State Honored Ukrainian Folk Choir was organized at the Philharmonic, which later became a laureate of the republican competition of creative groups and the III World Festival of Youth and Students, laureate of the Taras Shevchenko State Prize.

Cherkasy River Station was built in 1962.

It was one of the most beautiful on the Dnipro, but after the collapse of the USSR and transfer to private hands in the 1990s, it fell into disrepair and practically fell into disrepair.

In 2011, a complete reconstruction was carried out and boat trips were resumed. At the moment, river walks along Cherkasy and flights to Kaniv are carried out.

The Cherkasy Zoo is located in the southwestern part of the city of Cherkasy.

A large number of green plants grow on the territory with a total area of 4 hectares, many plants belong to rare species.

Cherkasy Zoo contains more than 200 species of animals, the total number of which reaches about 500 individuals (including birds, reptiles, and reptiles). Among the representatives of the animal world in the zoo are: two-humped camel, llama, bison, African lion, brown bear, wolf, lynx, baboon and others. Birds are represented by such species as: golden pheasant, Emu ostrich, white-headed vulture, whooper swan, common peacock, mandarin duck.

In recent years, new enclosures for ungulates, carnivores, and monkeys have been built, old unsuitable premises have been reconstructed, and the territory has been significantly improved.

A small cozy park in the central part of the city. There are sports grounds near the castle town. The park is decorated with alpine slides and flowerbed compositions, which create a special atmosphere of coziness characteristic of green corners.

There are also many sculptural compositions made of stone and wood.

Fish row in Cherkasy is one of the old pavilions of the Cherkasy market. It was built in 1908-1909 along with the butcher's shop. Two brick trade pavilions were the main component of the central city market complex in Cherkasy.

The famous Kyiv architect Vladyslav Horodetsky participated in the design of the buildings. Only Fish Row - the original building in the Art Nouveau style - has survived. Currently, this is the commercial premises of the Cherkasy National University.

A monument to the heroes of Mykhaylo Starytskyi's play "Behind two hares", Svyryd Holokhavstov and Pronya Prokopivna, is erected in Cherkasy, although this city has nothing to do with the events described in the play.

The images of popular characters, embodied by Oleh Borisov and Marharyta Krynitsyna, are taken from the film comedy "Behind two hares", filmed based on Starytskyi's play at the Oleksandr Dovzhenko Kyiv Film Studio.

The sculpture, made of fiberglass and painted bronze, was commissioned by the owners of the "House of Fashion" located here, as the characters of the play were distinguished by their love for fashionable clothes. Sculptor Oleksandr Hulbis.

The Holy Trinity Cathedral was restored in Cherkasy in 1991 next to Castle Hill, on which the main Orthodox church of the city used to be located.

The wooden Cossack Trinity Church in Cherkasy was built in 1671. It was rebuilt several times. The stone temple was built in 1863 on the territory of the former Cherkasy castle.

In 1961, the Holy Trinity Church was demolished, as the construction of the "Hill of Glory" memorial complex began on this site.

The Trinity Cathedral was restored in the 1990s, but it had to be moved to another place, being attached to one of the buildings on Slavy Square. Belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The building of the former "Slovyanska" hotel in Cherkasy was built at the end of the 19th century at the expense of the entrepreneur Skoryna.

Made in the Art Nouveau style with pseudo-Gothic elements. The corner of the building, taking into account the town planning site, is decided by a pentagonal volume topped by a tall pointed tent. The facade of the building is decorated with numerous decorative details, thin towers with needle domes and elegant columns. The house had three balconies, one of which extended more than 2.5 meters and rested on thin cast-iron columns. It was under it that the entrance to the "Slovyanska" hotel was located.

In Soviet times, it was the Dnipro Hotel. Currently, the building belongs to "Ukrsotsbank".