Attractions of Volnovakha district

Novotroitske Village History Museum of the Olhynska Village Territorial Community in the Donetsk Region is located in the premises of the House of Culture named after Lesya Ukrayinka in the center of the village.

It is named after the public figure Paraska Sylka, through whose efforts the museum was organized in 1971.

The museum has about 3,500 items. The exposition in three halls tells about the ancient past of the region, as well as about the main events of the XX century.

The exposition "Ukrainian Room" recreates the interior of a traditional Slobozhanska house.

The People's Museum of the Velyka Novosilka Village History was founded in 1961 and is located on the second floor of the district cultural and recreational complex.

More than 3,300 exhibits are stored in the museum's funds. Five museum rooms present expositions reflecting the ethnography of the residents of Novosilka, pages from the history of the Ukrainian Revolution and World War II, the history of the formation and development of local agriculture, science, and art.

In the museum you can get acquainted with the works of local folk craftsmen.

The Velykoanadolsky Forest State Reserve was established in 1834-1845 by Forestry Corps colonel Viktor Hraff, the founder of steppe forestry.

In the bare and arid steppe, Hraff first created an artificial forest and founded a school of foresters.

During Soviet times, the Velykoanadolsky Forest was declared a natural monument, and a 7-hectare arboretum was created. Mixed stands of common oak, ash, maple, hornbeam, and linden prevail here. There are birch, poplar, Crimean pine, Amur velvet, European larch, common pine, chestnut and Caucasian oak, walnut, Japanese sophora.

The Velykoanadolsky Forest Museum has been opened in the premises of the former Hraff Meteorological Observatory, built in 1852. The five halls of the museum house a large exhibition, which is thematically divided into three sections: "Stages of Steppe Forestry" (the history of the Velykoanadolsky Forestry from the mid-19th century to the present), "Natural Conditions and Riches of the Velykoanadolsky Forest", "Memorial Complex of Forester Mykola Dakhnov" and "Life in the Late 19th - Early 20th Century".

Dioramas, numerous reports by Viktor Hraff to the Forest Department, plans of the Velykoanadolsky Forestry, photographic materials by Mykola Dakhnov, scientific works by Heorhiy Vysotsky, and material exhibits tell about the development of the Velykoanadolsky Forest and the main stages of forestry. Numerous exhibits also tell about the teachers and students of the Velykoanadolsky Forestry School, which was reorganized into a forestry technical school in 1929. It is now the Velykoanadolsky Forestry College.

A dendropark has been built next to the college, with the building of the former forestry school and a section of the forest where the first oak plantations made by Hraff have been preserved.

The Valeryanivka Village History Museum is a department of the Local History Museum of Volnovakha City Territorial Hromada. The museum is located in the village house of culture.

The museum fund includes more than 2,000 exhibits. The exposition in four halls tells about the ancient past of the village, starting from its foundation in 1838, about the period of the Ukrainian revolution, Soviet collectivization and the Holodomor, about the events of the Second World War, the post-war development of the village and about the participation of the inhabitants of the village in the Russian-Ukrainian war.

A separate exhibition is devoted to the nature of the region.

Municipal institution "Local Lore Museum of Volnovakha City Territorial Community" has been working in Volnovakha since 1977.

The museum's collection includes more than 6,000 items, including archaeological, natural and printed items, numismatics, photography, ethnography, memorials.

In the historical and archeological exposition you can see the ax of the Bronze Age, the arrowhead of the Scythian era, the Polovtsian knife, tools for making wooden household items, samovars of 1840-1870, numismatic collection.

Ethnographic expositions "Peasant Ukrainian House" and "Peasant House of the Greeks of the Azov Sea" recreate the interiors of traditional dwellings of the late XIX - early XX centuries, showing a collection of embroidered shirts, clothes, towels, household items, ceramics.

The third hall covers the period of domination of the Soviet totalitarian regime on the Black Sea coast.

The exhibition hall houses an exhibition dedicated to the participants of the anti-terrorist operation and the fallen heroes.

The memorial manor-museum of Volodymyr Nemyrovych-Danchenko and Mykola Korf in Neskuchne is dedicated to the life and work of these two outstanding personalities of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The museum was opened in 1992 in the estate of Baron Mykola Korf, an outstanding teacher and educator who founded about a hundred schools in the Katerynoslav province. The estate was inherited by his daughter Kateryna, who married director, playwright and writer Volodymyr Nemyrovych-Danchenko. It was here that he wrote his best literary works and received permission from Anton Chekhov to stage his play "The Seagull".

The interior of the beginning of the 20th century has been recreated in the building, including the office of Nemyrovych-Danchenko, the rooms of his wife Kateryna and son Mykhaylo, as well as the living room.

The exposition presents personal belongings of the Korf and Nemyrovych-Danchenko families, costumes from the first Moscow Art Theater performance "Tsar Fedir" and others, items of theatrical props, theater posters, photographs and documents. The interior of a classroom at the beginning of the 20th century has been recreated.

The Manor Museum of Volodymyr Nemyrovych-Danchenko and Mykola Korf is a department of the Donetsk Regional Museum of Local Lore.

The estate is located on the territory of the park part of the landscape reserve "Neskuchne forest".

In 2022-2023, the museum was at the epicenter of the fighting during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. The village was under constant artillery shelling and airstrikes from the Russian side, and the settlement was mined. The photo, published in the summer of 2023, shows the destroyed roof of the museum, as well as the destroyed two of the four walls. Part of the building was destroyed as a result of a direct hit by an artillery shell. The museum did not have time to evacuate - the communication routes with the village were cut off from the beginning of the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war, and the bridges were blown up.