Zaporizhzhia

The Scythian Estate Memorial and Tourist Complex is located on the highest point of the island of Khortytsia (59 m above the level of the Dnieper), which is crowned by the largest of the preserved Khortytsia mounds "Zorova Mohyla". A copy of a sculpture of a Scythian warrior is installed on the mound. At the beginning. XX century on the island of Khortytsia there were 129 mounds. Of the 28 cemeteries that once belonged to the Zorova Mohyla mound group, only 3 have survived. Area. The open-air museum has collected many stone artifacts: a millstone (symbol of prosperity and fertility), a skating rink or a threshing floor (a device for threshing grain), stupas (for crushing grain), statues, anthropomorphic stelae, and others.

The informal museum of the Cossack fleet on Khortytsia was created on the basis of two ancient ships raised from the bottom of the Dnieper in these places. The decision to establish a shipyard on Khortytsia was made in 1737, at the height of the first Russo-Turkish war, when Russian ships could not pass to the Black Sea through the Dnieper rapids. Here were built dowel-boats and ships of the Cossack type - kayaks and boats, similar to the Cossack seagulls, as well as brigantines "Russian style". In 1739, about 400 ships of the Dnieper flotilla were based on Khortytsia. Some of them sank during the flood. The hull of a Cossack seagull, preserved at the bottom under the sand, was discovered in 1998, and a year later the ship was raised to the surface. In 2007, the brigantine found there was lifted, and later - a dowel-boat, a kayak and a single-decker boat. The finds were preserved and placed in a restoration shed near the Equestrian Theater, work is underway to restore their appearance. The charitable foundation created by the singer A. Makarevich provides active support to the restorers. Excursions are conducted. It is planned to create a Museum of Navigation (Museum of the Dnieper Flotilla).

The Motor Sich Museum of Technology in Zaporizhzhia was opened in 2012. The museum is located in the former building of the station of young technicians near the territory of Motor Sich - one of the world's largest enterprises for the production of aircraft engines. The basis for the creation of the Aviation Museum was the National Museum of Enterprise History, opened in 1980. The exhibition presents aircraft engines manufactured by PJSC "Motor Sich", from the first reciprocating star-shaped aircraft engines to modern turbojet engines, as well as models of the first aircraft and helicopters. etc. Upstairs is an exposition of 26 models of retro motorcycles, as well as consumer goods produced by the plant: chainsaws, motoblocks, milk separators, wind farms, etc. A Mi-24 transport and combat helicopter with a Motor Sich engine has been installed at the entrance to the aviation museum building. Currently, the museum is named after the honorary president of PJSC "Motor Sich".

The museum complex of the Khortytsia National Reserve is located in the northern part of the island of Khortytsia, opposite the Dnieper Dam. The Museum of the History of the Zaporozhian Cossacks was opened in Khortytsia in Zaporizhia in 1983. The exposition covers the history of the Cossack land from ancient times to the present. Since 2016, the museum is under reconstruction. After the opening, it will have a modern exposition, which will feature dioramas "Battle of Svyatoslav with the Pechenegs" and "Council on the Sich". The museum building with a courtyard is part of a complex of observation decks, which offer a magnificent panorama of the Dnieper, rocky rapids and hydroelectric power plants. The museum square is used as the main venue for official events. Next to the museum is a 14-meter Mound of Unity of Ukraine, on top of which in 2021 was installed a metal sculpture "Circle of Unity" 7 meters high. From the museum along the coast there is a "Taras trail", dedicated to the stay of the young Taras Shevchenko on Khortytsia in the summer of 1843. It is accompanied by excerpts from the works of Kobzar, which mentions Khortytsia, the rapids of the Dnieper, the Great Zaporozhian Meadow and the Zaporozhian Cossacks.

The Museum-Gallery of Applied Ceramics and Paintings of Ilya and Oleksiy Burlayev is located in the basement of the 18th century building, where a laboratory for the study of clay for the production of bricks and tiles once operated. The collection includes materials related to the history and the first buildings of old Oleksandrivsk (present-day Zaporizhia), ancient maps and photo documents, a collection of ancient tiles and bricks, the history of the brick factory in the village of Karantynka. The museum is also dedicated to the work of the artist of socialist realism O. Burlay and the artist of the documentary genre I. Burlay. The project "Museum and School" is being implemented, within the framework of which creative festivals are held.