Attractions of Zaporizhia region

The municipal institution "Balky Historical and Local History Museum" of the Mala Bilozerka village council of the Zaporozhye region has been operating since 1970. The museum fund has more than 10 thousand exhibits. The archeological exposition presents some of the treasures of the Gaimanova Mohyla mound, including amphorae and a copper cauldron. The ethnographic exposition "Ukrainian Room" recreates a fragment of the interior of a village house with a stove, household items, embroidered clothes, towels, a samovar. The Hall of Fame tells about the events of the Ukrainian Revolution and the Second World War.

Berdyansk Art Museum was founded in 1930 on the initiative of painter and graphic artist, doctor of art history and professor, collector Isaac Brodsky. The exhibition is based on his personal collection of paintings, including paintings by Ilya Repin, Konstantin Korovin, Mikhail Vrubel, Nikolai Roerich, Isaac Levitan, Konstantin Makovsky, Valentin Serov, Alexander Benoit, Marc Chagall and others, as well as the work of Brodsky himself. Currently, the museum fund consists of 4.5 thousand works of painting, sculpture, graphics and applied arts. In particular, the museum presents a painting by Ivan Aivazovsky & quot; Storm at Sea & quot; (1896).

The Museum of the History of the city is the youngest of the museums in Berdyansk. Opened in 2005 for the City Day. The exposition, formed on the basis of a part of the collection of the museum of local lore, covers the history of Berdyansk since its foundation in the early XIX century. to this day. In particular, the collections of samovars and irons of the XIX-XX centuries are presented. The conference hall of the museum commemorates one of the founders of Berdyansk - the brightest prince, Governor-General of Novorossia and Governor of Bessarabia M. Vorontsov. A gallery of portraits of the Vorontsov family is presented.

Berdyansk Museum of Local Lore named after V. Kravchenko was founded in 1929. Located on the ground floor of a three-story apartment building in the middle of the XX century. The objects of the Scythian period of the IV century are presented. BC The interior of the Ukrainian peasant house of the XIX century was reconstructed. Separate expositions tell about Greeks and Bulgarians of the Black Sea coast. In the square in front of the museum there is a collection of Polovtsian stone women, as well as an ancient cannon, raised in the middle of the XIX century. from the ship "Fighter" sunk during the Crimean War.

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.

Huliaipil Museum of Local Lore is located in the historic building of the former bank of mutual credit in the center of Huliaipil. The exposition of the museum consists of 9 sections with a fund of 17 thousand exhibits, which tell about the ancient history of these lands, the era of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, the life of peasant and bourgeois housing, crafts of Huliaipil region and more. The most interesting part of the exhibition tells about the life and work of the famous anarchist, leader of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army Nestor Makhno. In particular, the legendary wheelbarrow is presented - a mobile firing point invented by the Makhnovists on horseback. There is a monument to the wheelbarrow in the yard.

Melitopol City Museum of Local Lore is located in the old three-story house of a merchant of the 2nd Guild of Chernikov on the former Vorontsovskaya Street. Currently, the museum has 48,000 items. A unique collection of Scythian gold (IV century BC) from the excavations of the Melitopol mound is presented. The pride of the numismatic collection is the treasure of silver coins of 1895-1925. release. Of the exhibits of the art gallery, the graphic and painting works of the world-famous artist Oleksandr Tyshler are of great value.

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.

The Museum of Retro Cars in Zaporizhia is the only public museum of this profile in Ukraine. A private collection of rare vehicles of domestic and foreign production of the middle of the last century was collected and restored by members of the car club "Phaeton". On areas of about 300 square meters. m exhibited 22 samples of automotive equipment of the 30-60's. The exposition of the museum of retro cars presents cars "Dodge", "Willis", "Ural-ZiS", ZiS-5, ZiS-6 ("Katyusha"), etc. All cars are on the move, have repeatedly participated in exhibitions and races. Visiting the museum exposition and workshops is possible with a tour on prior request, in groups of 10 to 20 people.

The municipal institution "Pologiv Museum of Local Lore" of the Polog City Council has been located in the manor house of the Sandomirsky merchants in Polohy since 1968. The museum fund has more than 12 thousand historical monuments. In six halls there are expositions: "Nature of Pologi region", "Archeology and settlement of the region", "Our region at the beginning of the XX century", "Pologi region on the eve and during the Second World War", "Modernity of the native land". The pride of the museum collection are stone idols of the Polovtsian period, archeological finds during the excavation of mounds, household items and agricultural equipment of the first settlers, photos and documents testifying to the construction of the Catherine Railway and the founding of the town of Polohy. The exposition is complemented by dioramas "Development of the Polozh deposit of kaolins and refractory clays" and "Kinsko-Rozdorivske reservoir", as well as recreated interiors of a peasant house, houses of a middle-class family, apartments of a railway worker.

The popular name "Popov Castle" was given to the palace and park complex in Vasylivka, on the basis of which the historical and architectural museum-reserve "Sadyba Popova" was created. The grand palace was built in 1894 (probably designed by architect N. Benoit) in the style of neo-romanticism with elements of Gothic and Baroque and resembled the architecture of medieval European castles. In the main building there was a ballroom, mirrored rooms, a library with rare books, an art gallery with originals by Titian, Goya, Rembrandt. In Soviet times, most buildings were dismantled for building materials. Preserved jagged walls with a gate, two outbuildings, a carriage, a stable, a watchtower. The monument is in an emergency condition, on its territory there is a house, a boarding school. A museum of the estate's history has been opened in the western wing, where, in particular, Bryullov's paintings are presented. The clearing of the palace basements and other dungeons, where excursions have begun, has recently been completed.

The memorial house-museum of P. Schmidt in Berdyansk is dedicated to the famous revolutionary Lieutenant Schmidt, who raised an uprising in 1905 on the cruiser "Ochakiv", as well as his father P. Schmidt, who served as mayor of the city and port of Berdyansk in 1876-86. their improvement. The museum is located in the mayor's house opposite the park, founded by P. Schmidt. The exposition on the ground floor tells about the Sevastopol uprising of 1905, one of the organizers of which was Lieutenant Schmidt. On the second floor, the interiors of the homes of wealthy citizens of the early twentieth century are partially recreated.