Attractions of 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.

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 Private Museum of the History of Weapons in Zaporizhia is located in the city center. The exposition is based on the personal collection of entrepreneur V. Schleifer. The museum presents the following types of historical weapons of different times and peoples: submachine guns, rifles, shotguns, pistols and pistols, swords, sabers, swords, axes, chain mail and more. In total, more than 4.5 thousand units. The museum conducts examination, evaluation and restoration of antique weapons. The exhibition is located in the premises of the weapons store & quot; Diana & quot ;.

The communal institution "Zaporizhzhya Regional Art Museum" subordinated to the Zaporizhzhya Regional Council represents the fine arts of the XIX-XX centuries. The museum was founded in 1971. The collection, collected by the team of art critics, has more than 16 thousand exhibits. In particular, the paintings of Ivan Aivazovsky, Oleksiy Bogolyubov, Volodymyr Makovsky, Mykola Pymonenko, Oleksandr Murashko, Alexandre Benois, Tetyana Yablonska, Mykola Glushchenko are exhibited. Contemporary art is represented by the works of Oleksandr Rojtburd, Ivan Marchuk, Anatoly Krivolap. The museum has a collection of works by folk artist Maria Prymachenko, as well as a unique collection of works of Ukrainian folk decorative and applied arts, including a collection of Petrykivka paintings by master Martha Tymchenko.

The historical and cultural complex "Zaporizka Sich" on the island of Khortytsia in Zaporizhzhia reproduces a generalized image of all eight Sich, which existed in the XVI-XVIII centuries on the banks of the Dnieper. Sich is a fortified military town surrounded by a fence, which served as a military and political center of the Zaporozhian Cossacks - the capital of the Liberties of the Zaporozhian Lowland Army, ie free Cossack lands.

The island of Khortytsia at that time was a strategic point on the way of Tatar raids on Ukrainian lands. At the same time, the political influence of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moscow Principality, which controlled other Ukrainian lands, did not extend to these territories. Khortytsia was associated with the activities of the first organizer of the Zaporozhian Army Ostap Dashkevych and the founder of the first Sich Dmytro (Baida) Vyshnevetsky, who in 1553 built a Cossack castle on the island of Mala Khortytsia (now Baida Island). All subsequent Sichs were located below the Dnieper, but were formed on common principles.

A reduced copy of the Cossack fortress is surrounded by a moat, an embankment and a fence made of logs with several defensive towers. The interior space consists of two parts - the Small Kosh (trade and craft suburb) and the Large Kosh (Cossack garrison). The main building of the Sich is the current Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin on the central square. There are Cossack huts, a smithy, a pottery, an inn and a Greek house where ambassadors were received. The expositions in the premises tell about the functioning of the Sich governing bodies (the House of the Kosh Ataman, the Military Chancellery), the work of the Pushkarnia (arsenal), and the traditional crafts of the Cossacks. The exhibition "Cossack Mama and the Cradle" is dedicated to the image of the legendary Zaporozhian warrior-characterist. The Cossack Battle Theater "Sich Cossacks" is based in the "Zaporozhian Sich", which regularly holds demonstrations of Cossack martial arts and master classes on the possession of Cossack weapons.

Zaporizhzhya Regional Museum of Local Lore is located in the former building of the Zemsky administration (1912) - one of the few surviving buildings of pre-revolutionary Alexandrovsk. Founded by archaeologist and folklorist J. Novitsky. More than 100,000 exhibits cover the history of the city from ancient times to World War II. The most interesting collections: paleontological remains of animals of the Neogene and Anthropogenic periods; archeological finds from the Zaporizhia mound; Sarmatian ornaments; insect collections; stuffed animals of rare birds; weapons and household items of the Zaporozhian Cossacks. One of the departments is dedicated to Ataman Nestor Makhno, a native of the Zaporizhia region, who became famous during the revolutionary years as the leader of the anarchist people's movement in the southern regions of Ukraine.