Attractions of Holovanivsk district

The Novoarkhanhelsk Museum of Local Lore in the Kirovohrad Region was founded in 2003 and is located in the building of the former Ukraina cinema on the central square of Novoarkhanhelsk.

The museum's collection includes more than 5,500 exhibits that tell about the history of the region from Paleolithic to modern times. In particular, collections of rocks and minerals, coins and banknotes are presented.

The Hall of Arts acquaints visitors with the artistic heritage of the region - products of decorative and applied arts, paintings by local artists.

The Pidvysoke Village History Museum was opened in 1967. It is located on the second floor of the Village House of Culture, in three rooms with a total area of about 170 square meters.

The first room of the museum acquaints visitors with the history of the area from the Bronze Age to the collapse of the Russian Empire. Fragments of Trypillya ware, household items of later eras, materials about the founding of the village of Pidvysoke in the first half of the 18th century are presented. The past of the Haydamaks is illustrated by the diorama of the storming of the city of Uman by the detachments of Maksym Zalizniak and Ivan Honta. In the ethnographic exhibition you can see a loom, a spinning wheel, various household appliances and dishes.

The central element of the composition about the Second World War is a large diorama, which reproduces one of the battles of 1941, which were fought near Uman by the 6th and 12th Soviet armies surrounded by the Germans.

In the third room, you can familiarize yourself with the post-war history of Pidvysoke and see numerous artifacts of Soviet propaganda.

The Museum of Strategic Missile Forces in Pobuzke near Pervomaisk is unique and has no analogues in the world.

The top-secret launch site of intercontinental ballistic missiles, which has been completely preserved since the Cold War, is open to visitors.

The museum was created in 2001 on the basis of the disbanded 309th regiment of the 46th missile division of the Strategic Missile Forces. The complex consists of an RS-22A missile mine-launcher (SS-24 "Scalpel"), a unified underground command post, a power unit, a refrigeration center, barracks, security and utility premises. On the territory you can see samples of rocket engines, rocket-carrying vehicles, fuel tanks for rocket fuel, a mock-up of a nuclear warhead, as well as R-12 and RS-20 (SS-18 "Satan") missiles.

Excursions are conducted by officers who previously served at this base. By separate agreement, you can go down to the underground command post at a depth of 30 meters, where the "nuclear button" was located.

Until the beginning of the 20th century, more than half of the population of Holovanivsk was Jews. One of several synagogues in the city has been preserved, located in the area of the market. It can be recognized by the windows in the pseudo-Moorish style.

Currently, the premises are occupied by the "Red Cross" department.

The Vilshanka Ukrainian-Bulgarian Historical Museum bears the name of its founder, Ivan Hurzhos, who during his lifetime collected a large collection of local history materials on the history of his native Vilshanka and the Vilshanka region.

The main exposition is devoted to the resettlement of more than 400 families of Danube Bulgarians who took part in the Russian-Turkish war of 1768–1774 on the side of Russia. The most valuable exhibit is the icon of St. John the Merciful (1874), painted for the 100th anniversary of the settlement of Bulgarians in the Vilshanka region.

Also among the exhibits: the Bulgarian national musical instrument – a gaida, saber and scabbard produced by the Zlatoustiv factory, Bulgarian national women's clothing, a Cossack pipe, works of local carpet makers and embroiderers, etc.

Special attention should be paid to the reprint edition of "Vilshanka Village Chronicle", written by the priest of the Church of Saint John the Merciful Volodymyr Lobachevsky, who described the period from 1773 to 1885.

The picturesque ruins of a water mill on the Pivdenny Buh River in Lupolove always attract lovers of water tourism.

The three-story building of the mill was built in 1901 on the branch of the Pivdenny Buh, which washes one of the islands. The dam and the waterfall, which used to turn the water wheel, are called "Jacuzzi" by the locals and are used for bathing.

The recently started reconstruction for the purpose of creating a recreation complex is currently suspended.