Attractions of Kirovohrad region

The Technics History Museum at the Central Ukrainian State University named after Volodymyr Vinnichenko in Kropyvnytskyi opened in 2015. It is located in the computer laboratories of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, on the first floor of educational building No. 4.

In the exhibition "Computing and computer technology" are presented pre-mechanical counters, mechanical arithmometers, microcalculators, personal computers of different generations, samples of microprocessors, RAM boards, motherboards, video cards, disk drives, various data carriers (punched cards, diskettes, hard drives).

Of particular interest are the large demonstration calculator "Programmer" based on the standard MK-61 programmable calculator board and a demonstration version of a personal computer with microcircuits and peripheral devices open for inspection.

The Museum of the Ukrainian Choreographic Art History in Kropyvnytskyi was founded in 2004 as a department of the Central Ukrainian Regional Museum of Local Lore.

For a long time it was located on the territory of the State Museum-Reserve of Ivan Tobilevych (Karpenka-Kary) "Khutir Nadiya" not far from Kropyvnytskyi. It was here that the prominent Tobilevych family lived and worked, with whom the emergence of Ukrainian folk stage dance is associated.

In 2023, the updated exhibition opened on the first floor of the former National Bank administration building, where the Museum's historical and artistic space is now being arranged. The exposition in three halls highlights the development of choreographic art in Ukraine and beyond, the connection between the work of outstanding ballet masters of the past and the development of Ukrainian dance today.

In the first hall, materials on the history of the formation of Ukrainian dance are presented. The second hall is dedicated to the Honored Ukrainian folk dance ensemble "Yatran", which was created in Kropyvnytskyi (then Kirovohrad) in 1949. In the third hall there are photos, posters and costumes of groups that dance Ukrainian dance abroad, as well as children's choreographic groups.

In the gallery before the entrance to the museum, there are portraits of outstanding choreographers of Ukraine.

The Ustynivka History Museum is located in the premises of the House of Culture of the village of Ustynivka. It was opened in 2003 on the initiative of local historians Hryhoriy and Tetyana Musenko. It was they who formed the main exposition about the history of the then Ustiniv district from ancient times to the present day.

The archaeological collection of the museum presents the stone tools of primitive people: silicon scrapers, cutters, manual stone chisels.

The ethnographic collection includes embroidered towels, ancient clothing, wooden tools and household items. Also presented is a whole series of products of master blacksmiths, which were made in local forges: forged nails, horseshoes, fishing rods, stirrups, cattle chains, etc. The collections of metal sickles and irons are interesting.

The Ustynivka History Museum has a permanent exhibition devoted to the defenders of Ukraine of all generations, in particular to the heroes of the Russian-Ukrainian war.

The Vasyl Sukhomlynsky Memorial Pedagogical Museum was opened in 1971 at the Pavlysh Secondary School, which the outstanding teacher managed from 1948 for 22 years.

Here he conducted his long-term pedagogical experiment, as a result of which he created an original system of raising children.

The museum fund includes more than 20,000 storage units. Pedagogical documentation of the school from the 1950s and 1960s, manuscripts of Sukhomlynsky's literary and scientific and pedagogical works, and personal documents are presented. The interior of the office and apartment of the Sukhomlynsky family has been preserved.

You can inspect the school grounds: several educational premises, a school garden, green classrooms.

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.

The first private gallery "Yelysavethrad" in Kropyvnytskyi opened in 2011 in the historical quarters of the city, on the street named after the mayor Oleksandr Pashutin. The two-story building of the gallery was built at the end of the 19th century by the local baker Oleksiyenko.

The exhibition includes several dozen paintings by famous Ukrainian, including Kirovohrad, artists, in particular, the brothers Anatoliy and Serhiy Shapovalovy, Semen Ravskyi, Borys Vintenko, Fedir Klymenko and others. One of the works of Petro Ossovsky is presented.

There is a permanent exhibition of documents, photographs, objects related to the history of the city of Kropyvnytskyi. Thematic exhibitions of household items and art of the Soviet period, coins and banknotes of the world, household items of the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century, porcelain dolls, etc., are also popular.

The gallery "Yelysavethrad" regularly holds thematic exhibitions and painting workshops.

The People's Memorial Museum of Yuliy Meitus in Kropyvnytskyi has been operating since 1985 at Music School No. 2, which also bears the name of the outstanding Ukrainian composer, founder of Ukrainian opera of the 20th century, Yuliy Meitus.

The foundation of the exposition is made up of more than 200 unique exhibits donated to the museum by the family of Yuliy Meitus. Among them are manuscripts, posters, photo documents, pianos, letters, music collections, books and personal belongings of the composer.

In addition to excursions, the museum hosts musical evenings, author's concerts, competitions and festivals, lessons-concerts, workshops, presentations of new exhibits.

The Literary Memorial Museum of the writer Yuriy Yanovsky is located in the village of Nechaivka, where he was born in 1902. The museum building was erected in the center of the village in 1972 on the initiative of fellow villagers.

The Yanovsky family was of Cossack origin, they were distant relatives of the Hohol-Yanovsky. They lived on the Mayorivka farm, which is now part of the Nechaivka village (a memorial sign has been installed on the site of the homestead). Yuriy Yanovsky lived here for the first 15 years of his life, studied at the local Zemstvo school. In 1917, the family moved to Yelysavethrad, but memories of the native village were reflected in the writer's work.

The design of the museum exposition was executed by the monumentalist artist Volodymyr Volokhov, realizing in artistic form the two main themes of Yuriy Yanovsky's work - the steppe and the sea.

The basis of the museum exposition is Yuriy Yanovsky's personal belongings, books, photo albums, documents, order books, a membership card of the Writers' Union. The interior of the writer's dining room and office in his Kyiv apartment is reproduced. Decorations for performances staged based on Yanovsky's plays, theater posters are also exhibited.

The History Museum in Zakharivka is considered one of the largest rural museums in the Kirovohrad Region - its holdings include more than 13,000 objects from the main holding alone. The exhibition is housed in 15 rooms of the former kindergarten.

The basis of the museum's collection is the materials about the 116th Kharkiv Rifle Division, which liberated Zakharivka from the German occupiers in 1943. Searchers managed to establish the names of about a hundred fallen heroes buried in a mass grave on the territory of the village. Fragments of weapons and military equipment are presented.

The ethnographic section exhibits things preserved by the inhabitants of the villages of the Novoheorhiyvka district, which were flooded in the 1960s by the waters of the Kremenchuk Reservoir during the construction of the Kremenchuk HPP. Among them are furniture, household items, work tools, photos, toys, postcards. A collection of embroidered fabrics and antique towels is presented, including a wedding towel embroidered in 1813.

Impressive collections of ancient musical instruments, as well as hand, pocket and wall clocks, which are presented about 1.5 thousand copies.

The City Local Lore Museum of Znamianka was founded in 1961 as "Kobzar Room" on the initiative of distant relatives of the poet Taras Shevchenko - Kateryna and Antonina Krasytski. Since 2004, the local lore museum has had an official status, and "Kobzar Room" functions as its branch. Another descendant of Shevchenko, Vyacheslav Shkoda, made a significant contribution to the development of the institution (a memorial plaque has been installed near the entrance).

The museum exhibits are located in four rooms. They tell about the history of the foundation of Znamianka during Cossack times, its development as a station on the Odesa - Kharkiv railway, cultural and public figures of the end of the 19th - the first half of the 20th centuries, the events of the Second World War and the modern Russian-Ukrainian wars. The central exhibit here is a model of the railway station "Znamianka" and the nearby town of the beginning of the 20th century.

In the exhibition "Kobzar Room" a prominent place is occupied by a loom of the beginning of the 20th century. Also on display is a collection of Ukrainian towels, agricultural and household items, works of sacred art. Paintings by Borys Yehorov, a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, works from natural materials by Antonina Krasytska, wood carvings by masters Serhiy Batyuk and Mykola Puntus, portraits of the Krasytskis by Mykhaylo Hryshyn from Znamianka, etc. are presented.