The National History and Culture Reserve "Chyhyryn"

In Cherkassy region is the ancient town Chigirin, which is considered the cradle of Ukrainian Cossacks. There are unique monuments, most of them associated with the formation of Ukrainian statehood and acts of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky. In 1989, a National Historical and Cultural Reserve "Chigirin." Geographically, it covers not only the city Chigirin, but such settlements as Stetsivka, Saturday, Medvedevka and stow Cold Yar and Chieftain Park. These communities are located thirty four monument of architecture, culture, archeology and history.

So, in the center is Chigirina Castle Hill - a unique monument of landscape art. Here are a monument to Bohdan Khmelnytsky, stone cross, erected in 1912 in honor of the heroes of the struggle against the Turkish and Polish invaders, as well as a bastion of Peter Doroshenko, which is a preserved fragment Chigirinskaya 17th-century fortress.

Here are preserved rare attractions that have reached us from different eras. One of them - it Motroninsky settlement Scythian period 7-4 centuries BC, which is one of the largest settlements in Eastern Europe the late Bronze and early Iron Age Zarubintsy chornoliska and cultures.

In addition, the village included in the reserve, original and different in their ethnographic features. Gorlivka village known fact that here was born Goncharsky unique craft. Today revival golovkovskoy ceramics is one of the main activities of the reserve. Annually on the basis of the reserve together with the National Union of Folk Art of Ukraine Ukrainian Symposium held pottery.

Visiting these amazing places you can enjoy the rich nature of Cold Ravine. You will see the millennial oak Maxim Zheleznyaka located in a remote area of Buda Ataman park. In addition, this area will amaze you with unusual beauty alleys, ponds and healing spring "Zhivun."

Visit the village Saturday, which centuries ago was the hamlet of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky. The main attraction are the three local Krinitsy as symbols of friendship of three fraternal peoples of the Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian. Here is Elias Church in 1653 in the style of "Cossack Baroque", which served as the burial place of the great hetman.

History buffs with great pleasure visit the fascinating tours, which are held on expositions five museums: the Archaeological - Chyhyryn, ethnographic museum "Ukrainian House" - in Subotove, regional museum in Medvedevka, ethnographic - in Stetsivke and museum named after Bogdan Khmelnitsky, located in Chyhyryn .

Shall also work to create new museum complexes. In Chyhyryn plans to open a museum in the tower weapon Doroshenko Bogdanova on the hill, in the near future Subotove earn museum pavilion on the foundation of the house of Bogdan Khmelnitsky in Stetsivke tourist a unique museum mill business in the open.

Be sure to plan a trip to this amazing historical reserve. Reach your destination by bus can be, which is daily bus departs from the city of Cherkasy, located 63 kilometers from Chigirina.