Igor Meshov

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Fast transition: Dnepropetrovsk Zaporozhye

Sights:

• Monastic island, park of Shevchenko. Favourite vacation spot of townspeople. On a legend, in XI century here there was a Byzantian monastery, in which kn. Olga waited a storm on road to Constantinople. The memorable cross is established, is built nikolaevksja church (1999). During Soviet times T.Shevchenko's monument is established, the zoo, park of children's attractions is opened.
  
• Kodaksky fortress, with. Old Kodaki. The rests of shaft of the Polish fortress of 1635 in a picturesque place on high coast of Dnepr. Was it is taken by the Zaporozhye armies twice. In 1910 the obelisk is established.
  
• The prospectus of K.Marksa. The main street of a city, byv. The Ekaterinisky prospectus. It is built up raznostilevymi by buildings. The House of the governor (1840-50), "House Hrennikova" (1910-13, nowadays - grand hotel "Ukraine"), a post office building etc. In r-not central pla was saved. Lenin the foot zone - the European parkway nicknamed "New Arbatom" is organised.
  
• Preobrazhenskiy cathedral (1830-35). The construction has been begun during Catherine II travel on southern possession. Has high architecturally-art value as a construction in which traditions and receptions of Russian classical school of the period of its blossoming were reflected. Restavrirovan in 1975г. Nearby - verstovaja "Ekaterina's mile".
  
• The Nikolaev church (1807), street Oktjabrjat, 108. Stone, in style of classicism. It is constructed instead of wooden church existing since 1650. Lists of XX century were saved
  
• Troitsk cathedral (1837), square Troitsk, 7. The main temple of a city. The main relic - Novokajdaksky (Samara) icon Bozhiej of Mother.
  
• Bryansk Nikolaev church (1913-15). Stone. It is characteristic for architecture nach. XX century
  
• Potyomkin's palace (1786), park of rest of T.Shevchenko. One of the first most considerable buildings of Dnepropetrovsk. The authorship of the project of a palace is attributed to outstanding Russian architect I.Starovu. Originally main case contained a number of smart premises, including huge dvusvetnyj a hall in the central part. In 1952 has been reconstructed and became a palace of culture of students.
  
• Hotel "Ukraine" (1912), street Korolenko, 2. The building is constructed under the project of Kiev architect N.Fetisova. The part covered has been equipped for the theatrical purposes. Before revolution of 1917 theatre "Oriental carpet" here took places.
  
• Historical museum (1903), avenue K.Marksa, 16. The museum of antiquities of Ekaterinoslavsky province has been based in 1849 In the beginning it took places in one of rooms potemkinskogo a palace, later at the initiative of the Ekaterinoslavsky scientific organisation building of a special building has begun. The project is developed arh. G.Panafutinym in modernised klassitsisticheskom style. An old building of a museum the one-storeyed. The old part is connected to a new two-storeyed building in which the exposition is placed, and a diopama building "Fight for Dnepr". Near a museum - a collection of Scythian women.
  
• The Dnepropetrovsk is musical-drama theatre of T.Shevchenko (1913), Lenin's street, 5. The building has been attached as theatrically-concert hall to the former English club. It is reconstructed in 1978-79 cartouches with figures "1838" and "1913" - dates of the basis of club and its 75 anniversary Are saved. The facade is decorated by the sculptural triptych reflecting stages of a creative way of theatre. The rounded off corner is topped by a figure of a muse.

[Dnepropetrovsk - all about a city]
[Dnepropetrovshchina - history and the present]
[A map of Dnepropetrovsk]
[An evening life of Dnepropetrovsk]

Area:

Kitajgorod
Village, Tsarichansky r-n. The first mention in written sources in 1667 In days of the Tatar attacks on the bank of river Oril strengthenings, ogorozhenye are constructed by a paling and earthen shaft. Inside there was a small town where the population hid. In case of danger removed "kitajku" (a red panel) which was seen over settlement. The Nikolaev church (1757) in a Baroque taste (lists of XVIII century), Uspensky church (1754) in a Baroque taste were saved, Varvarinsky church (1756).

Krivoi Rog
The big industrial centre, the most well-known enterprise - "Krivorozhstal" (a museum: square Domnostroitelej). The city has arisen on a place of merge of the rivers Saksagani and Ingultsa where the long cape or "horn" was formed, in the middle of XVII century as basis Date consider 1775 when in natural boundary Krivoi Rog the station of a post path has been opened. At first was military settlement, then with development of extraction of iron ore has turned to industrial centre, as a push to what the construction has served in 1884 of the Ekaterina's railway. In city boundaries there is landscape zakaznik "Northern CHervonaja a beam", rocks MOPRa, botsad and 2 parks. The museum of local lore (street Sestroritsky, 2) works.

Novomoskovsk
Has arisen on the right coast of the river of Samara as kozatsky farm-wintering in XVII century In 1688 the fortress for protection against the Crimean Tatars has been constructed. Novomoskovtsy accepted active participation in Koliivshchine. A historical monument is the wooden Troitsk cathedral with a belltower, constructed in 1781 without a uniform nail. Unique in the Ukrainian wooden architecture devjatibannyj a temple. The monument is used by the Dnepropetrovsk art museum for an exposition of department of arts and crafts. The Nikolavsky church (1782-87) Samara deserted-Nikolaev monastery (it is based in 1602) which is located in the country, on the bank of the river of Samara also is of interest.

Nikopol
River port on the right coast Kahovsky vdhr, arisen in XVI century on a place kozatskoj crossings Nikitin Rog. Since 1636 it is located Sech which conditionally named Nikitinsky. Here in 1648 B.Hmelnitskogo have selected the hetman of Ukraine. In 1775 fortress building has begun, rapid development has begun after construction in XIX century of a chuguno-foundry and introduction in ekuspluatatsiju the railway. Sechas - the large industrial centre. From architectural sights the Christmas Church in Sulitsky (1812-20) in style of classicism with lists XIX-XX centuries was saved only

Pavlograd
The centre of the West Donbass coal basin on the river Samara. It is based in 1779 zaporozhtsami and the demobilised soldiers. Working out of coal deposits has begun in the middle of XX century Architectural monuments: buildings in a modernist style, a church (XIX century) a temple of not Man-made Image (1982), Uspensky church (1986). The Pavlograd museum of local lore, the lane Museum, 8 operates.

Petrikovka
The picturesque village which is famous for masters of a decorative list, art weaving, embroidery. The museum of ethnography, a life works and is national-applied art. The Christmas church (1812) was saved.

[Hotels of Dnepropetrovsk and area]

Sights:

• Hortitsa, historical and cultural reserve. Impresses with picturesque rocks of granite coast. For the first time the island is mentioned in X century Barrows and stone sculptures of Scythian times exhibits a complex "Scythian camp". The first strengthenings have been put in pawn by the head Cherkassk and kanevskim the prince Vishnevetsky (Canoe), and in 1630 ataman Konoshevich-Sagajdachnyj has based the first Sech. Strengthenings have been destroyed Potyomkin's by Russian armies in 1775, the rests were saved on Sovutinoj to a rock. Reconstruction now comes to the end, the Cossack suburb is represented by film scenery "Taras Potatoes". The Museum of history of the Zaporozhye Cossacks works. In territory of horse theatre "Zaporozhye Cossacks" the dramatized representations are spent, stored podnyte in 1999-2007 from a river bed a Cossack seagull and brigantina 1736-39 On the Top Hortitsa (the right coast of Dnepr) in 1886 the Svjatonikolaevsky cathedral, on street is built T.Bulby grows a 700-year-old oak-giant (diameter of a trunk - 6,5).
  
• Sotsgorod (30th years of XX century). The Architectural ensemble of building of city centre is considered one of the best examples of town-planning art of the USSR of the pre-war period. The project has received a gold medal at an exhibition in Paris.
  
• Lenin's prospectus, the longest street in Europe - about 11 km. Lies from station Zaporozhye-1 to dam DneproGESa where the biggest is established in the CIS a monument to V.Lenin
  
• Apartment house (the end of XIX century), Lenin's avenue, 59. Now here the polyclinic is located.
  
• Zemsky justice (1912), street of Security officers, 29. Represents an architectural dominant in surrounding building of old Aleksandrovsk. Here the regional museum of local lore is located.
  
• DneproGES (1932), the unique hydraulic engineering construction, the first hydroelectric power station in the USSR. Stoitelstvo the academician O.Vinter headed. With its construction city rapid development has begun. In territory there is a monument to the unknown soldier who has rescued rowing from destruction by fascists.
  
• Museum of history of the weapon, Lenin's avenue, 189. An exposition of the weapon of different times and the people at shop "Diana".
  

[History of Zaporozhye]
[My Zaporozhye]
[A picture album of Zaporozhye]
[Tourism and rest in Zaporozhye]
[The encyclopaedia of the Ukrainian Cossacks]
[Ukrainian language history kozachestva]
[A city information portal]
[Zабор - an entertaining portal of city Z]

Area:

Melitopol
Large village Novoaleksandrovka has arisen in the end of XVIII century when near Sandy mountain fugitives-kozaki have lodged. Earlier here there lived Scythians and Greeks who have based the city of Melita in the beginning AD In 1842 has received the status of a city and is renamed into Melitopol. The park of M.Rylskogo (1927) is a monument of landscape gardening art.

Berdyansk
City-resort at coast of sea of Azov. Old names: Kutur-Ogly, It is new-nogajsk, Berdy, Osipenko. The beginning of its history was put by the seaport built in 1825-30 Set of sanatoria and boarding houses are located on outstanding in the sea to the Berdyansk plait. The central quay is recently reconstructed. In 2006 the biggest is opened in Ukraine an aquapark "Cape of kind hope".

Stone tomb
Presumably, an ancient sanctuary. It is located in a valley of the river Dairy near Melitopol. A heap tsiklopicheskih stones (height to 12) - the rests of sandstone of the former Sarmatian sea. Many stones are covered by ancient images of epoch of a paleolith, mesolit, copper-bronze and the Middle Ages (from XVI—XIII millenia BC to X—XII centuries) Some researchers consider, that letters of the Stone Tomb are more archaic, than writing of Sumer, and are the most ancient samples of writing on the Earth.

Big and Small Kuchugury
The state ornithological reserve (1974), an archeology monument. 13 islands of the Kahovsky water basin in 12 km from zh.d. Item Tavrijsk on crossing of ways of birds of passage. The greatest spawning area of valuable kinds of fishes.

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