Cherkasy
Cherkasy (Cherkassy in russian) is a typical green and calm town in the farming region of Ukraine, which makes it a good city to live and raise children. No wonder why now green tourism is so popular in Cherkasy. Another reason to go to Cherkasy is to find a beautiful bride as statistically, there are six girls for every young man living in Cherkasy!
If you drive 180 km south from Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, you reach a magical green town, Cherkasy, located right on the banks of the huge Dnipro river reservoir. Life is different here. People are very friendly and have time to smile at you and answer any questions you may have. And you”ll be surprised at the very low prices in the local stores and hotels.
Today, Cherkasy is a peaceful town of farmers and small factories. However, during the first 400 years after its “birth” as a fortress, Cherkasy was a frontier town in the fight against Poland’s influence. Also, this town is known for being the place where, in 1648, the legendary commander Bohdan Hmelnitsky wrote his letter to the Russian tsar, seeking to unite with Russia.
Dnipro river reservoir, remarkable embankments, spacious parks and green streets, altogether, make visitors see this as a very nice and beautiful town. There are several universities and many colleges with space for tens of thousands of young citizens of this town populated by 360,000 people. Local theaters, museums and art galleries fulfill the cultural life of this town that once was a good host to the famous poets Taras Shevchenko and Alexander Pushkin and the world known composer Petr Chaykovsky.
Several very special park-museums are located in Cherkasy area. One of them, Dendro-park Sophievka is even mentioned in the UNESCO catalogue. A large museum and many sites are devoted to a memory of Taras Shevchenko, whose tomb in Kanev is a place which every Ukrainian must visit at least ONCE in a lifetime.
Pereyaslav-Khmelnitskiy is one of the unique historical-architectural open-air museums that displays samples of the 15th-19th Century Ukrainian architecture. Ten museums and two hundred buildings are open for tourists who are interested in Ukrainian roots and culture.
And if you’ve heard a lot about Kozaks – legendary defenders of Ukrainian land in the 15th-18th Centuries, then you have to visit the large museum devoted to the history of Ukrainian Kozaks in Chyhyryn city – old capital of Kozaks` empire.
And after visiting exhibits about Ukrainian heroes from ancient times let’s think about the brave men and women of the 20th Century, you must visit the Korsun Open-Air Museum, devoted to thousand of civilians and soldiers who gave their lives in the fight for freedom of their land during the bloody Word War II years from 1941-1943. As Ukrainians say, “Glory to the Heroes!”. You will be deeply impressed by the Korsun Hill of Glory, monument to the war heroes.
We are proud to invite you to the cradle town of many Ukrainian heroes who changed the history of their Motherland and made the first steps on the way to Ukrainian Freedom
