Kremenchug. City of both sides

Not far from the sensational Gorishni Plavni there is such a city on the river - Kremenchug. You won't find it in tourist guides. A rare tourist will specially break away from the other end of Ukraine to see the industrial capital of the Poltava region. This is the birthplace of KrAZ, Ukrtatnafta, wagon builders and many large plants. But the city can boast of the proximity of the protected floodplains of the Dnieper - it is surrounded by many green islands.

Often people come here on business, visit relatives and friends. But when receiving guests, the residents themselves often ask themselves the question - what to show them in their city? Where to lead? And if you are an independent traveler, then finding the answer to this question will be even more difficult. So, what to do if you are "skidded" to an industrial town? Where to go to spend your leisure time in an amusing way?

What to see in Kremenchuk: interesting places

There are not a lot of historical sights in Kremenchuk. This is not Kyiv, not Lvov, not Odessa. The city is not small - more than 200 thousand Kremenchuk live in it, and it is far from being poor. Restaurants, coffee houses, pubs, hookahs are just around every corner. You can spend a week without getting out of the bars. And the question of what, in fact, to do in Kremenchug, will disappear by itself. However, bars are not everything. You can take a lot of pictures from Kremenchuk with funny monuments and breathtaking panoramas.

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Bridge across the Dnieper

For Kremenchuk, this is the same business card as the Eiffel Tower for Paris or Big Ben for London. He is in all the pictures dedicated to the city, on all posters and book covers. Since the bridge connects the main part of the city with Kryukov, in everyday life it was called "Kryukovskiy".

Photo source: social network VKontakte, author - Stas Osipov.

Bridge - "three in one": for cars, trains and pedestrians. The walk will take about 20 minutes. Suitable for photographers, romantics and extreme lovers. It offers beautiful views of the river, city beach, green islands. The scenery at sunset is especially impressive. Well, and a little extreme in addition: when trains or trucks drive over the bridge, you feel that it just “walks” under your feet. This landmark is about to be 70 years old, and there has long been talk of retiring the bridge by building a "twin brother". But the bridge, like all Ukrainians, decided to increase the retirement age - it will not be easy to retire soon.

How to get there: minibuses No. 3B, 11.

Embankment of Kremenchug

One of the most popular places among the townspeople. On holidays, sometimes you will not find a place to sit on the parapet. From the embankment you can see a breathtaking panorama of the Dnieper and neighboring islands. The most romantic island, frozen in the middle of the water surface, has an elegant name "Fantasy". AT Soviet times beaches were arranged on it, but now it is always deserted.

How to get there: minibuses No. 15, 16, 17.

Ferris wheel

An attraction in the Pridneprovsky park will help you look at the Dnieper from a height. The park is located along the waterfront.

Photo source: panoramio.com, author - Oleg Gersdof.

pike monument

“Swim the pike from Kremenchuk” - the name of the song from the collection of Taras Shevchenko, Kremenchuk decided to perpetuate in bronze. And so a monument to the pike appeared on the embankment. Now everyone wants to “hold it in their hands”, at least in the photo. And the newlyweds put their fingers right in her mouth: it is believed that then their marriage will be happy.

Photo source: zik.ua.

Vyshyvanka on Victory Square

Not so long ago, Kremenchug Square was “dressed” in an embroidered shirt. The fact is that earlier in the center of the main square of the city there was a monument to Lenin. The monument was demolished, but the granite pedestal did not give up. And the "glass", as it was called by the people of Kremenchuk, spoiled the panorama of the square for a long time. This year, the pedestal was removed, and the square was decorated with Ukrainian ornaments.

Photo source: poltava.sq.com.ua.

Museum of military equipment in the open air

Do not be surprised when you see a real tank and fighter in the Peace Park. You have entered the Museum military equipment under open sky. Among the exhibits are the famous Katyusha, artillery pieces, the MiG-31 fighter and more.

How to get there: minibus number 30, stop "Park Mira".

peace gong

Do not rush to leave the Peace Park. Pay attention to the original gazebo. Inside it is the Gong of Peace, presented to the city by Indonesian partners as a sign of friendship.

Photo source: panoramio.com, author - Vitaliy Matyash.

Monument to plumbers

The Kremenchug water utility immortalized the work of plumbers in bronze: you can take a picture with them on the territory of the enterprise.

Photo source: kremenchug.ua.

How to get there: to the stop "Gorvodokanal" (almost all minibuses of the city pass through it), then turn into the Heroes of Brest lane and walk for about 5 minutes.

Musical fountain

The most well-groomed corner in the city is the square named after them. Babaev. In summer, this is a wonderful place with immaculate lawns, elegant benches and antique-style lanterns.

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The main decoration is a light and music fountain. In the evening it is always crowded here: many come to watch the dance of colorful jets.

Photo source: social network VKontakte, author - Bogdan Petrenko.

And the park looks so cozy in autumn.

Photo source: kremen.today.

How to get there: minibuses No. 3-b, 11, 28, stop "Center".

Ostap Bender

Ostap Bender, who, by his own admission, spent "hungry childhood in Kremenchug", has become one of the symbols of the city. You can sit down on a table and take a picture with it near the Galaktika shopping center.

Photo source: livejournal.com.

How to get there: minibuses No. 11, 15, 17, 16 and walk a little along the main street of the city - Cathedral.

Stork Grisha

If you are lucky, you will see this winged attraction. Yes, the real stork has become a symbol of the city. Long time residents shared photos with Grisha on social networks (why exactly Grisha remains a mystery). Either he is the star of the central beach, then he walks in the market, then near the city hall, then in the school yard. The stork became so popular that the local political party used his photo for campaigning. But Grisha is still non-partisan, not aggressive and loves treats. Don't be surprised if you meet.

Photo source: youtube.com.

Where to go with a girl in Kremenchuk

island of lovers

The city park of Kremenchug has recently acquired a charming island, to which an arched bridge leads. Often in the gazebo, towering in the middle of the lake, they arrange photo shoots. Romance is added by black and white swans, gracefully gliding across the water surface. Ducks also live in the park. So, when you come here, grab some bread to feed the birds and get to know them better. The fish will also be happy with the crumbs - the lake is simply teeming with fry!

Photo source: Google Maps, author - Sergey Kaptan.

How to get there: almost all minibuses of the city pass through the Gorsad stop. For example, No. 15-b, 15, 3-b, 11, 17.

Sakura alley

Every spring, a small miracle happens in the city - cherry blossoms burst into pink. Kremenchug alley is not big at all and is planted along the road. But there is a cozy corner nearby, from where it is convenient to admire the delicate flowers. Benches sheltered in the shade, barely noticeable to passers-by, and the murmur of the fountain create an enchanting atmosphere.

Photo source: kremen.today.

How to get there: minibuses No. 15, 17, 3-B, 11zh are suitable. Go to the stop "Memorial" Forever alive.

Heart near the Wedding Palace

Opposite the Wedding Palace there is a romantic place where all the newlyweds and just couples in love take pictures.

Photo source: shukach.com.

How to get there: minibus number 15.

River Station

A beautiful view of the Dnieper opens from the river port. You can enjoy it while sitting on a bench - it is calmer here than on the embankment. Ships do not moor often, but occasionally you may be lucky to meet a ship. The building of the river station, made in the form of a ship, is also original.

Rock "Granite Register"

Not far from the central embankment is a geological monument of nature -. It is usually quiet here, and at sunset, gorgeous views of the Dnieper open up.

For connoisseurs of beauty: architecture and theater

During World War II, the city was practically destroyed. It was literally rebuilt from the ashes. Therefore, there are almost no historical buildings that would please the eye with elegant forms. But, nevertheless, you can find interesting buildings. To do this, it is worth walking through the city center, especially along the main street of Kremenchug - Cathedral.

Photo source: 1ua.com.ua, author - vkrutev.

One of the most famous and oldest city buildings has been preserved near Victory Square. It was erected specifically for the bank. It has not changed its purpose since then.

Photo source: panoramio.com, by Taras Kushnirenko.

Take a look at Kryukov. There is one of the most beautiful Palaces of Culture in Kremenchug.

Photo source: panoramio.com, author - Vadim Novikov.

And nearby, on the street. Prikhodko, the former mansion of a famous Kremenchug merchant has been preserved.

Photo source: panoramio.com, by Wad K.

If you see posters announcing theatrical performances, don't hesitate. Lots of fun and good mood are guaranteed.

Photo source: social network VKontakte.

Where to go with a child in Kremenchuk

To the mini-zoo, square "Sosnovy"

There is no full-fledged zoo in the city, but you will find a living corner where you can get acquainted with various animals in the Pine Square. There is also a spacious playground.

Photo source: telegraf.in.ua.

How to get there: get to the Gorvodokanal stop, any trolleybus and almost all minibuses will do.

Feed the squirrels in the park "Pridneprovsky"

Red-haired beauties live in the most famous park in Kremenchug - Pridneprovsky. They are not at all afraid of people and are already accustomed to accepting treats from them. In addition, the park has rides and a huge playground.

Photo source: social network VKontakte, author - Bogdan Petrenko.

How to get there: minibuses No. 15, 17.

Go to the Museum of the History of Aviation and Cosmonautics

How to get there: by any transport traveling across the bridge towards Kryukov. Get off at the first stop, then turn left and walk along the highway to the gas station. In front of her is a path that goes towards the river. Walk 10 minutes.

In summer, you should not even think about where to spend time in Kremenchug. After all, it is adjacent to floodplains and islands.

Photo source: panoramio.com, by uranus 235.

Some of the islands belong to the natural reserve fund. But there are some places where you can go safely. For example, in the summer the islands of Shalamay and Zeleny are crowded with motor boats, and the locals live there for the whole summer. But visitors to the city will have to puzzle over how to get there. There is no river communication in Kremenchug. Therefore, you need to ask at the boat stations who will agree to take you on vacation.

Photo source: panoramio.com.

Many residents of Kremenchuk are avid fishermen. Join now!

Photo source: vkfaces.xyz, author - Denis Zalivchiy.

Boat trip. In the yacht club "Poseidon" you can order a boat trip and, if you wish, swim to the neighboring village of Keleberda - there are beautiful views. Price – 900 UAH/h.

What to do in Kremenchuk: go for entertainment

There are several nightclubs in the city, the most famous of them are "Nut", party bar "Vanil", "Joss". You can play bowling in the Europa shopping center, and most of all billiard tables are in the Grande. To practice trap shooting or shooting from a carbine, go to the Krechet sports and shooting club in the summer. The choice of cafes and restaurants in the city is large. In one establishment, guests are greeted by a pig, in another, a pianist “comes to life” in the evenings, in a third, the floor is covered with peanut skins ... There is a time cafe, a cafe of Indian, Armenian, Japanese, Belarusian, Ukrainian cuisines. Craving fast food? McDonald's lovers will find it on the street. Kievskaya.

Photo source: social network VKontakte, author - Alexander Grinchenko.

Who wants a sweet - "Welcome" to the Lviv Chocolate Workshop.

Photo source: kremen.today.

Where to stay

There are at least a dozen hotels in the city. The most expensive of them - "Helicopter", on its website offers guests flights on a MI-8 helicopter as excursions.

Photo source: hotel-helicopter.com.

The oldest hotels in the city are Kremin and Dneprovskiye Zori. For budget tourists, there are a couple of hostels in the city, the price is from 100 UAH per day. And a large selection of offers for daily rent of housing.

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To help visitors to the city

• Trolleybuses and minibuses run in the city. Minibuses run almost every minute, fare - 4 UAH. They work all night, but after 23:00 - 7 UAH. Late at night, you can only count on route number 17.
• The city has a free Wi-Fi network. It covers parks and squares of Kremenchug.
• Got a laptop? Need a computer urgently? You can use it for free in the libraries of the city. Just take your passport with you.
• Stuck on the road? Need help with a car? The city has a community of mutual assistance on the road - they help for free. You can find their page on the social network VKontakte.
• It is almost impossible to get lost in Kremenchug. The whole city is centered around one long highway.
• The main street of the city is Cathedral. If you find it, you will easily find your way in a further walk around the city. We hope it will leave you only positive impressions!

Today there are more than 50 churches of different denominations. Among believers, the largest part is the Orthodox Church (Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate and Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)). They own most of the temples of the city.

Museums in Kremenchug

There are two communal museums: the Museum of Local Lore and the Museum of A.S. Makarenko. There are also 5 public folk museums and the Center for Culture and Leisure, the City Art Gallery, and the Art Gallery of Natalia Yuzefovich have opened.

Granite rock on the banks of the Dnieper, a geological monument of nature and an old geodetic sign (benchmark). It is an outcrop of gray biotite-plagioclase magmatites aged 2.5-3 billion years. On a rock rising 5-6 m above the level of the river, the slope to the Dnieper is stepped. Since the 18th century, the levels of the Dnieper floods have been noted on this slope. The first mark is 1787, then 1789, 1820, 1842, 1845, 1877, 1888, 1895, 1915 and the last date is 1942.

Address: Kremenchug, Embankment

st. Timiryazev. At the very beginning of the street near the railway line.

On the other side of the road from the monument to the revolutionary sailors of the Dnieper flotilla, there is a modest obelisk on the grave of bridge builders who died when ice fields were blown up during an ice drift on the river. Dnieper March 30, 1946 At the cost of their lives, four sappers saved the railway bridge under construction across the river from destruction. Dnieper, thereby ensuring its speedy recovery. The restored bridge made it possible to open uninterrupted train traffic along the Southern Railway towards Znamenka, Odessa, and from the south - to Kharkov and Romodan.

In September 1971, on Revolution Square, in honor of the 400th anniversary of the city, a stele was erected, representing four 18-meter pylons topped with a hammer and sickle. The stele is decorated with images of the old and new coat of arms of the city. The authors of the monument are Kremenchug artists A. Kotlyar and L. Sidorenko. The pylons, symbolizing four centuries, are lined with stainless steel sheets. The whole building, directed to the heights, looks light and solemn and immediately became a symbol of the new Kremenchug, its hallmark.

On February 22, 1990, the decision of the city executive committee No. 137 “On the construction of a monument to T.G. Shevchenko in Kremenchug”, a certain place for him and a memorial sign was installed (Pushkin Boulevard, near Prominvestbank). Fundraising has begun in the city. But this time the monument was not erected. The epic continued: in 1994, the symbolic first stone of the future monument was laid in another place - on the embankment of the Dnieper. And only 10 years later, on April 19, 2004, the bronze figure of T.G. Shevchenko was finally installed. Its grand opening took place on the day of the reburial of the poet on May 22, 2004.

It is believed that the genius of Ukrainian and world literature in 1843 and 1845. visited the city. At least, the route of his travel to Ukraine ran in such a way that it must certainly pass through the city. Evidence of this is the mention of Kremenchug and Kryukov in the works "Servant" and "Captain".

The museum was founded in 1937. The museum's exposition was based on the collections of the teacher's institute and the public education department. During the war, the museum building was destroyed and its collections were looted. The museum's expositions were opened again in 1975 in a reconstructed building. Three floors of the new building housed the departments of nature, the pre-October period and the department modern history cities. In addition, the museum hosts a variety of exhibitions: the work of artists, sculptors, embroiderers, craftsmen. Its funds include more than 60 thousand exhibits: an archaeological collection of the Iron Age, the early Slavic period, ethnographic collections, old books, documents, photographs. The museum funds are constantly replenished with new exhibits and documents.

From the palace of G.I. Petrovsky originates one of the most beautiful streets of Kremenchug - A.S. Pushkin. The length of the boulevard is 600 m.

In the center of the boulevard there is a square planted with willows, birches, chestnuts, mountain ash, big number rose bushes. The pedestrian area is decorated with fountains, antique lamps and benches are installed. A marble bust of the great poet A.S. was installed on a semicircular square. Pushkin. The authors of the monument are sculptors I. Yastrebov and Yu. Shorokhov, architects L. Rasstrygin and S. Tkachenko. The street acquired the name of Pushkin in the year of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Sergeevich. Prior to this, the street had a different name - the City. Pushkin visited Kremenchug twice: in May 1820 on the way to Yekaterinoslav and in August 1824 on the way from the southern exile to Mikhailovskoye. He stayed at the house of the parents of his friend from the Lyceum A. Delvig. Delvig, after graduation, spent the summer in the Dnieper city, spoke warmly about him and in letters invited Pushkin to stay with him. The people of Kremenchuk remember and honor the great poet. His memory is immortalized in the name of the most beautiful street in the city.

The city was liberated by the evening of September 29, 1943 after stubborn battles by the troops of the 5th Guards Army of General A.S. Zhadov, 53rd Army General I.M. Managarov with the support of aviation of the 5th Air Army of General S.K. Goryunov. The 97th Guards Poltava Division, the 6th Guards Airborne Division, 214 rifle division, 219th tank brigade, 469th mortar regiment, 1902nd self-propelled artillery regiment, 308th guards mortar regiment. All these compounds received the honorary name "Kremenchug".

On the territory of the river station there is a garden "Alpine Hill". Numerous rock slides with waterfalls and fountains have been built. Everything is planted with flowers, ornamental plants, paths paved with pebbles are laid. Among this realm of greenery and all kinds of colors of flowers, bronze characters of fairy tales flaunt: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Puss in Boots, Gena the Crocodile and Cheburashka, Tortila the Turtle, Pinocchio with a Golden Key. Goldfish swim in small lakes. Among the flowerbeds rise fine models of cathedrals. Children are especially delighted with these miracles: count the gnomes, sit on a bench next to the crocodile Gena and Cheburashka, stand near Puss in Boots, find a turtle hiding among the grass. Every resident of Kremenchuzhan came here, at least once, and numerous guests of this city also come here.

In 1968, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Komsomol and in memory of dozens and hundreds of young patriots from Kremenchuk who gave their lives during the years of civil and Patriotic War, a monument to the Komsomol members of the 20s and 30s was erected in the park along Lenin Street. A marble stele was installed on a platform paved with concrete slabs. On one side of the white stone slab is a high relief image of Komsomol members and the inscription - “In memory of everyone who gave us a happy and joyful life, a calm and clear sky, to the Komsomol members of the 20s and 30s, grateful descendants - Komsomol members 60 th years". On the opposite side of the slab is a high relief image of the Komsomol members of the 60s. On the protruding end of the stele there is an inscription: "50 years of the Komsomol, 1918-1968". Blue spruces stand in the guard of honor at the monument, flowers bloom at the foot - life goes on, memory remains.

Kremenchug- a city of regional subordination, which is located in central Ukraine, in the Poltava region. It is not part of the district of the same name, but is its administrative center. Most of the city lies on the left bank of the Dnieper, and only a small part of it, namely Kryukov, lies on the right bank.

In Kremenchug there are such districts as Avtozavodskoy and Kryukovsky, and the city consists of left-bank and right-bank parts, which are connected by the Kryukovsky bridge. The roads "Alexandria - Kharkov" and "Dnepropetrovsk - Kyiv" also pass through the city. The city itself is stretched from south to north, and its width is no more than 8 km.

The Kremenchug region includes 19 village councils.

According to the results of the main department of statistics, the population of the city is 224,997 people, and the population density is 2460 people / km 2.

For those who are interested in what the city lives today, we recommend that you familiarize yourself with the latest information about Kremenchug:

History of Kremenchug

Base

The official date of foundation of Kremenchug falls on 1571. The Polish king Sigismund II signed a universal in which he indicated that it was necessary to build a fortress in order to protect the Dnieper region from constant attacks Crimean Tatars. The name of the city is taken from the Turkish word "Kremenchuk" and means "Little Fortress".

City on the Dnieper

In 1638, a fortress was erected in the town, the plan of which was drawn up by a military engineer from France, Guillaume Levasseur de Bonpland. At the same time, the already mentioned Kryukov appeared.

Kremenchug was a trading city, where fairs were held, which were attended by merchants from different cities and countries, and also constantly sold grain, timber and salt.

History within Tsarist Russia

In 1764, Kremenchug was part of the Novorossiysk province and in 1765-1783 was considered its provincial city.

During the Russian-Turkish war (1787-1791), Russian troops were based in the city. It was then that an arms factory was built here with a blacksmith, locksmith, foundry and other workshops. And in 1788, the famous commander Alexander Suvorov, who was wounded during the Kinburg battle, was treated in the Kremenchug hospital.

Since 1796, the city began to belong to the Little Russian province, due to the disappearance of the Yekaterinoslav governorship. In 1798, Kremenchug got its own coat of arms, and in 1802 it became a county town of the Poltava province.

In 1782, for the first time in the country, a conservatory was opened here. The reason for the opening was a visit to Kremenchug by Catherine II. The director of the conservatory was Giuseppe Sarti, a composer from Italy.

Since the connection of Kremenchug with Kryukovsky Posad, it has become the largest commercial and industrial city in the Poltava province. During this time, a cloth and hosiery factory, a tannery and other enterprises were founded here, and the right-bank part also became the center of the salt trade.

With the development of capitalism in 1861, new plants and factories appeared here, and old ones were rebuilt. In 1873, a railway bridge appeared, passing through the Dnieper. At the end of the 19th century, a railway, a power station, a library, a district school, a theater, a gymnasium and much more were already functioning, and in 1899 the first tram appeared.

Kremenchug during the war

In 1941, on September 9, the Nazis captured Kremenchug. During the war, all educational and cultural institutions, 93 industrial enterprises, a railway, a power plant, a bridge that passed through the Dnieper, as well as 97% of the housing stock were destroyed here.

In 1943, on September 29, the Fifth Guards Army of the Steppe Front liberated the city from the invaders. It is on this day that the inhabitants of Kremenchug celebrate City Day.

Post-war period: restoration of infrastructure and active development of industry

After the war, heavy industry began to actively develop here, 3 Kremenchug machine-building plants were built: a car-building plant, an automobile plant and a plant for road machines. In 1959, for the first time, residents saw KrAZ trucks.

For 20 years (1960-1980), a complex of chemical enterprises, the most powerful thermal power plant in the region, one of the most powerful oil refineries in Europe and, of course, new houses were built in the city.

Infrastructure and industry of today

Today, machine-building and processing enterprises operate in the city on the Dnieper: 11 factories that specialize in the production of wagons, cars, oil refining, wheels, the manufacture of bakery and alcoholic products, the processing of meat, milk, etc .; leather and saddlery factory; 2 garment factories and one tobacco factory; confectionery factories "Lukas", "ROSHEN", "Romashka", etc.

"AvtoKrAZ"

The city has a large port, an airfield, and the Kremenchug hydroelectric power station. In Kremenchug there are two railway stations: "Kryukov-on-Dnieper" and "Kremenchug" - one of the largest stations of the Southern railway. Kremenchuk has a direct railway connection with Kharkov, Odessa, Kyiv, Dnepropetrovsk, Lvov, Moscow and other cities.

River port

Attractions, education, culture and social sphere

There are many attractions in Kremenchuk:

• museums,
• art and picture galleries,
• various monuments (to revolutionary sailors, underground partisans, plumbers, etc.);
• rock "Granite benchmark";
• obelisk of the dead;
• a stele in honor of the 400th anniversary of the city;
• Pushkin boulevard;
• Garden "Alpine Hill"
• pike from Kremenchug and many others.

Museum of Local Lore

The sphere of education in Kremenchug is represented by the following educational institutions:

• 21 secondary schools.
• Specialized comprehensive school.
• Night school.
• Educational association.
• Private school.
• Jewish scientific and educational complex.
• Boarding school.
• 6 lyceums.
• 2 high schools.
• 4 colleges.
• Academy for the Development of Humanitarian Education.
• Higher vocational school.
• Technical school of railway transport.
• Pedagogical school.
• 2 vocational schools.
• Kremenchug Institute of Dnepropetrovsk University of Economics and Law.
• 3 universities.

The social sphere includes the central district hospital, two district hospitals and 8 outpatient clinics, and the Verbichenka sanatorium operates in the city. In addition, there are 2 museums and 2 galleries, the City Palace of Culture and 3 Youth Sports School.

Famous personalities of Kremenchug

The city can be proud of Ukrainian and world celebrities who were born and raised here:

1. Alexei Leonov - first cosmonaut, Hero Soviet Union, honorary citizen of the city.
2. Teacher and writer Anton Makarenko.
3. Singer and film actor, People's Artist of the USSR Leonid Utyosov.
4. Jewish Soviet writer, critic and publicist Genekh Kazakevich.
5. Ukrainian football players Maxim and Pavel Pashaev.
6. Israeli children's poet and writer Miriam Yalan-Steklis.
7. Poet and prose writer Emmanuil Kazakevich.
8. American avant-garde composer and pianist Lev Ornstein.
9. Ukrainian professional billiard player Anastasia Kovalchuk.
10. Master of Sports, 1980 Olympic champion in shot put, repeated champion of the USSR Vladimir Kiselyov.
11. American composer Dmitry Tyomkin.
12. an officer Soviet army Alexander Pechersky.
13. Professional boxer, WBA welterweight world champion Vyacheslav Senchenko.
14. Ukrainian footballer, Premier League player Dmitry Lepa.
15. Theater and film actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR Vladimir Zamansky.

Reference information of Kremenchug

The city on the map is indicated by the following coordinates: 49˚04’39” N.L. 33˚25’26” E Its area is 109.6 km2.

Telephone code of the city: +38005366.

Postal codes of Kremenchug: 39600-39689.

The city is located in the time zone UTC + 2 h (+3 h - taking into account the transfer of clocks to "summer time").

The building of the Kremenchug City Council is located at the address: 39600, Kremenchug, Victory Square, 2.

August 27th, 2012 07:56 am

Kremenchuk, located in the Poltava region, dates back to the 16th century. It began with a fortress designed to protect the adjacent territory and the crossing over the Dnieper. Residents most often associate the name of the city with the word "flint", which confirms its frequent use in local everyday life. Kremenchuk is an industrial city, giving 7% of the budget of Ukraine. Local products were known even in the Soviet Union. For example, KrAZ trucks are manufactured here. The presence of a large number of factories has its negative and positive sides for locality. The latter, in addition to creating jobs, include the contribution of enterprises to the improvement of the city. Plant "Kredmash" planted a new birch grove.

And at the entrance there is an impressive fountain.

It was installed by the Wheel Factory. As the sellers of the outlets next to it said, the fountain does not have a clear work schedule, and today, to their joy (splashes are flying at them), it is turned off ...

Flower business.

Near a small oasis.

In Kremenchug, during the Great Patriotic War, there was a concentration camp for prisoners of war and other categories of people objectionable to the Nazis. They killed 97 thousand people. The population of the 115,000 pre-war city decreased to 18,000 by the end of the war.

A new church has been built in the park. Or a square is equipped around the new church.

The belfry is clearly temporary. Although, what could be more permanent than temporary structures?

There is also a monument to the Komsomol members of the 30s of the 20th century from the Komsomol members of the 60s. Probably deservedly so, because they took an active part in the development of urban industry. I wonder if the current young guys will be remembered with a kind word? And for what?

In one of the parks I met an old man exhausted by time. From his face, one could assume that there was once a place for belonging to a culture. Does he remember that time? Or is it indifferently waiting for the end determined by fate?

I'm swept through the barns, scraped through the bottom of the barrel...

In many places, the paving of urban areas with paving slabs is now actively underway. Especially where the leadership of the locality owns its production. Kremenchug does not lag behind in this work. The stadium is almost finished. It remains to lay only a small area in the middle ...

In the city you can find panels on the entire wall of the house, left over from the Soviet period.

The fire tower, in the absence of church dominants, is very handy.

DK car factory. Judging by its condition, production continues. Although in Russia KrAZ is now a curiosity.

In times of office planktonization of the non-female part of the population of civilized countries, strong male hands become rarities. (Kremenchug, with its considerable proportion of workers among the townspeople, is, of course, less of a concern). Those who want to take a look at how they should look like and touch steel muscles can go to the courtyard of the local Vodokanal.

Kremenchug was badly damaged during the Great Patriotic War. Naturally, after its completion, the city was restored.

These houses are similar to those built by captured Germans and their allies throughout the USSR.

The city has made an attempt to separate waste collection.

But either there are not enough types of tanks, or the holes for receiving garbage are too small. Or did some conservative-minded resident make a bunch?

It is unlikely that A.S. would have approved of this. Makarenko, a great educator, who received a pedagogical education here, and here began to work as a teacher. Now in the courtyard of the school there is a monument to him and the children.

Not far. In the meadow, in the meadow, in the meadow are ko...? (Or rather lo...).

Good Orthodox churches are obtained by a simple alteration of Catholic churches.

There are few religious buildings in the city. In this area, there was also a chapel near the railway station.

And the new Catholic Church.

I think that it is worth going towards the wishes of Taras Grigorievich and commemorate him. Quiet word. The man was good. He just did not know that his statements would be parsed into quotes and posted on the streets of all cities of Ukraine. Otherwise I would have made more of them.

It is good that in the current state he has a very productive assistant.

A concert was organized for city veterans.

The military band reminded them of the years of their youth.

Architectural veterans were less fortunate. Many of them are in need of renovation of facades.

But surrounded by dense vegetation, these buildings look more fun.

Some old mansions look quite decent.

In the tower, similar to the chapel of the cafe "Beijing".

Another trading establishment of oriental appearance.

Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin visited Kremenchug.

Academician Vernadsky assembled bricks here for the foundation of his theory of the biosphere.

Modern students have moved from theory to practice, and maintain an acceptable state of the biosphere, removing garbage after irresponsible citizens on the embankment.

I must say that the embankment in Kremenchug is good.

It is shorter than in Dnepropetrovsk, and not as large, but it is continued by magnificent beaches.

Throughout the entire length along the banks of the Dnieper, a park zone stretches. The scale of what was created along the Dnieper suggests that the Soviet leadership had certain views on Kremenchug. But something didn't work out. Perhaps they just didn’t have time, because. restructuring has begun...

There are many animals in the dense thickets.

Not all of them managed to go through this difficult period in the life of the country without loss, but it is worth hoping that the wisdom "if there were bones (in this case, reinforcement) - the meat will grow" this time will work ...

Widely known in narrow circles is the city pike.

A rare boat will reach the middle of the Dnieper. But, if it swims, it can find a convenient sandbank there.

Near the parks the central square. Part of it is given to children.

Vladimir Ilyich thought with satisfaction: "This generation will live under communism." But, remembering that objective reality depends little on imagination, I decided to add a question mark at the end of the phrase, just in case.

Memories of the first day after the war. Probably, our people did not have such happiness either before or after this important event.

The memory of the destroyed cathedral. Perhaps someday it will be restored.

The river station has just been renovated.

Around it are various sculptures. The main theme is female beauty.

Should there be many good people?

Kremenchug is a huge industrial city (224 thousand inhabitants, and with satellite cities and all half a million) a hundred kilometers from Poltava, Kirovograd (Kropyvnytskyi) and Dnipro (Opetrovsk). With the shown Poltava, it correlates approximately like Cherepovets with Vologda: there it is an administrative and cultural center, and here it is an economic and transport center. But the uniqueness of Kremenchug lies in the fact that it stands on the two banks of the Dnieper approximately in the place where the historical Little Russia was replaced by the historical Novorossiya, and this is significant: I heard from my acquaintances in Kiev that the results of the elections in Kremenchug accurately predict the results of the elections throughout Ukraine. But in terms of attractions here, frankly, it's frankly boring ...

From Poltava to Krechenchug, I rode a private minibus, whose phone number I found out at one of the Poltava bus stations. A movie was shown in the salon, and, characteristically, in Russian. I looked at the screen more than out the window, the minibus bounced on the potholes of one of the deadliest roads that I know (not the Lviv Carpathian region, of course, but comparable), but at some point out of the corner of my eye I saw that the landscape outside the window had changed:

Kremenchug, unlike almost all the cities shown earlier in this series, did not have an Old Russian past. But since the 14th century, the victories of Lithuania over the Golden Horde, a fishing farm has been known at this place, near which in 1550 a "river corral" was created (the base of the Cossack flotilla, which controlled the Tatar crossings), and in 1637 - a fortress, along with Kodak (prototype) holding the Zaporozhian Sich at gunpoint. The Cossacks, of course, were not at a loss either, and in the same year, the Cossack settlement Kryukov arose on the right bank of the Dnieper, and then the Cossacks completely drove the Poles. Under the Hetmanate, Kremenchug was already listed as a city, but in fact it remained a remote periphery until 1764, when it was first said in the Russian capitals - "There will be Novorossiya!" On the lands of the Wild Field, on the Zaporizhzhya nomad camps, to which were added the colonies of Serbs-borders, the Novorossiysk province was established, and Kremenchug, as the lowest city on the Dnieper at that time, became its center, and formally remained so until 1783, and in fact - until 1796, while Yekaterinoslav was being built down the Dnieper. Then Kremenchug was completely returned to Little Russia, and since 1802 it became a county town of the Poltava province. But those 30 years were not in vain - the city managed to get rich, acquire connections and traditions, and was in no hurry to give up its positions, by the beginning of the 20th century, with a population of 61 thousand people, remaining largest city throughout the Left-bank Little Russia, surpassing the provincial Poltava and Chernihiv. But alas, that city was wiped off the face of the earth by war, and in the late Soviet era, it was finally reborn into an industrial giant. In 1958, the famous KrAZ produced his first truck, in 1960 the Kremenchug hydroelectric power station in Svetlovodsk gave its first current (then it was called Khrushchev, until Nikita Sergeyevich himself canceled this name, submitting to them themselves adopted law), in 1966 the largest oil refinery in Ukraine started operating (comparable in terms of capacity, but it only works now at 25-30%), in 1970 - the Komsomolsk Mining and Processing Plant, the most important along with the supplier of raw materials for Ukrainian metallurgy, for which the city was specially built Komsomolsk, recently noisily renamed the village of Gorishni (Upper) Plavni. That is, what we have in essence: an absolutely average Ukrainian city in history and location with an absolutely Eastern Ukrainian industrial modernity.

I got two walks around Kremenchug - I arrived here at dusk, squeezed everything I could out of them before dark, and left by taxi to a shitty hotel somewhere in the depths of the railway station industrial zone. In the morning I went for a walk literally with the first rays of the sun - until the evening there was a difficult hitchhiking spurt to Kirovograd through Chigirin with walks in three cities, and literally every minute counted. However, I passed the station on both walks, and I don’t really remember which shots are morning and which ones are evening.

The railway came here in 1870, the same one as in Poltava, the Kharkov-Nikolaev highway, and even with the exact same station. Moreover, since 1888 the highway was actually Libavo-Kremenchug, connecting the Baltic not just with the Ukrainian granary, but with the Dnieper and, therefore, the Black Sea. The old station, the same as in Poltava, was destroyed during the war:

Behind the station there are industrial zones, one-story suburbs, distant microdistricts, known under the common sonorous name Zanasyp, and a 350-meter winding overpass leads there from the station square:

The railway station, and once Fair Square is marked by St. George's Chapel. It was built in 2006 by railway workers in memory of Georgiy Kirpa, Minister of Transport of Ukraine, by origin (Khmelnychyn) and career (Lviv Railway) an obvious westerner, but at the same time moderately pro-Russian views. It is also indisputable that "Ukrazaliznitsa" flourished under him, which I myself remember very well from my visits to Ukraine in 2004, and even built under him - and Russia then did not dream of such roads, nor such trains and stations. More than once I came across the opinion that it was Kirpa who could be a potential savior of Ukraine, who would ensure the development of the country, prevent polarization and prevent the oligarchic game of thrones from running wild. But after the 2004 elections, Kirpa shot himself, and if it really was a suicide (which, as you might guess, there are big doubts), then maybe he simply understood what a crooked path his country had taken? And how significant it is that he was immortalized with a chapel here, in the Median city.

Basically, the center of Kremenchug looks like this, and frankly, this is one of the dullest cities I have ever seen. The old city was destroyed by the war, and a large industry came here only under Khrushchev and Brezhnev, so the appearance of Kremenchug is determined by five-story buildings and the most primitive version of steel, at the foot of which "district" houses come across every now and then. At the same time, the city is well-groomed, lively (not at 6 am, of course, when this shot was taken) and clearly rich - the local factories, especially machine-building ones, are working properly, and the army was able to at least partially compensate for the loss of markets.

Kremenchug is divided into two districts - Avtozavodsky and Kryukovskiy, so different that I would call them separate merged cities. It is most logical to imagine the Dnieper as their border, but no: the Kryukov district, in addition to the beyond the river Kryukov, also includes the center of Kremenchug with the railway station, while Avtozavodsky covers the industrial areas of KrAZ and the oil refinery far from the river. Both of my walks started from the station, but in different directions and to different areas.

First walk, evening.Avtozavodsky district.

A short noisy Halamenyuk street leaves the station in a straight line, and opposite the station square there is a larger parking lot in front of the Amstor shopping center. Then I bought dinner in it, but now on Wikimapia it is marked as closed. Further down the street is the Kredmash recreation center, and for a long time I puzzled over what kind of equipment he makes (banking equipment?), Until I realized what it means "Kremenchug Road Machinery Plant", which produces asphalt-smoking installations. It originated back in the 1870s, then producing, like most engineering plants in the South, agricultural implements. Its small platform is right behind the Palace of Culture, and from the facade of the Palace of Culture begins Cathedral Street (at the time of the trip - Lenina), which will come in handy for our second walk.

On the other side of the plant is the City Garden, founded by Potemkin in 1787, for the visit of Catherine II to the then center of Novorossia:

Opposite is the Cosmos square with a simple Trinity Church (1999) and a monument to Komsomol members (1972), I don’t know if it has been decommunized since then or not yet.

The church looks much more interesting "in profile" than from the side of the apse, but I did not come closer to it. This is the successor to the old Trinity Church (1915), demolished back in the 1930s. Now I met the turnover of the Trinity Church at the Power Plant:

The power plant itself is a little further, behind a tricky five-beam interchange that separates the Avtozavodsky district, deep into which goes wide to spacious Svoboda Avenue, which at the time of the trip was still the 60th anniversary of October Avenue - by this time, judging by appearance and the region was formed.

And from the power plant and the fire station, it apparently began - although the power plant itself will pull on the 1920s, and the fire complex will be completely pre-revolutionary, in fact, all this was built by 1950:

Graffiti on the wall of the power plant with the shadows of people who believed:

Most of Svoboda Avenue looks like this, and the power of the Brezhnev districts in the industrial cities of Ukraine is consistently impressive:

For about 20 minutes I walked to the next square at the fork in the road to Poltava and Kyiv:

There is a McDonald's here, but I didn't take a picture of it:

Opposite the fountain is the memorial "Forever Alive" (1973) on the site of one of the prisoner of war camps. There were several of them in Kremenchug, and up to 100 thousand people died in them. Here the hero of the plot is a military doctor, who secretly treated wounded prisoners in a hospital deployed by the Germans, for which he was eventually executed.
Kremenchuk is such a rich city by Ukrainian standards that it can afford to maintain an eternal flame:

The memorial opens Zhilgorodok (1950-52), a kind of history Center Avtozavodsky district. The typical post-war Palace of Culture of KrAZ overlooks the same square:

The industrial buildings of all sorts of old mills and factories look a little more solid:

But of the temples, only the old church (1910) survived, which in the 1990s became the Orthodox St. Nicholas Church:

In one of the courtyards near the main street, a synagogue hid, upon closer inspection it turned out to be a remake:

It is not entirely obvious that almost half of the population of the county Kremenchug, that is, about 30 thousand people, were Jews, and among the county towns only a larger community could boast of. There were 3 choral synagogues and 30 prayer houses, but there was no famous Hasidic tzadik or Yiddish writer, so nothing reminds of its former scale.

But there were few Orthodox churches in Kremenchug (). For example, the Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior (1801-20) among the endless quarters of petty-bourgeois houses:

And although high-rise buildings are now in their place, the completely Chekhov district spirit has not disappeared from many courtyards to this day:

And in some places there are garbage cans, the appearance of which is most accurately described by the word "ku":

Now let's walk in the direction of the Dnieper along the main street - now Cathedral, under the Soviets of Lenin, and in her time, Catherine's at all. A kilometer from the already familiar recreation center "Kredmash" it passes between the stalinok-"gates":

In the neighborhood, a stalin with a tower, which is obligatory in an industrial city:

And further between the Cathedral and Igor Serdyuk Street parallel to it, the former Oktyabrsky Square stretched, and in July it was renamed the Oleg Babaev Square. The latter, with an absolutely incredible middle name, Maidanovich, is not a hero of the Heavenly Hundred or the ATO, but a local mayor who was killed by a killer in the summer of 2014, and I don’t presume to guess who exactly he prevented and how popular he was among the people. In the park there is a monument to the Liberator Soldier, erected in 1949, when charred ruins still lay around:

At the end of the boulevard there is a monument to the victims of repression and a couple of old houses: from here to the Dnieper their concentration will be greatest. The frame was taken in fact from their former courtyard, and I managed to overlook the facades overlooking the parallel street of Igor Serdyuk. The left one belonged to the confectioner Silaev, the right one belonged to the burgomaster Kazachek. But the strangest building of this former courtyard is a turret, similar to a chapel built under the Soviets, now occupied by a cafe:

Ahead is another, renovated tower:

Another piece of pre-revolutionary mosaic on the former firewall:

Behind the next crossroads is a bank (1900-03):

At first glance, it seems strange that the riverside part of the city is better preserved than areas far from the Dnieper. But the fact is that the war most of all destroyed the cities on the western banks of the rivers - the Germans went east with a blitzkrieg, retreated west, clinging to every span, and most likely, having lost the fortified outskirts, they preferred to retreat from the coastal ones to fortified positions beyond the Dnieper, not waiting for the Red Army to start drowning them in the river. At the back of the bank there is a very touching monument "The First Day after the War", and the backyards themselves face the deserted Victory Square:

Opposite him, before the Maidan, stood clearly not a typical Ilyich. The appearance of his "stump" is intermediate between the regional centers (where they are usually painted with plot graffiti and painted with verses) and the outback (where they stand forlornly).

On the left is a monument to the fighters of the Revolution (1938), I don’t know if it’s still intact after almost a year. Apparently, the name of the square refers to the victory in the Civil War:

Before the Great Patriotic War, the main temple complex of the uzed Kremenchug stood here - the Assumption Cathedral (1808-14) by Giacomo Quarenghi and the winter church-bell tower of Alexander Nevsky (1858-63):

And the Alexander Real School (1878), now a college. In general, one gets the impression that the county Kremenchug has never been really beautiful, but was something like Krivoy Rog or Surgut, only in the 19th century - a large and rich city that did not care too much about its appearance. An overview of the surviving architectural monuments is in the Ukrainian Wikipedia.

We are getting closer and closer to the river facade, to the transition from the Left Bank of Ukraine to the Right. Below Victory Square is Pridneprovsky Park, in which there are many and quite well-groomed corners, but I remember the abandoned cinema painted with mysterious inscriptions more. The mysterious inscription "Elephants did not die" apparently resembles about this episode when circus elephants grazed in one of the squares of Kremenchug.

And on the edge of the park - the oldest buildings of Kremenchug, the complex of the Headquarters of military settlements (1853-54) in place and possibly with fragments of even older Presidencies of the Novorossiysk province:

Fortunately, I went to the rocky Dnieper bank even before this episode, so I filmed it calmly. The Dnieper is here in its natural course, and let's face it - it's not very wide, God forbid, if it's half a kilometer. In the middle is a rocky islet of Fantasia, where it is probably good to retire on the opposite side of the city:

Under the Pridneprovsky park - a granite embankment, as it were, not of the 18th century, at least in pre-revolutionary photographs it is:

At the end of which is the Granite Register, that is, a rock on a flat stone of which the level of floods has been recorded since the end of the 18th century. There were also such cities in other cities, for example, near Zaporozhye, but most of them went into the water forever with the construction of the hydroelectric power station, but this one, on the contrary, will most likely never flood again:

I went downstream. The river station looks brand new, although there have been no passenger ships here for a long time. Pre-revolutionary Kremenchug was one of the largest ports of the Dnieper, and even the first tram in it went from the station to the steamship pier:

Behind the deserted beach you can see the Kryukov Bridge, which means it's time to cross the Dnieper:

Which I did on the minibus, taking pictures from its rear window. The bridge was built in 1945-49, and the luxurious pylons at both ends remind that this one is also a monument to the Victory. Its length is actually not very great - 1.2 kilometers, but subjectively the bridge seems grandiose. Downstream, fragments of the supports of the old bridge, built in 1872 for the Kharkov-Nikolaev railway, still remain in the water.

The right bank meets with a monument (1940) to the sailors of the Dnieper flotilla who fought on civil war, and a poster-evidence of a new war.

Kryukovskiy Posad took shape opposite the Kremenchug fortress back in the 17th century, and its first inhabitants were the Cossacks, who looked after the Poles, sharpening their sabers and smoking pipes, who looked after them from the bastions of Kremenchug. In 1752-64, the border guards of New Serbia settled here, with the abolition of which Kryukov became a town of the Novorossiysk province, and with its abolition, it was included in Kremenchug. They say that in fact local self-government worked until 1817, refusing to submit to the government across the river, but in any case, Kremenchug became the first city on the two banks of the Dnieper - it crossed the river only at the end of the 19th century, Kyiv and Zaporizhzhia were completely only under the Soviets, and the cities same shore even now. But according to the sensations, Kryukov is still a different city, more quiet, sleepy and dilapidated than Kremenchug, which is completely regional in terms of the rhythm of life. There is also an industrial giant here - Kryukov Carriage Plant, founded with the advent of the railway in 1768 and eventually becoming one of the main ones in the USSR. It stands quite far from the Dnieper, its facade is turned in the direction opposite to the center to the factory suburb of Rakovka, but I didn’t go there anymore, especially since the plant is considered military and I didn’t want to risk sleeping even there.

From the bridge deep into the narrow triangular Kryukov leads a long street Ivan Prikhodko, and here this name is to some extent colonial - in honor of the most successful director of the left-bank KrAZ: "Kryukov - tse Kremenchuk!". At its beginning, stalks predominate - here, unlike the center, the riverine part was destroyed more strongly:

And Churkin (1901) with an extremely beautiful lantern:

Not a house, but a gate. Behind the railway there is another Assumption Cathedral (of course, not like the deceased left-bank one) and the house-museum of Anton Makarenko, who spent his youth in Kryukov.

But basically Kryukov looks like this:

At the Kryukov station, only this house with blocked windows remained from the old days:

The old train station was obviously typical, but still more interesting than what is in its place today:

The most notable building of the district is the Kotlov House of Culture (1925-27) in a belated to Soviet times, but completely recognizable Ukrainian modern style:

And in general, I agree that I didn’t see much in Kremenchug. But I was in a hurry and tired, and in a situation where this visit to Ukraine may well be the last, I frankly regretted the time spent in Kremenchug. Maybe if I came here slowly for a day, the impression would be different, but I remember Kremenchug as the dullest of the largest cities in Ukraine.

At the monument to the fighters of the Dnieper flotilla, on a quiet street between high-rise buildings and the Dnieper floodplains, I caught a PAZ to the city of hydropower engineers of Svetlovodsk, which climbed the hills of the high right bank for a long time, from which the blue expanse of the reservoir opened behind the trees every now and then. In Svetlovodsk, I jumped onto a minibus in the direction of Chigirin, intending to drive as far as possible in it and further break through by hitchhiking to Chigirin itself. What came out of it - in the next part. The end is near, and I'm even more tired of this whole topic than you...

UKRAINE and DONBASS-2016
. Overview and table of contents.
Two sides of the same war- see table of contents.
DNR and LNR- see table of contents.
Vinnitsa, Zaporozhye, Dnipro- see table of contents.
Kievan Rus- see table of contents.
Little Russian ring- there will be posts.
. Children..
. Cathedral Street.
. Center.
. Outskirts.
. In the wake of the Poltava battle.
Kremenchug. City on two coasts.
Chigirin and Subbotov. How it all started...
Kirovograd (now Kropyvnytskyi). Big Promising.
Kirovograd (now Kropyvnytskyi). Streets of the old city.
Kirovograd (now Kropyvnytskyi). Suburb.
Kyiv before and after Maidan- there will be posts.