Svitlovodsk City Museum of Local History

In a small house at 21 Haharina Street stands the main museum of Svitlovodsk — the Svitlovodsk City Local History Museum. It was formerly the home of one of the city’s first builders, M. D. Karpov, and since 1988 the building has been used by the museum.

Photo from the website uk.wikipedia.org

The museum’s collection allows visitors to learn more about the history of the city and its surroundings. On display are palaeontological exhibits that tell the story of the first local animals: bones of a mammoth, a aurochs and a deer. Thanks to the burial ground without mounds, visitors can learn about the history of the earliest settlements, while archaeological finds open a window onto the history of Ukrainian Cossacks.

The museum also has a permanent exhibition dedicated to the Great World War. It features exhibits that were found on the city’s territory as far back as 1943.

Interesting facts:

• One of the museum’s unique exhibits is a spacesuit and space food, donated by cosmonaut Yu. Malenchenko.
• The museum has about 5 thousand exhibits.
• The museum has a display stand with photographs of its most distinguished guests. Among them are M. Khrushchev, P. Tychyna, Ho Chi Minh, O. Korniichuk, and others.