Between the Dnieper and the Bug. Kropiwnicki - Hope Farm

1 option Departure from Kharkov to Kropiwnicki by train No. 59 in 17-01

2 option Departure from Kharkov to Krivoy Rog by train No. 375 in 20-04

1 day 

1 option Arrival in Kropyvnytsky at 0-26, group meeting, transfer to hotel, settlement (surcharge for an extra night at the hotel).

2 option Arrival to Krivoy Rog in 7-49. Group meeting, short sightseeing tour of Krivoy Rog "Iron Planet", moving to Kropiwnicki (about 2 h).

Breakfast.

Sightseeing tour of Kropivnitsky. Kropyvnytskyi (Elisavetgrad, Kirovograd) - the steppe "capital" of Ukraine: old architecture of the XNUMXth-XNUMXth centuries, the Elizabethan fortress, ramparts and a military memorial cemetery, theater. Kropyvnytsky, B. Khmelnitsky Square, Transfiguration Cathedral, Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Great Choral Synagogue, monuments to Mark Kropyvnytsky, Bohdan Khmelnitsky, T. Shevchenko, V. Vinnichenko.

Military City - Settlement of the Novorossiysk Cavalry Corps of XIX century: Nikolaev Palace, barracks, staff building, archive, hospital, stables, riding school, training complex.

Manor of Ivan Tobilevich (Karpenko-Kary) - playwright, founder of the professional Ukrainian theater. The State Museum-Reserve includes a magnificent park with a pond and the Summer Theater, on the stage of which the theatrical life of Ukraine was born, the luxurious mansion of the merchant Barsky in the early modernist style, the Kunstkamera Ilyin.

Free time. It is possible to visit the Museum of History and Development of Aviation, the museum of M.Kropivnitsky, the art museum of local lore, the museum of the history of Ukrainian choreographic art, the A.Tarkovsky Museum, the 3th Special Forces' Cyborg Regiment Museum.

Visit dendropark in Kropiwnicki - one of the most popular recreation places for the townspeople. In 2008 it was named the best park in Ukraine. There is an entertainment zone with 44 attractions in the park. Tulips are undoubtedly a real decoration of the park! Hundreds of thousands of Dutch flowers bloom in April-May in Kropyvnytskyi, and tens of thousands of tourists come to see this miracle.

Optional excursion "Coryphaeus Theater" on the Regional Music and Drama Theater. Kropivnitsky. Possibility to attend a performance in the theater.

Dinner.

2 day  Breakfast. Excursion to the homeland of the classic of Ukrainian literature, an outstanding actor and theatrical figure I. Karpenko-Kary.

In with. Mykolaivka in museum-preserve "Khutor Nadezhda" a cozy park with a lake, a wing, a well and the house of the Tobilevich family were preserved. Here, with 1886 for 1907 year, the playwright wrote eleven plays, among which the famed comedies "One Hundred Thousand" and "Master", which are included in the gold fund of the domestic classics.

The estate complex includes: a parental home, a memorial house built by the playwright himself, a literary memorial museum, a park - a monument of landscape art "Khutor Nadezhda" with an area of ​​11 ha and a pond. A monument-bust of I. Karpenko-Kary was installed. Not far from the farm, in the Carlyuzhinsky cemetery, Ivan Karpovich himself, as well as members of his family are buried.

Optional (for an additional fee) offers country bus tours for all tastes:

 - Stone plateau of "Exampee" (s.Sofievka, Novoukrainsky district) *. Exampee is the sacred center of Great Scythia. According to the ancient Greek historian Herodotus, this was the main sanctuary of the Scythians, from which the Holy Ways diverged at different ends of the Scythian power. On the outskirts of the present village of Rovnoe near the source of the river Exampie, stood a giant bronze cauldron, which Herodotus ranked to one of the wonders of the world, a symbol of the greatness, power and invincibility of Scythia, smelted from the tips of Scythian arrows. And nearby in with. Glodosy Novoukrainskogo area in the 60-ies of the twentieth century, the local boy buv found one of the largest treasures of Scythian treasures of Ukraine - the so-called Glodos treasure.

- Historical and architectural reserve "Homeland of Rayevsky" (village of Rozumivka) *. The life of the Raevsky family, namely its 12 and 13 generations, is closely connected with Ukraine, Elisavetgrad, as well as with the opposition movement in the Russian Empire, of which the Decembrists were an integral part. In with. Rozumivka is the Cross-Vozdvizhenskaya church - a masterpiece of the era of classicism - the burial-vault of the Raevsky family. In particular, NN Raevsky, the hero of the Battle of Borodino, is buried here. Near the village there is Lake Bondarev becoming, near which on the outskirts of the forest grows 300-year-old oak. According to the legend, in this place Alexander Pushkin wrote an introduction to the poem "Ruslan and Lyudmila": "At the seashore, the oak is green ..." when he was staying with the Raevskys.

Dinner. Free time. Departure from Kropiwnicki to Kharkov by train No. 60 at 1-13.

           Return to Kharkov in 8-31.

railway pass (reserved seat), half board, accommodation, transport service under the program, excursion service under the program, insurance, group supervision by the representative of the tour operator.