History of the reserve
Kamyanka State Historical and Cultural Reserve (hereinafter referred as the Reserve) unites a complex of historical and natural monuments in Kamyanka. The Museums, wildlife attractions, and the beauties of the town in the Reserve are the pride of the whole Kamyanka region. The Reserve is a research and cultural-educational institution that studies and promotes historical-cultural and natural monuments, provides the efforts on their protection and rational use, and implements works in the following areas: research, research-educational and exhibition work, accounting and preservation of museum funds, accounting and protection of immovable monuments, economic activity.
The Historical and Cultural Reserve was established on the basis of the Kamyanka Literary Memorial Museum of Alexander Pushkin and Petro Tchaikovsky by the Resolution No. 541 of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated of July 21, 1995 and in accordance with the order No. 54 of the Head of the Cherkasy Regional State Administration of 28/09/1995 in order to preserve the complex of monuments of cultural history and the beauties of nature in Kamyanka.
The area of the reserve is 10.1 hectares.
The Reserve includes:
3 Museums: Literary-Memorial Museum of Alexander Pushkin and Petro Tchaikovsky, Historical Museum, and Art Gallery.
4 monuments of national importance: the outbuilding of the Davydov’s Family manor (Green House), which houses the Literary-Memorial Museum of Alexander Pushkin and Petro Tchaikovsky; water mill, built in early 1825 ( a unique architectural monument of economic purpose); the Town’s Park (now named after the Decembrists), founded at the end of the 18th century; grotto – an architectural monument in the park, built in the late eighteenth century.
2 monuments of history: Alexandra Tchaikovska’s house – Tchaikovsky’s sister, and Maria Davydova’s tomb.
5 monuments of art – monuments to the Decembrists, Alexander Pushkin, Petro Tchaikovsky, the stele of the Decembrists and a memorial sign at the entrance to Kamyanka.
2 natural monuments – Tyasmin canyon and Pushkin’s rock.
Every year more than 30,000 people visit the museums and monuments of Kamyanka Reserve.