Description of the attraction
The historical and cultural complex "Zaporizhzhya Sich" is a kind of reconstruction of the fortress of the Cossacks of the 16-18 centuries. The island at that time was a strategic point on the way of the Tatars during the attack on the Ukrainian lands, because the political influence of Poland, which controlled most of the lands of Ukraine at that time, was minimal in this place.
The very appearance of the Zaporizhzhya Sich is associated with the name of Vishnevetsky. It was he who, in the first half of the 16th century, became the founder of the first castle on the island of Malaya Khortitsa. Then, located not far from the rapids of the Dniester, eight fortresses united into the general concept of the Zaporizhzhya Sich, which became the center of the Cossacks.
The museum was opened in 2004. This is a copy of a real Cossack settlement, which became part of the museum complex in the northeast of the island of Khortitsa. The fortress is surrounded by a moat, a rampart, and a log palisade. In the very center of the fortress there is a church, which is surrounded by utility and service buildings and residential buildings. Guard towers are located along the perimeter of the entire stockade. In the village there is a cross-cutting school and a house of a koshevoy chieftain, Cossack kurens and a cannon shop. Bells have recently appeared on the bell tower of the local church.
At the very beginning of the construction outside the fortress, the villagers' buildings and an imitation of a well were recreated. But, like many years ago in the real life of the Cossacks, so now, those buildings that were outside the fortress were plundered and destroyed by modern people.
In 2009, the official opening of this complex was held and at the moment the tourist complex "Zaporozhskaya Sich" is open to all visitors and is of great interest among tourists.
