The Town of Guliaipole is located in the valley of the river Haichur, which translated from Turkic, means a "free steppe". Southward in 99 km there is a regional centre of Zaporizhzhya, in the north it borders on Dnipropetrovsk region, in the east - with Donetsk region.
Guliaipole was founded in 1785 as a military suburb of the Dnieper strengthened line; it was divided into the 7 Cossack companies (sotnias): Bochanska, Verbivska, Pischanska, Podolianska, Polska, Khersonska and Hurianska. In 1923 Guliaipole received the status of a district centre.
Today the town numbers 16 thousand 700 habitants, the whole district numbers 30 thousand 800 persons.
The Huliaipolskyi district makes the basis of the agrarian power of Zaporizhzhya region with 20 agricultural enterprises and 50 farmer economies.
In the centre of the town there is a historical architectural ensemble of buildings, sanctified by the historical events related to the revolutionary activity of the legendary leader of peasant movement in the south of Ukraine (1918-1921) Nestor Makhno. The city has a breathing history, and that is why the district regional museum situated in the centenary building of the former mutual credit bank is an inalienable part of the Guliaipole heart.
The museum was founded on December 11, 1960. The exposition of the museum consists of 9 sections with the fund
of 17 thousand exhibits. When guests arrive to Guliaipole, they are certainly met by the museum. Annually the museum is seen by the representatives of Germany, Poland, Italy, Canada, America, France. There were established friendly relations with the latter, because Nestor Makhno had been buried in France. Daily the museum is visited by the guests from the far- and near-abroad countries.
The glory and grandeur of our steppe territory is glorified in songs, eternalized in the folk epos, printed in the lines of poems.
Guliaipole was the place of birth of 12 members of the Union of writers of Ukraine (M. Tardov writer-front-line soldier, L. Yukhvid and his book "Wedding in Malynivka"; contemporary writers G. Liutyi - chairman of Zaporizhzhya organization of the National union of writers of Ukraine, V. Didenko and his real folk song "Fog on the valley", the poetess L. Henba - the director of the museum, and many others). The world of art is marked by the names of such famous artists, as: O. Moschenko (Eupatoria), O. Bilostotskyi (Simferopol), P. Rybin (Odesa), Ivanova-Hnorina (Irpin), V. Hopka (Kyiv), S. Hovina (Berdiansk), O. Riabko (Guliaipole ), O. Yakushoniuk (Zaporizhzhya).

The information is provided
by the Guliaipole department of culture
of the district state administration

12 Shevchenka Street, 70200 Huliaypole, Zaporizhzhya region
tel.: +38 (06145) 4-10-56
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