Leisure and rest

A culture of organization and spending spare time is major component part of the spiritual national culture that in a great measure determines its health and fate. People and nations, that can not rest, exhaust the power, biological and spiritual resources as a result. Therefore it is necessary to rest and relax effectively – to use advantage for mind, soul and body.
Today various forms of leisure and rest are accessible to habitants and guests of Kherson.

Any connoisseur of art has opportunity to choose between theaters, concerts, exhibitions and museums. A theatrical season lasts from September to May. But if you visit Kherson in June, you can participate in festival «Mel'pomena Tavrii». It is one of the most favorite holidays of Kherson. In general, it’s a good tradition to conduct International festivals in Kherson: «Kupalski zori», «Kozatski rozvagy», charitable child's festival «Chornomorski ihry», «kRok at future», festival of modern art «Didtsebaba», and water-melon one - «Solodke dyvo» (sweet marvel), and it is incomplete list of unforgettable holidays, well-known far away from the region.
The reading-rooms of the municipal libraries – scientific, youth, child, central city and its branches - wait for their visitors. Here you can satisfy not only the «book hunger» but as well visit the exhibitions of our painters and photoartists, meetings of clubs on interests, and «take a walk» in the Internet.

If you want to give pleasure to your child – take him to a planetarium. Many years later you will be pleasantly surprised that this day he remembers as a light holiday. And after that you can visit the child's artistic gallery «Dark blue cat». You will receive a lot of positive emotions.

It is unthinkable to visit Kherson without idle strolling through the streets of central, old part of the city and shopping in numerous boutiques with the rich choice of commodities.
If after walking and active shopping you have desire to have a bite, it is very simply in Kherson: restaurants, bars, cafe, and pizzerias – really «at every step».

Those, who enjoy the atmosphere of disco-clubs and night-clubs, can visit such entertaining centers as «Rest», «Shumen». The atmosphere of the real club life reigns in billiard club-bar «Russian house», complex «MAK-DAG», billiards-cafe «Bagira».
Don’t forget about sport. Stadiums, sporting-health complexes and clubs are waiting for you. Well equipped and modern fitness-clubs are very popular among townspeople. And it is not casual: that is here where you can receive different types of services, making organism healthier.

And if you need to arrange a holiday not only for your soul but for a body as well – visit a bath-house. The number of bath-houses is enough in Kherson. Sensation of easy tiredness, regeneration, relaxation, atmosphere of «Other World», Absolute Cleanness of body – that is what means for a sauna connoisseur to «wash oneself really».