Myshuryn Rih

Myshuryn Rih stands on a high rocky cape on the right bank of the Dnipro, opposite a crossing used by travellers and armies. Its name is linked in local tradition to a Zaporozhian Cossack called Mashura. The crossing connected the cape with Perevolochna on the other bank and was known among the Cossacks as one of the important passages across the river.

In 1662 forces of the acting hetman Yakym Somko and Prince Romodanovsky crossed the Dnipro here during the struggles for control of Ukraine. A later description recorded a fortress guarded by local Cossacks and a detachment of soldiers. As the Russian frontier moved south in the late eighteenth century, Myshuryn Rih lost much of its military importance and became a state village.