Attractions of Vinnytsia district

The palace in the style of early classicism was built in Voronovytsia by the Polish tycoon Frantsysk Ksaveriy Grokholsky.

Construction lasted from 1770 to 1777. Architectural techniques are characteristic of the Italian school of architecture of the Palladio era. Perhaps the project was developed by the royal architect Domenico Merlini.

The main volume of the three-story palace with a portico and a pediment is complemented by side galleries that end in pavilions. The facade is decorated with stucco: wreaths, plant garlands and cow skulls (to ward off the evil eye). There are 43 rooms in the palace. The grand Oval and Round halls on the 2nd floor, where the decor has been preserved, are characterized by the richest decoration.

The palace is surrounded by a French-style park. A round water tower in the Romanesque style has been preserved in the park.

According to one version, in the middle of the 19th century, the estate belonged to Princess Karolina Sayn-Vithenshteyn, who in 1847 was a guest of the Hungarian composer Ferents List for several months, writing the piano cycle "Glanes de Voronovytsia" ("Ears gathered after the harvest in Voronovytsia"). which was based on melodies heard by List in Ukraine (according to another version, Vithenshteyn's estate was in Voronivtsi, Khmelnytskyi region).

In 1869, the manor was bought by captain II rank Mykola Mozhaysky (according to another version, he won at cards). His brother, Rear Admiral Oleksandr Mozhaysky, who lived here from 1869 to 1876, conducted research and experiments in the field of aeronautics. Here he made the first glider model, which was successfully tested in the nearby village of Potush. In 1882, in St. Petersburg, an airplane designed by Mozhaysky with steam engines became the world's first heavier-than-air aircraft to lift off the ground, but was damaged during tests.

In 1971, the Museum of the History of Aviation and Cosmonautics was opened in the premises of the palace, where the school was then located. Documents, photographs, books, personal belongings, drawings of Oleksandr Mozhaysky, a mock-up of an airplane of his design, as well as models of domestically produced airplanes, modern flight equipment form the basis of the exposition.

In one of the premises, a room-museum of the kobzar Volodymyr Perepelyuk has also been opened.

Remains of reinforced concrete structures of Hitler's Headquarters "Werewolf" (Wehrwolf - werewolf, armed wolf) from the Second World War.

The secret complex of the headquarters of the supreme commander of the German armed forces was built in 1941-1942 in a forest grove near the village of Stryzhavka near Vinnytsia. The complex consisted of about 20 wooden houses and 3 underground reinforced concrete bunkers. The main buildings were located in the central area: the Gestapo quarters, a communications center, a dining room for senior management and officers, a tea house, 12 residential buildings for generals and senior staff officers, as well as the house of Hitler, who visited the Headquarters Werewolf in 1942 and 1943 years.

Thousands of prisoners of war from different countries died during the construction of the complex (a monument has been erected near the highway in Stryzhavka). In the spring of 1944, the bunkers were blown up by the retreating Hitler's troops.

Impressive fragments of reinforced concrete several meters thick, scattered by explosions in the forest, as well as a pool (fire tank) have been preserved. According to unconfirmed data, underground rooms could have been preserved (according to legend, up to 7 levels).

In 2011, a historical-memorial complex commemorating the victims of fascism was opened on the territory of "Werewolf", whose employees conduct tours (there are audio guides).

Accessibility for visitors with limited mobility: available ramps, exhibition on the 1st floor.

Nearby, on the territory of the boarding house "Lastivka", there is an exhibition of military equipment and weapons of the Second World War.

The Holy Transfiguration Cathedral was built in the 18th century as the Dominican Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, founded in 1624 by the head of the Dominican monastery Kalynovskyi.

The defensive temple in the Baroque style was part of the Mury fortification system. In 1832, it was handed over to the Orthodox clergy and consecrated as an Orthodox church.

Until 1990, it was used as an organ music hall. From 1990 to 2018, it was the cathedral of the Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. Since December 2018, it has been under the jurisdiction of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Holy Virgin Mary of Angels Church of the Capuchin Order was built in Vinnytsia in an unusual Tuscan Baroque style during the eldership of Lyudoviku Kalynovskyi.

For the construction, Kalynovskyi allocated the funds he received as a result of a lawsuit with Count Potoski, as well as part of his estate. In the 19th century, the monastery was closed by the Russian authorities and turned into a barracks, but the church remained active as a parish church. The temple was already closed by the Soviet authorities at the beginning of 1931. During the Second World War, it was active and was closed again by the Soviet authorities in 1961, after the death of priest Martseliy Vysokinskyi.

Now the church of the Holy Virgin Mary of Angels is again an active church of the Catholic order of the Friars Minor Capuchins. Excursions to the dungeon of the monastery are conducted.

In 2023, a monument to Saint James was erected near the Holy Virgin Mary of Angels Church, symbolizing the starting point of the Camino Podolico - the Podilya way of Saint James.

The imposing five-story building of the Savoy Hotel appeared on the central street of Vinnytsia at the beginning of the 20th century.

During the Soviet-Ukrainian war of 1917-1920, the Directory of the Ukrainian People's Republic of Symon Petlyura was temporarily located here, then the headquarters of the First Ukrainian Soviet Division of Mykola Shchors.

During the Second World War, the hotel was heavily damaged by artillery fire and air raids. As a result of the fire, the 6th attic floor was destroyed, and only the walls and ceilings remained of the hotel. The building was restored after 9 years - in 1953.

Currently, the Vinnytsia Appeals Administrative Court is temporarily located in the premises of the Hotel Savoy, while the renovation works are ongoing. Reconstruction of the attic floor, which burned down in 1944, is planned. They promise to open a museum on the first floor of the renovated Hotel Savoy.

The Jesuit monastery in Vinnytsia was founded in 1610 by the Bratslav elder Valentiy-Oleksandr Kalynovsky.

By 1617, the construction of a complex of monastic buildings with a Jesuit church was completed. Together with the Dominican monastery, it became part of the Vinnytsia Castle complex, which was named "Mury".

At the same time as the church, a Jesuit collegium was founded, under which a significant part of the monastery building was allocated. The walls of the church are 1.5 meters thick. Small rectangular windows are pierced in them. On the river side, the walls are reinforced with three powerful buttresses.

In 1907, the church building was converted into a gymnasium, then the city archive was placed there.

The "Memorial of martyrs for the faith of the 20th century" was opened in Tyvriv in the church of Saint Michael the Archangel on September 1, 2018, on the 80th anniversary of the heaviest persecution for the faith of the 20th century, when all churches in Ukraine were closed. Museum expositions occupied the ground floor of the church.

The majestic church in Tyvriv once impressed travelers who came to the city along the rocky shores of the Buh. The first Catholic church of Archangel Michael was founded here back in 1569, but it was destroyed by the rebels during the War of Liberation. In 1742, Mikhal Yan Kaletynskyi, a Bratslav trumpeter, built a new church on the site of the old church, and later brought Dominican monks to Tyvri and founded a Catholic monastery next to the church. It was completed in 1760 by Zakhariy Yaroshynskyi. The decoration of the building was two pointed towers, which have not survived to this day. The two-story U-shaped body of cells covered the church with a closed square. The interior was distinguished by extraordinary splendor. The main shrine was a copy of the icon of the Czestochowa Mother of God. In 1832, the monastery was closed, the church became a parish church. During Soviet times, the monastery complex was rebuilt as a plastic products factory. Until recently, the building, disfigured by reconstruction, was abandoned. Currently, the church of Saint Michael the Archangel in Tyvriv belongs to the Catholic order of Missionaries of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, restoration is underway. In 2015, the monastery of Saint Eugene de Mazenod and the Saint John Paul II Youth Center were consecrated.

The exhibition "Memorial of Martyrs for the Faith" presents a collection of photographs, archival documents, letters, videos and audio recordings. The most valuable exhibits are the personal belongings of people who are called martyrs for the faith because they suffered during the times of atheism and were persecuted by believers.

The exposition of the "Memorial" consists of 14 locations, identified with the 14 Stations of the Cross. Each location reproduces a certain page from the life of martyrs for the faith. In one of the rooms, as an example, a synthetic image of communist reality is collected. There are even shackles, excerpts from the Criminal Code and speeches by representatives of the communist regime. Visitors can get acquainted with what the interior of the house of a believer was like, as well as anti-religious propaganda in the school at that time. Several "stands" tell about the actions of fathers who were persecuted during the times when they were in concentration camps or died. There is a location called "Cell of Death". It simulates a prison and torture chambers. At the exit from the "Memorial" is the exhibition "Life after death". It is complemented by a plaque with the symbolic inscription: "We persevered."

The exposition also tells about the history of the Church in Ukraine during the period of totalitarianism. Exhibits were collected from all over the country, but the lion's share was provided from the funds of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, priests from other parishes also participated.

The use of modern technologies - music, light, visual aids - helps visitors to more deeply experience and understand a very recent reality.

You can get to the "Memorial of Martyrs for the Faith" any day for free. The initiators of the exhibition plan to tell visitors about people who were killed or suffered torture or persecution because of their faith.

The palace in Stara Pryluka was built in the 18th century, when the town was owned by the Varshytsky magnates.

The building was rebuilt several times, the last time - in 1906, under Serhiy Merinh, the son of the famous Kyiv doctor and entrepreneur Fedir Merinh. It was then that it acquired its current neo-baroque appearance.

The building is very reminiscent of the Mariyinskyi Palace in Kyiv. Some rooms, including the lobby, are decorated in a Moorish style reminiscent of the Spanish Alhambra Palace.

The majolica decoration of the ceilings and walls in the lobby has been preserved. Some rooms have preserved mahogany ceilings.

Currently, the premises of the palace are partially used by a boarding school.

Nearby is the Church of the Intercession (1910).

The Literary and Memorial Museum of Mykhaylo Kotsyubynsky was opened in Vinnytsia in the house where the future writer was born and lived until he was 33 years old.

The estate was built by his grandfather Maksym Abaza at the beginning of the XIX century, having acquired land on the outskirts of Vinnytsia, in Zamostia.

In 1926, on the initiative of the writer's brother, a restoration was carried out and a museum was established. The exposition is built on a monographic principle and is located in five rooms of Kotsyubynsky's parents' house. The exhibits (lifetime editions, translations, paintings) consistently reveal the writer's creative path and his public activities.

The National Museum-Estate of Mykola Pyrohov is located in a picturesque park on the shore of a lake on the southwestern outskirts of Vinnytsia. It was opened in 1947 in the "Vyshnya" estate, where during the last 20 years of his life the outstanding scientist, surgeon, creator of military field surgery Mykola Pyrohov lived and worked.

Pyrohov purchased the "Vyshnya" estate from the heirs of the doctor of medicine Hrykolevskyi in 1859. He organized the abandoned farm, built a new house and pharmacy, planted an orchard. Here Pyrohov received patients and performed complex surgical operations.

The museum's main exhibition about Pyrogov's life and activities is housed in a one-and-a-half-story manor house. In particular, the interior of the office with the furniture of those times has been recreated. Personal belongings of the scientist, awards, books, surgical instruments, photos of family members are presented.

Nearby is a pharmacy museum with the interiors of the reception and operating room. The main elements of the exposition are the figures of the pharmacist, paramedic, patients and Mykola Pyrohov himself. The exposition also contains ancient scales, copies of prescription forms, textbooks on pharmacology.

The estate is located on the territory of a memorial park with an area of 6 hectares. Its decoration is an age-old linden alley, which was Mykola Pyrohov's favorite place for walks. Two huge fir trees, planted in 1862 by Pyrohov himself, have been preserved.

1.5 kilometers from the estate, in the former village of Sheremetka, there is the Nicholas Church-mausoleum, where the embalmed body of Pyrohov is kept. The initiator of the embalming was his wife - Oleksandra Pyrohova. The body was placed in a crypt, over which a church was built in 1882–1885 according to the project of architect Viktor Sychuhov. Today, the church-necropolis is a historical monument of national significance.

The palace of Princess Mariya Shcherbatova in Nemyriv was built in the 19th and 20th centuries on the site of a medieval castle and a later estate of the Potocki magnates.

Princess Shcherbatova inherited the Nemyriv estate from her grandfather, Count Boleslav Potocki. On her order, the Czech architect Yirzhi Stibral, with the participation of Henrikh Hryunder and Emanu el Kramarzh, built a two-story palace in the neoclassical style.

Around the palace, the Belgian park builder Van Heert laid out a large park with an area of 85 hectares, which now includes more than 160 species of trees and shrubs: oak, common, black and Weymouth pine, red beech, white acacia, common and blue spruce, hornbeam, fir tree, ginkgo, sycamore and others.

The park facade of the palace is guarded by two sculptures of sleeping lions. Only a square water tower in the medieval style remained from the old manor buildings.

During the First World War, Princess Shcherbatova set up an infirmary in the palace, where she herself worked as a sister of mercy. She died during the Soviet-Ukrainian war from an accidental shot by a Red Army marauder.

Now the palace is home to the "Avangard" sanatorium, but visitors can freely admire the well-preserved interiors. The walls are decorated with paintings by Ukrainian masters from the collection of the former hostess. In the main hall, a portrait of the princess herself hangs in a place of honor.

Recently, a small museum of the history of the palace and the Shcherbatova-Strohanov family was opened in the premises of the palace. Three museum rooms contain an authentic collection of household items from the period of Princess Mariya Shcherbatova and paintings.

The main building of the Vinnytsia Trade and Economics Institute is the building of the former real school, built in 1889 at the expense of the merchant Tsal Vaynshteyn.

The project was developed by architect Mykola Chekmarov. In 1897, the left wing was completed. Due to its architectural style and variety of decor, this building stood out prominently in the development of the central part of Vinnytsia.

In 1881, the outstanding Ukrainian writer Mykhaylo Kotsyubynskyi passed the external exam for the title of public teacher in the Vinnytsia real school.

During the First World War, a hospital operated here. In Soviet times, party educational institutions were located in the building of a real school. In 1968, a branch of the Kyiv Trade and Economics Institute was opened.

The parish church of Saint Joseph the Betrothed was founded in Nemyriv in the 18th century.

In 1805, after the wooden temple burned down, the church was rebuilt in stone at the expense of Count Stanislav Potoski. Its two huge symmetrical towers on the facade dominated the urban development.

During Soviet times, the temple was closed and rebuilt as a cultural center with a hall for ceremonial events, completely losing its original appearance.

In 1995, the Church of Saint Joseph was returned to the Roman Catholic community of Nemyriv. After reconstruction in 1999, it was consecrated again.

The wooden Saint Michael's Church in Voronovytsia is a typical 18th-century three-part Podillya church.

It is picturesquely located on the slope of the hill above the pond.

The interior is decorated with a painting of the 19th century and many towels with various embroidery, which give the temple a special color and comfort. The gilded carved iconostasis and the wooden carved portal from the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Voronovytsia stand out.

The wooden church of Saint Nicholas in Vinnytsia with a bell tower on a huge stone foundation is one of the best examples of the Podillya school of wooden folk architecture.

In 1746, a place was chosen for the construction of the Saint Nicholas Church on the opposite bank of the Pivdeniy Buh from the central part of the city, on the territory of the Old Town, at the foot of the mountain where the old Vinnytsia castle once stood.

The temple is distinguished by archaic architectural elements - hewn walls and vaulted galleries resting on pillars. The belfry, placed on the corner of the granite retaining wall, could serve as a tower from which two walls of the fortification could be shot through in the event of an enemy attack.

In Soviet times, the premises of the Saint Nicholas Church housed a museum of local history. In 1970, restoration was carried out.