Attractions of Mohyliv-Podilskyi district

The Roman Catholic Church of the Visitation of Elizaveta by the Blessed Virgin Mary was founded in Ozaryntsi in 1741 at the expense of Count Dzedushytskyi and Coroner Trembovalskyi. At first it was wooden.

According to other sources, the first Catholic church in Ozaryntsi was made of stone and existed already in the 17th century.

The current church was built in 1842 in the strict forms of classicism. An organ made in Warsaw was installed inside.

In 1937, the church was closed and turned into a warehouse. The revival began in 1987. Currently, the church of Elizaveta in Ozaryntsi is active.

Saint George's Cathedral (Greek Church) in Mohyliv-Podilskyi was built in 1809-1819 according to the project of architect Yohan Freyvald in the style of classicism.

The main entrance is accentuated by a four-column portico of the Doric order. The facades are made in the system of full ionic order. The walls are decorated with pilasters.

The interiors contain oil paintings from the end of the 19th century. The five-tiered iconostasis was created by Nizhyn masters.

A three-tiered stone bell tower is located separately from the church.

The stone cathedral of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker in Mohyliv-Podilskyi was built in 1754 at the expense of the Bulgarian, Serbian and Moldavian communities of the city.

The temple is made in the Byzantine style. A four-cornered, two-story belfry, converted from the city's kalancha, stands separately. In 1885, reconstruction was carried out, the temple was significantly expanded.

In Soviet times, the building housed a local history museum. Currently, the Saint Nicholas Cathedral is active. A miraculous image of Saint Nicholas is kept here, as well as a silver gift box donated by Emperor Oleksandr III in memory of the late Tsarevich Mykola Oleksandrovych.

The estate of the Polish publicist Mikhal Chatsky, brother of the historian and educator Tadeush Chatsky, was founded in Serebryntsi at the end of the 18th century.

In 1828, the son of the publicist Aleksander Chatsky inherited the estate. In 1831, he built a two-story palace in the style of mature classicism, which has survived to this day.

The building is rectangular in plan, made of brick and plastered. Columns, sandrikas and other details are made of hewn sandstone. The centers of the main and park facades are accented with four-column porticoes. Stucco interior decoration is partially made of polished alabaster.

The village council is located in one part of the building, the rest is decaying.

Worthy of attention is the marble (oval) hall, where the remains of stucco moldings are still preserved.

Also preserved are farm buildings, a pond, and a park laid out by the gardener Dionysius Mackler.

Pillbox (DOT)-112 is a fortification structure of the 12th Mohyliv-Yampil fortification district, built along the Dniester on the border with Romania in 1931.

The construction was supervised by Dmytro Karbyshev, lieutenant general of the engineering troops. Pillbox-112 on the outskirts of Mohyliv-Podilskyi was a powerful long-term fortification with connecting passages 2-2.5 meters high, caponiers, and filtration devices. There was a weapons and ammunition warehouse, a mess hall, a dining room, a water supply, a surveillance and command post, telephone and radio communications. Armament consisted of three "Maxim" machine guns on turrets and two 76-mm guns. The garrison, which consisted of more than 30 soldiers, from July 7 to 28, 1941 restrained the pressure of Hitler's troops, preventing the crossing of the Dniester. The last 7 defenders of the Pillbox were walled up alive by the Germans. A memorial was erected in honor of the fallen heroes.

In order to visit the preserved underground premises of the Pillbox, you need to contact the Mohyliv-Podilskyi Museum of Local Lore.

A small two-story palace in the style of classicism was built in the 18th-19th centuries by representatives of the Potocki family, to whom Mohyliv-Podilskyi belonged since 1713.

Perhaps it belonged to Count Frantsishek Potocki, the son of Podillya magnate Stanislav Feliks Potocki, the owner of Tulchyn and Uman. Stanislav Potocki gave the city of Mohyliv-Podilskyi and its surroundings to his son in 1799, when Emperor Paul I expelled him from St. Petersburg "for extravagance and debauchery." There is no reliable information about whether Frantsishek Potoski himself was in Mohyliv. It is known that in 1811 the tsarist government of the Russian Empire bought the city of Mohyliv from his distant relative Vintsentiy Potoski for 587,220 rubles in silver.

At the moment, the building of the Potocki Palace is under reconstruction.

A collection of modern sculpture - more than 20 works of modern sculptors - is exhibited in the Yampil City Park.

The sculpture park on the banks of the Dniester was founded in 1988, when a symposium of sculptors was held in Yampil.

The open-air exposition presents the works of Oleksiy Aloshkin, Lyudimla Aloshkina, Yuriy Bahalik, Yuliy Synkevych, Mykola Bilyk, Yakiv Kulenko, Vasyl Fedoruk, Petro Matov, Yuriy Mysko and others.

The "Art-Drabyna" Gallery in Busha was opened in 2009 by Vinnytsia artist Svitlana Telets. Her painted house in the center of the village attracts the attention of tourists from afar.

In an ordinary peasant yard, the artist has arranged an exhibition hall, a covered veranda for master classes and a residential house with a fireplace, where rooms can be rented.

The gallery exhibits the artist's paintings and her personal collection of Podillya antiquities. Classes in art therapy, master classes in painting, exterior and interior decoration are held to order.

The Art Museum of the State Historical and Cultural Reserve "Busha" was opened in 2018 during the International Art and Cultural Festival "Painted House". The museum building was painted with ornaments traditional for Eastern Podillya by the artist Serhiy Buhay.

The exposition of the Art Museum presents not only painting, but also other types of art from Podillya and other regions. In particular, there is an exhibition of Ukrainian antiquities under the name "Thorn Handkerchief - Mother's Tongue".

Exhibitions of famous artists are held regularly.

The Museum of Ethnography and Folk Art named after Mariya Rudenko in Mohyliv-Podilskyi is located in the premises of the House of Culture.

It is mainly dedicated to Podillya vytynanka - the traditional art of artistic carving. The exhibition is based on the works of local craftswoman Mariya Rudenko, an honored cultural worker of Ukraine, a famous folklorist, artistic director of the folklore and ethnographic ensemble "Horlytsia".

In addition to carvings, the exposition presents over 3,000 folk songs, thousands of proverbs and sayings, fairy tales, legends, tales, incantations, and lamentations.

The local lore museum in Murovani Kurylivtsi was opened in 1992 in the cultural center on the initiative of the family of the famous Ukrainian artist Fedir Konovalyuk, a native of the village of Yahidne near Murovani Kurylivtsi.

As a gift to the museum, the family donated a collection of Konovalyuk's canvases: portraits, landscapes, illustrations to the works of Ukrainian writers. In 2010, on the occasion of the 120th anniversary of the artist's birth, his museum room was opened.

The regimental church of the Holy Prince Oleksandr Nevsky in Mohyliv-Podilskyi was built at the end of the 19th century.

At that time, the city border ran between the Nemiyka River and the end of Oleksandrivsky Avenue, beyond which the village of Ostrivky began. There was a military unit of the Russian army here. The church of Oleksandr Nevsky was built for the soldiers of this unit.

During the years of Soviet power, it was closed and turned into a club for soldiers of the flight training unit. Only at the end of the 20th century, the church was returned to the believers of the Orthodox Church.

Saint Nicholas Church in Yampil was built in 1770 as a Catholic chapel with a separate bell tower.

In 1862, an octagon and a dome were built, a stone belfry was added from the west, and an iron roof was made.

Currently, the Church of Saint Nicholas belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate. The main shrine is the icon of Hennadiy Yampilskyi.

The Church of Saint Paraskeva of Serbia in Mohyliv-Podilskyi is a landmark of Podillya wooden architecture.

Local residents call it Nemiyska, because it is located in an area that used to be a separate village of Nemiya.

According to legend, a mute girl once lived in the family of the local landowner Mayevsky. Unable to withstand the constant taunts from the children of her fellow villagers, she drowned in the river. Her father built a church in her memory. Mayevsky himself is buried in the churchyard.

The temple is made of oak and ash in the Ukrainian Baroque style, the interior is decorated with paintings and embroidered towels. At various times, Taras Shevchenko, Oleksandr Pushkin, Vasyl Tropinin, Ferents List, Mykhaylo Starytskyi, Olena Pchilka visited the church of Saint Paraskeva.

The interactive museum of weaving in Busha opened in 2019 as part of the artistic project "Ways of Woven Busha". The project involves reproducing the full process of making a woven product using traditional methods and training in various weaving techniques for everyone.

The exposition presents a variety of looms and other equipment for the production of fabrics, ancient carpets, paths, sackcloths, towels and many other products of Podillya folk art masters.

The Busha Museum of Weaving offers visitors to try to work at the looms on their own, in order to experience all the intricacies of the weaving craft and the fabric production process.

The Weaving Museum is a branch of the State Historical and Cultural Reserve "Busha".