Attractions of Khmilnyk district

The palace of Count Kostyantyn Ksido, who served as adjutant of General Stessel, was built in Khmilnyk in 1913-1915 according to the project of the architect Ivan Fomin on the basis of a Lithuanian defensive castle of the 16th century.

The octagonal fortress tower (1534), which served as a mosque minaret during the Turkish rule, as well as fragments of fortifications that give the palace a medieval look from the side of the river, from the stone bridge across the Pivdennyi Buh (1915, architect Ivan Fomin). A striking contrast to them is created by the front facade, made in the Renaissance style and decorated with a colonnade.

Until recently, a hotel operated in the premises of the palace, now the building is in a state of disrepair.

In 1976, a local historian-enthusiast opened a historical museum on public grounds in the Turkish Tower.

The Museum of Bread in Bilopillia was created in 1986 on the basis of an ancient windmill, which was built in 1910 by a local craftsman Fedir Biloshkap, using the details of a windmill of the 18th century.

On the first and second floors of the mill there is an exposition that acquaints visitors with the history of bread from ancient times to the present day. In the farm building, agricultural tools of the 19th - early 20th centuries are presented.

The museum house reproduces the village life of the 18th-19th centuries, the traditional elements of the interior of which are a stove, a red corner, a pole for clothes, a table, benches, a bed, a cradle for a child.

Agricultural machinery, traction implements for soil cultivation are demonstrated on the open site. There is an apiary and a well in the yard.

The "Steinbruch" Headquarters of the commander-in-chief of the German Air Force, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering during the Second World War.

It was located 5 kilometers northeast of Kalynivka, next to the military airfield in Hulivtsi.

The construction of the Goering Headquarters began in 1941 at the same time as the Hitler and Himmler Headquarters located nearby. The complex consisted of two underground bunkers connected by a tunnel, a guard barracks, a dining room and several utility rooms. Since Goering was rarely here, the Headquarters was mostly used as a Luftwaffe command post.

In 1944, before the retreat, the Germans blew up the bunkers. Impressive ruins have been preserved.

The princely palace in Hushchyntsi was built in the 19th century. It belonged to Prince Yan Abamelek (Abamelik) from an ancient Georgian family of Armenian origin, who received the estate as a dowry for Anna Hizhytska.

A two-story palace in the style of classicism with a four-column portico stands on the high bank of the Pivdenyi Buh. The last owner was Lyubov Abamelek.

In 1917, the palace was looted by the Bolsheviks, the estate was ruined. In 1934, taking into account the landlord economy, an agricultural school was opened in the princely palace. Later, it was reorganized into a vocational school.

Currently, the palace of the Hizhytsky-Abameleks is in a deplorable state and does not have proper facilities.

The Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity is one of the first and largest in Podillya, founded in 1603 in Khmilnyk, which was a significant center of Protestantism at the end of the 16th century.

The temple was damaged during the Liberation War, then it was badly damaged during the Turkish rule at the end of the 17th century. Majorly renovated and expanded at the expense of Mykhaylo Zaleskyi, rededicated in 1728 under the name Beheading of Ioann the Baptist.

The last reconstruction was carried out at the beginning of the 20th century. An oil painting of the early 20th century has been preserved in the interior of the church in the Tuscan Baroque style.

Today it is an active Roman Catholic church of the Holy Trinity of the Kamyanets-Podilskyi diocese.

The Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Ivaniv was a part of the Bernardine monastery founded in 1780 by Solomiya Kholonevska.

Decorated with columns of the Corinthian order and baroque vases. To the right of the church building is an L-shaped church building, veneered in Soviet times with tiles.

The church was famous for the largest organ in Vinnytsia, which was destroyed by the German invaders in 1943.

The castle-palace in Ivaniv traces its history from the 15th century, when Prince Zbarazkyi built the Yaniv fortress.

In the 16th century, the castle was rebuilt according to the bastion system. The fortifications had the shape of a square, at the corners of which there were bastions with small towers, and there was a deep moat with water around it.

In the 18th century, when Yaniv passed into the possession of the Polish magnates Kholonevsky, the need for fortifications already disappeared. Count Adam Kholonevsky built a palace on the site of the fortress, using some of the walls and towers of the medieval castle. The palace was made in the style of the transition from baroque to classicism.

The Column Hall with fat columns, the Marble Hall with walls decorated with white marble, stucco rosettes on the ceilings, stairs to the second floor have survived from the old interiors to our days.

All this can be seen from September to June, as the Kholonevsky Palace is now occupied by a boarding school for orphans and children from low-income families.

Museum of History City Koziatyn was opened in 2004, for the 130th anniversary of the day when Kozyatyn was granted city status.

The exposition is located in the old one-story building of the former Zemstvo post office of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The foundation of the fund consists of collections of railway lanterns, bourgeois furniture, folk clothes, peasants' tools, photographs, postcards, copper coins, front sheets from the period of the First and Second World Wars, jubilee medals, etc.

The railway station is the business card of the city of Koziatyn. It was built in 1888-1889 according to the project of the architect Valeryan Kulykovsky under the supervision of the Ukrainian architect Oleksandr Kobelyev. It was considered one of the best railway stations in the Russian Empire.

The station building in the form of a white steamer is located on an island, which is "washed" by the rails on both sides.

The interior of the restaurant is especially beautiful with a magnificent multi-tiered crystal chandelier on a frame made of bronze leaves.

Tsar Nicholas II, leader of the Ukrainian People's Republic Mykhaylo Hrushevskyi, hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyi, poet Mayakovsky, as well as Soviet leaders Khrushchev and Brezhnev visited the Koziatyn railway station.

The "Shoe" ("Cherevychok") museum in Khmilnyk presents the largest collection of decorative and souvenir shoes in Ukraine, which includes more than 8,500 exhibits from 70 countries.

Philobotist Nelya Rybak, a resident of Khmelnyk, has been collecting decorative boots from various peoples of the world for many years. There are products made of glass, porcelain, crystal, leather, wood, vine and many other materials. Products of the famous Italian porcelain factory Capodimonte, products of the Royal Porcelain Factory of Germany, Bohemian crystal from the Czech Republic, etc. are presented. Some exhibits date back to the middle of the 18th century, but most were made in the 20th century. Part of the exhibition is a collection of souvenir boots, collected in the USA from 1938 to 1952, acquired by the founder of the museum.

Visitors are greeted by a Christmas tree decorated with toy shoes. You can also see an aquarium boot made of Murano glass.

During the opening of the "Shoe" museum in 2021, a national record was registered - the largest collection of souvenir and decorative shoes in Ukraine.

The museum of the outstanding Ukrainian historian, public and political figure Mykhaylo Hrushevsky in the village of Sestrynivka is open to the 140th anniversary of the great Ukrainian.

A small museum building stands on the site of the estate of his grandfather, the local priest Zakhariy Opokov, in whose family his mother Hlafira Opokova (Hrushevska) was born in 1847. As a child, Mykhaylo Hrushevsky repeatedly came to Sestrynivka, he came here during vacations at the university, then often mentioned the village in his works.

The first museum was opened at Sestrynivka Secondary School in 1996, and in 10 years a new museum building was built, the exposition was renovated and expanded. The funds of the institution number about 400 subjects.

The exhibition presents many unique things, including the metric book of the local church, which records Hlafira Opokova: her baptisms and weddings. You can see the genealogy of the Opokovs, photos and documents of parents, brothers and sisters, as well as contemporary publications, newspaper publications.

The central place in the museum's exposition is given to materials about the period of Hrushevsky's life as a politician who headed the Ukrainian Central Rada from March 1917 to April 1918 during the period of national uplift and revival of the Ukrainian state.

The museum is located next to the Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin, where Hrushevsky's grandfather served. A monument was erected in honor of the 135th anniversary of the birth of Mykhaylo Hrushevsky.

The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Ukrainian Baroque style was built in Khmilnyk at the beginning of the 19th century on the site of an old wooden church that burned down in 1809 during a fire in the suburb.

The church is stone, two-story, with a stone belfry. In 1865, two chapels were added.

The Church of Saint John Nepomuk was founded by the owner of Makhnivka, Protaziy Potocki, in 1794, when the Bernardine church, which had been damaged during the War of Independence and had existed since the 17th century, finally became unusable.

In its current form, the church was rebuilt in 1840, reconstructed in 1905.

During the Soviet rule, the church was closed, the premises were rebuilt and adapted for economic needs.

In 1992, the church of Saint John Nepomuk was returned to the Catholic community and rededicated.

The Literary Museum of the biker poet Stepan Rudansky was opened in 1967 on the site of his parents' house in the village of Khomutyntsi in Vinnytsia Region, where the outstanding Ukrainian humorist was born.

The initiator of the creation of the institution was the local librarian Yuliya Hrosh, who for a long time collected various documents and materials related to the outstanding compatriot, and as early as 1959 opened a room-museum of Rudansky in the local club (a memorial plaque was unveiled).

Now the Literary Museum of Stepan Rudansky is a communal institution of the Kalyniv City Council. The exhibition in two small halls tells about the life and work of a classic of Ukrainian literature. Some of his belongings, original photos and documents are presented, which introduce the child and youth years, studies in Kamyanets-Podilskyi, life in St. Petersburg, Yalta period of the humorist's life.

The grave of Stepan Rudansky's parents has been preserved. In 1969, a bust of the poet was installed in front of the local school building. Next to the museum, in 2021, a granite monument to Stepan Rudansky's popular song "Blow, wind, to Ukraine" was opened, which became a folk song a long time ago.

Every year in the middle of January, on the poet's birthday, the All-Ukrainian festival of satire and humor named after Stepan Rudansky "And I again explore the living world" is held in Khomutyntsi.

The Temple of Cathedral of Holy Virgin in Khmilnyk has been known since 1720.

It is located on the right bank of the Pivdenny Buh, outside the Old City.

At first it was wooden. It was rebuilt in stone in 1831-1839 in the Rus-Byzantine style.