Attractions of Mynkivtsi

The memorial museum of the reformer Count Ihnatsiy Stsybor-Markhotsky in Mynkivtsi is dedicated to one of the most extravagant Podillya landowners of the 18th century, the founder of the self-proclaimed Mynkivtsi state, which existed for 30 years within the Mynkivtsi Kluch on the territory of the present Kamyanets-Podilsky district.

Hundreds of exhibits tell about the life of Ihnatsiy Stsybor-Markhotsky, as well as the organization of his small state, which had its own constitution, a judicial system based on Roman law, and its own currency.

The museum was opened in 2012 in an ancient building that once housed the NKVD and the Gestapo. Pretrial detention cells have been preserved in the basement and basement floors. In 2010, a memorial sign to the victims of the Holodomor and repressions was installed in front of the house.

Mynkivtsi dendrological park was founded in 1958-1960. on the initiative of the head of forestry Serhiy Bulba. In 1969, the Arboretum received the status of a nature reserve.

The first seedlings were brought from the Kamyanets-Podilskyi Botanical Garden and the Novoushytskyi nursery. Currently, more than 200 taxa of different plants are represented in the park, the total area of ​​which is 3 hectares. Particular attention should be paid to the oils of western thuja and evergreen boxwood, barberry, birch and juniper. Among other noteworthy species are two-lobed ginkgo, Weymouth pine, cedar pine (Siberian), velvet trees, Kelreiteria hurtovina, Kuril bush tea, bush sekurinega, soap and suction trees, Japanese bunduk, Virginia persimmon.

In addition, there is a nursery for ornamental plants on the territory of the park.