Attractions of Vinnytsia

The museum of retro equipment "AvtoMotoVeloFotoRadio" (Auto-Moto-Bike-Photo-Radio) in Vinnytsia was opened in 2013. Located in the Mykola Leontovych Central City Park.

The exhibition of the auto-retro museum is based on the private collection of rare cars and other equipment of Vinnytsia collector Oleksiy Strembitskyi.

The museum has more than 100 exhibits collected over 35 years: cars, motorcycles, bicycles, gramophones, televisions, cameras, radios, etc. In the car collection: an army GAZ-67, a rare three-axle "Willys", GAZ-M-20 "Victory", "Muscovites" and "Volga" of various years of production and others.

All exhibits are active, many of them are symbols of the past Soviet era.

In the Vinnytsia Museum of Retro Cars, visitors are welcome to interact closely with the equipment and other exhibits - you can sit behind the wheel of any car, try on the military uniforms of different countries, and take a photo in a historical image.

Captain Oleksandr Chetkov's mansion is one of the most prominent buildings in Vinnytsia. It was built in 1910 according to the project of the Kyiv architect Vasyl Lystovnychyi, the owner of Bulhakov's house on Andriyivskyi Uzviz in Kyiv (according to other data, it was designed by Vinnytsia architect Hryhoriy Artynov).

At a cost of 500,000 tsarist rubles, Chetkov's house became the most expensive residential building in Vinnytsia. The luxurious mansion is made in the Viennese Secession (Art Nouveau) style. The massive towers are combined with an openwork portico and decorative stucco. Above the building rises a large observation tower with oval and round windows, from which a very picturesque view of the city opens. There used to be many sculptures in the interior.

Today, the Chetkov mansion houses the Vinnytsia Department of Architecture and Urban Planning.

The Vinnytsia house of Oleksandr Kumbari, an Odesa merchant of Greek origin, is located on the territory of the estate purchased by him in 1894. Since then, this area on the high bank of the Pivdenny Buh has been called Kumbary after the owner's surname.

The building in the Art Nouveau style was built in 1913 according to the project of the architect Hryhoriy Artynov for his wife Kumbari. For the first time in Vinnytsia, concrete pouring technology was used during construction.

A long staircase descends from the house to the river bank, designed by the same architect, a lieutenant general of the military engineering service. Local residents call it the "Potomkins Stairs" by analogy with the famous Odesa Stairs.

Until recently, the building housed a children's polyclinic.

The Saint Nicolas memorial church-tomb is part of the National Museum-manor of Mykola Pyrohov. It is located 1.5 kilometers from the Vyshnya estate, in the former village of Sheremitka.

The temple was founded in 1881 as a small chapel above the crypt of Pyrohov. At the insistence of his wife, the body of the eminent surgeon was embalmed by St. Petersburg doctor Davyd Vyvodtsev and placed in a glazed sarcophagus. In 1885, the Saint Nicolas Church was built above the crypt, according to the project of architecture academic Viktor Sychuhov.

During the Second World War, the sarcophagus with Pyrohov's body was buried in the ground, later restoration and re-embalming was required.

The Military Historical Museum of Air Force Armed Forces Ukraine in Vinnytsia was established in 2001 as a museum of the Air Force of Ukraine.

In 2005, it was replenished with an exposition dedicated to the air defense forces, which were then structurally part of the Armed Forces.

The museum is located on the territory of the former General Staff of the Air Force of Ukraine in Vinnytsia. In Soviet times, it was the headquarters of the 24th Air Army, and before that - the headquarters of the 43rd Air Force of Long-range Aviation, which was formed in 1949 on the basis of the 2nd VA DA.

The museum has collected many samples of aircraft, anti-aircraft missiles, radar equipment of different times. The exposition includes 16 aircraft of different classes, from the Yak-11 training aircraft to the fourth-generation Su-27 fighter, as well as 4 helicopters.

Of particular interest are the launchers of anti-aircraft missile systems S-300V1, S-300PS, S-200V "Vega", S-125M1 "Neva", "S-75M2" Volkhov ", Buk-1M".

Foreigners must obtain a permit from the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine to visit the museum.

The "Museum of Brave" in Vinnytsia, as a separate subdivision of the Vinnytsia Regional Museum of Local History, is planned to open in the premises of the former departmental museum of the Main Directorate of the National Police of Ukraine in Vinnytsia Region "My Region of Podillya".

They decided to dedicate the exposition "Museum of the Brave" exclusively to the heroes of the Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian war. In addition to the military, the exposition is supposed to present a powerful volunteer movement, volunteer movement, chaplains, military medics, forcibly displaced persons - that is, to show the Russian-Ukrainian war as widely as possible.

As of February 2023, the exhibition already has more than 800 items. These are personal belongings of Ukrainian Heroes, awards, photos, documents, military uniforms, equipment, weapons and much more.

Among the exhibits of the future "Museum of the Brave" are also items from the enemy Russian army: uniforms, burnt muzzles from Kalashnikov machine guns, barrels from grenade launchers, a radio station. In particular, two types of dry rations of the Russian army. The volunteers also handed over the found cluster ammunition of the Smerch MLRS to the museum.

On the facade of the building, they plan to install a "Memorial Wall" with a list of the names of the dead residents of Vinnytsia.

The Rock of Mykhaylo Kotsiubynsky or Kotsyubynsky Stone in Vinnytsia is a geological monument of nature, named after the outstanding Ukrainian writer Mykhaylo Kotsiubynsky, who lived in Vinnytsia and often visited this area.

A group of picturesque granite rocks rises above the left bank of the Pivdennyi Buh in the Sabariv Forest on the southern outskirts of Vinnytsia, near the hydroelectric dam. The rocks are broken by vertical and horizontal cracks on individual parts of irregular shape. The age of these granites reaches 2.15 billion years.

One of the rocks that juts out a few meters from the shore is called the Kotsyubinsky Stone. According to the memories of contemporaries, the writer Mykhaylo Kotsiubynsky often rested on this stone during his walks in the Sabariv Forest. Researchers assume that the early works of the young writer could have been written here: "Andriy Soloviyko", "December 21, on Introduction" and others. Quotes from the story "Fata Morgana" are still visible on the stone. A memorial plaque was installed.

Kotsiubinsky rock is the end point of the ecological route "Kotsiubinsky Trail" with a length of 6 km, which is laid through the Sabariv forest from the recreation complex "Territory SUN" on Syniovodska Street.

"Podilsky Zoo" in Vinnytsia is the youngest in Ukraine. Vinnytsia Zoo was created in 2005 thanks to the efforts of "Vinoblagrolis" workers.

Currently, the zoological nursery in Vinnytsia has 45 species of animals and 35 species of birds (about 400 animals in total). In particular, the zoo contains bison, bison, deer, mouflon, llamas, bears and others.

The Ukrainian Stamps Museum named after Yakiv Balaban was opened in 2016 in the building of the Vinnytsia Regional Children's Library.

The exposition was created on the basis of the stamp collection of patron Oleksandr Balaban, the son of UNR centurion Yakiv Balaban, who emigrated to the USA.

Unique examples of Ukrainian postal history, stamps of various historical periods - revolutionary 20s, pre-war 40s, letters with stamps of 1918, ZUNR stamps for three crowns, modern blocks, etc. are presented.

Also, the exhibition has miniatures from limited collections, which today exist only in a few copies in the world.

Vinnytsia Regional Art Museum is located in one of the buildings of the architectural complex "Mury" – a former defensive Jesuit monastery of the XVII-XVIII centuries.

The museum was founded in 1919 on the initiative of Vinnytsia artist, teacher and collector Vyacheslav Korenev. The basis of the gallery was his private collection of paintings.

Currently, the museum's collection includes more than 7,000 exhibits, 300 of which are displayed in a permanent exhibition in six museum halls. Among them are paintings of Western European art of the XVII-XIX centuries, Ukrainian and Russian art of the XVIII-XX centuries, as well as sculpture, furniture, ivory, silver and bronze.

In particular, there is a portrait of Count Stanislav Shchensny (Feliks) Potoski and his sons, which was painted in 1788-1791 by the royal artist Johann Baptist Lampi Sr. and entered the museum in 1921 from the Nemyriv estate of Princess Scherbatova. The painting "Bacchus", created by an artist from the Caravaggio school, came to the museum from the Mozhaysky Palace in Voronovytsia. The painting "Grand Canal of Venice" belongs to the brush of Carl Leopold Grevenbrook, a student of Canaletto. Works by Illya Repin, Karl Bryullov, Микола Ge, Kostyantyn Korovin, Mykhaylo Nesterov and others are also on display.

Excursions are conducted in Ukrainian, English, Russian.

The Vinnytsia Regional Museum of Local Lore is located on the territory of the former defensive Jesuit monastery of the 17th century, which, together with the buildings of the Dominican monastery, forms the historical and architectural complex "Vinnytsia Mury".

The museum was founded in 1918 on the initiative of representatives of the local intelligentsia. In 1970, a new building was completed, and the exposition was significantly updated.

Currently, the collection includes 200,000 exhibits. Unique items belonging to the Scythian and Sarmatian periods, large numismatic collections, ethnographic collection: pottery, weaving, and embroidery are stored here. folk painting.

A mammoth skeleton found in the region is presented.

The "Pivdenniy Buh" object in Vinnytsia is called the "Voroshylov Headquarters" - the command post of the 3rd Letychiv fortified district, which was created from 1931 to 1936 to cover the direction to Vinnytsia. The "Pivdenniy Buh" facility itself was built in 1937 under the cover of the construction of a military sanatorium, on the territory of which it is now located.

The complex of underground premises is carved out of the granite rock on the bank of the Pivdenniy Buh, consists of 28 premises of various purposes - from a bathhouse to a diesel generator room. The ventilation system has been preserved. There is no reliable information about whether the People's Commissar of Defense Voroshylov himself visited.

In 1941, the bunker was the command post of the Southern Front. During the German occupation, it housed Field Marshal Vilhelm Keytel, the chief of staff of the Wehrmacht High Command.

After the Second World War, the bunker was used by the military until the 1980s, then it was abandoned. Since 2003, the complex belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate, the Holy Trinity Rock Church was founded in it. Visiting is possible with the permission of the priest.