Attractions of Zabolotne

The memorial museum of Academician Danylo Zabolotny was founded in 1929 in his native village of Chobotarka (now Zabolotne) in Vinnytsia Region, where he was born, lived and was buried.

An outstanding microbiologist and epidemiologist, academician Danylo Zabolotny founded the world's first department of epidemiology in Odesa, as well as the Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology in Kyiv. In his native house under a thatched roof, the original interior has been completely preserved: a cabinet with the scientist's books, a Zeissian microscope with which he traveled through the deserts of Asia, an old straw block on a hanger. An exposition with wax figures in one of the rooms reproduces the scene of Zabolotny receiving a local patient during his stay in his native village.

On the territory of the manor, a summer kitchen has been recreated and a separate exhibition house has been built, where you can see a large-scale diorama "Danylo Zabolotny on an expedition to fight the plague", which reproduces one of the episodes of the scientist's work in Manchuria. Returning from expeditions, Zabolotny always brought exotic plants with him. The Carpathian birch planted by him, an Ussuri maple and a large dogwood bush still grow in the garden near the house.

Not far from the house is the grave of Danylo Kyrylovych with a tombstone in the style of constructivism by the artist Vasyl Krychevskyi.

The manor-museum of academician Zabolotny is part of the structure of the Institute of Microbiology and Virology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.