Attractions of Vinnytsia region

The house of Svarychevsky, the personal lawyer of Count Potoski's daughter, Sofia Stanislavivna Potoska, is located in the center of Tulchyn. It has the status of an architectural monument of local importance.

After 1917, for some time the Denikin counter-intelligence was located in the building, then the department of education, and during the years of Soviet power - the local department of the Cheka.

Nowadays, a children's music school is located in Svarychevsky's house.

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.

Trostianets Museum of Local Lore in Vinnytsia region was founded in 1976 and is located in the former primary school building.

The museum collection has about 1,500 items. The exposition of the museum tells about the nature and history of the region.

The most interesting collections are collections of numismatics, folk costumes of the local population, household items and decorative and applied arts.

The Tulchyn Museum of Local Lore was organized in 1927 on the initiative of ethnographer Zborovsky.

The exposition is located in the former building of the Officers' Assembly, where meetings of the Southern Society of Decembrists were held in the XIX century.

14 departments represent the history of the city from ancient times to the end of the XX century. Among them are departments dedicated to the Potocki family, commander Suvorov, composer Mykola Leontovych.

Tyvriv Museum of Local Lore is located on the second floor of the village council. Created in 1978 by a local drawing teacher Leonid Pankosha.

The collection includes 3 thousand items. In particular, Trypillya ceramics, numismatic collection, collection of icons, weapons of the XVII-XX centuries, household items and documents of the XIX-XX centuries are presented.

The ethnographic collection includes embroidery, weaving, pottery, wood carving, tools.

Of great interest is the collection of samples of advertising products of industrial enterprises of the Tyvriv region of the XIX-XX centuries, which belonged to Yaroshynsky, Heydeny.

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.

The Historical Museum named after Vasyl Poryk was created in 1972, now it is a communal institution of the Khmilnytskyi City Council.

The museum is named after the Hero of the Soviet Union and the national hero of France Vasyl Poryk (pseudonym "Basil"), who was born in 1920 in the village of Solomirka (now the village of Poryk).

After being captured by the Germans during World War II, he found himself in the Beaumont concentration camp in France, where he organized an underground struggle against the Nazis, and later escaped and formed a guerrilla unit that became part of the Resistance Movement.

The museum has more than a thousand items. The main exposition tells about the life and military career of Vasyl Poryk. The central exhibit is a diorama depicting the defeat of the Beaumont camp by Poryk's detachment and the release of prisoners in April 1944.

The museum also has exhibits about the national Hero of Poland Volodymyr Tushevsky, a prototype of one of the heroes of the movie "Four Tankmen and a Dog", who was born in the village of Poryk.

The museum of the Ukrainian dissident poet Vasyl Stus in his native village of Rakhnivka in Vinnytsia region is located in the premises of the Vasyl Stus Rakhnivka Secondary School.

The territory of the school borders the peasant estate, where Stus was born in 1938 and spent the first years of his life before the Stus family moved to Donetsk (their relatives still live in the Rakhnivka house).

The exhibition in the first room of the museum introduces the life and creative path of the poet. The second exhibition, decorated in the form of a prison cell, is dedicated to Stus stay in exile in Kolyma. Among the exhibits of the museum are an embroidered shirt of Stus, his baby cradle, an old gramophone and other belongings of the Stus family. In total, more than 500 exhibits.

A well dug by the poet's father has been preserved in the yard. In 2006, a monument to Vasyl Stus was erected.

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 four-story water mill building in Krupoderyntsi was built in 1896 by Count Mykola Ihnatiev on the site of the old wooden grist mill (grain crusher), which gave the village its name.

The mill and the oil mill attached to it were set in motion by the waters of the Ros River. A vivid example of industrial architecture of the 19th century. The old equipment is still preserved inside.

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".

The Yampil Museum of Fine Arts presents a collection of works by contemporary Ukrainian artists, a collection of women's and men's clothing, and a numismatic collection by  Volodymyr Lev.

The museum exposition presents products of traditional crafts of Yampil region: embroidery, Easter eggs, weaving from the villages of Klembivka, Dzyhivka, Tsekinivka, Pisarivka, Borzhky and others.

The Yampil Museum of History and Local Lore is a department of the local Museum of Fine Arts. The exposition tells about the nature, archeology, history and culture of the Yampil region.

The manor house in Tyvriv, on a hill above the Buh, was built at the end of the 18th century by representatives of the Yaroshynsky family.

The palace was executed in the best Palladian traditions of early classicism. A park was built around the palace. Later, extensions were created that disturbed the original composition.

In 1891, the Tyvriv Palace was sold to the Podillya Diocese, which opened a theological school in it. Soon there was a fire, after which the building lost most of its decoration.

In 1910-1911, the famous Ukrainian composer Kyrylo Stetsenko taught singing at the school, as the memorial plaque reminds. Mykola Leontovych also worked here, and Volodymyr Svidzinsky studied.

Now the building houses the Tyvriv Lyceum Boarding School. The room-museum of the honored journalist of Ukraine, photo master, carver Volodymyr Ocheretny is open.