Attractions of Vinnytsia region

The Regimental Church of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker was built in 1904 for the 9th and 10th Rifle Regiments of the 3rd Rifle Brigade quartered in Zhmerynka.

The military temple was built according to the typical project of the architect Fedir Verzhbytskyi. In total, more than 60 such churches were built in the Russian Empire.

During Soviet times, the Saint Nicolas Church, located on the territory of the military unit, was deprived of domes and a bell tower. In 2005, a new iconostasis was installed in the newly opened and restored church at the expense of local patrons.

The wooden Saint Nicolas Church in Lozova was built in 1752.

According to legend, the temple was transported to Lozova from nearby Sharhorod. The church is three-timbered, three-headed. The interior was rebuilt in 1796.

To the east of the church is a wooden, square, three-tier bell tower. Both buildings, surrounded by a low wooden and partially stone fence, form an ensemble of landmarks of the Podillya school of folk architecture.

The Church of Saint Paraskeva of Serbia in Mohyliv-Podilskyi is a landmark of Podillya wooden architecture.

Local residents call it Nemiyska, because it is located in an area that used to be a separate village of Nemiya.

According to legend, a mute girl once lived in the family of the local landowner Mayevsky. Unable to withstand the constant taunts from the children of her fellow villagers, she drowned in the river. Her father built a church in her memory. Mayevsky himself is buried in the churchyard.

The temple is made of oak and ash in the Ukrainian Baroque style, the interior is decorated with paintings and embroidered towels. At various times, Taras Shevchenko, Oleksandr Pushkin, Vasyl Tropinin, Ferents List, Mykhaylo Starytskyi, Olena Pchilka visited the church of Saint Paraskeva.

The Church of Saint Stanislav was founded in Orativ in 1765 at the expense of magnate Stanislav Oransky. In 1845, the old church was rebuilt in the neo-Romanesque style at the expense of the parishioners.

In 1856, Apollo Kozhenovsky and Eva Bobrovska, the parents of the writer Dzhozef Konrad (Dzhozef Teodor Konrad Kozhenovsky) were married in this church.

In Soviet times, the church building was used as a cinema, then as a cultural center. In 1996, the church of Saint Stanislav was returned to the Catholic community of Orativ.

The Sharhorod Museum of Fine Arts represents the works of Ukrainian artists of the 60s and 80s of the 20th century: Odaynyk, Derehusov, Lemeshko, Lozovy, Shchebryakov and others.

The greatest value is the tapestry "Sharhorod - the land of Podillya", created according to the sketches of a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Yuriy Kyzymov.

The palace of the Shchenovsky landowners in the village of Nosykivka is one of the little-known architectural monuments of Vinnytsia region, an example of Podillya manor construction at the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century.

Until 1905, the estate in Nosykivka was owned by the Korevytsky landowners. After the fire that destroyed the manor house, Stanislav Korevytsky sold it to Stanislav Shchenovsky, the son of the Polish sugar farmer Ihnatsiy Shchenovsky from Kapustiany. Shchenovsky built a new palace in the style of romanticism and laid out a large decorative park with a pond. In Soviet times, it housed a hospital, a pharmacy, a school and a post office.

The estate is located on a hill in the middle of an old park. It is surrounded by a wall with a guard at the gate. The palace is decorated with a decorative tower that overlooks the surrounding area. Stucco decor and fragments of wooden decorative elements in the neo-Gothic style have been partially preserved in the interior of the palace.

The restoration and transformation of the palace into a tourist attraction is planned at the initiative of the activists of preservation of historical and cultural heritage.

The palace of the Sobansky family in Obodivka was built in 1800.

First, a house with a tower was built in the style of Romanticism with elements of the Italian Neo-Renaissance. The central building of the palazzo is connected by a two-story covered gallery with a four-story tower and a U-shaped building that form an inner courtyard.

The park, which descends to a 17-hectare pond, was created by the famous Irish park builder Dionysius Mickler.

During the reconstruction in 1900, the third floor of the left wing of the palace was added, the front part of the palace was decorated with an open terrace, which offers a panorama of the park and pond.

After the Bolshevik coup of 1917, the Bessarabian Commune was housed in the palace, and after the Second World War, it housed the district executive committee, district committee of the party and other district organizations. In 1959, the palace and park were handed over to the Obodivka boarding school.

Currently, the building of the Sobansky Palace is in a state of disrepair.

The Sobansky Palace in Mykhailivtsi was built at the beginning of the 19th century by the landowner Bronislav Sobansky, who inherited the estate.

The two-story rectangular building is made in the style of classicism. The main facade is decorated with a triangular relief with a portico and columns. Interiors in the French Rococo style have not survived.

Today, the palace houses an agricultural lyceum.

Palace outbuildings, a system of ponds with dams and bridges, and a stone fence have been preserved in the manor park. Wide avenues radially diverge from the palace. There are many conifers among the trees. About 50 names of tree crops are known: lindens, chestnuts, European larch, silver spruce, black pine, weeping ash. Fruit-bearing relic mountain ash is found only in Podillya. The place of honor is occupied by a 300-year-old oak tree.

The mineral spring "Regina", located 5 kilometers northwest of Murovani Kurylivtsi, in the forest on the eastern edge of the village of Zhytnyky, has long been considered miraculous.

According to legend, the spring is named after Regina, the daughter of the landowner Oleksandr Sobansky, who owned the Zhytnyky estate in the 19th century. In 1898, Sobansky brought the seriously ill Regina here for treatment, because he heard from local residents about "living water". For several months, Regina drank only mineral water from this source and was completely cured, and Sobansky arranged the industrial bottling of Regina water and its supply to Europe.

After the Second World War, production was resumed. Currently, mineral water is bottled by OJSC "Murovani Kurylivtsi mineral water plant "Regina".

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 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.

The estate with a palace and a park in Napadivka was founded at the end of the 18th century by the landowner Valerian Prylutskyi, later it belonged to Yulian Strutynskyi.

After the reconstruction of the manor at the beginning of the 19th century, the original manor house, known as the "yellow palace", became an outbuilding, and the new main building became a large one-story palace in the style of mature classicism. Both facades are decorated with porticos with columns, stucco garlands.

At the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, the famous Danish poet and scientist Tor Lange lived in the estate of his wife, Nadiya Protopopova, in Napadivka. Among his works were ethnographic studies of Ukrainian culture, translations of Ukrainian folk songs into Danish.

During the Soviet period, there was a school in the Lange Palace. Currently, the estate is abandoned and is gradually falling into disrepair. The building of the main palace, the wing (the former "yellow palace"), the gate, the circular pool, and the remains of the park have survived to this day.

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 landowner's palace in Kotiuzhany is located on the northern outskirts of the village, in the middle of a partially preserved landscape park with an orchard, springs and a waterfall on the northern outskirts of the village.

In the 19th century, there was a manor of a rich forest producer here, which was purchased by the retired royal official Ivan Tsenin at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1912, his widow Yevheniya Tsenina built a two-story palace in strict Neo-Renaissance style on the site of the estate that burned down during the peasant unrest, designed by the St. Petersburg architect Oskar Munts, and stylistically similar to the Livadiya Palace.

The U-shaped palace in plan, with an arched loggia on the second floor. Bas-reliefs with ancient scenes and plant motifs are placed on the facade. At the entrance to the estate, two arched stone bridges have been preserved, crossed over a stream and a ravine. The owner lived in the palace until the Bolshevik coup of 1917, after which she went abroad.

In 1937, an orphanage was opened in the former Tseniny estate. During the Second World War, the children were tried to be evacuated, but they were forced to return. At that time, the building was ransacked. 130 homeless orphans were taken in by local residents.

Currently, the estate houses the Kotyuzhaniv special school for children with special educational needs caused by intellectual development disorders.

A brick three-arch bridge has survived to this day in the former landscape park. The park itself is deserted.