Attractions of Vinnytsia region

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.

The best view of the Moldavian fortress of Soroky opens from the opposite bank of the Dniester, from the outskirts of the Ukrainian village of Tsekynivka.

The Soroky fortress was founded in 1499 by the Moldavian master Stefan the Great, and rebuilt in stone in 1543-1546. The round fortification structure with five towers has a symmetrical shape.

The fortress of Soroky controlled the river trade route that ran through the Dniester and resisted the raids of the Tatars. From the Ukrainian bank of the Dniester, the castle in Soroky looks particularly convincing, although it does not give the impression of being impregnable.

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 estate of Field Marshal Petro Vithenshteyn, a hero of the Franco-Russian War of 1812, is located in Bronnytsia, a suburb of Mohyliv-Podilskyi.

After retiring for health reasons, the general decided to settle here, as Bronnytsia is famous for the source of healing mineral water "Bronnychanka".

He built a German-style manor house on a high mountain above the Dniester next to the Babina Durka cave. A manor house with a high tower and a gatehouse have been preserved, as well as a landscape park, on the territory of which the "Hirskyi" children's sanatorium is now located.

The gazebo in the park offers a wonderful view of the Dniester canyon and the city of Mohyliv-Podilskyi, which is spread out in the valley.

The Orativ manor was founded by retired general Mykhaylo Voronovych, who moved to Orativ from St. Petersburg in the second half of the 19th century.

On the banks of the Zhyva River, he laid out a landscape park and built a two-story palace with side towers in 1892.

During Soviet times, the building was rebuilt beyond recognition and covered with tiles, and was used as an orphanage.

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.

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 water mill in Novofastiv was built in 1896 by landowners Borovsky. An architectural monument of local importance.

In our time, there was an attempt to restore the operation of the water mill - the floor between the floors was concreted, but then all work was stopped.

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.