Attractions of Vinnytsia region

The stone cathedral of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker in Mohyliv-Podilskyi was built in 1754 at the expense of the Bulgarian, Serbian and Moldavian communities of the city.

The temple is made in the Byzantine style. A four-cornered, two-story belfry, converted from the city's kalancha, stands separately. In 1885, reconstruction was carried out, the temple was significantly expanded.

In Soviet times, the building housed a local history museum. Currently, the Saint Nicholas Cathedral is active. A miraculous image of Saint Nicholas is kept here, as well as a silver gift box donated by Emperor Oleksandr III in memory of the late Tsarevich Mykola Oleksandrovych.

The Sharhorod Synagogue is one of the oldest Jewish temples in Ukraine.

It was built in 1589 in the Renaissance style, had defensive significance (the loopholes in the attic have been preserved), and was part of the system of city fortifications.

During the Turkish rule of 1672-1699, the building was used as a mosque. In 1930, the synagogue was closed.

Currently, the building is located on the territory of the juice factory.

The Mury in Vinnytsia have long been called the complex of defensive structures of the Jesuit monastery with a church, collegium and dormitory, surrounded by a fortress wall.

According to the decision of the Bratslav mayor Valentyn-Oleksandr Kalynovskyi, in 1610-1624, Jesuit monks built a monastery, which became the main defensive structure of the city and acted as a feudal castle. The defense complex also included a Dominican church, which later became the Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration. In 1907, the building of the Jesuit church was converted into a gymnasium.

Today, the Vinnytsia Regional Museum of Local Lore is located in the former cell building, and the regional archive is located in the collegium building. The complex occupies a block bounded by Soborna, Mury and Monastyrska streets. Part of the buildings of Mury is in a state of emergency.

The most preserved fragments of the fortress walls with a corner tower can be viewed from the back side of the monastery, going down from Soborna Street to the intersection of Mury Street and Monastyrska Street.

The Vinnytsia Tram Museum is located on the territory of the tram depot of the Vinnytsia Tram and Trolleybus Administration.

Opened in 2013 to the centenary of the Vinnytsia tram.

The exposition of the museum presents photos and exhibits related to the history of tram traffic in the city and the development of the transport company. In particular, you can see samples of composters and tram tickets of different times.

Next to the exhibition hall there is an exhibition of tram cars that worked on the routes of Vinnytsia in different years. All passenger retro cars can be ordered for an individual city tour. You can also order a tram-cafe "Lucky" for celebrations.

The old water mill on the rapids of the Pivdennyi Buh river is located between the villages of Sokilets and Pechera.

The elegant four-story industrial building was built by German craftsmen according to the project of the architect Yan Hoyrikh at the end of the 19th century, when Count Kostyantyn Potoski owned these lands. The walls are made of crushed stone and red brick, the metal decor and some of the old equipment have been preserved. There is a stone warehouse building nearby, and on the opposite bank of the canal - a granary.

In 1951, the Sokilets mill was rebuilt as a hydroelectric power station and an oil factory. The power plant burned down in 1992.

Currently, there is a project to restore the hydroelectric plant, as well as an alternative project to create a hotel-tourist and recreation complex.

In 2007-2010, the Potoski mill served as a venue for the ethno-rock festival "Mlynomaniya", which is now held on the opposite bank of the river.

The remains of the defensive structures of the Bar Castle can be found on the bank of the Riv River in the territory of the current Bar City Park.

The wooden castle was built and named after the native city of Bari by the Polish queen Bona from the Italian Sforza family in 1538. Bernard Pretvych, Stanislav Zholkevskyi and Bohuslav Radzyvill were the castle's elders at different times.

In 1636, when Crown Hetman Stanislav Konetspolskyi chose Bar as his new residence, the construction of the stone castle began. The author of the project was the famous French engineer Hiyom de Boplan. The castle on the bank of the river, raised by a high dam, was square in plan, with four bastions almost 6 meters high. It was considered the second most powerful after Kamyanets and was called the "Key to Eastern Podillya".

In 1648, it was taken by the Cossack troops of Colonel Maksym Kryvonos, then for some time it served as the residence of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi. In 1672, it was captured by the Turkish army.

It was finally destroyed in 1768 by Russian troops who came to help the Polish king in the fight against the confederates, who chose Bar as their outpost.

Only separate fragments above the river have survived. A city park has been laid out on the territory of the castle, in the center of which is a monument to the liberating soldiers.

The estate of the Polish publicist Mikhal Chatsky, brother of the historian and educator Tadeush Chatsky, was founded in Serebryntsi at the end of the 18th century.

In 1828, the son of the publicist Aleksander Chatsky inherited the estate. In 1831, he built a two-story palace in the style of mature classicism, which has survived to this day.

The building is rectangular in plan, made of brick and plastered. Columns, sandrikas and other details are made of hewn sandstone. The centers of the main and park facades are accented with four-column porticoes. Stucco interior decoration is partially made of polished alabaster.

The village council is located in one part of the building, the rest is decaying.

Worthy of attention is the marble (oval) hall, where the remains of stucco moldings are still preserved.

Also preserved are farm buildings, a pond, and a park laid out by the gardener Dionysius Mackler.

The noble estate of the Polish magnates Groholsky is located in an ancient landscape park with an area of 32 hectares, laid out in the 18th century on the outskirts of Vinnytsia, in Pyatnychany (the current district of the city).

The castle-palace was built on the order of Michal Groholsky, the son of Bratslav judge Franziska Xavier Groholsky. Works on the reconstruction of the park were carried out by the Ukrainian landscape architect Dionysiy Mikler.

The two-story palace is made in the style of early classicism with defensive elements. Nearby there are two outbuildings, a pavilion and a water tower stylized as a medieval one.

Currently, the estate is occupied by an endocrinological dispensary and a polyclinic, visits are limited. Part of the building has been restored.

An exhibition of military equipment and weapons from the Second World War was opened by enthusiasts on the territory adjacent to the ruins of Hitler's "Werwolf" camp in Stryzhavka, in the premises of the former boarding house "Lastivka".

The exposition presents things found by local residents on the territory of the pond, weapons and equipment of the Soviet and German armies.

In the yard, a collection of rare military equipment from the Second World War is exhibited, including a model of the German Tiger tank.

On weekends and by reservation, a cafe styled as a field kitchen is open.

Pillbox (DOT)-112 is a fortification structure of the 12th Mohyliv-Yampil fortification district, built along the Dniester on the border with Romania in 1931.

The construction was supervised by Dmytro Karbyshev, lieutenant general of the engineering troops. Pillbox-112 on the outskirts of Mohyliv-Podilskyi was a powerful long-term fortification with connecting passages 2-2.5 meters high, caponiers, and filtration devices. There was a weapons and ammunition warehouse, a mess hall, a dining room, a water supply, a surveillance and command post, telephone and radio communications. Armament consisted of three "Maxim" machine guns on turrets and two 76-mm guns. The garrison, which consisted of more than 30 soldiers, from July 7 to 28, 1941 restrained the pressure of Hitler's troops, preventing the crossing of the Dniester. The last 7 defenders of the Pillbox were walled up alive by the Germans. A memorial was erected in honor of the fallen heroes.

In order to visit the preserved underground premises of the Pillbox, you need to contact the Mohyliv-Podilskyi Museum of Local Lore.

A small two-story palace in the style of classicism was built in the 18th-19th centuries by representatives of the Potocki family, to whom Mohyliv-Podilskyi belonged since 1713.

Perhaps it belonged to Count Frantsishek Potocki, the son of Podillya magnate Stanislav Feliks Potocki, the owner of Tulchyn and Uman. Stanislav Potocki gave the city of Mohyliv-Podilskyi and its surroundings to his son in 1799, when Emperor Paul I expelled him from St. Petersburg "for extravagance and debauchery." There is no reliable information about whether Frantsishek Potoski himself was in Mohyliv. It is known that in 1811 the tsarist government of the Russian Empire bought the city of Mohyliv from his distant relative Vintsentiy Potoski for 587,220 rubles in silver.

At the moment, the building of the Potocki Palace is under reconstruction.

A collection of modern sculpture - more than 20 works of modern sculptors - is exhibited in the Yampil City Park.

The sculpture park on the banks of the Dniester was founded in 1988, when a symposium of sculptors was held in Yampil.

The open-air exposition presents the works of Oleksiy Aloshkin, Lyudimla Aloshkina, Yuriy Bahalik, Yuliy Synkevych, Mykola Bilyk, Yakiv Kulenko, Vasyl Fedoruk, Petro Matov, Yuriy Mysko and others.

The remains of the fortifications of the Sharhorod castle, built in 1585 by the prince Yan Zamoyskyi.

The castle was located on a hill at the confluence of the Kovbasna River in Murashka, had a citadel with five towers, and long-range artillery.

In 1595, the fortress was destroyed by the Cossacks of Severyn Nalyvayko, and in 1648 it was captured by the troops of Maksym Kryvonos. The Cossack garrison withstood Polish sieges until 1651, when they were forced to surrender by the army of Hetman Martyn Kalynovsyi.

Since the 18th century, the Sharhorod castle lost its strategic importance and began to crumble. Despite an attempt at restoration made in the 19th century, only the ruins of one tower and fragments of retaining walls, which are located among private buildings, have survived to this day.

Vinnytsia Regional Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater named after Mykola Sadovsky was founded in 1910 on the initiative of the city public.

The building, designed by Vinnytsia architect Hryhoriy Artynov, was erected and equipped in 11 months. The decorations were made by the Basovsky studio in Odesa, which designed the Oleksandriysky Imperial Theater.

Until 1917, only visiting actors performed on the stage of the Vinnytsia Theater. The local troupe was created in 1920 by Hnat Yura. Such prominent masters as Amvrosiy Buchma, Oleksiy Vatulya, Volodymyr Sokyrko, Feodosiya Barvinska began their creative career here. Even during the Second World War, the theater did not stop its work.

In 1957, after a successful tour in Moscow, the theater was named after the luminary of the Ukrainian stage, Mykola Sadovsky.

One of the best modern productions is considered to be the lyrical comedy "The House Where God Spent the Night".

The three-story building of the Vinnytsia Regional Universal Scientific Library named after Valentyn Otamanovskyi was built in 1936.

The decision to build the first city library in Vinnytsia was made back in 1902. The construction was timed to the 50th anniversary of Mykola Hohol's death and at first the library was called "Hohol Library". In 1907, the first two-story public library building was opened.

After the Bolshevik coup, it was replenished with nationalized books from private libraries. Since 1925, the Vinnytsia Central Library has been named after the biologist Klyment Timiryazev. In 1936, it was transferred to a new three-story building.

During World War II, the main building of the library burned to the ground. Only in 1955, the building was reconstructed and the library started working normally again.

In 2022, the library received a new name "Vinnytsia Regional Universal Scientific Library named after Valentyn Otamanovskyi". Today, the Vinnytsia Regional Library not only has a large number of books, but also has access to them online.