Attractions of Vinnytsia region

The Bershad Museum of Local Lore was founded in 1927 on the initiative of local historian and public figure Ipolyt Zborovsky.

Now the museum has more than 8,500 exhibits that reflect the customs, life, cultural traditions of the locals. The museum exposition consists of three departments: nature, history and ethnography. The exposition is built on the cultural and chronological principle and recreates the history of Bershad region from ancient times to the present. The ethnographic collection reflects all kinds of applied arts: carpet weaving, embroidery, pottery, wickerwork. An exhibition of folk objects of the XIX-XX centuries tells about the most common crafts of the region and their development.

The museum hosts exhibitions of folk art of modern masters of Easter painting, weaving, wood carving, embroidery, musical instruments.

The Museum of Bread in Bilopillia was created in 1986 on the basis of an ancient windmill, which was built in 1910 by a local craftsman Fedir Biloshkap, using the details of a windmill of the 18th century.

On the first and second floors of the mill there is an exposition that acquaints visitors with the history of bread from ancient times to the present day. In the farm building, agricultural tools of the 19th - early 20th centuries are presented.

The museum house reproduces the village life of the 18th-19th centuries, the traditional elements of the interior of which are a stove, a red corner, a pole for clothes, a table, benches, a bed, a cradle for a child.

Agricultural machinery, traction implements for soil cultivation are demonstrated on the open site. There is an apiary and a well in the yard.

Captain Oleksandr Chetkov's mansion is one of the most prominent buildings in Vinnytsia. It was built in 1910 according to the project of the Kyiv architect Vasyl Lystovnychyi, the owner of Bulhakov's house on Andriyivskyi Uzviz in Kyiv (according to other data, it was designed by Vinnytsia architect Hryhoriy Artynov).

At a cost of 500,000 tsarist rubles, Chetkov's house became the most expensive residential building in Vinnytsia. The luxurious mansion is made in the Viennese Secession (Art Nouveau) style. The massive towers are combined with an openwork portico and decorative stucco. Above the building rises a large observation tower with oval and round windows, from which a very picturesque view of the city opens. There used to be many sculptures in the interior.

Today, the Chetkov mansion houses the Vinnytsia Department of Architecture and Urban Planning.

The ruins of two castle towers on the hill above the Pivdenny Buh remind of the once great Podillya city of Cherlenkove, known since the 13th century.

The castle was probably built by princes Koriatovichi (Koryatovichi) in the 14th century, after the Lithuanian prince Olherd defeated the Hordes and joined Podillya to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. For a long time, Cherlenhrad Castle belonged to the family of Ukrainian nobles Kmyt-Cherlenkivsky, controlled the crossing over the Pivdenny Buh. It was destroyed in 1624 during the campaign of the Tatar army of Kantemyr Murza to Podillya.

In 1670, Anatas Cherlenkivskyi founded the Basilian monastery on the ruins of the castle. In the 18th century, the Trakhtemyriv old man Stanislav Shchenevsky tried to reconstruct the castle, but soon his heir Onufriy Shchenevsky rebuilt the fortress into a magnate's residence. One of the towers near the road next to the bridge over the Pivdenny Buh was turned into a burial chapel. The second of the surviving towers was tried to be blown up in Soviet times, but three of its walls survived.

Currently, the territory of the castle is built up with private houses. A tourist and entertainment complex with a hotel, restaurant and museum is being built over the surviving ruins.

The Chetvertynsky manor in Antopil was founded at the end of the 18th century by Prince Antoniy Yan Svyatopolk-Chetvertynskyi, castellan of Bratslav.

First, a landscape park in the English style was laid out, and in 1830 a large palace in the style of classicism was built. The main facade of the palace is decorated with a four-column portico of the Ionic order, crowned with a triangular pediment and a stepped attic. A distinctive feature of the building are the balconies, located along the axes of the risalites at the level of the second floor, fenced with metal angular bars. The park facade is more modest, its center is marked by a semicircular risalite.

In the interiors, moldings of ceilings, highly artistic marble fireplaces have been preserved. Single-story wings in the Neo-Renaissance style were attached to the main building. The farm buildings, built mainly at the beginning of the 20th century by the new owners of the estate, the Yaroshynskyi, have also been preserved: a stable, a garage and a warehouse, a glacier, a dovecote, a gate, a stone fence.

The 27-hectare park was laid out in the 1880s on the basis of a natural forest, as evidenced by the trees that have survived to this day, including giant ash trees that reach 2 meters in diameter. The compositional axis of the park is the system of ponds.

During Soviet times, the Chetvertynsky Palace housed first a rest house, and later the Antopil boarding house for the mentally ill, which still operates today (visiting is difficult).

Sharhorod Center of Contemporary Art "Sharhorod Rafinad" was opened in 2009 in the old premises of the former sugar factory at the expense of entrepreneur Oleksandr Pohorilskyi.

The former factory forge has been transformed into an art workshop. The museum exhibits the works of artists Alisa Yoffe, Dmytro Butov, Anatoliy Osmolovsky, as well as Volodymyr Lohutov.

A contemporary art festival is held on the basis of the center. The center of craft arts "SharKraft" is active. There is a hotel.

The estate of the former estate of Count Dmytro Heyden is located on the granite banks of the Pivdenny Buh on the outskirts of Sutysky on the Tyvriv side.

It was built in the second half of the 19th century. In the middle of the landscaped park, one of the outbuildings with a high tower in the Neo-Gothic style has been preserved, as well as some farm buildings and an entrance gate with a stylized watchtower.

Now a boarding school is located on the territory of the manor, and there is a dining room in the wing.

The Dunstan Crafts Center is located in the village of Stadnytsia on the northeastern outskirts of Vinnytsia. This is a family and corporate recreation complex with elements of European history and Ukrainian traditions.

The center of the complex is the Glastonbury Museum, which acquaints guests with British mythology – here you can see King Arthur's sword "Escalibur", Saint Dunstan's boat, the Glastonbury field, the state of the Knights of the Round Table, the Chalice Well, and a medieval wood-burning stove.

Saint Dunstan's Museum displays ancient tools, weapons and household items from various European countries.

In the Medieval Amusement Park, guests are offered archery, stilts, a bag fight on a log and other team activities.

"Dunstan" has its own carpentry workshop and various locations for workshops on folk crafts (pottery, blacksmithing, weaving, felting, etc.). It is also offered to prepare and enjoy dishes according to the medieval recipe.

On the territory of the center there is a house for guests and a site for a tent camp. Nearby is the "Na Yaru" recreation center.

The annual "Dunstan" crafts festival is held on the basis of the Dunstan Crafts Center.

The Museum of Ethnography and Folk Art named after Mariya Rudenko in Mohyliv-Podilskyi is located in the premises of the House of Culture.

It is mainly dedicated to Podillya vytynanka - the traditional art of artistic carving. The exhibition is based on the works of local craftswoman Mariya Rudenko, an honored cultural worker of Ukraine, a famous folklorist, artistic director of the folklore and ethnographic ensemble "Horlytsia".

In addition to carvings, the exposition presents over 3,000 folk songs, thousands of proverbs and sayings, fairy tales, legends, tales, incantations, and lamentations.

The museum of the prominent Podillya folklorist and ethnographer Hnat Tansyura was opened in 1990 in his house in Haisyn, where he lived and worked in the middle of the 20th century.

Tansyura became known as a collector of more than 2,500 Ukrainian songs and the author of many printed works, among which the famous "Notes of a Folklore Collector". The samples of oral folk art recorded by him form the basis of the museum collection, which includes more than 4,500 items. Relics of the Tansyura's life tell about the work of an outstanding folklorist. Here you can see personal things, manuscripts, printed publications, photographs, embroideries. A prominent place among the exhibits is the harmonium purchased by Tansyura from the church of Saint John Nepomucen in the village of Kuna. 

The Folklore Museum of Hnat Tansyura is a cultural and educational center for the study and promotion of oral folk art, ethnology, and song richness of the Haisyn region.

The "Steinbruch" Headquarters of the commander-in-chief of the German Air Force, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering during the Second World War.

It was located 5 kilometers northeast of Kalynivka, next to the military airfield in Hulivtsi.

The construction of the Goering Headquarters began in 1941 at the same time as the Hitler and Himmler Headquarters located nearby. The complex consisted of two underground bunkers connected by a tunnel, a guard barracks, a dining room and several utility rooms. Since Goering was rarely here, the Headquarters was mostly used as a Luftwaffe command post.

In 1944, before the retreat, the Germans blew up the bunkers. Impressive ruins have been preserved.

The building of the Great Synagogue in Chechelnyk was built in the 18th century from limestone. Preserved elements of rich decorative decoration. The main facade of the building overlooks the small Antonishyna Street.

After its closure in 1926, the synagogue was rebuilt as a furniture store, after the restoration of Ukraine's independence, the building was transferred to private ownership. It is in a dilapidated state, the possibility of restoration is being discussed.

"Head of Administration House" in Mohyliv-Podilskyi is called a small building in the Art Nouveau style at the intersection of the former streets of Miyka, Virmenska and Oleksandrivsky avenues.

Built at the end of the 19th century, the house probably belonged to the state councilor Stepan Mikhalevsky, who was a county doctor and one of the honorary justices of the peace of Mohyliv-Podilskyi.

However, the urban legend attributes the house to a certain "Head of Administration Khadzhi", with whom the popular story about the "first in the Russian Empire" monument to Mykola Hohol, erected opposite the building, is connected. Mohyliv-Podilskyi never had a mayor named Khadzhi, although a merchant Khadzhi lived in the city, but in another place - on Kyivska Street.

Now there is a music school in "Head of Administration House".

The princely palace in Hushchyntsi was built in the 19th century. It belonged to Prince Yan Abamelek (Abamelik) from an ancient Georgian family of Armenian origin, who received the estate as a dowry for Anna Hizhytska.

A two-story palace in the style of classicism with a four-column portico stands on the high bank of the Pivdenyi Buh. The last owner was Lyubov Abamelek.

In 1917, the palace was looted by the Bolsheviks, the estate was ruined. In 1934, taking into account the landlord economy, an agricultural school was opened in the princely palace. Later, it was reorganized into a vocational school.

Currently, the palace of the Hizhytsky-Abameleks is in a deplorable state and does not have proper facilities.

The Hnivan granite quarry is located on the banks of the Pivdennyi Buh in the southern part of Hnivan.

In the 19th century, it belonged to the Podillya nobleman Yosyp Yaroshynskyi. The industrial development of the deposit with granite outcrops began in 1870 during the laying of the Kyiv-Odesa railway through Hnivan, the construction of which required a lot of local building materials. Hnivansky granite was distinguished by its great hardness and beautiful dark gray color - it was widely used for paving the streets of Kyiv, Warsaw, Moscow and other places.

The rapid development of the enterprise occurred in the middle of the 20th century, when production was reconstructed and powerful modern equipment began to be used: EKG-5 excavators, BelAZ dump trucks.

Having survived the economic crisis after the collapse of the USSR, the company is now being revived. Career works. The view from above is impressive.