Attractions of Vinnytsia region

The wooden Old Believer Church of the Holy Image Not Made by Hands was built in 1911 at the expense of the landowner Dmytro Heyden as a temporary temple, after the old church of the Sign of the Holy Mother of God burned down in Borskiv.

The small temple looks like an adobe house with one dome and two entrances. The church was consecrated in honor of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, this day is a temple holiday, but the parishioners call it in their own way - the church of the Holy Image Not Made by Hands.

The interior is painted by local masters with floral ornaments.

The Church of the Mother of God of the Holy Scapular in Bratslav was built in 1865-1884 with donations from parishioners. Before that, there were wooden Catholic churches in the city, the first of which is mentioned in the 16th century, but they often burned down.

The new Bratslav church was built of brick in the Baroque style. On both sides of the facade rose two Gothic towers covered with gilded iron, on which two gilded iron crosses were installed. Between the towers of the church there were three stone statues: the Mother of God with the Savior, Saint Joseph and Saint John. In 1889, the church was consecrated by Bishop Kyrylo Lyubovydskyi.

During Soviet times, the shrine was closed, the building housed a cultural center. Today, the Bratslav church is active again.

The Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity is one of the first and largest in Podillya, founded in 1603 in Khmilnyk, which was a significant center of Protestantism at the end of the 16th century.

The temple was damaged during the Liberation War, then it was badly damaged during the Turkish rule at the end of the 17th century. Majorly renovated and expanded at the expense of Mykhaylo Zaleskyi, rededicated in 1728 under the name Beheading of Ioann the Baptist.

The last reconstruction was carried out at the beginning of the 20th century. An oil painting of the early 20th century has been preserved in the interior of the church in the Tuscan Baroque style.

Today it is an active Roman Catholic church of the Holy Trinity of the Kamyanets-Podilskyi diocese.

The Church of the Holy Trinity in Mankivtsi was founded in 1763 by the landowner Yuzef Dembskyi. In 1789, it was rebuilt in stone in the forms of early classicism.

During Soviet times, the temple was closed, now it is in a dilapidated state. A slab with an epitaph in honor of Teklya Dembska-Vitoslavska (1830) has partially survived.

The Holy Trinity Brailiv Monastery, founded in 1635 in Vinnytsia on the initiative of the magnate Mykhaylo Kropyvnytskyi, has occupied the complex of the former Catholic monastery since the middle of the 19th century.

In 1740, Voivode of Volyn Frantsishek Potocki founded it as a monastery of the Catholic Trinitarian order. The monks of this order, exotic for Ukraine, specialized in the redemption of Christians from Turkish captivity. The first monastery buildings were wooden. The construction of the current architectural ensemble was completed in 1778 by the Podillya magnate Stanislav Potocki. The monastery consisted of a church with a tall baroque tower and cells attached on both sides. In 1787, the Polish king Stanislav Avhust specially visited Brailiv to admire the monastery's paintings by the artist John Prachtel (buried on the territory), which are now partially restored.

After the Polish uprising of 1831, the Trinitarian monastery was closed, and in 1845 the Trinity Convent from Vinnytsia was transferred to it. During the reconstruction, in order to give the church an Orthodox appearance, a tented finish was added to the tower, a small figure of eight was erected over the gable roof, and a gate in the Moscow Baroque style was built in front of the entrance.

The main shrine is the icons of the Brailiv-Pochaiv Mother of God and the Brailiv-Chenstokhova Mother of God.

The Nemyriv Holy Trinity (Saint Nicolas) stauropygny nunnery was founded in 1720 at the expense of Kyiv voivode Yuzef Potoski.

Initially, the monastery was male, but in 1783 it was reconstructed by Vintsent Potocki and became female. The monastery reached its greatest development under the abbess Apollinaria (1845-1903), who launched large-scale construction. The Assumption and Saint Nicolas Churches were reconstructed, a new Holy Trinity Church and two bell towers were built, brick cells, a dormitory, a refectory, a priest's house, and a hotel were built. A school was opened at the Nemyriv monastery, and in 1860 a diocesan school for girls was founded, which in 1902 was transformed into a two-class teacher's school.

During the Soviet era, the monastery was closed, the Church of the Assumption was dismantled, a machine-tractor station, a car company and an orphanage were placed in other premises.

In 1996, the monastery was restored, a boarding school for children with mental retardation is still located on the territory of the diocesan school.

The Museum of the History of the Village of Hopchytsia was created in 1990 on the initiative of Anton Kolisnyk, a history teacher at the Hopchytsia High School, and in 2018 it was awarded the title of People's Museum.

The main funds of the museum include 430 exhibits, which are presented in seven museum halls. The modern exposition tells about the nature and history of the village of Hopchytsia and the entire Pohrebyshche region, in particular about the development of local agriculture. A 3D tour of the museum is presented on the community website.

The estate in Krupoderyntsi was built at the end of the 19th century by Count Mykola Ihnatiev, who settled here after resigning from the position of Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia. Before that, Ignatiev became famous as one of the best Russian diplomats. Thanks to his efforts, in 1878, the San Stefano Peace Treaty was signed with Turkey, beneficial for Russia, which ended the Russian-Turkish war. One of the most important points of the treaty was the restoration of Bulgarian statehood, for which Bulgarians consider Ihnatiev a national hero.

In Krupoderyntsi, the count spent the last years of his life with his family, setting up a model farm. The surviving two-story stone manor house of the Ignatievs is decorated with a carved portico and other wooden details.

After the Bolshevik coup of 1917, the estate housed a local commune, then an orphanage, and now a high school.

In 2011, the Mykola Ihnatiev museum was opened at the school, which presents documents and photographs related to his life.

The church-mausoleum of the Nativity of the Virgin in Krupoderyntsi was built in 1895 by Count Mykola Ihnatiev as a family tomb.

During the design of the temple, the architect Oleksandr Pomerantsev chose as a model the Cathedral of Saint Oleksandr Nevsky in the capital of Bulgaria, Sofia, where Ignatiev is considered the author of the San Stefano Treaty, which revived Bulgarian statehood.

In terms of architectural style, size and decoration, the church in Krupoderyntsi had no equal in the district. After Ihnatiev's death in 1908, he was buried in the lower part of the mausoleum, and 9 years later his wife rested there.

Divine service in the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin was restored in 1944.

In the depth of the churchyard rises a memorial cross on a massive stone block, on the sides of which are four ancient ship anchors. This is a monument to Lieutenant Vasyl Ihnatiev and other sailors who died in the Battle of Tsushima in 1905, erected by the lieutenant's mother and widow for the 10th anniversary of the battle.

Illintsi Museum of Local Lore was founded in 1967 on the initiative of local historians of the district, opened after reconstruction in 2017 on the territory of the local sports and recreation complex, near the stadium "Kolos".

The exposition in five halls tells about the nature, history and culture of the region. In particular, the archeological collection of artifacts of Trypillya culture, ethnographic selection of household items and household goods of the XVII-XX centuries, collections of musical instruments, utensils, ceramics, numismatics are presented.

The art gallery presents works by local artists Valentyna Kohut, Alina Shmyhora, Anatoliy Herovymchuk and others.

Ilyinets astroblema is a meteorite crater that appeared 400 million years ago at the site of the fall of a cosmic body with a mass of about 40 million tons and a diameter of 250-300 meters.

Ilyinets Crater was first discovered in 1851 by Professor Kostyantyn Feofilaktov of Kyiv University, but it was not until 1973 that its cosmic origin was established ("astroblema" in Greek - "stellar wound", i.e. impact crater). Before that, it was believed that this was the mouth of an ancient volcano.

The exposed rocks have some external similarity with volcanic tuffs, but in fact they belong to zuvites - fragile rocks of impact-meteoric origin. For centuries, they were used by local residents to make millstones (this is where the name of the nearby village of Zhornyshche comes from).

The center of the crater with an inner diameter of 4 kilometers and an outer diameter of 10 kilometers is located between the villages of Luhova and Ivanki. You can see the Ilyinets crater in a cross-section just beyond the eastern outskirts of the village of Luhova, where quarries are located, in which local residents still extract building stone.

The Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Ivaniv was a part of the Bernardine monastery founded in 1780 by Solomiya Kholonevska.

Decorated with columns of the Corinthian order and baroque vases. To the right of the church building is an L-shaped church building, veneered in Soviet times with tiles.

The church was famous for the largest organ in Vinnytsia, which was destroyed by the German invaders in 1943.

The Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Murafa was founded in 1624 by Dominican monks who came to the village at the invitation of Jadwiga Yazlovetska-Belzhetska, the granddaughter of the great crown hetman Yuriy Yazlovetsky.

Until 1850, there was a Dominican monastery near the church, surrounded by defensive walls with corner towers (the north-eastern hexagonal brick tower and a section of the southern and eastern walls have been preserved). A two-story building of cells in the Baroque style has also been preserved.

The church was damaged during the War of Liberation, but was restored at the expense of Count Yoakhim Karol Potocki, which is reminded of by his family coat of arms, a commemorative plaque and a portrait in full dress above the side door. After the reconstruction, the temple retained its baroque features, emphasized by the architecture of the portal with two high towers.

After the closure of the monastery by the Russian authorities, the Church of the Immaculate Conception became a parish church, it remained active even during almost the entire Soviet period. Thanks to this, not only the exterior decor, but also the interiors with stucco, stained glass, and wall frescoes have been perfectly preserved.

The main shrine of the Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the miraculous icon of the Mother of God of Murafa (XVII century) in the main altar.

The stone Intercession Church in Stara Pryluka was built in 1910 by engineer Rikhard Kraus, as evidenced by a plaque built into the stairs.

The ancient paintings have not been preserved, but the height of the bath is still impressive - about 20 meters.

In the 1960s, the church was closed, but in 1990, with the help of the village council, it became active again.

On January 1, 2023, the first Divine Service of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine was held in the Intercession Church.

The wooden Church of the Intercession in Lozova is the oldest surviving wooden church in Vinnytsia. The church was built in 1700-1702.

This is a typical three-part three-headed temple of the Podillya school of folk architecture of the 17th century. The Church of the Intercession is characterized by impeccable proportions.

Opposite the western facade is a massive three-tiered belfry with a through passage in the lower tier.