Attractions of Vinnytsia region

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. An observation deck and an information stand have been set up there.

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.

The Carmelite monastery was founded in Bar in 1531, but soon the wooden buildings were destroyed.

In 1616, the construction of a college and a Jesuit monastery was started on the ruins. It, in turn, was destroyed during the Liberation War of 1648-1654, but the stone monastery building was partially preserved. Reconstruction began in 1701 and continued intermittently until 1787.

The church and the cell building are made in the form of a single building in the Baroque style, which looks little like a temple. In 1908, the belfry over the gate was built.

For some time, the complex belonged to the Orthodox Church, but now its owners are Benedictine missionary sisters.

The wooden Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin in Mala Rostivka is a Cossack temple built in the 18th century. Architecturally, the temple is a wooden tetraconch with a belfry attached in the diocesan style.

After the Bolshevik coup of 1917, the Soviet authorities closed the temple. During the German-fascist occupation, religious services were restored. In the post-war period, the shrine began to fall into disrepair, and until recently the Intercession Church was in a state of disrepair.

The Intercession Church was given a second life by the Motuzyuk family of local farmers, whose money and efforts restored the Cossack church in 2020 to the way it was after it was built in 1776. For this, they used the material of oak and preserved all the elements that remained in the temple from old times, both inside and outside.

The castle-palace in Ivaniv traces its history from the 15th century, when Prince Zbarazkyi built the Yaniv fortress.

In the 16th century, the castle was rebuilt according to the bastion system. The fortifications had the shape of a square, at the corners of which there were bastions with small towers, and there was a deep moat with water around it.

In the 18th century, when Yaniv passed into the possession of the Polish magnates Kholonevsky, the need for fortifications already disappeared. Count Adam Kholonevsky built a palace on the site of the fortress, using some of the walls and towers of the medieval castle. The palace was made in the style of the transition from baroque to classicism.

The Column Hall with fat columns, the Marble Hall with walls decorated with white marble, stucco rosettes on the ceilings, stairs to the second floor have survived from the old interiors to our days.

All this can be seen from September to June, as the Kholonevsky Palace is now occupied by a boarding school for orphans and children from low-income families.

Museum of History City Koziatyn was opened in 2004, for the 130th anniversary of the day when Kozyatyn was granted city status.

The exposition is located in the old one-story building of the former Zemstvo post office of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The foundation of the fund consists of collections of railway lanterns, bourgeois furniture, folk clothes, peasants' tools, photographs, postcards, copper coins, front sheets from the period of the First and Second World Wars, jubilee medals, etc.

The railway station is the business card of the city of Koziatyn. It was built in 1888-1889 according to the project of the architect Valeryan Kulykovsky under the supervision of the Ukrainian architect Oleksandr Kobelyev. It was considered one of the best railway stations in the Russian Empire.

The station building in the form of a white steamer is located on an island, which is "washed" by the rails on both sides.

The interior of the restaurant is especially beautiful with a magnificent multi-tiered crystal chandelier on a frame made of bronze leaves.

Tsar Nicholas II, leader of the Ukrainian People's Republic Mykhaylo Hrushevskyi, hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyi, poet Mayakovsky, as well as Soviet leaders Khrushchev and Brezhnev visited the Koziatyn railway station.

The Vinnytsia house of Oleksandr Kumbari, an Odesa merchant of Greek origin, is located on the territory of the estate purchased by him in 1894. Since then, this area on the high bank of the Pivdenny Buh has been called Kumbary after the owner's surname.

The building in the Art Nouveau style was built in 1913 according to the project of the architect Hryhoriy Artynov for his wife Kumbari. For the first time in Vinnytsia, concrete pouring technology was used during construction.

A long staircase descends from the house to the river bank, designed by the same architect, a lieutenant general of the military engineering service. Local residents call it the "Potomkins Stairs" by analogy with the famous Odesa Stairs.

Until recently, the premises of the former Kumbari house housed a children's clinic.

Kilns for burning lime at the entrance to the village of Mezhyriv were built in the 19th century near the outcrops of lime deposits.

These minerals supported the economy of the village. Several large brick kilns with a diameter of more than 3 meters were built on the slopes of the limestone hills to burn lime from carbonate rocks.

Now they are partially destroyed. From a distance, the industrial building resembles the ruins of a castle.

The local history museum of the Haisyn region was created in 1995 on the initiative of the veterans' organization of the Haisyn.

The museum is located in the former house of the director of the male gymnasium - an architectural monument of the beginning of the 20th century.

The local history museum stores objects of material and spiritual culture of both the past and present of this region.

The exposition presents samples of weapons from the Second World War, objects of urban and rural life of the 20th century, icons of the 18th-20th centuries, folk ceramics of the Bubniv factory, works of Ukrainian decorative and applied art.

The open-air manor-museum "Luhovatska Sich" in the village Luhova was founded by the family of owners of the local agricultural enterprise "Ustia" Pavlo and Lyubov Marushchak. The presentation of the project took place in 2022.

The museum's exposition presents photographs, documents and books that tell about the history of the village of Luhova. Here you can learn about the folk clothing of the inhabitants of the region, get acquainted with the variety of embroidery ornaments and the technique of embroidery of towels, see the technology of bleaching and dyeing the threads from which the canvas was woven.

The manor offers services for organizing recreation, family holidays and mass events. By prior arrangement, you can taste a traditional dish of the village of Luhova - stuffed cabbage, cooked in a real Ukrainian oven.

The Saint Nicholas memorial church-tomb is part of the National Museum-manor of Mykola Pyrohov. It is located 1.5 kilometers from the Vyshnya estate, in the former village of Sheremitka.

The temple was founded in 1881 as a small chapel above the crypt of Pyrohov. At the insistence of his wife, the body of the eminent surgeon was embalmed by St. Petersburg doctor Davyd Vyvodtsev and placed in a glazed sarcophagus. In 1885, the Saint Nicolas Church was built above the crypt, according to the project of architecture academic Viktor Sychuhov.

During the Second World War, the sarcophagus with Pyrohov's body was buried in the ground, later restoration and re-embalming was required.