Attractions of Vinnytsia region

The regimental church of the Holy Prince Oleksandr Nevsky in Mohyliv-Podilskyi was built at the end of the 19th century.

At that time, the city border ran between the Nemiyka River and the end of Oleksandrivsky Avenue, beyond which the village of Ostrivky began. There was a military unit of the Russian army here. The church of Oleksandr Nevsky was built for the soldiers of this unit.

During the years of Soviet power, it was closed and turned into a club for soldiers of the flight training unit. Only at the end of the 20th century, the church was returned to the believers of the Orthodox Church.

The local history museum of the Olhopil village is located in the center of the village.

The organizer and first director of the museum was Yakiv Kyforenko, a history teacher at the Olhopil secondary school, who collected a wealth of material about the past of the Olhopil village. The museum was opened in 1979, and in 1991 it was awarded the title of People's Museum.

Today, the museum's collection includes 1,960 objects, among which there are physical, visual, decorative and utilitarian, written, photo, natural, and video materials that testify to life from the distant past to the modern period of the region.

The exposition of the museum reflects the culture of the Ukrainian people and the traditions of the village: folk women's and men's clothing, shoes, items of furniture of a peasant house, household and kitchen utensils: chairs, benches, cabinets, chests, troughs, baskets, buckets, mugs, antlers, sieves, sieves, jars, wooden and clay bowls, pots, maquis.

The second thematic group includes pottery and pottery tools.

The largest exposition is the ethnographic collection of weaving and embroidery.

The Orativ Local Lore Museum was founded in 1993 and is subordinated to the Department of Culture, Youth and Sports of the Orativ Village Council.

The institution is located in the former library in the center of the village of Orativ.

The museum collection is more than 2,000 items. The ethnographic collection includes home-woven embroidered shirts from the villages of Yakymivka, Chovnovytsia, Lopatynka, Mervyn, Orativ, Rozhychna, ceramics of local potters, as well as various items of Ukrainian folk life.

The Orlovsky Palace in Severynivka was built at the beginning of the 19th century and has remained almost unchanged to this day.

Severyn Orlovsky was a stingy person and did not want to invest a lot of money in the construction of a magnificent palace according to the project of a famous architect. From the outside, the building was quite modest, but from the inside it was impressive with luxury and splendor.

The richest collections of paintings, silver, ancient coins, stamps, etc. were gathered in the palace. Unfortunately, the interiors were not preserved. Some paintings from the Severynivka Palace are now exhibited in museums in Warsaw and Kyiv.

A park was built around the palace, the architect of which was Dionysius Mikler. At the end of the park there is a sandstone rock that offers a magnificent view.

Next to the palace, a large-scale building of the former arena with a gate has been preserved.

During Soviet times, the palace building was covered with tiles. Currently, the Severynivka Rehabilitation Hospital is located here.

The local history museum in Pishchanka was created in 1987 on the initiative of local historian Volodymyr Bershadsky.

In the main exposition, ancient household items and tools of the inhabitants of Podillya are widely presented. Ukrainian shirts of the 18th and 19th centuries are particularly proud of the collection of the Pishchanka Museum of Local Lore, where there are embroideries with elements of both Ukrainian and Moldavian traditions.

The second exposition tells about important events of the 20th century that had a significant impact on the history of the region, including the Ukrainian revolution of 1917–1921, the Holodomor of 1932–1933, the Second World War, the reconstruction of the national economy, and Ukraine's independence.

An exhibition of paintings by local artist Stepan Trubalyevych has been opened in the exhibition hall of the Pishchanka Museum of Local Lore.

The Museum of Pottery in the village of Novoselivka is a museum-estate of the brothers Yakym and Yakiv Herasymenko, who became famous all over the world thanks to their masterpieces of artistic ceramics.

The museum was opened in the house where famous masters were born in 1988, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Yakym Herasymenko. They made bright, decorated with floral and geometric ornaments Kumans, barrels, baths, eggplants, tiles, plates, half-bowls, smoothies, pots, toys, figured utensils, as well as tea and tableware.

The museum exposition presents the works of the Gerasymenko brothers and other potters from Novoselivka and neighboring Bubnivka, who have long specialized in the manufacture of household utensils, as well as making building ceramics. After all, pottery has existed here since the seventeenth century, when Count Stanislav Potocki settled here 30 masters from Uman. A special place among the products of tambourine pottery was occupied by ceramic toys and small plastics (icons, crosses, etc.).

A separate collection in the museum consists of traditional clothes and household items of Novoselivka residents.

The Museum of Village Culture and the Prokip Kolisnyk Gallery were opened in the village of Potashnia in 2004.

The initiator of the museum was a Ukrainian painter and writer, Honored Artist of Ukraine Prokip Kolisnyk, whose name is now the institution.

The museum is housed in a one-story building in the center of the village, built in the late XVIII century in the style of classicism.

The exhibition presents antiques of rural life and folk art, as well as a collection of paintings by the artist, who was born and spent his childhood in Potashnia.

The city park in Pohrebyshche is all that remains of the estate of the Rzhevusky counts, who owned the city in the 18th and 19th centuries.

An obelisk commemorating the soldiers who died in Afghanistan and other hot spots has been installed in the park.

The Church of Saint Joseph the Betrothed in Chechelnyk was founded in 1751 by Stanisłav Lubomyrskyi, the voivode of Krakow and Kyiv.

In 1786, a stone one was built on the site of the burnt wooden temple, which has survived to this day.

The church contains a miraculous copy of the icon of the Czestochowa Mother of God by an unknown artist.

During the Soviet rule, the church was closed, the bell tower was destroyed (now there are other buildings in its place). The miraculous image was hidden by believers, but it was damaged due to improper storage. In 1991, the Franciscan Fathers Maksymilyan Zhydovskyi and Yan Duklyan Pavlyuk took the canvas to Poland, where it was restored and consecrated by Pope John Paul II, after which the icon returned to Chechelnyk.

Currently, Saint Joseph's Church is being restored by the efforts of Franciscan monks and Albertine sisters. The priest's house has also been preserved, but is in a state of disrepair.

In 2015, the church was declared a diocesan sanctuary of the Mother of God of Chechelnytska.

The Church of Mary the Snowy in Lityn was built in 1856 on the site of the old wooden church of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, known since 1748.

During Soviet times, the temple was closed, the premises were used as a cultural center.

Today, the Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary has been returned to the Catholic community of Lityn, and its two lost towers have been restored.

Saint Nicholas Church in Yampil was built in 1770 as a Catholic chapel with a separate bell tower.

In 1862, an octagon and a dome were built, a stone belfry was added from the west, and an iron roof was made.

Currently, the Church of Saint Nicholas belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate. The main shrine is the icon of Hennadiy Yampilskyi.

The Church of Saint Paraskeva of Serbia in Mohyliv-Podilskyi is a landmark of Podillya wooden architecture.

Local residents call it Nemiyska, because it is located in an area that used to be a separate village of Nemiya.

According to legend, a mute girl once lived in the family of the local landowner Mayevsky. Unable to withstand the constant taunts from the children of her fellow villagers, she drowned in the river. Her father built a church in her memory. Mayevsky himself is buried in the churchyard.

The temple is made of oak and ash in the Ukrainian Baroque style, the interior is decorated with paintings and embroidered towels. At various times, Taras Shevchenko, Oleksandr Pushkin, Vasyl Tropinin, Ferents List, Mykhaylo Starytskyi, Olena Pchilka visited the church of Saint Paraskeva.

The Sharhorod Museum of Fine Arts represents the works of Ukrainian artists of the 60s and 80s of the 20th century: Odaynyk, Derehusov, Lemeshko, Lozovy, Shchebryakov and others.

The greatest value is the tapestry "Sharhorod - the land of Podillya", created according to the sketches of a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Yuriy Kyzymov.

The palace of the Shchenovsky landowners in the village of Nosykivka is one of the little-known architectural monuments of Vinnytsia region, an example of Podillya manor construction at the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century.

Until 1905, the estate in Nosykivka was owned by the Korevytsky landowners. After the fire that destroyed the manor house, Stanislav Korevytsky sold it to Stanislav Shchenovsky, the son of the Polish sugar farmer Ihnatsiy Shchenovsky from Kapustiany. Shchenovsky built a new palace in the style of romanticism and laid out a large decorative park with a pond. In Soviet times, it housed a hospital, a pharmacy, a school and a post office.

The estate is located on a hill in the middle of an old park. It is surrounded by a wall with a guard at the gate. The palace is decorated with a decorative tower that overlooks the surrounding area. Stucco decor and fragments of wooden decorative elements in the neo-Gothic style have been partially preserved in the interior of the palace.

The restoration and transformation of the palace into a tourist attraction is planned at the initiative of the activists of preservation of historical and cultural heritage.

The palace of the Sobansky family in Obodivka was built in 1800.

First, a house with a tower was built in the style of Romanticism with elements of the Italian Neo-Renaissance. The central building of the palazzo is connected by a two-story covered gallery with a four-story tower and a U-shaped building that form an inner courtyard.

The park, which descends to a 17-hectare pond, was created by the famous Irish park builder Dionysius Mickler.

During the reconstruction in 1900, the third floor of the left wing of the palace was added, the front part of the palace was decorated with an open terrace, which offers a panorama of the park and pond.

After the Bolshevik coup of 1917, the Bessarabian Commune was housed in the palace, and after the Second World War, it housed the district executive committee, district committee of the party and other district organizations. In 1959, the palace and park were handed over to the Obodivka boarding school.

Currently, the building of the Sobansky Palace is in a state of disrepair.