Attractions of Khmelnytskyi region

The bench on the embankment of the pond on the Utka River in Slavuta, along the Third Dam, has had the title of the longest bench in Ukraine since 2012.

Its length is 213 meters and 12 centimeters. 1,000 schoolchildren were able to sit on it at the same time. They painted part of it with different patterns.

Previously, the "Family Bench" on the Dnipro embankment was considered the longest in Ukraine.

The house of the veterinarian of Count Potoski's stud farm was built in Antoniny at the beginning of the 20th century. The building is in the Art Nouveau style with Western European motifs in the decor.

Currently, the Antoniny Children's Music School is located here.

The Church of the Visitation of Elizabeth by the Blessed Virgin Mary in Kytaihorod was built on a high cliff above the Ternava River in the 18th century.

According to legend, the temple was founded by a local landowner after he miraculously survived when his carriage fell off a cliff. And since his wife was Orthodox, he built a church nearby.

The Church of the Virgin Mary is distinguished by a combination of the plan-volume structure characteristic of the late Renaissance era with facades in the Baroque style. Baroque paintings and altars have been preserved in the interior.

Since 1994, the church belongs to the Catholic community "Mission of the Holy Spirit".

From the viewing platform in front of the church, a stunning panorama of the Ternava River canyon opens, which looks quite full of water, as it flows into the Dniester Reservoir near this place.

A monument to the composer Vladyslav Zaremba was erected in 2015 on the square in front of the House of Schoolchildren's Creativity in the city of Dunaivtsi, where he was born in 1833.

Vladyslav Zaremba is the author of numerous romances, piano pieces, arrangements of folk songs. He created more than 30 songs based on Taras Shevchenko's poem, including "The mountain stands high", "The willows are rustling at the end of the dam", "Such is her fate", including the well-known version of the song "I'm watching I'm in heaven."

The Khmelnytskyi Music School is named after Vladyslav Zaremba.

The author spent the last years of his life in Kyiv, where he was buried at Baykove Cemetery.

Volochysk Historical and Ethnographic Museum is located in the city center. The exposition tells about the history of the region from ancient times to the present day.

The Vrublivetsky forest on the hills at the confluence of the Tarnava River with the Dniester is a state botanical natural monument of local importance.

The territory of the reserve occupies 89 hectares.

This is a forest area of natural origin, covered with hornbeam and oak trees. There is a relict species - white sedge (carex alba), on steep hills (tovtras) an ordinary orchid grows, which does not have green leaves and can provide its nutrition only in symbiosis with woody plants.

The high six-level brick watchtower over the Sluch River, clearly visible from the route, is considered a symbol of Starokostiantyniv.

The 35-meter-high square tower-donjon in the Gothic style was built in the 16th century under Prince Kostyantyn Ostrozky and was part of the system of city fortifications. Later (according to other sources, at the same time as the construction), the Orthodox Church of the Ascension of the Cross was added to it, which Yanush Ostrozky handed over to the Catholics in 1612.

The tower became the belfry of the Church of the Mother of God Hromnycha of the Dominican monastery located here. In the 18th century, reconstruction was carried out (architect Ernest Zhiber), the tower received a Renaissance design. In 1853, the church was rededicated as the Cathedral of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, and 20 years later it was rebuilt in the pseudo-Rus style.

During Soviet times, the temple was closed and destroyed, the tower lost its ceiling. The monastery premises were occupied by structures of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Currently, the premises are used by the Exaltation of the Cross Men's Monastery of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

On one of the walls of the temple, you can see the contours of the faces of the saints that appeared through the plaster (perhaps the Holy Mother of God and Princess Olha).

The beautiful five-story building of the water mill made of red brick is clearly visible from the castle of Ostrozki in Starokostiantyniv on the opposite bank of the river.

The Red Mill was built in 1905 on the isthmus at the confluence of the Ikopot River with Sluch by the order of the sugar factory Dubasov, then it became the property of his widow, the last mistress of the Starokostiantyniv Castle.

The monumentality of the architectural image, the expressive decorative design of the facades, the successful location - all this makes the Old Kostiantyn mill one of the most striking monuments of industrial architecture of the modern era in Ukraine. Restoration is underway.

The water mill was built in Netishyn in 1905 on the site of an old wooden mill, built without a single nail, which burned down at the beginning of the 20th century.

Cement for its construction was produced in the village of Siltse. The strength of the cement was phenomenal. The mill milled up to seven varieties of flour, which was exported to Germany until 1917.

In the 1930s, a hydroelectric power station began operating in the complex with the mill, which resumed its activity in the post-war period. In 1972, the mill was closed due to a lack of grain. All equipment was dismantled and taken away. The premises of the mill were originally supposed to be converted into a dormitory for the builders of the Burshtyn HRES, but the work was stopped due to fire safety conditions. The mill has been empty since then.

Currently, the water mill in Netishyn has been bought by a local entrepreneur and is renting out separate premises.

The Kupyn water mill on the Smotrych River is the oldest such structure preserved in Ukraine.

It was built in 1455, as evidenced by the inscription on the facade. For the mill, a place with the largest drop in the river level was chosen, next to the largest waterfall in Khmelnytskyi region. The last reconstruction was carried out at the end of the 19th century, when Baroness fon Hildenbadt owned Kupyn. Since that time, the Swiss equipment has survived and is still functioning.

The water mill on the Sluch River next to the manor in Samchyky was built at the beginning of the 18th century by the landowners Khoyetsky.

The mill was turned by a wooden vertical wheel of the lower operation with a diameter of 6 meters. Under the landowner Ivan Uhrimov, the mill produced 10 types of flour. In 1904-1905, the last owner of the estate, Mykhaylo Shestakov, reconstructed the mill, adding a second floor.

In Soviet times, the mill was converted into a hydroelectric power station.

The water mill on the Shatavka River in Makiv is an architectural monument of local importance. It was built in 1846, during the period of ownership of the village by the Ratsyborovskys. The Shatavka River, which gave its name to the neighboring village, once provided the work of local enterprises.

In 1966, the mill was rebuilt after a fire. An ancient bas-relief in the form of an animal's head has been preserved, which decorates a stone tablet indicating the date of construction of the mill.

The Wild Animal Park-Shelter "Arden" was created in 2020 to rehabilitate predators and other animals that have suffered from improper human captivity. It is located on an area of ​​32 hectares on the territory of the National Nature Park "Podilski Tovtry", next to the balneological resort of Sataniv.

In conditions as close to natural as possible, more than two dozen brown bears live here, as well as wolves, foxes, deer, fallow deer, mouflons and other forest animals. In 2023, a family of lions and a white Bengal tiger settled in the park.

The animals are in isolated and fenced areas of the forest and walk freely on the ground. A kilometer-long observation bridge-gallery in the shape of a horseshoe has been laid throughout the territory at a height of about 5 meters, from which visitors can observe the animals accompanied by a guide. During excursions, visitors are told about the origin of each animal, their habits and nutritional characteristics.

Group excursions are held every hour. Individual excursions for organized ones must be booked in advance.

There is a pizzeria and a souvenir shop on the territory of the "Arden Park".

The nursery for breeding wild boars is located in a picturesque forest on the road between the villages of Liutarka and Komyny.

The main activity of the nursery is the breeding of wild pigs in the natural environment with the aim of increasing the population. Today, there are more than 100 individuals of various ages in the herd. The nursery belongs to Liutarka Forestry.

Also functions in mini-zoo mode. Visitors are provided with communication with piglets, feeding, recreation in nature. It is planned to create a full-fledged recreation area.

The Museum of the Second World War in Volochysk was established in 2012 on the basis of the Pillbox (DOT - long-range firing point) of the Proskuriv Fortress District (PrUR) during the Second World War, which was part of the so-called "Stalin Line".

It is a two-storey machine gun semi-caponier for two machine guns. On the upper floor there were battle casemates and a control point. At the bottom - living room, fan, diesel, storage. The military situation was recreated in the premises, samples of weapons, uniforms, personal belongings of soldiers of those times were collected.

The section of the defensive line of the Proskuriv fortified area was reconstructed nearby: a trench of the infantry division's position, a dugout for sheltering personnel. An exposition of military equipment of different years has been opened.