Attractions of Khmelnytskyi region

The Literary Memorial Museum of Anna Akhmatova in Slobidka-Shelekhivska was opened in 1989 "in a house near a road with no traffic," as the poet herself described the house of her aunt Anna Vakar.

Akhmatova repeatedly visited her relatives in Podillya, often visited Slobidka-Shelekhivska, and wrote several poems there. In the 1920s, Akhmatova's mother Inna Horenko also settled here, where she lived until the end of her life.

The grave of Akhmatova's mother, her aunt and her husband have been preserved in the village cemetery.

In front of the museum, the first monument to Anna Akhmatova by Viktor Zayko, as well as two cast-iron benches and a street lamp from St. Petersburg, was installed in Ukraine.

The Literary Memorial Museum of Anna Akhmatova is a department of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Literary Museum.

The Arian tower in Tykhomel is a unique landmark of sacred architecture, the only similar structure in Ukraine.

The chapel was built by a local landowner, Pavlo Kshyshtof Senyuta, who was a follower of the Arians' Christian teachings, which were considered heretical. In the 16th and 17th centuries, Arianism was widespread in Eastern Europe, and, in particular, in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Arians denied the triune essence of God, that is, the Holy Trinity, affirming the superiority of God the Father over God the Son, who was created by him - Jesus Christ.

The frescoed chapel is built on a mound above the grave of Pavlo Kshyshtof Senyuta, on the site of the ancient Rus settlement of Tykhomel. Later, the chapel served as a tower of the fortress built here. Preserved in ruins.

The massive octagonal pavilion near the town hall on the Polsky Rynok of Kamyanets-Podilskyi was erected over the Armenian Well, which was opened in 1638.

A well with a depth of 55 meters (according to other sources - 40 meters) was cut in solid rock by order of the Polish king Vladyslav IV Vazф. It was to become the main source of drinking water for the city's residents.

According to legend, the construction was carried out on the remains of stolen funds bequeathed to the construction of the city's water supply by the rich Armenian merchant Narzes. However, the water in the well turned out to be salty, and it was deemed unsuitable for drinking. Because of this, the Armenian well was jokingly nicknamed the "monument of corruption".

For a long time, the well pavilion was used as a warehouse. Now it is an exhibition hall.

The Art Gallery of the Art Department of the Kamyanets-Podilskyi State Historical Museum-Reserve is located in the former educational building of the Theological Seminary (XVIII century) on the Armenian Market Square.

Mykhaylo Dostoevskyi, Stepan Rudanskyi, Mykola Leontovych, Anatoliy Svydnytskyi, and others studied at the Kamyanets-Podilskyi Orthodox Seminary.

The museum exposition presents works of painting, graphics and sculpture of the XVII-XX centuries, as well as a collection of icons of various religious denominations.

In 2008, the room-museum of Hodovanets was opened. Thematic exhibitions are held.

The Art Nouveau building, which currently houses various administrative organizations and shops, was built in Starokostiantyniv in the middle of the 19th century.

The modern two-story volume of the building is composed of several separate buildings placed close to each other, forming a single building - a square with an inner courtyard.

In 1917-1919, the headquarters of various military formations fighting in the district, in particular the Bohun Brigade of the Shchors Division, were located here at various times.

The wooden Church of the Ascension of the Holy Cross with a bell tower is located in the suburb of Kamyanets-Podilskyi Karvasary on a narrow coastal strip on the Smotrych River, under the walls of the Old Castle.

The church was built in the 18th century on the site of a temple that existed in the 17th century. The foundation of the church is made of limestone. The church itself is three-log, single-headed with a porch and sacristy on the north side and a belfry attached to the west.

The Church of the Ascension of the Cross is a vivid work of the Podillya school of folk wooden architecture.

The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Tynna is known for its miraculous image of the Mother of God of Tynna. In the 17th century, the village suffered several Tatar raids, as a result of which the image was transported first to Kamyanets-Podilskyi, and later to Lviv. Only in 1730 the relic returned to the local temple.

The history of the current Church of the Assumption of the Virgin begins in 1597, when Ihnatiy Humetskyi built a new stone church instead of the old wooden one. It is with this period that historians most often associate the appearance of a miraculous image. In 1735, the heavily damaged church was rebuilt. Another decline of the shrine occurred in 1956, when the temple was dismantled.

In the early 1990s, the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary was restored on its former site thanks to the efforts of Father Vladyslav Vanahs. In 2023, the sanctuary of the Mother of God of Tynna was established.

An ancient cemetery is located nearby. Here was the grave of Prince Charles de Nassau-Siegen, who at one time was considered an extremely extraordinary person. The prince spent the last 12 years of his life in Tynna, but his grave did not survive during the next restoration of the temple.

The Atlantida (Atlantis) karst cave is a geological monument of national importance within the Podillya Tovtry National Nature Park.

The cave was discovered in 1968 by pioneer speleologists from Kyiv. It is currently supervised by the Khmelnytskyi speleoclub.

The cave has three connected tiers, the total length is 2525 meters, the area is 4440 square meters. Bats live here and small, not yet completely looted heliatites - stone flowers "grow" here. On the ceiling of the hall - crystals.

The cave is not illuminated and not equipped for visiting, in some places you have to crawl through. Excursions are possible only accompanied by instructors by prior agreement. To visit, you must have a change of clothes, lanterns and other equipment.

Taking crystals out of the cave is prohibited.

The Spring of Baal Shem Tov is located on the outskirts of the village of Trebuhivtsi near Medzhybizh.

According to legend, the founder of Hasidism, the Baal Shem Tov, often prayed here, after which he washed his hands in the spring. A Jewish mikvah (bath) is arranged above the spring.

The Bakota tract on the banks of the Bakota Bay on the Dniester river is one of the most popular natural tourist locations in Ukraine, part of the National Nature Park "Podilski Tovtry".

It is located on the limestone Bila Mountain, rising 120 meters above the river, near the village of Horaivka, 45 kilometers east of Kamyanets-Podilskyi, on the road to Stara Ushytsia.

Bakota was the name of an ancient Rus city that existed in this place in the XII-XIII and was the capital of Dniester Ponyzzia. Subsequently, the same name was given to a large village on the banks of the Dniester, which was flooded in 1981 during the creation of an artificial Dniester reservoir. Only on the slope of Bila Mountain are the remains of the Bakota Saint Michael Cave Monastery, where a tourist trail leads.

Bakota owes its popularity to the stunning views of Bakota Bay from the observation deck at the top of Bila Mountain, which are especially enchanting at sunset. Within the framework of the project "Bakota - in search of the flooded heritage", a monument to the flooded villages was installed here.

The site is equipped with a suspended wooden walkway, binoculars for viewing the opposite bank, and a tactile map of Bakota for people with visual impairments. The tourist visitor center is open. The route along the "Ancient Bakota" trail has been arranged with QR codes at key points that allow you to listen to the tour online.

Entrance to the park and car parking are paid. Services of tour guides, rental of places for tents and fires, use of tables, etc. are offered. There is a beach at the foot of the mountain.

The only surviving synagogue in Medzhybizh is the Beit Midrash (house of learning) of Rabbi Abraham Yehoshua Heschel of Apta. It is called the Apta Synagogue or simply the Old Synagogue.

It was built in 1814, when Heschel settled in Medzhybizh. The synagogue had two floors. The rabbi himself lived in the neighboring house.

During the Soviet rule, the building was used for various purposes. In particular, there was a fire station in it.

Restoration was carried out in 2010. Today, a large Jewish library has been organized in the Old Synagogue.

The grandiose complex of the Bernardine monastery rises on a hill a little away from the center of Iziaslav.

The construction was started in 1596 after the Union of Berestey. The architect Yakub Madlena perfectly integrated the defensive monastery complex into the surrounding landscape. The main buildings were Saint Michael's Church (1602) and a huge cell building (1610), surrounded by 6-meter walls with an entrance tower and a gate.

The monastery was damaged during the War of Liberation in 1648, but was later restored and rebuilt under the direction of the architect Paolo Fontana.

During Soviet times, the monastery was converted into a maximum security prison. The building still performs this function, so it is not possible to inspect the territory.

The Baal Shem Tov Synagogue was reconstructed on the same site where the first Medzhybizh Synagogue was founded in 1442. The founder of Hasidism, the Baal Shem Tov (Besht), chose it as a place of worship when he came to Medzhybizh in 1740.

The synagogue was destroyed by the Nazis during World War II. Accurately reproduced in 2000-2004 based on old photographs and drawings by the efforts of Rabbi Israel Meir Habay. Nearby is the foundation of the Bach Synagogue.

The ruins of the bishop's castle stand on the steep Nadzbruchan mountain above the village of Chornokozyntsi.

From the middle of the 15th century, the fortified summer residence of the Roman Catholic bishops of Kamyanets-Podilskyi was located here. During the first century of the existence of the castle, which stands on the Wallachian road, the castle had to be renovated several times, as it was very often subjected to Tatar sieges - in 1502, 1503, 1507, 1511, 1513, 1516, and the last village was burned to the ground. The most extensive repair work was carried out after the expulsion of the Turks who ruled here from 1674 to 1699.

A two-story palace was attached to the regular castle with two round towers, and a palace-type estate was built on the southeastern slopes of the castle hill. The defensive walls had a thickness of 1.9 to 3.6 meters.

Only the ruins of the castle and the stone gate of the estate have survived to our days.

A cascade of five lakes in a pine forest northwest of Slavuta, near the village of Stryhany, was formed on the site of exhausted peat quarries.

The lakes are deep, with clear and transparent water - due to the sandy bottom and a large number of artesian springs, which raise the glacial water of the Precambrian period to the surface.

There are pike, carp, crucian carp, crucian carp, tench, perch, and rare blue crayfish. There are wild ducks and swans.

During the Soviet times, on the shore of one of the Blue lakes, the Khmelnytsk NPP, located nearby, began to build the buildings of a pioneer camp and a recreation center, which remained unfinished.

Green tourism is developing in the surrounding villages. On hot summer days, there are many vacationers here, mostly motorists.