Attractions of Khmelnytskyi region

Derazhnia Historical Museum is located in the city center.

The exposition tells about the nature and history of the region, has 8 thematic sections: "Geographical position of the region", "Nature of the region", "From the depths of the ages", "The region on the way to independence", "At the turn of the millennium", "Glorious names of the region", "Trouble of the 1930s-1940s" and "For Ukraine, for her will".

Museum employees conduct sightseeing tours of the Derazhnia.

The Dunaivtsi regional museum is located in a historical building on the central street of Dunaivtsi.

The museum was founded in 1986.

Its funds include 3,000 exhibits. The permanent exhibition of the local history museum highlights the history of the city of Dunaivtsi and the entire Dunaivtsi region.

The exhibition hall of the art department of the Kamyanets-Podilskyi Historical Museum-Reserve is located in the modern city center, on the ground floor of a multi-storey building.

The institution acquaints visitors with the works of contemporary artists of Ukraine. The reserve implements exhibition projects here, holds personal and collective art exhibitions, organizes concerts, workshops, fairs of handicrafts and more.

The large complex of buildings of the barracks of the Kamyanets-Podilskyi fortress looks especially impressive from the opposite side of the Smotrych canyon - from the pedestrian bridge or from the Holy Intercession church in the arboretum.

They were designed to house a military garrison by the commandant of the Kamyanets fortress, Yan de Vitte, and were built at the end of the 18th century by the architect Stanislav Zavadskyi.

From the side of the river, the building looks like a fortress thanks to powerful retaining walls and loophole windows. Russian writer and poet Kostyantyn Batyushkov, Decembrist and hero of Borodino Volodymyr Rayevsky, scientist-lexicographer Volodymyr Dal, writer Mykhaylo Bulhakov served here.

In Soviet times, a tobacco factory was located in the barracks. Now the complex is in an abandoned state.

A synagogue with a crypt, in which in 1760 one of the greatest spiritual leaders of the Jewish people, the Kabbalist, the founder of Hasidism, Israel Ben Eliezer, who was called Baal Shem Tov (Lord of the Good Name) or simply Besht, was buried.

He spent the last 20 years of his life in Medzhybizh. The Beshta had many followers, including the famous tzaddik Rabbi Nachman of Uman.

Beshta's grave is the object of a mass pilgrimage of Hasids (supporters of this orthodox current in Judaism) and other people who are fascinated by Kabbalism. A crypt was built over Beshta's grave.

In the old Jewish cemetery, you should see the unique beauty of the tombstone. A modern synagogue building was built nearby. Many Jewish houses of the 19th century have been preserved around.

The palace of lawyer Samuel Hershhorin is located on the central street of Derazhnia.

The one-story residential building in the Art Nouveau style was built in 1910. Later, a gymnasium was located here, which in 1921 was repurposed into a labor school, and later into a house of pioneers. Due to an error in the documents, the building received the status of an architectural monument of local importance as the "Mansion of the private lawyer Perytorin".

In 2022, the building was purchased at an auction by the founder of the "Spadshchyna.Ua" initiative, Hanna Havryliv. She plans to use the Gershhorin Palace to develop the tourism potential of Derazhnia. The restoration of the monument has begun, research work is being carried out.

The majestic Medzhibizh Castle at the confluence of the Buzhok River with the Pivdeniy Buh, where the ancient Rus city of Mezhibozh stood in the 11th and 13th centuries, began to be built in 1362 by princes Koriatovych (Koryatovych), who received these lands from the Grand Duke Olherd of Lithuania.

Medzhibizh Castle became an outpost on the eastern border of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, later Poland. In the XV-XVI centuries, he successfully repelled Tatar attacks.

In 1540, the castle passed into the possession of the noble family of the Russian voivodes of Senyavsky, who rebuilt it and strengthened it with corner towers. An elegant palace and a Gothic chapel were built on the territory, which was later rebuilt in the Baroque style. A small garrison and palace servants occupied the service premises.

Princes Chartoriysky added even more luxury to the architecture in the 18th century.

The castle survived to this day in a good condition, although it was damaged during two world wars. The pentagonal Knight's Tower with an observation deck, the castle church, the carriage row and the barracks, which house the museum exhibits of the State Historical and Cultural Reserve "Mezhibyzh", have been restored. In particular, historical and ethnographic museums, as well as the Holodomor Museum. The restoration of the palace is ongoing.

In August, the "Ancient Medzhibizh" festival with knightly tournaments takes place on the territory of the fortress.

The Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Yarmolyntsi was founded in 1792. A year later, construction began at the expense of the Orlovsky Counts, which lasted until 1862.

In Soviet times, the premises of the Peter and Paul Church were used as a cultural center, which is still visible from the outside, even after the return of the church to the Catholic community.

The first wooden Church of the Holy Intercession in Polonne was founded in 1720. In 1910, a new wooden temple was built next to the old church - also wooden, on a stone foundation.

The first priest of the newly built church was archpriest Mykolay Matusevych, who served here until 1937. With the advent of Soviet power, he was repressed and exiled to Kolyma, where he died in 1940. The church was closed and a granary was built in it, the bell tower was destroyed.

Services in the Intercession Church resumed after the Second World War.

On July 23, 2023, the church community voted for the transition to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Holy Transfiguration Monastery in Holovchyntsi is one of the oldest Orthodox monasteries in Podillya.

The monastery was founded in 1540 by the crown field hetman Mykola Sinyavskyi. During the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, it was settled by the Basilians, and in 1795 it was returned to the Orthodox.

The monastery was closed for the first time in 1923, a shelter for homeless children was organized on the territory. During the Second World War, the activity of the monastery was briefly restored, but soon it was closed again. Until 1996, the buildings belonged to a children's boarding school.

Today, the monastery is being revived: the monastery church and residential building have been reconstructed, a new bell tower has been erected, the abbot's building has been rebuilt, an almshouse and a pilgrim hotel have been built.

On the territory of the Holy Transfiguration Monastery, there is a miraculous Onufriy Spring, and the miraculous image of Saint Onufriy the Great is preserved in the temple.

The ruins of the Church of the Holy Trinity are located next to the Medzhybizh castle - on a hill fortified by a stone retaining wall.

The Baroque-style church with Gothic elements was built under the Senyavsky magnates in 1632, when Catholicism was massively planted by the Poles in Podillya.

The church is stone, cruciform in plan. The ceilings were vaulted, the plasticity of the faceted volumes was emphasized by tall, pointed windows. The decoration was ascetic.

In the second half of the 20th century, the Trinity Church was destroyed. It has lost its authentic appearance and the monastery building is located next to it.

The Greek-Catholic Monastery of the Holy Trinity in Kamyanets-Podilskyi was founded in 1722 by Basilian monks.

The Orthodox Trinity Church was first mentioned in 1582. It is likely that in this place there was an ancient temple of the XIII-XIV centuries. During the Turkish rule, the church was turned into a mosque, and after the departure of the Turks, it passed to the Greek Catholics and became a cathedral. After the annexation of Podillya to the Russian Empire, the Uniate monasteries were handed over to the Orthodox.

In 1836, a two-story stone wing with the warm church of Anthony and Theodosius of Pechersky was added to the monastery building, and in 1855, the reconstruction of the Trinity Church was completed, giving it Orthodox forms.

During the Soviet era, the temple was completely destroyed. In recent years, the Trinity Church was restored on cleared foundations by the forces of Basilian monks.

The Holy Trinity Church in Yarmolyntsi was founded in 1761 at the expense of Pavlo Starzhynskyi as a Catholic church of the Bernardine monastery.

In 1832, the monastery and the church were closed, the premises were transferred to the Orthodox Church. The reconstruction of the Trinity Church was completed in 1835, and a new bell tower was built in 1891. The cells of the Bernardine monastery have also been preserved.

Today it is the Saint Peter and Paul Church of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The Trinitarian church in Kamyanets-Podilskyi was founded in the 18th century by monks of the Trinitarian order, who specialized in the redemption of slaves from Turkish captivity.

The temple is made in baroque style. Attention is drawn to the main facade, which is given the slenderness of the pilasters of the Tuscan order. The facade is finished with a pediment decorated with sculptures and vases. The church is surrounded by a stone wall. The gates are decorated with statues of Jean de Mat and Felix Valois, the founders of the Trinitarian monastic order. The stairs leading to the gate are surrounded by a parapet, on which a statue of the Virgin Mary is installed.

After the Second World War, the funds of the Khmelnytskyi Regional State Archive were housed in the Trinity Church.

Today it is the Greek Catholic Church of Saint Josaphat.

The ramparts of the Hubyn chronicled ancient Rus hillfort are located on the high bank of the Sluch River, opposite from the center of the village of Hubyn.

In the 12th and 13th centuries, Hubyn was one of the largest cities of the Bolokhiv Land - an ancient Rus historical region in the upper reaches of the Pivdennyi Buh bordering the Galicia-Volyn and Kyiv principalities. It was destroyed in 1241 by Prince Danylo Halytskyi in revenge for the participation of the Bolokhiv princes in the campaign to Bakota. Since then, the city has not been rebuilt, but a village of the same name arose in its place.

Since 1977, archaeological research has been conducted at the Hubyn hillfort. Many artifacts were found: elements of plows, horseshoes, sticks, stone axes, pendants and other women's jewelry. These are unsurpassed examples of jewelry art of that distant time. One of the most valuable finds is the lead seal of Prince Volodymyr Vsevolodovych of Novhorod, dated 1136.

The finds are exhibited in the Starokostiantyniv Museum of Local History.