Attractions of Khmelnytskyi region

The memorial museum of the reformer Count Ihnatsiy Stsybor-Markhotsky in Mynkivtsi is dedicated to one of the most extravagant Podillya landowners of the 18th century, the founder of the self-proclaimed Mynkivtsi state, which existed for 30 years within the Mynkivtsi Kluch on the territory of the present Kamyanets-Podilsky district.

Hundreds of exhibits tell about the life of Ihnatsiy Stsybor-Markhotsky, as well as the organization of his small state, which had its own constitution, a judicial system based on Roman law, and its own currency.

The museum was opened in 2012 in an ancient building that once housed the NKVD and the Gestapo. Pretrial detention cells have been preserved in the basement and basement floors. In 2010, a memorial sign to the victims of the Holodomor and repressions was installed in front of the house.

The Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built in 1699. Armenians who moved to Zhvanets after the expulsion of the Turks from Podillya.

Almost a century later, when the Armenians left the city, the building was rebuilt into an impressive baroque Catholic church.

In Soviet times, a factory was located here.

Today, the temple is gradually being restored, and worship has been resumed.

The Intercession church-castle stands surrounded by ponds on the southern outskirts of the village of Sharivka.

Its bell tower was built in the 14th century as a defensive tower on the "Kuchmansky Way". At first, it was five-tiered, square in plan. The thickness of the stone walls is 1.7 meters. In the 1430s, the nobleman Yan Domarat added a church building to the eastern facade. The volume of the church is a uniform cross.

In 1567, the church was damaged during the invasion of the Tatars, but was soon repaired by the manor headman Yakub Pretvych. For some time the temple was a Catholic church.

As a result of many alterations, the building lost its original Gothic forms. Paintings by the artist Prahtl have been preserved in the interior.

The Intercession Church-castle is a unique monument of defense architecture of Ukraine, representing a type of border triconch church.

The Holy Intercession Cathedral in Khmelnytskyi was built in 1992 on the site of a small cemetery church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which existed here since the first half of the 19th century. He was consecrated by the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

On April 2, 2023, an incident took place in the Holy Intercession Cathedral with a priest of the Moscow Patriarchate beating a Ukrainian military officer, which caused a wave of indignation in the community, and on the same day a meeting of parishioners took place, which unanimously voted for the transfer of the religious community of the Intercession Cathedral to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

The Iziaslav historical and local history museum is located in the premises of the cultural center.

The museum was founded in the 1920s and 1930s, but was closed during the Second World War, and was restored only in 2003.

The museum presents an exposition that tells about the history and ethnography of the region. In particular, you can see unique exhibits from the interior of the Church of Saint Michael, which was located on the territory of the Bernardine Monastery.

A separate exhibition tells about the culture and traditions of the Jewish community of Iziaslav: ritual objects, cult books of the 19th century.

An exhibition of works by local artist Mykola Tkachuk is on display: painting, sculpture, wood carving.

The Museum of the History of the City of Khmelnytskyi is located in a modern building in the pedestrian zone.

This is a small chamber museum, the exposition of which tells about the main events in the history of the city.

More than 2,000 items are presented.

The Khmelnytskyi Regional Art Museum is located in the former bank building (1903).

The museum's collection includes 8,000 works of art by forty contemporary artists. All works have a bright national color - from the plot motifs and traditional element in the artistic form to the color structure. In particular, there is a permanent exhibition of the works of the artist Georgy Vereyskyi.

The museum has a collection of works by the outstanding Ukrainian folk artist Mariya Prymachenko.

The art salon and fashion gallery "Art Podium" works at the museum.

The Khmelnytskyi Regional Literary Museum opened in 1992 as the Museum of the Writer Oleksandr Kuprin and the Writers of the Khmelnytskyi Region.

It is located in a small one-storey house in the center of Khmelnytskyi, opposite Shevchenko Park.

The exposition of the first hall tells about oral folk art, folklore, ancient writing, the beginning of new Ukrainian literature.

In the second hall you can get acquainted with the classics of Ukrainian literature, whose names are associated with modern Khmelnytskyi: Taras Shevchenko, Lesya Ukrayinka, Mykhaylo Kotsyubynsky, Leonid Hlibov, Mykhaylo Starytsky and others. The literature of national minorities of the region is also presented here.

The third exhibition hall tells about the writers of the XX century and modern Ukrainian literature.

Meetings with writers, presentations of new publications, thematic literary and musical evenings take place in the literary and musical room "Shine of Viburnum" with an exposition about the poet-biker Mykyta Hodovanets.

Khmelnytskyi Regional Museum of Local Lore is located in a modern building in the city center.

The funds include 60,000 items, including treasures of medieval coins and ornaments from the times of Kyivan Rus, including 4 treasures of jewelry from the Bolokhiv land.

A large collection of porcelain of the XIX-XX centuries, antique furniture and utensils is presented.

The palace of the Koselskyi landowners in Vinkivtsi was built by Karol Koselskyi in the first half of the 19th century in the so-called "Volochian style".

An architectural monument of local importance.

Now it is one of the buildings of the district hospital.

The Koselsky Palace in Manykivtsi dates back to the beginning of the 19th century, when the estate was bought by the nobleman Vinsent Koselsky.

The two-storey house in the Romanesque style has a rectangular shape with three corner towers - two hexagonal on the north side and rectangular on the south. Initially, the towers had pointed roofs with spiers, but they were replaced by ordinary tent roofs in Soviet times, when the palace housed an agricultural college, then a local club.

Parquet and tiles have been preserved in some rooms. Basements, which once housed a kitchen and pantry, have also been preserved.

Now the palace houses the Manykivtsi comprehensive school of I-III degrees.

The palace of the Krasinsky family in Dunaivtsi was built in the 19th century.

The founder of the estate, Yan Krasinsky, who became the owner of the Dunaivtsi in 1782, did a lot for the economic development of the city. In particular, he built a cloth factory that is still operating.

During the Soviet times, the palace was rebuilt. Now it is a district cultural center.

The elegant round toothed tower rising above the Vinnytsia-Khmelnytskyi highway is a fragment of the Letychiv castle, built in the 16th century by the Kamyanets chief Yan Potocki at the request of the Polish king.

Previously, there was a wooden fortress in Letychiv, which was repeatedly burned by the Tatars. After Potocki converted from Protestantism to Catholicism in 1606, the castle came under the control of Dominican monks. They brought with them the icon of the Mother of God from the Vatican (a copy of the icon from Saint Peter's Cathedral in Rome) and began rebuilding the castle into a monastery.

The Church of the Assumption (XVI-XVII centuries) has since that time been the sanctuary (holy repository) of the icon of the Virgin of Letychiv - the patroness of Podillya (now the icon is in Lublin, Poland, and a copy is in Letychiv).

During the Liberation War of 1648-1652, the monastery was destroyed, but was soon restored.

During the Second World War, a concentration camp was located here, during Soviet times - warehouses.

In 1989, the church was returned to the Roman Catholic parish of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the restoration is ongoing.

In front of the tower there is a monument to the national hero Ustim Karmalyuk, who is buried here.

The Prytulivka grain-rolling mill on the Ushytsia River was built in 1846.

Was active until recently.

Currently, the three-story building of the mill houses a small museum exhibition.

The Museum of Miniatures "Castles of Ukraine" presents miniature models of 21 most famous architectural monuments of Ukraine, including medieval fortresses and aristocratic palaces located in different regions of Ukraine.

The open-air museum gives an opportunity to get acquainted with all at once, learn the details of their history, interesting facts, secrets and legends, as well as appreciate the work of Kyiv masters who accurately conveyed the smallest details of buildings.

Museum of Miniatures "Castles of Ukraine" is a great place for family vacations and spending time with friends.