Attractions of Khmelnytskyi region

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 Church of Saint John the Theologian in Trebukhivtsi near Medzhibizh was built in 1812-1818 on the site of an older wooden church.

The church is cruciform in plan with a separate belfry, made in the style of classicism.

It was closed during Soviet rule. It currently belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The estate with a palace and a park in Velykyi Zhvanchyk was established in 1868 by the landowner Ihnatiy Khelminsky. In 1881, a tower was added to the palace.

After the death of the owner of the estate, one of his two sons, Syhizmund Khelminsky, lost his half of the palace at cards to the landowner Matviy Krupensky. In 1902, Krupensky bought the second part of the building, becoming the full owner of the estate.

After the October coup of 1917, Krupensky left for Poland. The villagers looted the palace and tried to burn it down, but thanks to the efforts of the local priest, the building was saved.

In 1953, an anti-tuberculosis sanatorium was located in the premises of the estate, which in 1972 was repurposed into a children's pulmonology sanatorium. The village school was located in the rebuilt stable.

In 2023, with the support and assistance of the Romanian government, the palace premises began to be redeveloped into a sanatorium for children with limited physical characteristics.

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 manor house in Rakhnivka was built in 1910 by the descendants of Baron Oleksandr Korf, who bought the manor house in 1888. The last hostess was Yelyzaveta-Sofiya Korf.

The building is one-story, with minimal decor. In Soviet times, a village school was located in the premises of the Korf Palace, now it is the Rakhnivka Gymnasium.

In 1362, the Lithuanian prince Olherd liberated Podillya as a result of the victory over the Tatars near Zhovti Vody. He transferred the administration of the region to the sons of his brother Koriat.

The Lithuanian chronicle shows that the Koriatovych brothers rebuilt a castle over the Smotrych River and built a fortress on a rock, which is still called "Koriatovych Fortress". Probably, the new owners of Podillya rebuilt the city after the Tatars destroyed it in 1240. Tatars burned the city several times and later.

During the War of Liberation, it was captured by the Cossacks, and the Smotrych castle was finally destroyed. Since then, a network of complex and confusing underground passages, as well as an ancient church, remained on the site of the stronghold.

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 Polish writer Yuzef Krashevsky was preserved in the village of Kyseli, where he lived in 1854-1862.

Krashevsky inherited the Kyseli manor from Elzhbeta Urbanivska, the aunt of his wife Sofiya. In 1856, he completed the construction of the manor house started by the Urbanivskys.

A three-story tower rises above the one-story palace, in which Krashevsky kept a library. The entrance from the main eastern facade is under the balcony, which rests on two low columns.

The palace stands on a hill, on the slope of which a park used to descend to the river, which has practically not been preserved today.

Currently, the estate houses a secondary school.

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.

At the end of the 19th century, General Mykhaylo Krupetsky built his palace in Kryvchyk. The building has two floors and combines late Gothic and Baroque styles. A four-story octagonal tower with a clock stands out in the architecture of the building.

After the Bolshevik coup of 1917, the owners of the estate left the country. The premises of the palace were used as a pioneer camp, a rest house, and a boarding school for the blind. In 1945, a boarding school for the disabled of the Second World War was placed here, and in 1978 it was reorganized into a psycho-neurological boarding school.

A fountain and an artificial lake remained from the former park, orchard, greenhouses and greenhouses.