Attractions of Khmelnytskyi region

The Khmelnytskyi Museum-Studio of Photographic Art opened in 2010 in the three-story building of the Continental Hotel in the Art Nouveau style, built at the beginning of the 20th century by Proskuriv merchant Naftula Vasserman.

To this day, the original plastic forms of the facade, openwork wrought iron balconies, decorative decoration of the walls with colored enamel glass have been preserved.

The photo art museum opened in it is the first museum of this profile in Ukraine. The exposition includes more than 1,500 exhibits (cameras, lenses, enlargers, exposure meters and other accessories), which illustrate the development of photography and photographic technology from the end of the 19th to the end of the 20th century. The collection was assembled by the director of the museum, Khmelnytskyi photographer Kostyantyn Zhdanov.

In the lobby there is a permanent exhibition "Old-New City" with black-and-white and color photographs of Khmelnytskyi sights. Photo exhibitions of the best photo artists from different cities of Ukraine are held.

Mykhaylivsky Park is a park-monument of garden and park art of national significance. The total area of ​​the park is 15 hectares.

In 1720, Mykhaylo Makovetsky began the construction of a defensive castle in Svystivka, which he renamed Mykhailivka. In 1848, his son Stefan-Frantsishek developed a project for the development of the fortification. So the old garden was transformed into a landscape park.

The next owner of the estate (Stefan-Leon) completed the reconstruction of the castle into a neo-Gothic palace and the arrangement of the park. Among other things, banana yuccas grew here. Research was conducted in the field of breeding and acclimatization. At the beginning of the 20th century, visitors could buy seedlings of rare trees, shrubs and flowers. Pedestrian paths were laid and park sculptures were installed. An openwork bridge led guests from the park to the island.

During the Soviet-Ukrainian war, most of the buildings were destroyed. Only separate elements of the grotto on the lake and the foundation of the stables of the Makovetsky manor have been preserved.

In the 1920s, the park was transferred to the Kamyanets-Podilskyi Agricultural Institute. Professor Oleksiy Lypa noted the collection of woody plants, which includes about 250 taxa.

Mynkivtsi dendrological park was founded in 1958-1960. on the initiative of the head of forestry Serhiy Bulba. In 1969, the Arboretum received the status of a nature reserve.

The first seedlings were brought from the Kamyanets-Podilskyi Botanical Garden and the Novoushytskyi nursery. Currently, more than 200 taxa of different plants are represented in the park, the total area of ​​which is 3 hectares. Particular attention should be paid to the oils of western thuja and evergreen boxwood, barberry, birch and juniper. Among other noteworthy species are two-lobed ginkgo, Weymouth pine, cedar pine (Siberian), velvet trees, Kelreiteria hurtovina, Kuril bush tea, bush sekurinega, soap and suction trees, Japanese bunduk, Virginia persimmon.

In addition, there is a nursery for ornamental plants on the territory of the park.

The National Nature Park "Podilski Tovtry" with its administrative center in the city of Kamyanets-Podilskyi was created in 1996 to preserve the unique natural landscapes of Podillya.

Tovtry (Toltry) is the local name of a mountainous arched ridge, the height of which within the park reaches 401 meters above sea level. The ridge is the remains of an ancient barrier reef that formed 15-25 million years ago in the coastal zone of the Miocene sea. The microclimate of Kamyanetske Transnistria is formed by the Tovtry ridge and the canyons of the Dniester and its tributaries, so there are special conditions for the preservation of rare and relict plants, among which most are medicinal.

There are many caves within the park, the most famous of which is Atlantis (the village of Zavalne). There is a huge supply of mineral waters. One of the most interesting tour routes runs from the village of Verbka through Verbetska Tovtra to Karmalyukova Mountain.

The Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin was built in Starokostiantyniv in 1807 on the site of a wooden Orthodox church known since 1687.

This is the only cult building of the era of mature classicism that has survived in the city.

During Soviet times, the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin was the only active one in Starokostiantyniv.

The Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin Mary in Slavuta was built in 1819 at the expense of the parishioners and with the participation of Prince Yevstakhiy Sangushko.

Made in the Ukrainian Baroque style, painted in the image of the Saint Volodymyr Cathedral in Kyiv.

Later, the church was expanded, a priest's house, a psalmist's house, and a prosphora were built nearby.

The Nativity of the Virgin Horodyshche Men's Monastery was founded in Horodyshche in 1538 by Prince Bohush Koretsky, the founder of the famous Korets Women's Monastery.

The wooden Orthodox monastery burned down in 1745. In its place, in 1746-1782, the Princes of Lubomyrski built a Catholic monastery of the Discalced Carmelites with a church. In 1777, the monastery became a Greek-Catholic Basilian monastery, and in 1832, after the second partition of Poland, Orthodox monks returned to Horodyszcz and re-consecrated the monastery in the name of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos. The church was rebuilt into the Church of the Holy Virgin. In 1902, the Church of the Nativity of John the Baptist was built.

The monastery was closed during the Soviet rule, but briefly resumed its activities during the German occupation. The rest of the time on its territory was first a sanatorium of the Central Committee of LKSMU, then a boarding school, then a psychiatric hospital.

The revival began in 1996. It belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin is the oldest stone building in Khmelnytskyi.

The temple in the style of classicism was built on the site of the first Orthodox church of Proskuriv, founded in the 18th century, which burned down in 1822. The main shrine was a miraculous icon of the Mother of God with a silver crown.

In 1937, the cathedral was closed, the premises were used as a warehouse. Currently, the church is active and belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

Netishyn City Museum of Local Lore was founded in 1994.

The exposition of the museum is located in the annex to the first floor of a residential building near the city center and is represented by eighteen exhibition halls, which reflect the main directions of history, ethnography, nature of the region.

The Archeology Hall exhibits materials of the Acheulean epoch from the Paleolithic site on the Spivak hamlet and finds from the burial mounds of the East Bronze Age Bronze Age culture from the Kozatsky Mohyly tract near Netishyn.

In the ethnographic exposition you can see household items, clothes, tools, utensils of different eras. Weaving, cooperage, pottery and weaving from elastic raw materials are presented in the halls of handicrafts and crafts.

Some halls of the museum bring visitors closer to the history of the villages of Netishyn and Dorohoshcha, which reaches deep into the XVI-XVII salt marshes. Here is exhibited one of the first known maps of the Netishyn farm from 1813.

The hall of the same name tells about the recent past of the city of Netishyn and Khmelnitsky NPP, in the center of which is a model of a WWER-1000 nuclear power unit operated at KhNPP.

The exposition is completed by the numismatics and bonistics halls, which reflect the general history of the region's money circulation.

The Museum of History and Local Lore in Nova Ushytsia was opened in 1992.

The museum has about 2,000 exhibits that cover the history of the region from ancient times to the present.

In particular, the exposition presents a diorama of the Ushytsia defense in 1941.

The photo exhibition "Glorious Sons of Ukraine" has been opened, highlighting the participation of the residents of the district in the Russian-Ukrainian war.

The Novoplanivsky Bridge in Kamyanets-Podilskyi connects the Old Town with the so-called "Noviy Plan" - the current administrative center of the city.

In the middle of the 19th century, when the provincial center of Kamyanets-Podilskyi, with the growth of the population and the bureaucratic apparatus, became cramped within the medieval walls, the idea of expanding the city beyond the Smotrych Canyon arose. The decision was made in 1859 during the visit of the Russian Emperor Oleksandr II, who was fascinated by the view of the city from the hill near where the Oleksandr Nevsky Cathedral is now located. Five years later, construction began, and in 1872, the Novoplaniv bridge with a wooden deck on stone bulls was put into operation.

Simultaneously with the laying of the bridge, the city gardener Severyn Kovalsky laid out a park.

From the bridge over the deep canyon of Smotrych, a breathtaking view of the medieval towers and walls of Kamyanets-Podilskyi, rocks above the ribbon of the river with a natural waterfall and a park with figures of deer on the hills and stones opens up.

A castle-like palace with three corner towers in the Neo-Gothic style was built over a pond in Slobidka-Shelekhivska in 1911 by the landowner Mykhailo Novytsky (Novynsky). A park with luxurious flower gardens was arranged around the palace.

On the wall on the right side of the facade, the engraved date of the construction of the palace and the family coat of arms of the Novytskys have been preserved.

In 1920, with the establishment of Soviet power, Novytsky and his sons went abroad, and the estate was nationalized. Initially, the palace housed a construction office, later a children's sanatorium with a school, which operated until 1989. Subsequently, the premises were temporarily leased to various enterprises, for some time a psychiatric hospital was located here. After the hospital closed, the building was not used and fell into disrepair.

In 2009, the mutilated estate of the Novytskys got a new private owner, who planned to give the palace a new life. The thickets were cleared, the roof was patched with slate, and the windows and doors were closed. However, the restoration of the estate itself never began.

The ancient one-story mansion on the boulevard next to the monument to Bohdan Khmelnytskyi is one of the oldest civilian buildings in the city of Khmelnytskyi.

Currently, the department of the Khmelnytskyi City Council dealing with citizen appeals is located here.

Jews settled in Dunaivtsi since the days of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and were mainly engaged in trade and crafts. During the Liberation War of 1648, most of the city's Jews died.

In the 18th century, the Dunaivtsi Jewish community recovered. Textile enterprises were opened. In the 19th century, Jews received the right to tailor and shoemaking, and opened a tobacco factory.

In 1847, the community purchased land for a Jewish cemetery on the territory of the neighboring village of Sschyntsi. In 1890, there were 11 synagogues, a synagogue, and a Jewish hospital in Dunaivtsi. At that time, the Jewish population made up more than 60% of the total number of city residents. At the beginning of the 20th century, the community actively developed industry, leased iron foundries and distilleries, owned cloth factories, printing houses, pharmacies, hotels, and shops.

During the Second World War, the Jews suffered greatly. The most tragic events are related to the massacre in the Dunaivtsi Phosphorite Mine. In total, more than 12,000 Jews died in Dunaivtsi. In 1965, a monument was erected at the New York cemetery to commemorate the Holocaust in Dunaivtsi.

During the Soviet period, the Jewish quarters, which were emptied, were actively built up. The last synagogue survived, in the building of which a state institution is located these days.

The Grand Cathedral of Oleksandr Nevsky is the main Orthodox church in Kamyanets-Podilskyi.

The neo-Byzantine style cathedral was built in 1893 in honor of the 100th anniversary of Podillya "accession" to Russia. The temple was built with public funds collected by the Oleksandr Nevsky Guardianship. The building was impressive in its grandeur and was one of the most beautiful temples in Kamyanets-Podilskyi.

Oleksandr Nevsky Cathedral had a large main dome and four semi-domes on the sides, a small bell tower was located above the western entrance. The main altar of the cathedral was dedicated to Saint Oleksandr Nevsky, in memory of Oleksandr III, the southern altar bore the name of the Holy Great Martyr Catherine, the patroness of Catherine II, and the northern altar - Saint Nicholas. The church premises were heated by steam heating.

The Oleksandr Nevsky Cathedral was destroyed during the years of Soviet power, but after the restoration of Ukraine's independence, the cathedral was rebuilt.

On April 8, 2023, the residents of Kamyanets-Podilskyi unanimously supported the transfer of the Oleksandr Nevsky Cathedral to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. However, the faithful of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate still do not allow the people of Kamyanets-Podilskyi to enter the church.