Attractions of Ternopil region

The new Hasidic synagogue in Chortkov was built in 1909 by the Viennese architect Hans Geldkremer (according to other sources, Jan Marcin Cieślikowski). The elegant building, reminiscent of a palace, stands on the corner of Shevchenka and Mlynarska streets in the central part of the town.

In the first half of the 19th century, the territory where the synagogue is located was part of the estate of Maria Borkowska, a representative of the ancient noble family of the rulers of Chortkov. The Hasidic tzaddik David Moshe Fridman bought the estate from her and equipped it with his residence. In the park near the palace, he built a new house of prayer.

The building in the oriental style is decorated with two side towers. In 1910-1914, the chief rabbi from Vienna or Paris held annual services here, which attracted Jews from many cities in Ukraine, Russia, and Eastern Europe to Chortkov.

The building was damaged during two world wars. During Soviet times, the synagogue served as a car park, then as a canteen for the military. Until recently, it housed a center for scientific and technical creativity and leisure for schoolchildren.

In recent years, the synagogue building has been in a state of disrepair. Restoration and the creation of the Center for Jewish Culture are planned - a modern cultural space and a center for the development of cultural diversity.

The old Polish cemetery is located on a hill at the entrance to the village of Strusiv from the side of the city of Buchach.

Grave monuments borrowed from the city memorial sculpture typical of the 20s and 30s of the 20th century have been preserved in the village cemetery. The figures of saints, angels, maidens and other symbolic characters with simple, rough faces are made of sandstone and concrete, all things considered, by local self-taught craftsmen.

The mountain offers a beautiful view of Strusiv and its surroundings.

The Literary and Memorial Museum of the poet, public figure, zoologist-entomologist, scientist, professor of the University of Minnesota Oleksandr Neprytsky-Hranovsky was opened in his homeland, in the village of Velyki Berezhtsi, in 1996. The initiator of the creation of the museum was Borys Neprytsky - a cousin of Oleksandr Neprytsky-Hranovsky, who lives in the USA.

The museum is located in the premises of the Velyki Berezhtsi comprehensive school in seven rooms with a total area of ​​207 square meters. The museum collection includes about 2,500 exhibits. The museum exposition consists of 9 sections and introduces the life and creative path of Oleksandr Neprytsky-Hranovsky in Ukraine and abroad. Among the unique exhibits are a birth certificate, a photocopy of the certificate of graduation from the Bilokrynytsia Agricultural School, photos of members of the Ukrainian club "Rodyna" (Mykola Lysenko, Olena Pchilka, Pavlo Bohatsky, Oleksandr Neprytsky-Hranovsky), a diploma of a doctor of philosophy, a congratulatory telegram from US President Dwight Eisenhower to Oleksandr Neprytsky-Hranovsky on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Organization of the State Renaissance of Ukraine, the first collections of poems by the poet ("Petals of Hope", "Necklace of Tears" and "Chords", a portrait of Taras Shevchenko made by Oleksandr Neprytsky-Hranovsky in pencil in 1907 with his own signature, Easter eggs made according to Oleksandr Neprytsky-Hranovsky's drawings.

In 2009, the museum's funds were replenished with a collection of 202 dolls from almost 60 countries of the world, which the scientist collected over many years years of being in different countries of the world.

The Olena Kysilevska Literary Memorial Museum was founded in 1999 in the writer's hometown of Monastyryska in the Ternopil region.

Prominent Ukrainian writer, journalist, publisher, socio-political and cultural-educational figure Olena Kysilevska was an activist of the women's movement in Galicia. While in exile, she headed the World Federation of Ukrainian Women's Organizations.

The Olena Kysilevska Room-Museum is located in the Monastyryska Central District Library. The museum exposition presents manuscripts of the writer's works, photographs, original documents, lifetime editions of her books "Impressions from the Road" (1910), "Shvaitsaria" (1933), "Ukrainian Peasant at Work: How to Work in Women's Sections WOT" (1942). .

The exposition is complemented by embroidered towels, tablecloths, shirts, spare parts, household items.

The family crypt of the Payhert barons, the last owners of Sydoriv, is located in the old village cemetery.

The Payherts owned the village until 1939. Among them is the Polish poet Yuzef Payhert , who in 1840 built a palace in Sydoriv (not preserved).

The monumental Payhert crypt-mausoleum in the style of classicism impresses with its enormous size.

The building of the People's House was built in Chortkiv on the eve of the First World War at the expense of the Polish community of the city.

The People's House served as a center for the development of culture and sports - the building had a theater stage and a sports hall. An amateur theater group and a military-sports society "Sokil" operated at the People's House.

Ukrainian actress and singer Kateryna Rubchakova (Kosakivna) took her first steps on the theater stage here. in her name, the Chortkiv district cultural center, which is now housed in the building of the People's House.

A monument to Kateryna Rubchakova is installed in front of the People's house.

In the village of Postolivka, there is an old dilapidated church along the highway in the village cemetery.

The Neo-Gothic church of the 18th century was most likely built in honor of the holy Apostles Peter and Paul, as statues of the apostles have been preserved on both sides above the entrance.

The two-story building of the "Bank Avansovyi" society opposite the Dominican Church of Saint Stanislav in Chortkiv was built in 1905 under the burgomaster Ludwik Noss. It was in this building that Ludwik Noss, who was also a famous pharmacist, opened his second family pharmacy, the largest in Chortkiv.

Now it is a communal pharmacy No. 143, which now operates as a pharmacy-museum. The spirit of old pharmacy still reigns here, which is reflected in the furniture made by craftsmen from the Austrian city of Graz, the exquisite interiors and the progressive technological devices of that time. In particular, the know-how of that time was used to decorate the interiors - photos on porcelain, artistic forging, carved wood, concrete patterns.

In addition to factory medicines, visitors are offered some products created according to the century-old recipes of Ludwik Noss.

The museum in Pidhaitsi was created in 1993 as a museum of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army on the initiative of the "Union of Ukrainian Women" in the basement, where NKVD officers once tortured political prisoners. In 2002, the Pidhaitsi Region History and Local Lore Museum was created on the basis of the UPA museum. Currently, the museum is located in the former building of the Ukrainian People's House in the style of Ukrainian Art Nouveau.

The museum's exposition is presented in three thematic sections. The first hall is dedicated to the archaeology of the region and the history of the liberation struggle in Pidhaitsi. It exhibits a collection of memoirs of former soldiers of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army "In the ranks of the UPA", the chronicle "Unforgettable summer and autumn of the 1991 independence uprising", materials "Celebrating the 60th anniversary". Of great value is also the translation from the Russian journalistic work of Ivan Bilas "The Repressive and Punitive System in Ukraine in 1917-1953", written on the basis of research into archival materials, which reveal the insidious technology of combating the national liberation movement of the OUN-UPA, which was practiced by the NKVD.

The second hall is an art and journalistic hall. It houses paintings and literary and journalistic materials by local historians and former residents of the Pidhaitsi region who now live abroad.

The third hall is an ethnographic hall. It presents exhibits reflecting the culture and life of the peasants who lived in the region during the 19th century.

The Pochaiv History and Art Museum was founded in 1959 on the initiative of Andriy Andriyuk as a museum of atheism. Later, it was repurposed into a museum of spiritual culture, then a museum of the history of Christianity. In 2000, it became the historical and artistic department of the Ternopil Regional Art Museum, and in 2002 it became an independent historical and artistic museum.

Having changed several premises, the museum is now located in an old bank building in the center of Pochaiv.

The main exhibition is devoted to the history of the Pochaiv Lavra, sacred art of Volyn, Taras Shevchenko's stay in Pochaiv.

The Museum of Political Prisoners "Memorial" named after Vasyl Stus was opened in Buchach in 1990 in the basement of the former KGB building, where the pre-trial detention center was located in Soviet times.

The exhibition presents documents, photographs and personal belongings related to the events of the OUN-UPA liberation struggle and Stalinist repressions. It was established that more than 1,500 residents of the district died at the hands of Stalin's executioners in those years. Some of the dead were buried in the basements of the Intercession Church.

"Polupanivska Holy Mountain" is a landscape reserve created in 1994 on 11 hectares of the territory of the Medobory ridge.

Rare species of steppe vegetation and animal world are found here. The mountain is composed of reef limestones. The slopes are covered with huge boulders. The location of some stones in the form of dolmens gives reason to assume that in ancient times there was a pagan sanctuary on the mountain.

In the upper part of the mountain there is a healing spring with which the legend of the apparition of the Mother of God is connected.

The Holy Mountain is a place of pilgrimage for Christians of various denominations. In 2010, the "Way of the Cross" was opened on the territory of the "Polupanivska Holy Mountain" landscape reserve with 14 stations, on which sculptures illustrating the Passion of Christ were installed.

The People's Museum was established at the House of Children's and Youth Creativity of the city of Zalishchyky in 1985. In 1992 it was reorganized into the Rifle Glory Museum.

The museum's exposition includes the history of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen Legion, information about the structure of the combat formation, combat operations, exhibits about everyday life and culture.

The abandoned Roman Catholic church is located in the cemetery in the southern part of the village of Kolyndiany.

It was built in 1870 as the ancestral burial ground of the Horodysky nobles. According to other sources, members of the Albinovsky family are buried in the basement of the church.

The Zbarazh Museum of the Russian-Ukrainian War was founded in 2021 by a decision of the Zbarazh City Council on the initiative of volunteer Volodymyr Holodniuk, father of the Hero of the Heavenly Hundred Ustym Holodniuk.

The exhibition is located in a two-story 19th-century building known as the "Speizer House." It stands on the city's central street, next to the monuments to the UPA commander Klym Savur, UPA General Taras Chuprynka and the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred.

About 4,000 exhibits tell about the events of the Revolution of Dignity, the beginning of hostilities in Donbas and the ATO, the full-scale invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine and the course of the Russian-Ukrainian war.

The museum recreates the interior of the dugout of the fighters of the Defense Forces of Ukraine. Samples of military uniforms, bullet-proof vests and helmets, used cartridges from combat weapons, military household items, documents and photographs are presented. You can see military tickets and personal belongings of the Russian occupiers. And one of the central exhibits is a downed Russian attack drone of the "Shahed" type.

The Glory Hall contains portraits of more than a hundred residents of the Zbarazh community who gave their lives for Ukraine. A separate corner is dedicated to the legendary Hero of Ukraine Dmytro Kotsiubailo ("Da Vinci").