Attractions of Khmelnytskyi district

The palace in Bozhykivtsi was built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Zdyslavom Kolonna-Chesnovsky, a Polish landowner with Italian roots.

From 1923 to the present, the Chesnovsky manor houses a secondary school. Other manor houses have been preserved. The wing houses a kindergarten, and the bakery houses a country club. The former distillery was converted into a starch factory in 1931.

In 1998, the museum of the journalist and writer Dmytro Prylyuk was opened, a memorial plaque was installed on the school building.

The Craftsmen Synagogue in Khmelnytskyi is the only surviving Jewish temple in the city.

A small synagogue was built in 1890 in the Jewish quarter of artisan bakers, opposite the current central food market.

In Soviet times, the building housed a gymnastics school. In the early 1990s, the Craftsmen Synagogue was returned to the Jewish community of Khmelnytskyi, and it is now in use.

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 house of the manager of the estate of Count Potoski in Antoniny was built at the beginning of the 20th century.

The Art Nouveau mansion on the bank of the pond is still a residential building. Local residents nicknamed it the "Kremlin".

The current building of the "Planeta" cinema, known to residents of Khmelnytskyi as "kalancha", was built as a fire station in 1954, during the period of intensive development of the city, which acquired the status of a regional center.

It was designed by the architect Hnat Chekirda, who built many iconic architectural structures of modern Khmelnytskyi (a memorial plaque has been installed).

Located at the busiest intersection in the center of the city, the building with a high tower, reminiscent of the town hall, is considered an informal symbol of Khmelnytskyi.

Since 1987, this is a children's cinema with 3 halls.

One of the most famous fish markets was established in Letychiv in the early 1990s.

During the collapse of the Soviet economy, many residents of the village, located on the shore of the Shchedrivskyi (Podilskyi) reservoir. at the confluence of the Vovk River into the Pivdenniy Buh, engaged in fishing, processing and trading fish. At first, spontaneous trade was carried out along the route, but in the mid-2000s, a centralized indoor fish market was opened.

Here you can buy both fresh fish and smoked, cured, dried, salted fish. Local fish include crucian carp, carp, bream, and crucian carp, but mainly the people of Letychiv currently process imported fish. Fried cutlets made of carp roe are popular.

Novoselytsia Palace and Park is an architectural monument of national importance.

The palace in the style of romanticism with Gothic elements was built in 1820 by Ludovik Gizhytsky. The two-story house is built of English brick. Above the porch with a massive arched entrance is a balcony-terrace with a stone balustrade. The attic of the facade is decorated with two towers. Arrow windows are decorated with a stucco ornament imitating Gothic stone interweaving. Stucco molding has been preserved in the ceremonial halls.

The landscape park with an area of ​​200 hectares was formed on the basis of the existing forest. On the lawn in front of the palace there are century-old larch trees and pine trees, the diameter of whose trunks exceeds 1 meter.

Now the Novoselytsia Vocational Agrarian Lyceum is located in the Gizhytsky manor.

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 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 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 Holy Trinity Monastery near Sataniv began with caves that have survived to this day. The entrance there is at the foot of the monastery rock.

According to legend, the monastery was founded in the 11th century by a monk from Athos. Officially, the Trinity Monastery in Satanivska Slobidka dates back to the 16th-18th centuries. At first, the monastery was wooden. Stone buildings appeared at the beginning of the 17th century. The monastery ensemble included the Church of the Intercession, the Saint Nicolas Church and the Trinity Church, a bell tower and cells, an entrance gate and a fence. In 1744, the monastery was rebuilt in the Baroque style.

Today, one of the three monastery churches, built in honor of the Holy Trinity, has been preserved. On the northern wall of the church, a sundial with the ancient Podillya coat of arms is preserved - a smiling face, and numbers are located in a semicircle at the bottom. A small sculpture of Saint Rochus, the patron saint of plague patients, has been preserved on the facade of the bell tower.

At various times, the monastery was visited by Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, Russian Tsar Peter I, and General Suvorov.

From 1707 to 1793, the Sataniv monastery was Greek-Catholic, in 1893 it became a women's monastery. With the advent of Soviet power, the monastery was closed, but in 1942, during the German occupation, it was briefly revived. It was then that a spring with healing water gushed out from under the ground, and the pilgrimage began. But in 1962, the monastery was closed again, the buildings began to collapse.

In 1989, the Holy Trinity Monastery was returned to the Orthodox community and restoration began.