Attractions of Khmelnytskyi district

The monument to Bohdan Khmelnytskyi in the city of Khmelnytskyi is one of the most extravagant monuments to the Ukrainian hetman in the country, the fourth and largest in Khmelnytskyi.

A bronze equestrian monument by sculptor Valentyn Borysenko and architect Mykola Kopyl was erected in 1993 in front of the philharmonic hall, next to the Khmelnytskyi regional administration building.

Despite the fact that the sculpture turned out to be very expressive and pompous, the monument caused many complaints from the people of Khmelnytskyi due to the unnatural posture of the horse and the general disproportion of the figures.

The Historical Museum of the Central Railway (formerly South-West) named after Borys Oliynyk was opened in 2001 at the "Derazhnia" railway station.

The station building in Derazhnia was built in 1896.

The exhibition of the Central Railway Museum tells about the development of railway transport from the moment of its inception to the present.

A separate exhibition is dedicated to one of the managers of the Central Railway, Borys Oliynyk, who was born in 1934 in the village of Bozhykivtsi near the city of Derazhnia. Personal things, photos and documents tell about his life and work path.

Interesting models of locomotives and armored trains.

The Museum of Proskuriv underground was opened in 1994 in a century-old building in Khmelnytskyi, where a secret apartment was located during World War II.

The museum exposition tells about the beginning of the German-Soviet war, the occupation of the city, concentration camps in Proskurov, the activities of the Proskuriv district underground guerrilla organization in 1941-1944, members of the underground, guerrilla movement, liberation of the city from the Germans and the return of Soviet occupiers.

The museum's funds contain personal belongings of the undergrounders, photographs, memoirs, letters from the front, correspondence of the undergrounders, characteristics of the leading core of the Proskuriv underground and their awards.

The Museum of Proskuriv underground is a branch of the Khmelnytskyi City History Museum.

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.

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 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.

The Museum of Podillya Embroidery and Life opened in 2021 in the Manykivtsi House of Culture in the village of Manykivtsi.

In two halls there are more than 500 exhibits of the late XIX - early XX centuries, including ceremonial towels, embroidered shirts, pillows, icons, chests, nights.

It is planned to open two more halls, where, in particular, an old loom will be installed in working order.

The Literary and Local History Museum of the poet-biker Leonid Hlibov is located in one of the buildings of the former estate of Counts Pshezdetsky in Chornyi Ostriv.

The palace in the style of classicism was built at the end of the XVIII century by Mikhal Pshezdetsky on the site of the castle of the Vyshnevetsky princes. The interiors of the palace have been partially preserved. Oak stairs lead to the second floor, stucco and tiled stoves have been preserved.

In 1847, the famous composer Ferents List visited the Pshezdetsky Palace. The estate was visited by the prominent Ukrainian poet Leonid Hlibov, who from 1856 to 1859 taught history at a local school.

The museum has a photo gallery of the owners of the palace in the Black Island. Here you can meet the Vyshnevetsky and Pshezdetsky families and Kateryna Ihnatyeva, who once owned the town.

The former mansion of the Ratsiborovsky family in Derazhnia is now one of the buildings of the local hospital.

The estate in Derazhnia was founded at the end of the 18th century by the banker Petro Tepper, who greatly contributed to the economic development of the town. Near the center of the town, Tepper built a small palace surrounded by a park.

In 1844, Stanislav Ratsiborovsky became the owner of Derazhnia. His descendants reconstructed the palace in the Art Nouveau style in 1902.

In Soviet times, the building was rebuilt as a hospital, as a result of which it almost completely lost its historical appearance.

The modern church of Saint Anna in Derazhnia was built in 2000 on the site of the cemetery chapel, which in Soviet times served as the only Catholic church in the city.

The first wooden Catholic church in Derazhnia existed as early as the 17th century. In 1726, it was rebuilt (again from wood) at the expense of the owner of Derazhnia, Antoniy Lyubomyrskyi. In the 1840s, a new stone church was built on the initiative of one of the last owners of the town, Stanislav Ratsiborovskyi. Unfortunately, it was completely destroyed in the 1930s.

For a long time, local Catholics were forced to use a small chapel in the cemetery on the way out of the city in the direction of Khmelnytskyi for religious services. Today, a new majestic neo-Gothic church of Saint Anna with two pointed towers rises here.

Saint George's Church in Proskuriv (now Khmelnytskyi) was founded in 1898 as a regimental church of the 46th Dnipro Infantry Regiment.

At first it bore the name of Saints Peter and Paul. The brick temple on the territory of the former military town was built according to a typical project in the Byzantine style, with one roof and a three-tier bell tower, which was added in 1906.

After the arrival of Soviet power, the temple was abandoned. Only in 1996, the Church of Saint George was returned to the Orthodox Church and revived from the ruins. On April 10, 2023, the parish approved the transition to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Church of Saint Paraskeva Pyatnytsia is part of the ensemble of the estate of the palace and park complex in Samchyky.

It was built in 1771 by Kazymyr-Frantsysk Khoyetsky as a church of the Catholic Marian monastery. In 1789, when the Khoyetsky lost ownership of Samchyky, the new owners, the Lubomyrski, turned the church into a Greek Catholic church, and in 1837 it was already consecrated as the Orthodox church of Paraskeva Pyatnytsia.

Ancient paintings and wood carvings have been preserved in the interiors. The stone belfry used to be the burial crypt of the Khoyetsky family.

The palace and park complex, fragments of which have been preserved in Antoniny, were created by magnates Sangushko and Potocki in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The palace-residence was built by the regent of the crown chancellery, Ihnatiy Malchevskyi, who had leased the estate from his wife's sister, Barbara Sangushko.

At the end of the 18th century, Prince Yevstakhiy Sangushko, who settled in Antoniny, significantly expanded and beautified the picturesque park laid out on the banks of the Ikopot river, and in 1803 he built a greenhouse. He also reconstructed the palace complex and decorated the interiors, inviting the architect Francois Arvo for this.

The last reconstruction in the late Baroque style was carried out by the Potoski at the beginning of the 20th century under the leadership of the celebrated Viennese architect Ferdinand Fellner, the author of the buildings of the opera houses in Odesa and Chernivtsi. The palace housed a large collection of works of art. There were over 3,000 varieties of flowers and shrubs in the park.

Most of the manor buildings were destroyed during the two world wars. A large two-story outbuilding (now a boarding school), a manager's house, a horse arena (now a gym), an entry gate and a fence have been preserved.

The estate in Krasyliv belonged to the Polish princely family of Sapieha since 1753, when Prince Ihnatsiy Sapieha, voivode of Mstyslavskyi, received Krasyliv with 30 other towns and villages as a result of the "Kolbushev Transaction" - a division of the Ostroh Ordinance.

At the beginning of the 19th century, Mykola Sapieha built a palace in Krasyliv in the style of classicism. During Soviet times, the building was rebuilt beyond recognition. The facade facing the park has been relatively preserved.

Today, the former Sapieha Palace houses the Krasyliv Vocational Lyceum.

The Sataniv Castle is located in the northern part of the village of Sataniv on the high bank of the Zbruch River.

The castle was built in the 15th century on the site of earlier fortifications of the 14th century by the Polish nobles Odrovonzh. At the end of the 16th century, it was expanded and received a pentagonal shape with corner pentagonal towers. From the middle to the end of the 17th century, it was destroyed during Tatar raids and Cossack uprisings. Simultaneously with the city fortifications, Sataniv was restored in 1724. Tsar Peter I visited the great crown hetman Adam Senyavskyi in the castle.

At the end of the 19th century, part of the castle premises was rebuilt as a sugar factory, which operated until the end of the 20th century. Currently, three pentagonal corner towers of the 16th century and an older round tower standing alone remain from the Sataniv Castle. The northern pentagonal tower was preserved only at the level of three tiers. The thickness of the stone walls is 1.5 meters. The total area of the castle is about 1.5 hectares.