Attractions of Khmelnytskyi district

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 Museum-Kryivka "Stinka" (Wall) in Khmelnytskyi opened in 2022 in the premises of the former shooting range of the "Ploskyriv" sports and cultural center on the territory of the "Lokomotiv" stadium.

The museum reproduces the typical situation of the UPA rebel kryivka (hideout) during the liberation struggle of the middle of the 20th century. The exposition contains contemporary household items that could have been used by the underground.

During the tour, visitors have the opportunity to learn about the history of UPA activities in Khmelnytskyi region and about the different types of hideouts used by Ukrainian rebels. Shooting in a shooting range with pneumatic weapons is also offered.

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.

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.

The Khmelnytskyi City Council is housed in a building built in 1904 as the Oleksandrivska Real School, named after Tsarevich Oleksandr.

It was a school during the Soviet regime. In 1986, the city council moved here. Four hundred-year-old red beeches growing in front of the building were planted in the year the school was founded and are botanical monuments of nature.

"Manor Illiashivka" is a palace and park complex in the classicist style. The palace was built in 1780 by a Polish nobleman, hero of the Russian-Polish war, memoirist Severyn Bukar.

According to one of the versions, the author of the project was the famous Polish architect of Italian-Swiss origin, Domeniko Merlini, a representative of late classicism and Empire.

The park facade of the palace is decorated with a semi-rotunda risalite. The portal of the front facade has not been preserved. The side facades are decorated with porticoes. The stucco of the halls was made by the sculptor-decorator Zhan-Batist Tsahlyano (the author of the stucco decoration of the Samchyky Palace).

The park was planned by the famous park builder Dionisiy Mikler (Makkler).

The last owners of the "Illiashivka" estate were representatives of the Dorozhynsky family.

Currently, Severyn Bukar's palace houses a local school, and a small village local history museum also operates here.

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 rotunda chapel is located in the upper part of Medzhybizh, opposite the old cemetery at the exit from the village towards the village of Yaroslavka.

The chapel, round in plan, originally served as a defensive tower and was part of the system of city fortifications of the 16th and 17th centuries. Its round windows resemble embrasures.

In 1800, the tower was rebuilt into a Trinitarian cemetery chapel. The fortress character of the rotunda was softened by a rectangular vestibule, decorated with pilasters and a triangular pediment with a large protruding cornice.

Currently, the rotunda chapel is located on a private bypass and performs economic functions.

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.