Attractions of Khmelnytskyi district

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 wooden church of Saint Michael the Archangel in Zinkiv was built in 1769. The temple is three-log, on a stone foundation. The log houses are faceted in plan, the same in height, united with the help of large arches into a single space. The cracks have a shingle coating. Carved choirs are arranged above the western part. Ornamental paintings have also been preserved.

During the reconstruction in 2007, the wooden annex through which the temple was entered disappeared. The old wooden belfry has not been preserved, a new brick one was built in its place.

Nearby is an old memorial cross (mid-19th century). The territory is well-kept and has a large number of green spaces.

From the top of the hill, where the Saint Michael's Church is located, a view of the village and the ruins of the Zinkiv Castle opens.

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 Church of Saint Stanislav was built in 1989 on the site of the cemetery chapel - the only church preserved in Horodok during the Soviet regime.

The first wooden church in the city was founded back in 1496, and the previous church of Saint Stanislav, built in 1779 by Yan Zamoyskyi, was located in the center of the city.

The present church was built by the efforts of father Vladyslav Vanahs. The church of the Polish Army in Warsaw was taken as a sample.

In 2023, the sanctuary of Saint Anthony of Padua was established in the church of Saint Stanislav, which houses the miraculous icon.

The Church of Saint Voytsekh in Hvardiiske was founded in 1594 by magnate Mykolay Herburt.

The first wooden temple was destroyed by the Turks. The current stone church in the late Baroque style was founded in 1753 (according to other sources, in 1763 by Marianna Hrabyanka from the Kalynovsky family, the wife of the owner Felshtyn (former name of Hvardiiske). The church was consecrated in 1790 (according to other sources, in 1791) In 1903-1906, reconstruction was carried out, two side chapels were added.

In Soviet times, the church of Saint Voytsekh was closed, the premises were used as a warehouse, a cinema, and a cultural center.

In 1990, the church was returned to the believers, it was re-consecrated in 1994.

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.

The Jewish synagogue is one of the oldest buildings in Sataniv. According to one version, it was erected in 1514, according to another - in 1532.

The defensive-type building in the Renaissance style was part of the city's defense system. It consists in plan of the rectangular volume of the main hall and the reduced premises adjacent to it. It is covered with semi-circular vaults with arrowed shutters. The walls are reinforced with buttresses. The ancient Jewish synagogue is surrounded by rows of musket and cannon loopholes.

During the Second World War, the Nazis destroyed the Jewish population of Sataniv.

The outbuildings of the synagogue have been preserved, inside there is a large hall, an aron kodesh (cabinet for storing sacred books), several old inscriptions. The Aron Kodesh is carved from stone and painted in yellow, blue and red colors. Its creation dates back to the 17th century.

In 2014, the complete reconstruction of the Sataniv Synagogue was completed.

"Horned school" is the name given to a one-story building in the Neo-Gothic style in Nove Porichchia, which houses the Nove Porichchia secondary school.

The building was erected in the 19th century as one of the farm buildings of the estate of the Skybnevsky noblemen. Apparently, they were man's stables.

The school got its nickname for the characteristic elements of the architectural decor – high sharp pincers above the end walls.

The concrete embankment at the mouth of the Ikopot River in Starokostiantyniv was built at the end of the 20th century.

The embankment is decorated with a bright group of sculptures made of metal and various parts of machines and mechanisms, depicting fairy-tale heroes: Neptune in a cart, a mermaid, a mosquito, and others.

They were created by the Khmelnytskyi sculptor Mykola Mazur, the author of similar sculptural compositions in Taras Shevchenko Park and in many other places in Khmelnytskyi. His whimsical works are reminiscent of the avant-garde sculptures of the Stravinsky fountain near the Pompidu Center in Paris.

The wonderful palace and park complex in Samchyky is one of the best-preserved landlord estates of the 18th and 19th centuries in Ukraine, a brilliant work of architecture and garden and park art.

The manor was founded in 1725 by the nobleman Yan Khoyetsky, and in its present form was rebuilt in 1790-1805 by the headman of Haisyn, colonel Petro Chechel.

The Empire-style palace was built by the Polish architect Yakub Kubycky, the landscape park was created by the Irishman Dionisiy Makkler, and the interiors were designed by the Italian sculptor Zhan-Batist Tsahlyano.

An enfilade of parade halls is available for viewing: Big (Red), Round (Blue), Roman (Green), and others. The unique painting of the Japanese cabinet in the oriental style was made by an unknown author (according to legend, Mykhaylo Vrubel).

The grand facade of the palace with white columns and lions (sad and laughing) at the entrance faces the picturesque lake.

The manor complex also includes the Count's gate, the old Khoiecki palace (1725), a Chinese house (used as a refrigerator, now a gallery of Samchyky painting), outbuildings with cellars, and a fountain.

160 species of shrubs and trees grow in the park (including the rare Enhelmann spruce), the Gothic alley with a gazebo, and the ruins of a greenhouse have been preserved.

In Soviet times, the complex was used as an agricultural research station. In 1972, thanks to the efforts of the local artist and local historian Oleksandr Pazhymskyi, the estate was recognized as an architectural monument and taken under state protection. For many years, Pazhymskyi and his son Bohdan have been engaged in the restoration and preservation of the complex.

Today it is the State Historical and Cultural Reserve "Samchyky", a museum exposition has been opened in the palace.

Taras Shevchenko Square is a favorite recreation spot for residents of Khmelnytskyi.

Until the 19th century, there was an oak grove on the outskirts of old Proskuriv. In 1824, a shopping area was created on the site of the grove, and part of the trees were cut down. For some time, the square was used as a military parade ground of the 46th Dnipro Infantry Regiment. At the end of the 19th century, they decided to create a city garden at this place, and the square was planted with trees.

Decorative shrubs were planted in 1960-1980, at the same time a cinema was built. The park zone with an area of 5 hectares has a regular layout. The main compositional node is the square with the monument to Taras Shevchenko (1992).

The square is decorated with whimsical metal sculptures created by the modern artist Mykola Mazur.

The main architectural monument of Staryi Ostropil is the Transfiguration Church - an architectural monument of national significance.

The stone church of the Transfiguration of the Lord is a rotunda with a rectangular vestibule covered by a complex system of vaults resting on four pylons and walls.

Elements of classicism are used in the decorative design of facades and interiors. The upper part has been changed as a result of unscrupulous reconstruction.

Since May 2022, it belongs to the community of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

A stone column erected during the stay of the Turkish garrison in Medzhibizh (1672-1699) is called a "Turkish Pillar" in the village of Trebukhivtsi.

It is an obelisk pillar, square in plan, gradually narrowing upwards, with a three-slope end. It is located southwest of the Medzhibizh castle, on the opposite bank of the Pivdenniy Buh, near the bridge. At first it stood over the grave of a Turkish military commander, later it served as a chapel.

Another column-chapel is located in the upper part of the Old Town, near the Saint Nicolas Church (turn left after the church).