Attractions of Khmelnytskyi district

The beautiful five-story building of the water mill made of red brick is clearly visible from the castle of Ostrozki in Starokostiantyniv on the opposite bank of the river.

The Red Mill was built in 1905 on the isthmus at the confluence of the Ikopot River with Sluch by the order of the sugar factory Dubasov, then it became the property of his widow, the last mistress of the Starokostiantyniv Castle.

The monumentality of the architectural image, the expressive decorative design of the facades, the successful location - all this makes the Old Kostiantyn mill one of the most striking monuments of industrial architecture of the modern era in Ukraine. Restoration is underway.

The Kupyn water mill on the Smotrych River is the oldest such structure preserved in Ukraine.

It was built in 1455, as evidenced by the inscription on the facade. For the mill, a place with the largest drop in the river level was chosen, next to the largest waterfall in Khmelnytskyi region. The last reconstruction was carried out at the end of the 19th century, when Baroness fon Hildenbadt owned Kupyn. Since that time, the Swiss equipment has survived and is still functioning.

The water mill on the Sluch River next to the manor in Samchyky was built at the beginning of the 18th century by the landowners Khoyetsky.

The mill was turned by a wooden vertical wheel of the lower operation with a diameter of 6 meters. Under the landowner Ivan Uhrimov, the mill produced 10 types of flour. In 1904-1905, the last owner of the estate, Mykhaylo Shestakov, reconstructed the mill, adding a second floor.

In Soviet times, the mill was converted into a hydroelectric power station.

The Museum of the Second World War in Volochysk was established in 2012 on the basis of the Pillbox (DOT - long-range firing point) of the Proskuriv Fortress District (PrUR) during the Second World War, which was part of the so-called "Stalin Line".

It is a two-storey machine gun semi-caponier for two machine guns. On the upper floor there were battle casemates and a control point. At the bottom - living room, fan, diesel, storage. The military situation was recreated in the premises, samples of weapons, uniforms, personal belongings of soldiers of those times were collected.

The section of the defensive line of the Proskuriv fortified area was reconstructed nearby: a trench of the infantry division's position, a dugout for sheltering personnel. An exposition of military equipment of different years has been opened.

The ruins of the castle in Zinkiv are located on a high oblong promontory formed by the valley of the Ushka River and a ravine.

Zinkiv Castle was founded on the site of an ancient Russian fortification in 1431 by the Podillya Voivode Petro Odrovonzh, making it one of the most important outposts in the network of Podillya fortresses. He repeatedly repelled Tatar attacks.

The castle, triangular in plan with walls 10 meters high and up to 3.5 meters thick at the corners, had large hexagonal towers, two of them three-story, one a four-story donjon tower. One of the walls of the fortress was the outer wall of a large three-story building. From the side of the city, the castle was separated by a deep moat, over which a suspension bridge was thrown.

The fortress was slightly damaged during the Liberation War and during the Turkish invasion, but was completely rebuilt after the return of the Poles in the 18th century, when Zinkiv was owned by the Senyavskyis.

In the 19th century, Zinkiv Castle was used for administrative and economic purposes, but in 1898, the village community decided that the old walls threatened the church below, and the building was almost completely dismantled for building materials. Only the ruins of its oldest part - the southern tower (one floor high) and four casemate apartments under the foundation of the western wall - have survived from the once powerful fortress.