Attractions of Chortkiv district

Husiatyn Museum of Local Lore was founded in 1979. Until 2006, the exhibition was housed in an ancient synagogue building.

The museum has more than 16,000 exhibits: animal bones, stone and bronze tools, pottery, antique embroidery and more. In one of the halls there is an exposition of the settlement-sanctuary Bohit, which was part of the "Zbruch cult center" (village Horodnytsia). A copy of the famous Zbruchansky idol is presented.

The old defense church of the Immaculate Conception of the Immaculate Virgin Mary rises in the center of the village of Trybukhivtsi on Castle Hill.

This church was built at the beginning of the 18th century in the Renaissance style and was part of the defense system of the castle. The temple was restored in 1728, as evidenced by the Latin inscription above the entrance portal of the temple.

There used to be a cemetery near the church, where many people famous for the village were buried, including the poet Tymon Zaborovskyi. But with the arrival of Soviet power, the cemetery was razed to the ground, and the church was closed. The building began to be used as a chemical warehouse.

Today, the church is in a state of disrepair: the walls are moldy, trees are growing inside the premises, the roof collapsed in 2008.

Yan Sheptytsky, Adjutant General of the Polish Army, a participant in the Napoleonic campaign to Moscow, is buried in the church.

Two monuments have also been preserved on Castle Hill. The first, "Shadows of Dead Souls", was erected in memory of the victims of the plague that raged in Trybukhivtsi in 1830, when more than 200 people died. Unfortunately, only the legs of the allegorical figure of Sorrows on the pedestal remain. The second monument is a high stone point on which a helmet is placed. Built in honor of Mykhaylo Zaborovsky (1812).

The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Chortkiv is located in the former church of the nunnery of the Sisters of Mercy. The monastery complex is an architectural monument of local importance.

The Monastery of the Sisters of Mercy was founded in Chortkiv in the late 17th - early 18th centuries, but its heyday fell on the middle of the 19th century, when the order received an inheritance from the last owner of Chortkiv, Hieronim Sadowski.

In front of the church, a sculptural composition with the figure of Jesus Christ in the center is installed, and around the building are carved stone figures of the Stations of the Cross.

After the arrival of Soviet power in Chortkiv, the basements of the monastery were used for some time as temporary detention cells of the NKVD. Now the "Calvary" exposition of the Museum of Bolshevik Terror, Political Prisoners and Repressions is open here, which is located in the neighboring building of the administration of the Buchach Diocese of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

The stone church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin was built in 1856.

It is located in the center of the village of Kryvche, across the street from the Kryvche Castle Kontsky.

The Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin  was built in Zalishchyky in 1864-1875, consecrated in 1873 as the Trinity Church.

Inside was an iconostasis of the work of local master Ivan Nich.

In 1962, the Intercession Church was closed, and a local history museum was placed in the premises.

Since 1989, it has been an active Greek Catholic Church of the Intercession of Holy Virgin.

The stone church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin in Hrymailiv was built in 1806 as a Catholic church.

The baroque temple with elements of the Renaissance, which had a high fence with a strong gate, was part of the city fortification system of Hrymailiv. A belfry tower with loophole windows was used for defense.

The monumental pediment of the temple is decorated with five sculptures of saints. Decorative stone vases are placed on the corners of the pediment of the vestibule.

Today, the church belongs to the parish of the Intercession of Holy Virgin Church of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

The Church of the Introduction to the Temple of the Most Holy Theotokos was built in Kalaharivka in 1930 on the site of an older wooden church that was built in 1727.

Introduction Church belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The memorial museum of Ivan Pulyuy was opened in 1990 in the village of Hrymailiv, where he was born in 1845.

Ukrainian physicist and electrical engineer Ivan Pulyuy became famous as the discoverer of the so-called X-rays (X-rays) and the inventor of the world's first X-ray machine.

A small exhibition dedicated to the life and work of the scientist is located in one of the rooms in the building of the Hrymailiv Secondary School.

Khorostkiv Museum of Local Lore was founded in 2022 as a structural unit of the Cultural and Tourist Information Center of Khorostkiv.

The museum is located in the historic building of the New Palace of Counts Semensky-Levytsky. The two-storey neo-baroque residential building in the complex with the horse arena was built in 1837 by the Italian architect Botochchyni next to the Old Palace of the XVIII century in the style of classicism. Until recently, the New Palace housed the Khorostkiv Music School and the City Library for Adults.

Now the museum of local lore is in the process of forming a collection. The exhibition will feature ancient embroidery, icons, household items, historical photographs, old prints and more.

Koropets People's Museum of History and Local Lore is located in the center of the village of Koropets in the premises of the House of Culture. The museum was founded in 1972 on the initiative of Stepan Kudrynsky. In 1975 it received the status of "People's Museum".

The museum's exposition contains information about the historical, ethnographic, and natural features of the development of the village from ancient times to the present day.

The Leopold Levytsky Art Memorial Museum was founded in his native village of Burdyakivtsi in 1996 on the initiative of Borshchiv artist Stepan Makovsky.

The exhibition is located in six halls, three of which are dedicated to the life and work of Leopold Levytsky. The museum collection includes over 1,000 exhibits, including etchings by Levytskyi from the 1930s, linocuts and lithographs from the post-war period, his illustrations for the book "Mykola Shuhay, the Robber" by Ivan Olbrakht and the fairy tale "Abu Kasym's Slippers" by Ivan Franko. In addition, family photographs, documents, and a series of portraits of Leopold Levytsky created by Lviv photographer Oleh Vvedensky are presented.

A separate hall presents the works of Stepan Makovsky - portraits, landscapes, still lifes, sculptural wooden portraits, root plastic, and monotypes.

The museum also exhibits the works of local artists and hosts solo exhibitions.

The main synagogue in Chortkiv is an ancient building, built in the 17th century, during the reign of King Yan III Sobieski.

The opening of the synagogue was connected with the fact that several rich Jewish families appeared in Chortkiv.

Inside the temple was richly painted, the altar was decorated with gold.

Before the construction of the new synagogue, the old one served as the residence of Chief Rabbi Chortkiv.

The Father Markiian Shashkevych Literary and Local Lore Museum has been operating since 1993 in the premises of the Chortkiv Gymnasium, which also bears the name of this outstanding Ukrainian writer and public figure. The initiators of its creation were teachers Stefaniia Hrynda and Anna Savka.

The main exposition of the room-museum is dedicated to the life, creativity and public activities of Markiyan Shashkevych. The central exhibit is a portrait of Shashkevych, painted by a local artist Stepan Shevchuk.

The basis of the museum's literary collections are documents, copies, newspapers and magazines, fiction, scientific and journalistic literature from the library of the gymnasium graduate Dmytro Shtogryn. There are rare, rare publications. Separate expositions contain materials about the graduates of the gymnasium: priests, OUN-UPA figures, fighters of the "Galicia" division.

Another interesting exposition of the museum is ethnographic materials: furniture, household items, clothing, shoes.

Gypsum Mlynky Cave is one of the largest karst caves of Ukraine.

It was discovered at the beginning of the 20th century by local residents who mined gypsum on the outskirts of the Zalissia village. It is named after its location - in the Mlynky farm, where a water mill once worked. The first report in the press appeared in 1960.

Mlynky Cave has a total length of about 40 kilometers. The temperature remains at the level of +11 degrees all year round. Inside the cave there is a small lake with fresh water, where a large colony of bats lives.

The cave is not illuminated and not equipped for visiting, but excursions are conducted accompanied by professional speleologists. To visit, you must have overalls and equipment. Excursions lasting about 3 hours are organized by the Ternopil Tour Club and must be arranged in advance.

The hard-to-reach Monastyrok tract is located in the valley of the Strypa River south of Buchach.

The ruins of an ancient monastery built in 1600-1606 at the expense of Stefan Potoski's wife, Mariya Mohylyanka (daughter of the Moldavian landlord Yeremiy Mohyla, cousin of Kyiv Metropolitan Petro Mohyla) have been preserved in the forest on Mount Fedir.

The tributary flowing into Strypa forms a picturesque waterfall cascade in this place.