Attractions of Zinkiv

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 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.