Attractions of Khmelnytskyi

The Craftsmen Synagogue in Khmelnytskyi is the only surviving Jewish temple in the city.

A small synagogue was built in 1890 in the Jewish quarter of artisan bakers, opposite the current central food market.

In Soviet times, the building housed a gymnastics school. In the early 1990s, the Craftsmen Synagogue was returned to the Jewish community of Khmelnytskyi, and it is now in use.

The Holy Intercession Cathedral in Khmelnytskyi was built in 1992 on the site of a small cemetery church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which existed here since the first half of the 19th century. He was consecrated by the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

On April 2, 2023, an incident took place in the Holy Intercession Cathedral with a priest of the Moscow Patriarchate beating a Ukrainian military officer, which caused a wave of indignation in the community, and on the same day a meeting of parishioners took place, which unanimously voted for the transfer of the religious community of the Intercession Cathedral to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

The Museum of the History of the City of Khmelnytskyi is located in a modern building in the pedestrian zone.

This is a small chamber museum, the exposition of which tells about the main events in the history of the city.

More than 2,000 items are presented.

The Khmelnytskyi Regional Art Museum is located in the former bank building (1903).

The museum's collection includes 8,000 works of art by forty contemporary artists. All works have a bright national color - from the plot motifs and traditional element in the artistic form to the color structure. In particular, there is a permanent exhibition of the works of the artist Georgy Vereyskyi.

The museum has a collection of works by the outstanding Ukrainian folk artist Mariya Prymachenko.

The art salon and fashion gallery "Art Podium" works at the museum.

The Khmelnytskyi Regional Literary Museum opened in 1992 as the Museum of the Writer Oleksandr Kuprin and the Writers of the Khmelnytskyi Region.

It is located in a small one-storey house in the center of Khmelnytskyi, opposite Shevchenko Park.

The exposition of the first hall tells about oral folk art, folklore, ancient writing, the beginning of new Ukrainian literature.

In the second hall you can get acquainted with the classics of Ukrainian literature, whose names are associated with modern Khmelnytskyi: Taras Shevchenko, Lesya Ukrayinka, Mykhaylo Kotsyubynsky, Leonid Hlibov, Mykhaylo Starytsky and others. The literature of national minorities of the region is also presented here.

The third exhibition hall tells about the writers of the XX century and modern Ukrainian literature.

Meetings with writers, presentations of new publications, thematic literary and musical evenings take place in the literary and musical room "Shine of Viburnum" with an exposition about the poet-biker Mykyta Hodovanets.

Khmelnytskyi Regional Museum of Local Lore is located in a modern building in the city center.

The funds include 60,000 items, including treasures of medieval coins and ornaments from the times of Kyivan Rus, including 4 treasures of jewelry from the Bolokhiv land.

A large collection of porcelain of the XIX-XX centuries, antique furniture and utensils is presented.

The monument to Bohdan Khmelnytskyi in the city of Khmelnytskyi is one of the most extravagant monuments to the Ukrainian hetman in the country, the fourth and largest in Khmelnytskyi.

A bronze equestrian monument by sculptor Valentyn Borysenko and architect Mykola Kopyl was erected in 1993 in front of the philharmonic hall, next to the Khmelnytskyi regional administration building.

Despite the fact that the sculpture turned out to be very expressive and pompous, the monument caused many complaints from the people of Khmelnytskyi due to the unnatural posture of the horse and the general disproportion of the figures.

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 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 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.

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.

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.