Attractions of Vinnytsia district

Captain Oleksandr Chetkov's mansion is one of the most prominent buildings in Vinnytsia. It was built in 1910 according to the project of the Kyiv architect Vasyl Lystovnychyi, the owner of Bulhakov's house on Andriyivskyi Uzviz in Kyiv (according to other data, it was designed by Vinnytsia architect Hryhoriy Artynov).

At a cost of 500,000 tsarist rubles, Chetkov's house became the most expensive residential building in Vinnytsia. The luxurious mansion is made in the Viennese Secession (Art Nouveau) style. The massive towers are combined with an openwork portico and decorative stucco. Above the building rises a large observation tower with oval and round windows, from which a very picturesque view of the city opens. There used to be many sculptures in the interior.

Today, the Chetkov mansion houses the Vinnytsia Department of Architecture and Urban Planning.

The ruins of two castle towers on the hill above the Pivdenny Buh remind of the once great Podillya city of Cherlenkove, known since the 13th century.

The castle was probably built by princes Koriatovichi (Koryatovichi) in the 14th century, after the Lithuanian prince Olherd defeated the Hordes and joined Podillya to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. For a long time, Cherlenhrad Castle belonged to the family of Ukrainian nobles Kmyt-Cherlenkivsky, controlled the crossing over the Pivdenny Buh. It was destroyed in 1624 during the campaign of the Tatar army of Kantemyr Murza to Podillya.

In 1670, Anatas Cherlenkivskyi founded the Basilian monastery on the ruins of the castle. In the 18th century, the Trakhtemyriv old man Stanislav Shchenevsky tried to reconstruct the castle, but soon his heir Onufriy Shchenevsky rebuilt the fortress into a magnate's residence. One of the towers near the road next to the bridge over the Pivdenny Buh was turned into a burial chapel. The second of the surviving towers was tried to be blown up in Soviet times, but three of its walls survived.

Currently, the territory of the castle is built up with private houses. A tourist and entertainment complex with a hotel, restaurant and museum is being built over the surviving ruins.

The estate of the former estate of Count Dmytro Heyden is located on the granite banks of the Pivdenny Buh on the outskirts of Sutysky on the Tyvriv side.

It was built in the second half of the 19th century. In the middle of the landscaped park, one of the outbuildings with a high tower in the Neo-Gothic style has been preserved, as well as some farm buildings and an entrance gate with a stylized watchtower.

Now a boarding school is located on the territory of the manor, and there is a dining room in the wing.

The Dunstan Crafts Center is located in the village of Stadnytsia on the northeastern outskirts of Vinnytsia. This is a family and corporate recreation complex with elements of European history and Ukrainian traditions.

The center of the complex is the Glastonbury Museum, which acquaints guests with British mythology – here you can see King Arthur's sword "Escalibur", Saint Dunstan's boat, the Glastonbury field, the state of the Knights of the Round Table, the Chalice Well, and a medieval wood-burning stove.

Saint Dunstan's Museum displays ancient tools, weapons and household items from various European countries.

In the Medieval Amusement Park, guests are offered archery, stilts, a bag fight on a log and other team activities.

"Dunstan" has its own carpentry workshop and various locations for workshops on folk crafts (pottery, blacksmithing, weaving, felting, etc.). It is also offered to prepare and enjoy dishes according to the medieval recipe.

On the territory of the center there is a house for guests and a site for a tent camp. Nearby is the "Na Yaru" recreation center.

The annual "Dunstan" crafts festival is held on the basis of the Dunstan Crafts Center.

The Hnivan granite quarry is located on the banks of the Pivdennyi Buh in the southern part of Hnivan.

In the 19th century, it belonged to the Podillya nobleman Yosyp Yaroshynskyi. The industrial development of the deposit with granite outcrops began in 1870 during the laying of the Kyiv-Odesa railway through Hnivan, the construction of which required a lot of local building materials. Hnivansky granite was distinguished by its great hardness and beautiful dark gray color - it was widely used for paving the streets of Kyiv, Warsaw, Moscow and other places.

The rapid development of the enterprise occurred in the middle of the 20th century, when production was reconstructed and powerful modern equipment began to be used: EKG-5 excavators, BelAZ dump trucks.

Having survived the economic crisis after the collapse of the USSR, the company is now being revived. Career works. The view from above is impressive.

The wooden Old Believer Church of the Holy Image Not Made by Hands was built in 1911 at the expense of the landowner Dmytro Heyden as a temporary temple, after the old church of the Sign of the Holy Mother of God burned down in Borskiv.

The small temple looks like an adobe house with one dome and two entrances. The church was consecrated in honor of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, this day is a temple holiday, but the parishioners call it in their own way - the church of the Holy Image Not Made by Hands.

The interior is painted by local masters with floral ornaments.

The Nemyriv Holy Trinity (Saint Nicolas) stauropygny nunnery was founded in 1720 at the expense of Kyiv voivode Yuzef Potoski.

Initially, the monastery was male, but in 1783 it was reconstructed by Vintsent Potocki and became female. The monastery reached its greatest development under the abbess Apollinaria (1845-1903), who launched large-scale construction. The Assumption and Saint Nicolas Churches were reconstructed, a new Holy Trinity Church and two bell towers were built, brick cells, a dormitory, a refectory, a priest's house, and a hotel were built. A school was opened at the Nemyriv monastery, and in 1860 a diocesan school for girls was founded, which in 1902 was transformed into a two-class teacher's school.

During the Soviet era, the monastery was closed, the Church of the Assumption was dismantled, a machine-tractor station, a car company and an orphanage were placed in other premises.

In 1996, the monastery was restored, a boarding school for children with mental retardation is still located on the territory of the diocesan school.

The Museum of the History of the Village of Hopchytsia was created in 1990 on the initiative of Anton Kolisnyk, a history teacher at the Hopchytsia High School, and in 2018 it was awarded the title of People's Museum.

The main funds of the museum include 430 exhibits, which are presented in seven museum halls. The modern exposition tells about the nature and history of the village of Hopchytsia and the entire Pohrebyshche region, in particular about the development of local agriculture. A 3D tour of the museum is presented on the community website.

The estate in Krupoderyntsi was built at the end of the 19th century by Count Mykola Ihnatiev, who settled here after resigning from the position of Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia. Before that, Ignatiev became famous as one of the best Russian diplomats. Thanks to his efforts, in 1878, the San Stefano Peace Treaty was signed with Turkey, beneficial for Russia, which ended the Russian-Turkish war. One of the most important points of the treaty was the restoration of Bulgarian statehood, for which Bulgarians consider Ihnatiev a national hero.

In Krupoderyntsi, the count spent the last years of his life with his family, setting up a model farm. The surviving two-story stone manor house of the Ignatievs is decorated with a carved portico and other wooden details.

After the Bolshevik coup of 1917, the estate housed a local commune, then an orphanage, and now a high school.

In 2011, the Mykola Ihnatiev museum was opened at the school, which presents documents and photographs related to his life.

The church-mausoleum of the Nativity of the Virgin in Krupoderyntsi was built in 1895 by Count Mykola Ihnatiev as a family tomb.

During the design of the temple, the architect Oleksandr Pomerantsev chose as a model the Cathedral of Saint Oleksandr Nevsky in the capital of Bulgaria, Sofia, where Ignatiev is considered the author of the San Stefano Treaty, which revived Bulgarian statehood.

In terms of architectural style, size and decoration, the church in Krupoderyntsi had no equal in the district. After Ihnatiev's death in 1908, he was buried in the lower part of the mausoleum, and 9 years later his wife rested there.

Divine service in the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin was restored in 1944.

In the depth of the churchyard rises a memorial cross on a massive stone block, on the sides of which are four ancient ship anchors. This is a monument to Lieutenant Vasyl Ihnatiev and other sailors who died in the Battle of Tsushima in 1905, erected by the lieutenant's mother and widow for the 10th anniversary of the battle.

Illintsi Museum of Local Lore was founded in 1967 on the initiative of local historians of the district, opened after reconstruction in 2017 on the territory of the local sports and recreation complex, near the stadium "Kolos".

The exposition in five halls tells about the nature, history and culture of the region. In particular, the archeological collection of artifacts of Trypillya culture, ethnographic selection of household items and household goods of the XVII-XX centuries, collections of musical instruments, utensils, ceramics, numismatics are presented.

The art gallery presents works by local artists Valentyna Kohut, Alina Shmyhora, Anatoliy Herovymchuk and others.

Ilyinets astroblema is a meteorite crater that appeared 400 million years ago at the site of the fall of a cosmic body with a mass of about 40 million tons and a diameter of 250-300 meters.

Ilyinets Crater was first discovered in 1851 by Professor Kostyantyn Feofilaktov of Kyiv University, but it was not until 1973 that its cosmic origin was established ("astroblema" in Greek - "stellar wound", i.e. impact crater). Before that, it was believed that this was the mouth of an ancient volcano.

The exposed rocks have some external similarity with volcanic tuffs, but in fact they belong to zuvites - fragile rocks of impact-meteoric origin. For centuries, they were used by local residents to make millstones (this is where the name of the nearby village of Zhornyshche comes from).

The center of the crater with an inner diameter of 4 kilometers and an outer diameter of 10 kilometers is located between the villages of Luhova and Ivanki. You can see the Ilyinets crater in a cross-section just beyond the eastern outskirts of the village of Luhova, where quarries are located, in which local residents still extract building stone.

The stone Intercession Church in Stara Pryluka was built in 1910 by engineer Rikhard Kraus, as evidenced by a plaque built into the stairs.

The ancient paintings have not been preserved, but the height of the bath is still impressive - about 20 meters.

In the 1960s, the church was closed, but in 1990, with the help of the village council, it became active again.

On January 1, 2023, the first Divine Service of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine was held in the Intercession Church.

The wooden Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin in Mala Rostivka is a Cossack temple built in the 18th century. Architecturally, the temple is a wooden tetraconch with a belfry attached in the diocesan style.

After the Bolshevik coup of 1917, the Soviet authorities closed the temple. During the German-fascist occupation, religious services were restored. In the post-war period, the shrine began to fall into disrepair, and until recently the Intercession Church was in a state of disrepair.

The Intercession Church was given a second life by the Motuzyuk family of local farmers, whose money and efforts restored the Cossack church in 2020 to the way it was after it was built in 1776. For this, they used the material of oak and preserved all the elements that remained in the temple from old times, both inside and outside.

The Vinnytsia house of Oleksandr Kumbari, an Odesa merchant of Greek origin, is located on the territory of the estate purchased by him in 1894. Since then, this area on the high bank of the Pivdenny Buh has been called Kumbary after the owner's surname.

The building in the Art Nouveau style was built in 1913 according to the project of the architect Hryhoriy Artynov for his wife Kumbari. For the first time in Vinnytsia, concrete pouring technology was used during construction.

A long staircase descends from the house to the river bank, designed by the same architect, a lieutenant general of the military engineering service. Local residents call it the "Potomkins Stairs" by analogy with the famous Odesa Stairs.

Until recently, the building housed a children's polyclinic.