Attractions of Vinnytsia district

The Church of the Nativity of Holy Virgin was built in Voronovytsia in 1771-1777 at the expense of Mikhayilo ta Frantsishek Ksaveriy Grokholsky as a church.

At first it was wooden, but after the fire it was rebuilt in stone. Later it was rebuilt in the Orthodox spirit.

In Soviet times, the premises housed a cinema.

Now the temple is active.

The Orativ Local Lore Museum was founded in 1993 and is subordinated to the Department of Culture, Youth and Sports of the Orativ Village Council.

The institution is located in the former library in the center of the village of Orativ.

The museum collection is more than 2,000 items. The ethnographic collection includes home-woven embroidered shirts from the villages of Yakymivka, Chovnovytsia, Lopatynka, Mervyn, Orativ, Rozhychna, ceramics of local potters, as well as various items of Ukrainian folk life.

The city park in Pohrebyshche is all that remains of the estate of the Rzhevusky counts, who owned the city in the 18th and 19th centuries.

An obelisk commemorating the soldiers who died in Afghanistan and other hot spots has been installed in the park.

The Church of Mary the Snowy in Lityn was built in 1856 on the site of the old wooden church of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, known since 1748.

During Soviet times, the temple was closed, the premises were used as a cultural center.

Today, the Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary has been returned to the Catholic community of Lityn, and its two lost towers have been restored.

Tyvriv Museum of Local Lore is located on the second floor of the village council. Created in 1978 by a local drawing teacher Leonid Pankosha.

The collection includes 3 thousand items. In particular, Trypillya ceramics, numismatic collection, collection of icons, weapons of the XVII-XX centuries, household items and documents of the XIX-XX centuries are presented.

The ethnographic collection includes embroidery, weaving, pottery, wood carving, tools.

Of great interest is the collection of samples of advertising products of industrial enterprises of the Tyvriv region of the XIX-XX centuries, which belonged to Yaroshynsky, Heydeny.

The Ukrainian Stamps Museum named after Yakiv Balaban was opened in 2016 in the building of the Vinnytsia Regional Children's Library.

The exposition was created on the basis of the stamp collection of patron Oleksandr Balaban, the son of UNR centurion Yakiv Balaban, who emigrated to the USA.

Unique examples of Ukrainian postal history, stamps of various historical periods - revolutionary 20s, pre-war 40s, letters with stamps of 1918, ZUNR stamps for three crowns, modern blocks, etc. are presented.

Also, the exhibition has miniatures from limited collections, which today exist only in a few copies in the world.

Vinnytsia Regional Art Museum is located in one of the buildings of the architectural complex "Mury" – a former defensive Jesuit monastery of the XVII-XVIII centuries.

The museum was founded in 1919 on the initiative of Vinnytsia artist, teacher and collector Vyacheslav Korenev. The basis of the gallery was his private collection of paintings.

Currently, the museum's collection includes more than 7,000 exhibits, 300 of which are displayed in a permanent exhibition in six museum halls. Among them are paintings of Western European art of the XVII-XIX centuries, Ukrainian and Russian art of the XVIII-XX centuries, as well as sculpture, furniture, ivory, silver and bronze.

In particular, there is a portrait of Count Stanislav Shchensny (Feliks) Potoski and his sons, which was painted in 1788-1791 by the royal artist Johann Baptist Lampi Sr. and entered the museum in 1921 from the Nemyriv estate of Princess Scherbatova. The painting "Bacchus", created by an artist from the Caravaggio school, came to the museum from the Mozhaysky Palace in Voronovytsia. The painting "Grand Canal of Venice" belongs to the brush of Carl Leopold Grevenbrook, a student of Canaletto. Works by Illya Repin, Karl Bryullov, Микола Ge, Kostyantyn Korovin, Mykhaylo Nesterov and others are also on display.

Excursions are conducted in Ukrainian, English, Russian.

The Vinnytsia Regional Museum of Local Lore is located on the territory of the former defensive Jesuit monastery of the 17th century, which, together with the buildings of the Dominican monastery, forms the historical and architectural complex "Vinnytsia Mury".

The museum was founded in 1918 on the initiative of representatives of the local intelligentsia. In 1970, a new building was completed, and the exposition was significantly updated.

Currently, the collection includes 200,000 exhibits. Unique items belonging to the Scythian and Sarmatian periods, large numismatic collections, ethnographic collection: pottery, weaving, and embroidery are stored here. folk painting.

A mammoth skeleton found in the region is presented.

The "Pivdenniy Buh" object in Vinnytsia is called the "Voroshylov Headquarters" - the command post of the 3rd Letychiv fortified district, which was created from 1931 to 1936 to cover the direction to Vinnytsia. The "Pivdenniy Buh" facility itself was built in 1937 under the cover of the construction of a military sanatorium, on the territory of which it is now located.

The complex of underground premises is carved out of the granite rock on the bank of the Pivdenniy Buh, consists of 28 premises of various purposes - from a bathhouse to a diesel generator room. The ventilation system has been preserved. There is no reliable information about whether the People's Commissar of Defense Voroshylov himself visited.

In 1941, the bunker was the command post of the Southern Front. During the German occupation, it housed Field Marshal Vilhelm Keytel, the chief of staff of the Wehrmacht High Command.

After the Second World War, the bunker was used by the military until the 1980s, then it was abandoned. Since 2003, the complex belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate, the Holy Trinity Rock Church was founded in it. Visiting is possible with the permission of the priest.

The four-story water mill building in Krupoderyntsi was built in 1896 by Count Mykola Ihnatiev on the site of the old wooden grist mill (grain crusher), which gave the village its name.

The mill and the oil mill attached to it were set in motion by the waters of the Ros River. A vivid example of industrial architecture of the 19th century. The old equipment is still preserved inside.

The manor house in Tyvriv, on a hill above the Buh, was built at the end of the 18th century by representatives of the Yaroshynsky family.

The palace was executed in the best Palladian traditions of early classicism. A park was built around the palace. Later, extensions were created that disturbed the original composition.

In 1891, the Tyvriv Palace was sold to the Podillya Diocese, which opened a theological school in it. Soon there was a fire, after which the building lost most of its decoration.

In 1910-1911, the famous Ukrainian composer Kyrylo Stetsenko taught singing at the school, as the memorial plaque reminds. Mykola Leontovych also worked here, and Volodymyr Svidzinsky studied.

Now the building houses the Tyvriv Lyceum Boarding School. The room-museum of the honored journalist of Ukraine, photo master, carver Volodymyr Ocheretny is open.