Attractions of Haisyn district

The wooden church of Saint Michael was built in Dashiv in 1764 under Count Plyater.

It is located on the opposite bank of the river from the palace, in the part of the village called Stary Dashiv.

This bright blue five-headed temple is considered one of the best works of the Podillya school of wooden architecture. In the interior - an oil painting of the 19th century.

The manor of the representatives of the Potocki count family in Dashiv is located in a picturesque place above the rapids of the Sob River.

In the 1850s, the Dashiv palace was rebuilt in its current form by Vlodzimezh Potocki, the grandson of the owner of Tulchyn and Uman, Stanislav Shchensny Potocki. The river with a bridge and a dam were part of the composition of the palace park, which is partially preserved in the western part of the manor.

The ensemble consists of a palace and stable buildings. The Dashiv Palace is made in the forms of late classicism. On the park facade overlooking the river is an open loggia with cast iron columns. The stables are built of granite and brick and are located across the street from the palace.

Currently, the estate houses a boarding school for children with mental retardation.

The Balanivka Village History Museum, Haisyn district, was opened in 1989 in the historic building of Dzygarnya, a three-tiered clock tower of the 17th century.

The museum fund has about 6,000 exhibits. The non-standardly organized exposition in the form of a labyrinth tells about the ancient times of Balanivka's foundation, the days of the Cossacks, the events of the XX century.

Ancient weapons, tools (loom, wooden grinder), household items, utensils, clothing, embroidered and woven towels, tablecloths, rugs and other decorative and applied arts are presented. You can also see the interior of the traditional Balanivka house of the 17th century.

The Battle of Batih Museum was opened in 1990 as a museum of the history of the village of Chetvertynivka. In 2003, the museum acquired the status of a national museum.

The exposition is located in four halls on the second floor of the building. The first hall reflects the life of the peasants of the XIX century. The second hall tells the story of the origin of the village, as well as the Battle of Batih.

In other halls there are materials about the Holodomor, the Second World War and the formation of the village in 1960-1990.

Since 2015, it is a museum "Battle of Batih", part of the future historical and cultural reserve "Batih".

The Bershad Museum of Local Lore was founded in 1927 on the initiative of local historian and public figure Ipolyt Zborovsky.

Now the museum has more than 8,500 exhibits that reflect the customs, life, cultural traditions of the locals. The museum exposition consists of three departments: nature, history and ethnography. The exposition is built on the cultural and chronological principle and recreates the history of Bershad region from ancient times to the present. The ethnographic collection reflects all kinds of applied arts: carpet weaving, embroidery, pottery, wickerwork. An exhibition of folk objects of the XIX-XX centuries tells about the most common crafts of the region and their development.

The museum hosts exhibitions of folk art of modern masters of Easter painting, weaving, wood carving, embroidery, musical instruments.

The museum of the prominent Podillya folklorist and ethnographer Hnat Tansyura was opened in 1990 in his house in Haisyn, where he lived and worked in the middle of the 20th century.

Tansyura became known as a collector of more than 2,500 Ukrainian songs and the author of many printed works, among which the famous "Notes of a Folklore Collector". The samples of oral folk art recorded by him form the basis of the museum collection, which includes more than 4,500 items. Relics of the Tansyura's life tell about the work of an outstanding folklorist. Here you can see personal things, manuscripts, printed publications, photographs, embroideries. A prominent place among the exhibits is the harmonium purchased by Tansyura from the church of Saint John Nepomucen in the village of Kuna. 

The Folklore Museum of Hnat Tansyura is a cultural and educational center for the study and promotion of oral folk art, ethnology, and song richness of the Haisyn region.

The building of the Great Synagogue in Chechelnyk was built in the 18th century from limestone. Preserved elements of rich decorative decoration. The main facade of the building overlooks the small Antonishyna Street.

After its closure in 1926, the synagogue was rebuilt as a furniture store, after the restoration of Ukraine's independence, the building was transferred to private ownership. It is in a dilapidated state, the possibility of restoration is being discussed.

The local history museum of the Haisyn region was created in 1995 on the initiative of the veterans' organization of the Haisyn.

The museum is located in the former house of the director of the male gymnasium - an architectural monument of the beginning of the 20th century.

The local history museum stores objects of material and spiritual culture of both the past and present of this region.

The exposition presents samples of weapons from the Second World War, objects of urban and rural life of the 20th century, icons of the 18th-20th centuries, folk ceramics of the Bubniv factory, works of Ukrainian decorative and applied art.

The Museum of History and Ethnography of Teplychchyna is located in the same building as a children's music school, based on an ancient church building of the XVIII-XIX centuries. During Soviet times, it was completely rebuilt and now looks nothing like a temple.

The Teplychchyna Museum was founded in 2014 by the Department of Education, Culture, Youth and Sports of the Teplyk village Council. The main exposition presents household objects and tools of the 19th - early 20th centuries.

An exhibition of military equipment and ammunition of participants in the Russian-Ukrainian war was also launched.

Mykola Leontovych Museum was opened in the village of Markivka, where the composer's father, the author of the world-famous Shchedryk, lived.

It was in the house of Mykola Leontovych's father that he was shot by a Chekist in 1921. He was buried in Markivka at the same time. And in 1977, to the centenary of the composer's birthday, a museum was opened and a bronze bust was installed (artist Yaroslav Ulhursky).

The museum presents photos of the Leontovych family, original manuscripts of scores, title covers of the First and Second collections of songs from Podillya, pianos, books, sheet music, and furniture.

A granite obelisk is installed on Leontovych's grave. It is planned to erect a monument to Shchedryk.

On August 22, 2016, the renovated museum of Mykola Leontovych was opened as a branch of the Vinnytsia Regional Museum of Local Lore.

The Obodivka Museum of Local Lore was established in 1959.

For a long time, the exhibition was located in four halls of a small room near the House of Culture in the center of Obodivka. Now the museum has partially moved to the renovated premises of the former charity hospital, built in 1890 by the Sobansky family, which owned Obodivka for 130 years.

The museum has about 5,000 items, including household items from the 19th and 20th centuries, tools, military equipment, numismatic and archaeological finds, documents, letters, photographs, awards, literary works by local authors. The exposition of the museum is located in four halls, each of which recreates the history of Obodivka of a certain period. The first hall acquaints with the history of the village from the XVI century to 1924. In particular, photos and things of the Sobanski family are presented here. The materials of the second hall tell about the socio-economic development of the village during 1924-1941. The following halls tell about the events of the Second World War and the Russian-Ukrainian war, famous people from Obodivka and about the historical places of the village.

The ethnographic exposition presents a collection of embroidered towels with embroidery from different regions, an exhibition of decorated eggs, thimbles, motanka-dolls of the local talented master of decorative and applied arts Lyubov Syvoroh.

The local history museum of the Olhopil village is located in the center of the village.

The organizer and first director of the museum was Yakiv Kyforenko, a history teacher at the Olhopil secondary school, who collected a wealth of material about the past of the Olhopil village. The museum was opened in 1979, and in 1991 it was awarded the title of People's Museum.

Today, the museum's collection includes 1,960 objects, among which there are physical, visual, decorative and utilitarian, written, photo, natural, and video materials that testify to life from the distant past to the modern period of the region.

The exposition of the museum reflects the culture of the Ukrainian people and the traditions of the village: folk women's and men's clothing, shoes, items of furniture of a peasant house, household and kitchen utensils: chairs, benches, cabinets, chests, troughs, baskets, buckets, mugs, antlers, sieves, sieves, jars, wooden and clay bowls, pots, maquis.

The second thematic group includes pottery and pottery tools.

The largest exposition is the ethnographic collection of weaving and embroidery.

The Museum of Pottery in the village of Novoselivka is a museum-estate of the brothers Yakym and Yakiv Herasymenko, who became famous all over the world thanks to their masterpieces of artistic ceramics.

The museum was opened in the house where famous masters were born in 1988, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Yakym Herasymenko. They made bright, decorated with floral and geometric ornaments Kumans, barrels, baths, eggplants, tiles, plates, half-bowls, smoothies, pots, toys, figured utensils, as well as tea and tableware.

The museum exposition presents the works of the Gerasymenko brothers and other potters from Novoselivka and neighboring Bubnivka, who have long specialized in the manufacture of household utensils, as well as making building ceramics. After all, pottery has existed here since the seventeenth century, when Count Stanislav Potocki settled here 30 masters from Uman. A special place among the products of tambourine pottery was occupied by ceramic toys and small plastics (icons, crosses, etc.).

A separate collection in the museum consists of traditional clothes and household items of Novoselivka residents.

The Museum of Village Culture and the Prokip Kolisnyk Gallery were opened in the village of Potashnia in 2004.

The initiator of the museum was a Ukrainian painter and writer, Honored Artist of Ukraine Prokip Kolisnyk, whose name is now the institution.

The museum is housed in a one-story building in the center of the village, built in the late XVIII century in the style of classicism.

The exhibition presents antiques of rural life and folk art, as well as a collection of paintings by the artist, who was born and spent his childhood in Potashnia.

The Church of Saint Joseph the Betrothed in Chechelnyk was founded in 1751 by Stanisłav Lubomyrskyi, the voivode of Krakow and Kyiv.

In 1786, a stone one was built on the site of the burnt wooden temple, which has survived to this day.

The church contains a miraculous copy of the icon of the Czestochowa Mother of God by an unknown artist.

During the Soviet rule, the church was closed, the bell tower was destroyed (now there are other buildings in its place). The miraculous image was hidden by believers, but it was damaged due to improper storage. In 1991, the Franciscan Fathers Maksymilyan Zhydovskyi and Yan Duklyan Pavlyuk took the canvas to Poland, where it was restored and consecrated by Pope John Paul II, after which the icon returned to Chechelnyk.

Currently, Saint Joseph's Church is being restored by the efforts of Franciscan monks and Albertine sisters. The priest's house has also been preserved, but is in a state of disrepair.

In 2015, the church was declared a diocesan sanctuary of the Mother of God of Chechelnytska.