Attractions of Mohyliv-Podilskyi district

Only separate fragments have survived from the Ozaryntsi castle, built in 1657, which protected Podillya from the frequent raids of the Tatars along the Volochsky route.

The builders of the fortress were the Cossacks of the Mohyliv colonel Ostap Hohol (the ancestor of Mykola Hohol), and his son Prokop in 1674 received a station wagon for the possession of the Ozaryntsi people from the Polish king.

In 1690, the castle was destroyed by the Turks, but after their expulsion from Podillya in 1699, it was restored again. According to legend, underground passages led from the fortress down under the river and up to the current shopping square.

Later, the castle lost its value and was almost completely dismantled. One of the owners converted its remains into granaries. Until now, sections of the eastern wall, one tier of the entrance tower and the casemate have been partially preserved.

The original building in the neo-Gothic style was built in Mohyliv-Podilskyi at the beginning of the 20th century.

The director of the Mohyliv-Podilskyi post office lived here. The house is now located in the courtyard of the city's communications center.

Needs restoration.

The Roman Catholic Church of the Visitation of Elizaveta by the Blessed Virgin Mary was founded in Ozaryntsi in 1741 at the expense of Count Dzedushytskyi and Coroner Trembovalskyi. At first it was wooden.

According to other sources, the first Catholic church in Ozaryntsi was made of stone and existed already in the 17th century.

The current church was built in 1842 in the strict forms of classicism. An organ made in Warsaw was installed inside.

In 1937, the church was closed and turned into a warehouse. The revival began in 1987. Currently, the church of Elizaveta in Ozaryntsi is active.

Saint George's Cathedral (Greek Church) in Mohyliv-Podilskyi was built in 1809-1819 according to the project of architect Yohan Freyvald in the style of classicism.

The main entrance is accentuated by a four-column portico of the Doric order. The facades are made in the system of full ionic order. The walls are decorated with pilasters.

The interiors contain oil paintings from the end of the 19th century. The five-tiered iconostasis was created by Nizhyn masters.

A three-tiered stone bell tower is located separately from the church.

The stone cathedral of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker in Mohyliv-Podilskyi was built in 1754 at the expense of the Bulgarian, Serbian and Moldavian communities of the city.

The temple is made in the Byzantine style. A four-cornered, two-story belfry, converted from the city's kalancha, stands separately. In 1885, reconstruction was carried out, the temple was significantly expanded.

In Soviet times, the building housed a local history museum. Currently, the Saint Nicholas Cathedral is active. A miraculous image of Saint Nicholas is kept here, as well as a silver gift box donated by Emperor Oleksandr III in memory of the late Tsarevich Mykola Oleksandrovych.

The estate of the Polish publicist Mikhal Chatsky, brother of the historian and educator Tadeush Chatsky, was founded in Serebryntsi at the end of the 18th century.

In 1828, the son of the publicist Aleksander Chatsky inherited the estate. In 1831, he built a two-story palace in the style of mature classicism, which has survived to this day.

The building is rectangular in plan, made of brick and plastered. Columns, sandrikas and other details are made of hewn sandstone. The centers of the main and park facades are accented with four-column porticoes. Stucco interior decoration is partially made of polished alabaster.

The village council is located in one part of the building, the rest is decaying.

Worthy of attention is the marble (oval) hall, where the remains of stucco moldings are still preserved.

Also preserved are farm buildings, a pond, and a park laid out by the gardener Dionysius Mackler.

Pillbox (DOT)-112 is a fortification structure of the 12th Mohyliv-Yampil fortification district, built along the Dniester on the border with Romania in 1931.

The construction was supervised by Dmytro Karbyshev, lieutenant general of the engineering troops. Pillbox-112 on the outskirts of Mohyliv-Podilskyi was a powerful long-term fortification with connecting passages 2-2.5 meters high, caponiers, and filtration devices. There was a weapons and ammunition warehouse, a mess hall, a dining room, a water supply, a surveillance and command post, telephone and radio communications. Armament consisted of three "Maxim" machine guns on turrets and two 76-mm guns. The garrison, which consisted of more than 30 soldiers, from July 7 to 28, 1941 restrained the pressure of Hitler's troops, preventing the crossing of the Dniester. The last 7 defenders of the Pillbox were walled up alive by the Germans. A memorial was erected in honor of the fallen heroes.

In order to visit the preserved underground premises of the Pillbox, you need to contact the Mohyliv-Podilskyi Museum of Local Lore.

A small two-story palace in the style of classicism was built in the 18th-19th centuries by representatives of the Potocki family, to whom Mohyliv-Podilskyi belonged since 1713.

Perhaps it belonged to Count Frantsishek Potocki, the son of Podillya magnate Stanislav Feliks Potocki, the owner of Tulchyn and Uman. Stanislav Potocki gave the city of Mohyliv-Podilskyi and its surroundings to his son in 1799, when Emperor Paul I expelled him from St. Petersburg "for extravagance and debauchery." There is no reliable information about whether Frantsishek Potoski himself was in Mohyliv. It is known that in 1811 the tsarist government of the Russian Empire bought the city of Mohyliv from his distant relative Vintsentiy Potoski for 587,220 rubles in silver.

At the moment, the building of the Potocki Palace is under reconstruction.

A collection of modern sculpture - more than 20 works of modern sculptors - is exhibited in the Yampil City Park.

The sculpture park on the banks of the Dniester was founded in 1988, when a symposium of sculptors was held in Yampil.

The open-air exposition presents the works of Oleksiy Aloshkin, Lyudimla Aloshkina, Yuriy Bahalik, Yuliy Synkevych, Mykola Bilyk, Yakiv Kulenko, Vasyl Fedoruk, Petro Matov, Yuriy Mysko and others.

The "Art-Drabyna" Gallery in Busha was opened in 2009 by Vinnytsia artist Svitlana Telets. Her painted house in the center of the village attracts the attention of tourists from afar.

In an ordinary peasant yard, the artist has arranged an exhibition hall, a covered veranda for master classes and a residential house with a fireplace, where rooms can be rented.

The gallery exhibits the artist's paintings and her personal collection of Podillya antiquities. Classes in art therapy, master classes in painting, exterior and interior decoration are held to order.

The art space in the village of Bukatynka was founded by the family of artists Oleksiy and Lyudmila Alioshkins, when they moved to Vinnytsia Rgion in 1980. It is an open-air exhibition of modern sculpture, a complex of hut-museums and a place for various activities.

The main object of the complex is the "Garden of Remembrance", which consists of two parts: the first is connected with the four elements, and the second is dedicated to the heroes of Ukraine. The park also has plaques with inscriptions glorifying Ukraine and Ukrainian women-beregins.

There are several monuments near the "House of Legends". One of them is dedicated to Mykola Leontovych, and next to it is Taras Shevchenko. Cave "Temple of the Spirit", excavated by Oleksiy Alioshkin on the basis of natural cracks in the rock. "Cave of Love" has a well inside, which was dug by Oleksiy Alioshkin.

The Ceramics Museum is located in the house of the stonecutter Danylo Shparky in 1918. Things related to the Plein Air "Podillya Oberih" are kept here: posters, photos of works, catalogs of exhibitions of plein air participants.

In the "House-gallery" there is an exhibition of paintings by Oleksiy and Lyudmila Alioshkins, Viktor Antonchyk, Olena Bihunova, and children's works.

The spacious house "Svitlytsia" is used for workshops and poetry readings. Contains works by various artists and empty chairs with signatures of the names of artists and just good people.

The open-air hut-museum "Podillya Oberih" is painted with images of the amulet, in which the names of the participants of the plein air from different cities of Ukraine are inscribed.

"Theatre House" is intended for theatrical and musical performances. In the room on the left, puppets for performances are stored. The room on the right has a stage, lighting for shadow theater and many musical instruments made from household items.

In the house of the carpenter Grandfather Maksym, mostly works of root plastic are stored. And in the house of the seafarer Kyrylo Liubchyk, an exposition about prominent people of Bukatynka and the entire region is presented.

Excursions and workshops are held by prior agreement.

The Art Museum of the State Historical and Cultural Reserve "Busha" was opened in 2018 during the International Art and Cultural Festival "Painted House". The museum building was painted with ornaments traditional for Eastern Podillya by the artist Serhiy Buhay.

The exposition of the Art Museum presents not only painting, but also other types of art from Podillya and other regions. In particular, there is an exhibition of Ukrainian antiquities under the name "Thorn Handkerchief - Mother's Tongue".

Exhibitions of famous artists are held regularly.

The Museum of Ethnography and Folk Art named after Mariya Rudenko in Mohyliv-Podilskyi is located in the premises of the House of Culture.

It is mainly dedicated to Podillya vytynanka - the traditional art of artistic carving. The exhibition is based on the works of local craftswoman Mariya Rudenko, an honored cultural worker of Ukraine, a famous folklorist, artistic director of the folklore and ethnographic ensemble "Horlytsia".

In addition to carvings, the exposition presents over 3,000 folk songs, thousands of proverbs and sayings, fairy tales, legends, tales, incantations, and lamentations.

"Head of Administration House" in Mohyliv-Podilskyi is called a small building in the Art Nouveau style at the intersection of the former streets of Miyka, Virmenska and Oleksandrivsky avenues.

Built at the end of the 19th century, the house probably belonged to the state councilor Stepan Mikhalevsky, who was a county doctor and one of the honorary justices of the peace of Mohyliv-Podilskyi.

However, the urban legend attributes the house to a certain "Head of Administration Khadzhi", with whom the popular story about the "first in the Russian Empire" monument to Mykola Hohol, erected opposite the building, is connected. Mohyliv-Podilskyi never had a mayor named Khadzhi, although a merchant Khadzhi lived in the city, but in another place - on Kyivska Street.

Now there is a music school in "Head of Administration House".

The local lore museum in Murovani Kurylivtsi was opened in 1992 in the cultural center on the initiative of the family of the famous Ukrainian artist Fedir Konovalyuk, a native of the village of Yahidne near Murovani Kurylivtsi.

As a gift to the museum, the family donated a collection of Konovalyuk's canvases: portraits, landscapes, illustrations to the works of Ukrainian writers. In 2010, on the occasion of the 120th anniversary of the artist's birth, his museum room was opened.