Attractions of Mohyliv-Podilskyi district

The public museum "Ukrainian Vytynanka" in Mohyliv-Podilskyi is located in the premises of the House of Folk Art, on the site of which was the residence of Mohyliv colonel Ostap Hohol in the 18th century.

Officially, the museum has been operating since 2003, although it actually appeared back in 1993, when the first All-Ukrainian forum of vytynankars (vryzankars) - masters of vytynanka, that is, artistic carving, was held in Mohyliv-Podilskyi. The ancient art of vytynanka was revived on

Podillia thanks to the Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine Mariya Rudenko from Sloboda-Yaryshevska Mohyliv-Podilskyi District. Her works are presented among other exhibits in five exhibition halls.

The All-Ukrainian festival of folk art "Ukrainian Vytynanka" is held annually on the basis of the House of Folk Art. More than 600 works of the participants of this holiday are presented in the museum collection. Master classes are held.

The monument to Mykola Hohol in Mohyliv-Podilskyi is one of the first monuments to the outstanding Ukrainian writer in Ukraine.

It is a small bust on a two-meter pedestal. It was originally installed in 1898 on Soborna Square, which was then renamed Hohol Square (now again Soborna Square). In 1911, the monument was moved to its current location - at the intersection of the former streets of Miyka, Virmenska and Oleksandrivskyi avenues, opposite the house of the district doctor Stepan Mikhalevsky, better known now as the "Head of Administration House".

However, the urban legend calls the Mohyliv-Podilskyi monument to Hohol the first in the country, dates it to 1872, and connects its appearance with a popular story about the scandalous production of "Revisor" in the Mohyliv "Gigant" theater for the writer's 20th birthday. Allegedly, the actors portrayed local officials and aristocracy so naturally in the images of Hohol's heroes that the angry mayor jumped on stage and dared to slap the actor who played the gardener, provoking a big fight. After that, the outraged residents of the city collected funds for a monument to Hohol, which was erected directly in front of the "Head of Administration House".

The Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin in Murovani Kurylivtsi was founded in 1781. Later, it was dismantled, and the materials were used for a new five-domed church, the construction of which was completed in 1889 at the expense of parishioners, the treasury, and landowners Komar and Lykhachev.

The church had a one-tier gilded iconostasis with a valuable icon of the Tikhvin Mother of God, which was purchased on Mount Athos and donated by the landowner Chykhachova.

In 1934, the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin was closed by the Soviet authorities, then briefly revived during the German occupation, but in the 1950s it was closed again and stripped of its domes. The premises were used as a library, a gym, a bakery and even a warehouse for glass containers.

Since 1991, the temple is active again.

The old Jewish cemetery near Yampil is located on the banks of the Dniester, halfway to the nearby village of Porohy, not far from the quarry.

In the 19th century, Jews made up almost a third of the population of Yampil, and there were 4 synagogues in the city. Among others, Tzadik Borkh Rabinovych, "Zolochiv Magid", great-grandson of the founder of Hasidism, Israel Besht, is buried in the cemetery. A mausoleum was built over his grave.

The old synagogue is the oldest building in Ozaryntsi. It was built in the 16th century (according to other sources - in the 18th century), when a large Jewish community appeared in the village.

The building is two-story, rectangular in plan. The synagogue burned down during the Second World War and has not been rebuilt since then.

There was also a new synagogue in Ozaryntsi, which has not survived to this day.

The regimental church of the Holy Prince Oleksandr Nevsky in Mohyliv-Podilskyi was built at the end of the 19th century.

At that time, the city border ran between the Nemiyka River and the end of Oleksandrivsky Avenue, beyond which the village of Ostrivky began. There was a military unit of the Russian army here. The church of Oleksandr Nevsky was built for the soldiers of this unit.

During the years of Soviet power, it was closed and turned into a club for soldiers of the flight training unit. Only at the end of the 20th century, the church was returned to the believers of the Orthodox Church.

About ten Pillboxs (DOTs) from the Second World War have been preserved in the area of Murovani Kurylivtsi.

Not far from here was the northwestern edge of the 12th Mohyliv-Yampil District (MYUR), established in the 1930s on the then southwestern border of the USSR. It was part of the gigantic system of defensive structures of the "Stalin Line", which stretched from the Baltic to the Black Sea.

In July 1941, the MIAUR became the defense border of the 18th Army of the Southern Front. Divisions of the 17th Rifle Corps fought in the area of Murovani Kurylivtsi. After the Germans broke through the defenses to the north, the Soviet troops disarmed the DOTs and retreated to the east.

One of the DOTs is located at the entrance to the village from the Vinnytsia side next to the monument to the liberating soldiers - an IS-2 tank on a pedestal. Another DOT is located in front of the bridge over the Zhvan River, and the third is on the territory of the Komar estate.

Saint Nicholas Church in Yampil was built in 1770 as a Catholic chapel with a separate bell tower.

In 1862, an octagon and a dome were built, a stone belfry was added from the west, and an iron roof was made.

Currently, the Church of Saint Nicholas belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate. The main shrine is the icon of Hennadiy Yampilskyi.

Saint Nicholas Church in Kotiuzhany was built relatively recently, but its bell tower is of particular interest, as it dates back to 1701. This is the only part of the original temple that has survived.

The Church of Saint Paraskeva of Serbia in Mohyliv-Podilskyi is a landmark of Podillya wooden architecture.

Local residents call it Nemiyska, because it is located in an area that used to be a separate village of Nemiya.

According to legend, a mute girl once lived in the family of the local landowner Mayevsky. Unable to withstand the constant taunts from the children of her fellow villagers, she drowned in the river. Her father built a church in her memory. Mayevsky himself is buried in the churchyard.

The temple is made of oak and ash in the Ukrainian Baroque style, the interior is decorated with paintings and embroidered towels. At various times, Taras Shevchenko, Oleksandr Pushkin, Vasyl Tropinin, Ferents List, Mykhaylo Starytskyi, Olena Pchilka visited the church of Saint Paraskeva.

The Sobansky Palace in Mykhailivtsi was built at the beginning of the 19th century by the landowner Bronislav Sobansky, who inherited the estate.

The two-story rectangular building is made in the style of classicism. The main facade is decorated with a triangular relief with a portico and columns. Interiors in the French Rococo style have not survived.

Today, the palace houses an agricultural lyceum.

Palace outbuildings, a system of ponds with dams and bridges, and a stone fence have been preserved in the manor park. Wide avenues radially diverge from the palace. There are many conifers among the trees. About 50 names of tree crops are known: lindens, chestnuts, European larch, silver spruce, black pine, weeping ash. Fruit-bearing relic mountain ash is found only in Podillya. The place of honor is occupied by a 300-year-old oak tree.

The mineral spring "Regina", located 5 kilometers northwest of Murovani Kurylivtsi, in the forest on the eastern edge of the village of Zhytnyky, has long been considered miraculous.

According to legend, the spring is named after Regina, the daughter of the landowner Oleksandr Sobansky, who owned the Zhytnyky estate in the 19th century. In 1898, Sobansky brought the seriously ill Regina here for treatment, because he heard from local residents about "living water". For several months, Regina drank only mineral water from this source and was completely cured, and Sobansky arranged the industrial bottling of Regina water and its supply to Europe.

After the Second World War, production was resumed. Currently, mineral water is bottled by OJSC "Murovani Kurylivtsi mineral water plant "Regina".

The landowner's palace in Kotiuzhany is located on the northern outskirts of the village, in the middle of a partially preserved landscape park with an orchard, springs and a waterfall on the northern outskirts of the village.

In the 19th century, there was a manor of a rich forest producer here, which was purchased by the retired royal official Ivan Tsenin at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1912, his widow Yevheniya Tsenina built a two-story palace in strict Neo-Renaissance style on the site of the estate that burned down during the peasant unrest, designed by the St. Petersburg architect Oskar Munts, and stylistically similar to the Livadiya Palace.

The U-shaped palace in plan, with an arched loggia on the second floor. Bas-reliefs with ancient scenes and plant motifs are placed on the facade. At the entrance to the estate, two arched stone bridges have been preserved, crossed over a stream and a ravine. The owner lived in the palace until the Bolshevik coup of 1917, after which she went abroad.

In 1937, an orphanage was opened in the former Tseniny estate. During the Second World War, the children were tried to be evacuated, but they were forced to return. At that time, the building was ransacked. 130 homeless orphans were taken in by local residents.

Currently, the estate houses the Kotyuzhaniv special school for children with special educational needs caused by intellectual development disorders.

A brick three-arch bridge has survived to this day in the former landscape park. The park itself is deserted.

The best view of the Moldavian fortress of Soroky opens from the opposite bank of the Dniester, from the outskirts of the Ukrainian village of Tsekynivka.

The Soroky fortress was founded in 1499 by the Moldavian master Stefan the Great, and rebuilt in stone in 1543-1546. The round fortification structure with five towers has a symmetrical shape.

The fortress of Soroky controlled the river trade route that ran through the Dniester and resisted the raids of the Tatars. From the Ukrainian bank of the Dniester, the castle in Soroky looks particularly convincing, although it does not give the impression of being impregnable.

The estate of Field Marshal Petro Vithenshteyn, a hero of the Franco-Russian War of 1812, is located in Bronnytsia, a suburb of Mohyliv-Podilskyi.

After retiring for health reasons, the general decided to settle here, as Bronnytsia is famous for the source of healing mineral water "Bronnychanka".

He built a German-style manor house on a high mountain above the Dniester next to the Babina Durka cave. A manor house with a high tower and a gatehouse have been preserved, as well as a landscape park, on the territory of which the "Hirskyi" children's sanatorium is now located.

The gazebo in the park offers a wonderful view of the Dniester canyon and the city of Mohyliv-Podilskyi, which is spread out in the valley.