Attractions of Murovani Kurylivtsi

The palace of Podillya marshal Stanislav Komar in Murovani Kurylivtsi was built in 1805 on the basis of fortress buildings of the 16th century.

In the architectural composition of the manor, the architect included parts of the castle buildings: the stone escarpment of the bastion castle on the northern, eastern and southern sides (which includes underground vaulted casemates), and on the western, floor side - the foundations and ruins of the former castle wall. This part of the palace looks very majestic, while on the other side it is an ordinary two-story building in the style of classicism.

A landscape park, the construction of which was managed in 1814 by the famous Irish park builder Dionisiy Mikler (Makkler), who created many wonderful parks in Podillya, is partially preserved.

Among other buildings of the manor that have survived: an arsenal (stable), a wing in the Neo-Gothic style, a stone three-span arched bridge over the Zhvan River.

In the 1960s, the palace underwent a major reconstruction (the lobby was redesigned, the sizes and levels of the windows on the second floor were changed). Now the estate houses a sanatorium-boarding school for children with diseases of the cardiovascular system.

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.

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.

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.