Attractions of Vinnytsia region

The "Shoe" ("Cherevychok") museum in Khmilnyk presents the largest collection of decorative and souvenir shoes in Ukraine, which includes more than 8,500 exhibits from 70 countries.

Philobotist Nelya Rybak, a resident of Khmelnyk, has been collecting decorative boots from various peoples of the world for many years. There are products made of glass, porcelain, crystal, leather, wood, vine and many other materials. Products of the famous Italian porcelain factory Capodimonte, products of the Royal Porcelain Factory of Germany, Bohemian crystal from the Czech Republic, etc. are presented. Some exhibits date back to the middle of the 18th century, but most were made in the 20th century. Part of the exhibition is a collection of souvenir boots, collected in the USA from 1938 to 1952, acquired by the founder of the museum.

Visitors are greeted by a Christmas tree decorated with toy shoes. You can also see an aquarium boot made of Murano glass.

During the opening of the "Shoe" museum in 2021, a national record was registered - the largest collection of souvenir and decorative shoes in Ukraine.

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 "Museum of Brave" in Vinnytsia, as a separate subdivision of the Vinnytsia Regional Museum of Local History, is planned to open in the premises of the former departmental museum of the Main Directorate of the National Police of Ukraine in Vinnytsia Region "My Region of Podillya".

They decided to dedicate the exposition "Museum of the Brave" exclusively to the heroes of the Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian war. In addition to the military, the exposition is supposed to present a powerful volunteer movement, volunteer movement, chaplains, military medics, forcibly displaced persons - that is, to show the Russian-Ukrainian war as widely as possible.

As of February 2023, the exhibition already has more than 800 items. These are personal belongings of Ukrainian Heroes, awards, photos, documents, military uniforms, equipment, weapons and much more.

Among the exhibits of the future "Museum of the Brave" are also items from the enemy Russian army: uniforms, burnt muzzles from Kalashnikov machine guns, barrels from grenade launchers, a radio station. In particular, two types of dry rations of the Russian army. The volunteers also handed over the found cluster ammunition of the Smerch MLRS to the museum.

On the facade of the building, they plan to install a "Memorial Wall" with a list of the names of the dead residents of Vinnytsia.

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.

The museum of the outstanding Ukrainian historian, public and political figure Mykhaylo Hrushevsky in the village of Sestrynivka is open to the 140th anniversary of the great Ukrainian.

A small museum building stands on the site of the estate of his grandfather, the local priest Zakhariy Opokov, in whose family his mother Hlafira Opokova (Hrushevska) was born in 1847. As a child, Mykhaylo Hrushevsky repeatedly came to Sestrynivka, he came here during vacations at the university, then often mentioned the village in his works.

The first museum was opened at Sestrynivka Secondary School in 1996, and in 10 years a new museum building was built, the exposition was renovated and expanded. The funds of the institution number about 400 subjects.

The exhibition presents many unique things, including the metric book of the local church, which records Hlafira Opokova: her baptisms and weddings. You can see the genealogy of the Opokovs, photos and documents of parents, brothers and sisters, as well as contemporary publications, newspaper publications.

The central place in the museum's exposition is given to materials about the period of Hrushevsky's life as a politician who headed the Ukrainian Central Rada from March 1917 to April 1918 during the period of national uplift and revival of the Ukrainian state.

The museum is located next to the Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin, where Hrushevsky's grandfather served. A monument was erected in honor of the 135th anniversary of the birth of Mykhaylo Hrushevsky.

The Rock of Mykhaylo Kotsiubynsky or Kotsyubynsky Stone in Vinnytsia is a geological monument of nature, named after the outstanding Ukrainian writer Mykhaylo Kotsiubynsky, who lived in Vinnytsia and often visited this area.

A group of picturesque granite rocks rises above the left bank of the Pivdennyi Buh in the Sabariv Forest on the southern outskirts of Vinnytsia, near the hydroelectric dam. The rocks are broken by vertical and horizontal cracks on individual parts of irregular shape. The age of these granites reaches 2.15 billion years.

One of the rocks that juts out a few meters from the shore is called the Kotsyubinsky Stone. According to the memories of contemporaries, the writer Mykhaylo Kotsiubynsky often rested on this stone during his walks in the Sabariv Forest. Researchers assume that the early works of the young writer could have been written here: "Andriy Soloviyko", "December 21, on Introduction" and others. Quotes from the story "Fata Morgana" are still visible on the stone. A memorial plaque was installed.

Kotsiubinsky rock is the end point of the ecological route "Kotsiubinsky Trail" with a length of 6 km, which is laid through the Sabariv forest from the recreation complex "Territory SUN" on Syniovodska Street.

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 Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Ukrainian Baroque style was built in Khmilnyk at the beginning of the 19th century on the site of an old wooden church that burned down in 1809 during a fire in the suburb.

The church is stone, two-story, with a stone belfry. In 1865, two chapels were added.

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 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 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 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, Oleksandr Nevsky Church 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.

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.