Attractions of Vinnytsia region

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 Literary Museum of the biker poet Stepan Rudansky was opened in 1967 on the site of his parents' house in the village of Khomutyntsi in Vinnytsia Region, where the outstanding Ukrainian humorist was born.

The initiator of the creation of the institution was the local librarian Yuliya Hrosh, who for a long time collected various documents and materials related to the outstanding compatriot, and as early as 1959 opened a room-museum of Rudansky in the local club (a memorial plaque was unveiled).

Now the Literary Museum of Stepan Rudansky is a communal institution of the Kalyniv City Council. The exhibition in two small halls tells about the life and work of a classic of Ukrainian literature. Some of his belongings, original photos and documents are presented, which introduce the child and youth years, studies in Kamyanets-Podilskyi, life in St. Petersburg, Yalta period of the humorist's life.

The grave of Stepan Rudansky's parents has been preserved. In 1969, a bust of the poet was installed in front of the local school building. Next to the museum, in 2021, a granite monument to Stepan Rudansky's popular song "Blow, wind, to Ukraine" was opened, which became a folk song a long time ago.

Every year in the middle of January, on the poet's birthday, the All-Ukrainian festival of satire and humor named after Stepan Rudansky "And I again explore the living world" is held in Khomutyntsi.

The house of Svarychevsky, the personal lawyer of Count Potoski's daughter, Sofia Stanislavivna Potoska, is located in the center of Tulchyn. It has the status of an architectural monument of local importance.

After 1917, for some time the Denikin counter-intelligence was located in the building, then the department of education, and during the years of Soviet power - the local department of the Cheka.

Nowadays, a children's music school is located in Svarychevsky's house.

The Temple of Cathedral of Holy Virgin in Khmilnyk has been known since 1720.

It is located on the right bank of the Pivdenny Buh, outside the Old City.

At first it was wooden. It was rebuilt in stone in 1831-1839 in the Rus-Byzantine style.

Trostianets Museum of Local Lore in Vinnytsia region was founded in 1976 and is located in the former primary school building.

The museum collection has about 1,500 items. The exposition of the museum tells about the nature and history of the region.

The most interesting collections are collections of numismatics, folk costumes of the local population, household items and decorative and applied arts.

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 Tulchyn Museum of Local Lore was organized in 1927 on the initiative of ethnographer Zborovsky.

The exposition is located in the former building of the Officers' Assembly, where meetings of the Southern Society of Decembrists were held in the XIX century.

14 departments represent the history of the city from ancient times to the end of the XX century. Among them are departments dedicated to the Potocki family, commander Suvorov, composer Mykola Leontovych.

Tyvriv Museum of Local Lore is located on the second floor of the village council. Created in 1978 by a local drawing teacher Leonid Pankosha.

The collection includes 3 thousand items. In particular, Trypillya ceramics, numismatic collection, collection of icons, weapons of the XVII-XX centuries, household items and documents of the XIX-XX centuries are presented.

The ethnographic collection includes embroidery, weaving, pottery, wood carving, tools.

Of great interest is the collection of samples of advertising products of industrial enterprises of the Tyvriv region of the XIX-XX centuries, which belonged to Yaroshynsky, Heydeny.

The Ukrainian Stamps Museum named after Yakiv Balaban was opened in 2016 in the building of the Vinnytsia Regional Children's Library.

The exposition was created on the basis of the stamp collection of patron Oleksandr Balaban, the son of UNR centurion Yakiv Balaban, who emigrated to the USA.

Unique examples of Ukrainian postal history, stamps of various historical periods - revolutionary 20s, pre-war 40s, letters with stamps of 1918, ZUNR stamps for three crowns, modern blocks, etc. are presented.

Also, the exhibition has miniatures from limited collections, which today exist only in a few copies in the world.

The Historical Museum named after Vasyl Poryk was created in 1972, now it is a communal institution of the Khmilnytskyi City Council.

The museum is named after the Hero of the Soviet Union and the national hero of France Vasyl Poryk (pseudonym "Basil"), who was born in 1920 in the village of Solomirka (now the village of Poryk).

After being captured by the Germans during World War II, he found himself in the Beaumont concentration camp in France, where he organized an underground struggle against the Nazis, and later escaped and formed a guerrilla unit that became part of the Resistance Movement.

The museum has more than a thousand items. The main exposition tells about the life and military career of Vasyl Poryk. The central exhibit is a diorama depicting the defeat of the Beaumont camp by Poryk's detachment and the release of prisoners in April 1944.

The museum also has exhibits about the national Hero of Poland Volodymyr Tushevsky, a prototype of one of the heroes of the movie "Four Tankmen and a Dog", who was born in the village of Poryk.

The museum of the Ukrainian dissident poet Vasyl Stus in his native village of Rakhnivka in Vinnytsia region is located in the premises of the Vasyl Stus Rakhnivka Secondary School.

The territory of the school borders the peasant estate, where Stus was born in 1938 and spent the first years of his life before the Stus family moved to Donetsk (their relatives still live in the Rakhnivka house).

The exhibition in the first room of the museum introduces the life and creative path of the poet. The second exhibition, decorated in the form of a prison cell, is dedicated to Stus stay in exile in Kolyma. Among the exhibits of the museum are an embroidered shirt of Stus, his baby cradle, an old gramophone and other belongings of the Stus family. In total, more than 500 exhibits.

A well dug by the poet's father has been preserved in the yard. In 2006, a monument to Vasyl Stus was erected.

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.

Vinnytsia Regional Art Museum is located in one of the buildings of the architectural complex "Mury" – a former defensive Jesuit monastery of the XVII-XVIII centuries.

The museum was founded in 1919 on the initiative of Vinnytsia artist, teacher and collector Vyacheslav Korenev. The basis of the gallery was his private collection of paintings.

Currently, the museum's collection includes more than 7,000 exhibits, 300 of which are displayed in a permanent exhibition in six museum halls. Among them are paintings of Western European art of the XVII-XIX centuries, Ukrainian and Russian art of the XVIII-XX centuries, as well as sculpture, furniture, ivory, silver and bronze.

In particular, there is a portrait of Count Stanislav Shchensny (Feliks) Potoski and his sons, which was painted in 1788-1791 by the royal artist Johann Baptist Lampi Sr. and entered the museum in 1921 from the Nemyriv estate of Princess Scherbatova. The painting "Bacchus", created by an artist from the Caravaggio school, came to the museum from the Mozhaysky Palace in Voronovytsia. The painting "Grand Canal of Venice" belongs to the brush of Carl Leopold Grevenbrook, a student of Canaletto. Works by Illya Repin, Karl Bryullov, Микола Ge, Kostyantyn Korovin, Mykhaylo Nesterov and others are also on display.

Excursions are conducted in Ukrainian, English, Russian.

The Vinnytsia Regional Museum of Local Lore is located on the territory of the former defensive Jesuit monastery of the 17th century, which, together with the buildings of the Dominican monastery, forms the historical and architectural complex "Vinnytsia Mury".

The museum was founded in 1918 on the initiative of representatives of the local intelligentsia. In 1970, a new building was completed, and the exposition was significantly updated.

Currently, the collection includes 200,000 exhibits. Unique items belonging to the Scythian and Sarmatian periods, large numismatic collections, ethnographic collection: pottery, weaving, and embroidery are stored here. folk painting.

A mammoth skeleton found in the region is presented.

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.