Attractions of Vinnytsia region

The Lytin Museum of Local Lore named after Ustym Karmalyuk was opened in 1980 in the premises of the entrance gate of the former Lytin prison-fortress.

The prison castle in Lityn was built at the beginning of the 19th century according to the typical project of Andriyan Zakharov next to the old Polish castle, which has not been preserved.

From 1813 to 1835, the national hero Ustym Karmalyuk, the leader of local rebels, was detained here four times. In 1832, while awaiting execution, he was able to escape by dismantling the ceiling of his cell. This was one of many escapes that Karmalyuk managed to make from prisons and hard labor during his struggle.

The museum collection includes about 8,000 objects. The main exposition tells about the causes, development and consequences of the insurgent movement in Podillya in 1813-1835.

The prison building with the cell where Karmalyuk was kept has also been preserved (now on the territory of the district consumer union, access is limited).

Local Lore museum in the village Pechera in Vinnytsia region operates at the Pechera general secondary education institution of grades I-III (secondary school).

It is located in a one-story building next to the school, in which, during the time of the Potocki family, Kapellmeister Nadvorsky, who led the local brass band, lived.

The school museum was created in 1986, many exhibits were found during the expeditions of the school archeological group. In particular, ancient things related to the history of the Potocki manor in Pechera are presented.

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 memorial museum of Academician Danylo Zabolotny was founded in 1929 in his native village of Chobotarka (now Zabolotne) in Vinnytsia Region, where he was born, lived and was buried.

An outstanding microbiologist and epidemiologist, academician Danylo Zabolotny founded the world's first department of epidemiology in Odesa, as well as the Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology in Kyiv. In his native house under a thatched roof, the original interior has been completely preserved: a cabinet with the scientist's books, a Zeissian microscope with which he traveled through the deserts of Asia, an old straw block on a hanger. An exposition with wax figures in one of the rooms reproduces the scene of Zabolotny receiving a local patient during his stay in his native village.

On the territory of the manor, a summer kitchen has been recreated and a separate exhibition house has been built, where you can see a large-scale diorama "Danylo Zabolotny on an expedition to fight the plague", which reproduces one of the episodes of the scientist's work in Manchuria. Returning from expeditions, Zabolotny always brought exotic plants with him. The Carpathian birch planted by him, an Ussuri maple and a large dogwood bush still grow in the garden near the house.

Not far from the house is the grave of Danylo Kyrylovych with a tombstone in the style of constructivism by the artist Vasyl Krychevskyi.

The manor-museum of academician Zabolotny is part of the structure of the Institute of Microbiology and Virology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

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 Ascension Church in Mezhyriv was built in 1794 at the expense of the nobleman Andriy Orlovsky.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the parish had 1,438 parishioners. In 1945, the temple was closed by the Soviet authorities, the building was used as a collective farm granary.

Currently, the church is in a dilapidated state. Inside, traces of stucco can be seen here and there. Nearby is the same dilapidated three-part bell tower, typical for Catholic churches.

The Orthodox Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built in 1789 at the expense of Stanislav Szchensny Potoski.

The building is made in the style of classicism.

A stone two-level belfry was built in the 19th century on the site of a wooden one.

The Balanivka Village History Museum, Haisyn district, was opened in 1989 in the historic building of Dzygarnya, a three-tiered clock tower of the 17th century.

The museum fund has about 6,000 exhibits. The non-standardly organized exposition in the form of a labyrinth tells about the ancient times of Balanivka's foundation, the days of the Cossacks, the events of the XX century.

Ancient weapons, tools (loom, wooden grinder), household items, utensils, clothing, embroidered and woven towels, tablecloths, rugs and other decorative and applied arts are presented. You can also see the interior of the traditional Balanivka house of the 17th century.

Bar Historical Museum, founded in 1985, is located on the second floor of the local cinema.

Today, the exhibition has about 8,000 exhibits that reflect important stages in the history of the region since ancient times.

The ethnographic exposition presents traditional household items: pottery, a fragment of a loom, antique clothing.

The works of famous bar ceramists, including Hryhoriy and Oleksandr Reshitnyky, Pavlo Samolovych, Hryhoriy Krulykovsky and others, deserve special attention. There is a large selection of paintings by Honored Master of Ukraine Vira Bychkova - bas-reliefs, still lifes, landscapes, wood carvings.

The Battle of Batih Museum was opened in 1990 as a museum of the history of the village of Chetvertynivka. In 2003, the museum acquired the status of a national museum.

The exposition is located in four halls on the second floor of the building. The first hall reflects the life of the peasants of the XIX century. The second hall tells the story of the origin of the village, as well as the Battle of Batih.

In other halls there are materials about the Holodomor, the Second World War and the formation of the village in 1960-1990.

Since 2015, it is a museum "Battle of Batih", part of the future historical and cultural reserve "Batih".

The Bershad Museum of Local Lore was founded in 1927 on the initiative of local historian and public figure Ipolyt Zborovsky.

Now the museum has more than 8,500 exhibits that reflect the customs, life, cultural traditions of the locals. The museum exposition consists of three departments: nature, history and ethnography. The exposition is built on the cultural and chronological principle and recreates the history of Bershad region from ancient times to the present. The ethnographic collection reflects all kinds of applied arts: carpet weaving, embroidery, pottery, wickerwork. An exhibition of folk objects of the XIX-XX centuries tells about the most common crafts of the region and their development.

The museum hosts exhibitions of folk art of modern masters of Easter painting, weaving, wood carving, embroidery, musical instruments.

The Museum of Bread in Bilopillia was created in 1986 on the basis of an ancient windmill, which was built in 1910 by a local craftsman Fedir Biloshkap, using the details of a windmill of the 18th century.

On the first and second floors of the mill there is an exposition that acquaints visitors with the history of bread from ancient times to the present day. In the farm building, agricultural tools of the 19th - early 20th centuries are presented.

The museum house reproduces the village life of the 18th-19th centuries, the traditional elements of the interior of which are a stove, a red corner, a pole for clothes, a table, benches, a bed, a cradle for a child.

Agricultural machinery, traction implements for soil cultivation are demonstrated on the open site. There is an apiary and a well in the yard.

Captain Oleksandr Chetkov's mansion is one of the most prominent buildings in Vinnytsia. It was built in 1910 according to the project of the Kyiv architect Vasyl Lystovnychyi, the owner of Bulhakov's house on Andriyivskyi Uzviz in Kyiv (according to other data, it was designed by Vinnytsia architect Hryhoriy Artynov).

At a cost of 500,000 tsarist rubles, Chetkov's house became the most expensive residential building in Vinnytsia. The luxurious mansion is made in the Viennese Secession (Art Nouveau) style. The massive towers are combined with an openwork portico and decorative stucco. Above the building rises a large observation tower with oval and round windows, from which a very picturesque view of the city opens. There used to be many sculptures in the interior.

Today, the Chetkov mansion houses the Vinnytsia Department of Architecture and Urban Planning.

The ruins of two castle towers on the hill above the Pivdenny Buh remind of the once great Podillya city of Cherlenkove, known since the 13th century.

The castle was probably built by princes Koriatovichi (Koryatovichi) in the 14th century, after the Lithuanian prince Olherd defeated the Hordes and joined Podillya to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. For a long time, Cherlenhrad Castle belonged to the family of Ukrainian nobles Kmyt-Cherlenkivsky, controlled the crossing over the Pivdenny Buh. It was destroyed in 1624 during the campaign of the Tatar army of Kantemyr Murza to Podillya.

In 1670, Anatas Cherlenkivskyi founded the Basilian monastery on the ruins of the castle. In the 18th century, the Trakhtemyriv old man Stanislav Shchenevsky tried to reconstruct the castle, but soon his heir Onufriy Shchenevsky rebuilt the fortress into a magnate's residence. One of the towers near the road next to the bridge over the Pivdenny Buh was turned into a burial chapel. The second of the surviving towers was tried to be blown up in Soviet times, but three of its walls survived.

Currently, the territory of the castle is built up with private houses. A tourist and entertainment complex with a hotel, restaurant and museum is being built over the surviving ruins.

Sharhorod Center of Contemporary Art "Sharhorod Rafinad" was opened in 2009 in the old premises of the former sugar factory at the expense of entrepreneur Oleksandr Pohorilskyi.

The former factory forge has been transformed into an art workshop. The museum exhibits the works of artists Alisa Yoffe, Dmytro Butov, Anatoliy Osmolovsky, as well as Volodymyr Lohutov.

A contemporary art festival is held on the basis of the center. The center of craft arts "SharKraft" is active. There is a hotel.