Attractions of Vinnytsia region

The building of the Great Synagogue in Chechelnyk was built in the 18th century from limestone. Preserved elements of rich decorative decoration. The main facade of the building overlooks the small Antonishyna Street.

After its closure in 1926, the synagogue was rebuilt as a furniture store, after the restoration of Ukraine's independence, the building was transferred to private ownership. It is in a dilapidated state, the possibility of restoration is being discussed.

"Head of Administration House" in Mohyliv-Podilskyi is called a small building in the Art Nouveau style at the intersection of the former streets of Miyka, Virmenska and Oleksandrivsky avenues.

Built at the end of the 19th century, the house probably belonged to the state councilor Stepan Mikhalevsky, who was a county doctor and one of the honorary justices of the peace of Mohyliv-Podilskyi.

However, the urban legend attributes the house to a certain "Head of Administration Khadzhi", with whom the popular story about the "first in the Russian Empire" monument to Mykola Hohol, erected opposite the building, is connected. Mohyliv-Podilskyi never had a mayor named Khadzhi, although a merchant Khadzhi lived in the city, but in another place - on Kyivska Street.

Now there is a music school in "Head of Administration House".

The Museum of History and Ethnography of the Nemyriv Region was opened in 1991. Since then, the exposition has been constantly increasing and now has more than 1,000 storage units.

Nemyriv hospitably received great state and political figures, as well as gifted, highly talented writers and scientists. So, in 1821, the poet Mykola Nekrasov was born here in the family of an officer. The famous Ukrainian writer Marko Vovchok also lived and worked here. The main exposition of the museum is dedicated to their work.

The Museum of History and Ethnography of the Nemyriv region is located on the northeastern outskirts of Nemyriv.

The princely palace in Hushchyntsi was built in the 19th century. It belonged to Prince Yan Abamelek (Abamelik) from an ancient Georgian family of Armenian origin, who received the estate as a dowry for Anna Hizhytska.

A two-story palace in the style of classicism with a four-column portico stands on the high bank of the Pivdenyi Buh. The last owner was Lyubov Abamelek.

In 1917, the palace was looted by the Bolsheviks, the estate was ruined. In 1934, taking into account the landlord economy, an agricultural school was opened in the princely palace. Later, it was reorganized into a vocational school.

Currently, the palace of the Hizhytsky-Abameleks is in a deplorable state and does not have proper facilities.

The Hnivan granite quarry is located on the banks of the Pivdennyi Buh in the southern part of Hnivan.

In the 19th century, it belonged to the Podillya nobleman Yosyp Yaroshynskyi. The industrial development of the deposit with granite outcrops began in 1870 during the laying of the Kyiv-Odesa railway through Hnivan, the construction of which required a lot of local building materials. Hnivansky granite was distinguished by its great hardness and beautiful dark gray color - it was widely used for paving the streets of Kyiv, Warsaw, Moscow and other places.

The rapid development of the enterprise occurred in the middle of the 20th century, when production was reconstructed and powerful modern equipment began to be used: EKG-5 excavators, BelAZ dump trucks.

Having survived the economic crisis after the collapse of the USSR, the company is now being revived. Career works. The view from above is impressive.

The wooden Old Believer Church of the Holy Image Not Made by Hands was built in 1911 at the expense of the landowner Dmytro Heyden as a temporary temple, after the old church of the Sign of the Holy Mother of God burned down in Borskiv.

The small temple looks like an adobe house with one dome and two entrances. The church was consecrated in honor of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, this day is a temple holiday, but the parishioners call it in their own way - the church of the Holy Image Not Made by Hands.

The interior is painted by local masters with floral ornaments.

The Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity is one of the first and largest in Podillya, founded in 1603 in Khmilnyk, which was a significant center of Protestantism at the end of the 16th century.

The temple was damaged during the Liberation War, then it was badly damaged during the Turkish rule at the end of the 17th century. Majorly renovated and expanded at the expense of Mykhaylo Zaleskyi, rededicated in 1728 under the name Beheading of Ioann the Baptist.

The last reconstruction was carried out at the beginning of the 20th century. An oil painting of the early 20th century has been preserved in the interior of the church in the Tuscan Baroque style.

Today it is an active Roman Catholic church of the Holy Trinity of the Kamyanets-Podilskyi diocese.

The Church of the Holy Trinity in Mankivtsi was founded in 1763 by the landowner Yuzef Dembskyi. In 1789, it was rebuilt in stone in the forms of early classicism.

During Soviet times, the temple was closed, now it is in a dilapidated state. A slab with an epitaph in honor of Teklya Dembska-Vitoslavska (1830) has partially survived.

The Holy Trinity Brailiv Monastery, founded in 1635 in Vinnytsia on the initiative of the magnate Mykhaylo Kropyvnytskyi, has occupied the complex of the former Catholic monastery since the middle of the 19th century.

In 1740, Voivode of Volyn Frantsishek Potocki founded it as a monastery of the Catholic Trinitarian order. The monks of this order, exotic for Ukraine, specialized in the redemption of Christians from Turkish captivity. The first monastery buildings were wooden. The construction of the current architectural ensemble was completed in 1778 by the Podillya magnate Stanislav Potocki. The monastery consisted of a church with a tall baroque tower and cells attached on both sides. In 1787, the Polish king Stanislav Avhust specially visited Brailiv to admire the monastery's paintings by the artist John Prachtel (buried on the territory), which are now partially restored.

After the Polish uprising of 1831, the Trinitarian monastery was closed, and in 1845 the Trinity Convent from Vinnytsia was transferred to it. During the reconstruction, in order to give the church an Orthodox appearance, a tented finish was added to the tower, a small figure of eight was erected over the gable roof, and a gate in the Moscow Baroque style was built in front of the entrance.

The main shrine is the icons of the Brailiv-Pochaiv Mother of God and the Brailiv-Chenstokhova Mother of God.

The Nemyriv Holy Trinity (Saint Nicholas) stauropygny nunnery was founded in 1720 at the expense of Kyiv voivode Yuzef Potoski.

Initially, the monastery was male, but in 1783 it was reconstructed by Vintsent Potocki and became female. The monastery reached its greatest development under the abbess Apollinaria (1845-1903), who launched large-scale construction. The Assumption and Saint Nicholas Churches were reconstructed, a new Holy Trinity Church and two bell towers were built, brick cells, a dormitory, a refectory, a priest's house, and a hotel were built. A school was opened at the Nemyriv monastery, and in 1860 a diocesan school for girls was founded, which in 1902 was transformed into a two-class teacher's school.

During the Soviet era, the monastery was closed, the Church of the Assumption was dismantled, a machine-tractor station, a car company and an orphanage were placed in other premises.

In 1996, the Holy Trinity Monastery was restored, a boarding school for children with mental retardation is still located on the territory of the diocesan school.

The Museum of the History of the Village of Hopchytsia was created in 1990 on the initiative of Anton Kolisnyk, a history teacher at the Hopchytsia High School, and in 2018 it was awarded the title of People's Museum.

The main funds of the museum include 430 exhibits, which are presented in seven museum halls. The modern exposition tells about the nature and history of the village of Hopchytsia and the entire Pohrebyshche region, in particular about the development of local agriculture. A 3D tour of the museum is presented on the community website.

The estate in Krupoderyntsi was built at the end of the 19th century by Count Mykola Ihnatiev, who settled here after resigning from the position of Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia. Before that, Ignatiev became famous as one of the best Russian diplomats. Thanks to his efforts, in 1878, the San Stefano Peace Treaty was signed with Turkey, beneficial for Russia, which ended the Russian-Turkish war. One of the most important points of the treaty was the restoration of Bulgarian statehood, for which Bulgarians consider Ihnatiev a national hero.

In Krupoderyntsi, the count spent the last years of his life with his family, setting up a model farm. The surviving two-story stone manor house of the Ignatievs is decorated with a carved portico and other wooden details.

After the Bolshevik coup of 1917, the estate housed a local commune, then an orphanage, and now a high school.

In 2011, the Mykola Ihnatiev museum was opened at the school, which presents documents and photographs related to his life.

The church-mausoleum of the Nativity of the Virgin in Krupoderyntsi was built in 1895 by Count Mykola Ihnatiev as a family tomb.

During the design of the temple, the architect Oleksandr Pomerantsev chose as a model the Cathedral of Saint Oleksandr Nevsky in the capital of Bulgaria, Sofia, where Ignatiev is considered the author of the San Stefano Treaty, which revived Bulgarian statehood.

In terms of architectural style, size and decoration, the church in Krupoderyntsi had no equal in the district. After Ihnatiev's death in 1908, he was buried in the lower part of the mausoleum, and 9 years later his wife rested there.

Divine service in the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin was restored in 1944.

In the depth of the churchyard rises a memorial cross on a massive stone block, on the sides of which are four ancient ship anchors. This is a monument to Lieutenant Vasyl Ihnatiev and other sailors who died in the Battle of Tsushima in 1905, erected by the lieutenant's mother and widow for the 10th anniversary of the battle.

Illintsi Museum of Local Lore was founded in 1967 on the initiative of local historians of the district, opened after reconstruction in 2017 on the territory of the local sports and recreation complex, near the stadium "Kolos".

The exposition in five halls tells about the nature, history and culture of the region. In particular, the archeological collection of artifacts of Trypillya culture, ethnographic selection of household items and household goods of the XVII-XX centuries, collections of musical instruments, utensils, ceramics, numismatics are presented.

The art gallery presents works by local artists Valentyna Kohut, Alina Shmyhora, Anatoliy Herovymchuk and others.

Ilyinets astroblema is a meteorite crater that appeared 400 million years ago at the site of the fall of a cosmic body with a mass of about 40 million tons and a diameter of 250-300 meters.

Ilyinets Crater was first discovered in 1851 by Professor Kostyantyn Feofilaktov of Kyiv University, but it was not until 1973 that its cosmic origin was established ("astroblema" in Greek - "stellar wound", i.e. impact crater). Before that, it was believed that this was the mouth of an ancient volcano.

The exposed rocks have some external similarity with volcanic tuffs, but in fact they belong to zuvites - fragile rocks of impact-meteoric origin. For centuries, they were used by local residents to make millstones (this is where the name of the nearby village of Zhornyshche comes from).

The center of the crater with an inner diameter of 4 kilometers and an outer diameter of 10 kilometers is located between the villages of Luhova and Ivanki. You can see the Ilyinets crater in a cross-section just beyond the eastern outskirts of the village of Luhova, where quarries are located, in which local residents still extract building stone.