Attractions of Vinnytsia region

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.

The Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Ivaniv was a part of the Bernardine monastery founded in 1780 by Solomiya Kholonevska.

Decorated with columns of the Corinthian order and baroque vases. To the right of the church building is an L-shaped church building, veneered in Soviet times with tiles.

The church was famous for the largest organ in Vinnytsia, which was destroyed by the German invaders in 1943.

The Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Murafa was founded in 1624 by Dominican monks who came to the village at the invitation of Jadwiga Yazlovetska-Belzhetska, the granddaughter of the great crown hetman Yuriy Yazlovetsky.

Until 1850, there was a Dominican monastery near the church, surrounded by defensive walls with corner towers (the north-eastern hexagonal brick tower and a section of the southern and eastern walls have been preserved). A two-story building of cells in the Baroque style has also been preserved.

The church was damaged during the War of Liberation, but was restored at the expense of Count Yoakhim Karol Potocki, which is reminded of by his family coat of arms, a commemorative plaque and a portrait in full dress above the side door. After the reconstruction, the temple retained its baroque features, emphasized by the architecture of the portal with two high towers.

After the closure of the monastery by the Russian authorities, the Church of the Immaculate Conception became a parish church, it remained active even during almost the entire Soviet period. Thanks to this, not only the exterior decor, but also the interiors with stucco, stained glass, and wall frescoes have been perfectly preserved.

The main shrine of the Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the miraculous icon of the Mother of God of Murafa (XVII century) in the main altar.

The stone Intercession Church in Stara Pryluka was built in 1910 by engineer Rikhard Kraus, as evidenced by a plaque built into the stairs.

The ancient paintings have not been preserved, but the height of the bath is still impressive - about 20 meters.

In the 1960s, the church was closed, but in 1990, with the help of the village council, it became active again.

On January 1, 2023, the first Divine Service of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine was held in the Intercession Church.

The Carmelite monastery was founded in Bar in 1531, but soon the wooden buildings were destroyed.

In 1616, the construction of a college and a Jesuit monastery was started on the ruins. It, in turn, was destroyed during the Liberation War of 1648-1654, but the stone monastery building was partially preserved. Reconstruction began in 1701 and continued intermittently until 1787.

The church and the cell building are made in the form of a single building in the Baroque style, which looks little like a temple. In 1908, the belfry over the gate was built.

For some time, the complex belonged to the Orthodox Church, but now its owners are Benedictine missionary sisters.

The castle-palace in Ivaniv traces its history from the 15th century, when Prince Zbarazkyi built the Yaniv fortress.

In the 16th century, the castle was rebuilt according to the bastion system. The fortifications had the shape of a square, at the corners of which there were bastions with small towers, and there was a deep moat with water around it.

In the 18th century, when Yaniv passed into the possession of the Polish magnates Kholonevsky, the need for fortifications already disappeared. Count Adam Kholonevsky built a palace on the site of the fortress, using some of the walls and towers of the medieval castle. The palace was made in the style of the transition from baroque to classicism.

The Column Hall with fat columns, the Marble Hall with walls decorated with white marble, stucco rosettes on the ceilings, stairs to the second floor have survived from the old interiors to our days.

All this can be seen from September to June, as the Kholonevsky Palace is now occupied by a boarding school for orphans and children from low-income families.

Museum of History City Koziatyn was opened in 2004, for the 130th anniversary of the day when Kozyatyn was granted city status.

The exposition is located in the old one-story building of the former Zemstvo post office of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The foundation of the fund consists of collections of railway lanterns, bourgeois furniture, folk clothes, peasants' tools, photographs, postcards, copper coins, front sheets from the period of the First and Second World Wars, jubilee medals, etc.

The Pohrebyshche Local Lore Museum is named after the outstanding Ukrainian folklorist, local historian and teacher Nastya Prysyazhnyuk, who was born and lived most of her life in the town of Pohrebyshche in Vinnytsia region. During her lifetime, she collected more than 6,000 folk songs, 4,600 fairy tales, 6,100 proverbs and sayings.

The institution was founded in 2007 by Nastya Prysyazhnyuk's room-museum at the local school, where she taught until 1957. Currently, the Pohrebyshche Museum of Local Lore is a communal institution of the Pohrebyshche City Council.

It has four expositions: Nastya Prysyazhnyuk's name hall (personal belongings, photographs, letters, monographs), historical and exhibition hall (thematic stands, works of art and folk crafts), ethnographic hall (folk clothes, household items, tools), burial hall - heroes of the Russian-Ukrainian war.

The local history museum of the Haisyn region was created in 1995 on the initiative of the veterans' organization of the Haisyn.

The museum is located in the former house of the director of the male gymnasium - an architectural monument of the beginning of the 20th century.

The local history museum stores objects of material and spiritual culture of both the past and present of this region.

The exposition presents samples of weapons from the Second World War, objects of urban and rural life of the 20th century, icons of the 18th-20th centuries, folk ceramics of the Bubniv factory, works of Ukrainian decorative and applied art.

The Saint Nicolas memorial church-tomb is part of the National Museum-manor of Mykola Pyrohov. It is located 1.5 kilometers from the Vyshnya estate, in the former village of Sheremitka.

The temple was founded in 1881 as a small chapel above the crypt of Pyrohov. At the insistence of his wife, the body of the eminent surgeon was embalmed by St. Petersburg doctor Davyd Vyvodtsev and placed in a glazed sarcophagus. In 1885, the Saint Nicolas Church was built above the crypt, according to the project of architecture academic Viktor Sychuhov.

During the Second World War, the sarcophagus with Pyrohov's body was buried in the ground, later restoration and re-embalming was required.

The Military Historical Museum of Air Force Armed Forces Ukraine in Vinnytsia was established in 2001 as a museum of the Air Force of Ukraine.

In 2005, it was replenished with an exposition dedicated to the air defense forces, which were then structurally part of the Armed Forces.

The museum is located on the territory of the former General Staff of the Air Force of Ukraine in Vinnytsia. In Soviet times, it was the headquarters of the 24th Air Army, and before that - the headquarters of the 43rd Air Force of Long-range Aviation, which was formed in 1949 on the basis of the 2nd VA DA.

The museum has collected many samples of aircraft, anti-aircraft missiles, radar equipment of different times. The exposition includes 16 aircraft of different classes, from the Yak-11 training aircraft to the fourth-generation Su-27 fighter, as well as 4 helicopters.

Of particular interest are the launchers of anti-aircraft missile systems S-300V1, S-300PS, S-200V "Vega", S-125M1 "Neva", "S-75M2" Volkhov ", Buk-1M".

Foreigners must obtain a permit from the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine to visit the museum.

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 "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.