Attractions of Haisyn district

The Church of Saint Joseph the Betrothed in Chechelnyk was founded in 1751 by Stanisłav Lubomyrskyi, the voivode of Krakow and Kyiv.

In 1786, a stone one was built on the site of the burnt wooden temple, which has survived to this day.

The church contains a miraculous copy of the icon of the Czestochowa Mother of God by an unknown artist.

During the Soviet rule, the church was closed, the bell tower was destroyed (now there are other buildings in its place). The miraculous image was hidden by believers, but it was damaged due to improper storage. In 1991, the Franciscan Fathers Maksymilyan Zhydovskyi and Yan Duklyan Pavlyuk took the canvas to Poland, where it was restored and consecrated by Pope John Paul II, after which the icon returned to Chechelnyk.

Currently, Saint Joseph's Church is being restored by the efforts of Franciscan monks and Albertine sisters. The priest's house has also been preserved, but is in a state of disrepair.

In 2015, the church was declared a diocesan sanctuary of the Mother of God of Chechelnytska.

The palace of the Sobansky family in Obodivka was built in 1800.

First, a house with a tower was built in the style of Romanticism with elements of the Italian Neo-Renaissance. The central building of the palazzo is connected by a two-story covered gallery with a four-story tower and a U-shaped building that form an inner courtyard.

The park, which descends to a 17-hectare pond, was created by the famous Irish park builder Dionysius Mickler.

During the reconstruction in 1900, the third floor of the left wing of the palace was added, the front part of the palace was decorated with an open terrace, which offers a panorama of the park and pond.

After the Bolshevik coup of 1917, the Bessarabian Commune was housed in the Sobansky palace, and after the Second World War, it housed the district executive committee, district committee of the party and other district organizations. In 1959, the palace and park were handed over to the Obodivka boarding school.

Currently, the building of the Sobansky Palace is in a state of disrepair.

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 Public Museum of the Ustia Village History was founded in 1984 on the initiative of journalist and local historian Petro Shvets. Initially, the exhibition was located in the former estate of the landowner Hlynsky.

Since 2018, the museum has opened an updated exhibition in a new building next to the village council. Over 3,000 exhibits are exhibited in five exhibition rooms. All of them are collected on the territory of the village and reflect its culture, everyday life and history.

The museum is decorated with an ethnographic collection: carpets, towels, shirts, folk clothes, pottery. Traditional folk crafts are told about by tools of labor, such as a loom, a potter's wheel, and various working tools.

The ancient history of the region is represented by objects of Trypillia and Cherniakhiv culture. And the events of the last century are told by old photographs, letters from the front, fragments of weapons, awards, and exhibits of the post-war period.

Visitors are offered master classes in weaving on an old wooden loom.

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.