Attractions of Vinnytsia region

The Tymanivka Folk Museum of Oleksandr Suvorov was opened in 1947 in the house of the manager of the Tymanivka estate, where commander Oleksandr Suvorov lived in 1796-1797. In the Tymanivka area, he conducted training for Russian troops stationed in Tulchyn.

The museum's collection is based on finds discovered by local residents in the village (18th-century coins, cannons, cannonballs, bayonets, a drum, etc.). Also presented are uniforms of officers and soldiers of the Russian army of the late 18th century, weapons and standards of Russian, French, and Turkish armies of the 18th century, and a numismatic collection. A document with the commander's personal signature and seal is preserved.

Previously, in front of the museum building stood a bust of Oleksandr Suvorov, which was dismantled in 2023 as part of decolonization.

The local history museum of the Olhopil village is located in the center of the village.

The organizer and first director of the museum was Yakiv Kyforenko, a history teacher at the Olhopil secondary school, who collected a wealth of material about the past of the Olhopil village. The museum was opened in 1979, and in 1991 it was awarded the title of People's Museum.

Today, the museum's collection includes 1,960 objects, among which there are physical, visual, decorative and utilitarian, written, photo, natural, and video materials that testify to life from the distant past to the modern period of the region.

The exposition of the museum reflects the culture of the Ukrainian people and the traditions of the village: folk women's and men's clothing, shoes, items of furniture of a peasant house, household and kitchen utensils: chairs, benches, cabinets, chests, troughs, baskets, buckets, mugs, antlers, sieves, sieves, jars, wooden and clay bowls, pots, maquis.

The second thematic group includes pottery and pottery tools.

The largest exposition is the ethnographic collection of weaving and embroidery.

The Orativ Local Lore Museum was founded in 1993 and is subordinated to the Department of Culture, Youth and Sports of the Orativ Village Council.

The institution is located in the former library in the center of the village of Orativ.

The museum collection is more than 2,000 items. The ethnographic collection includes home-woven embroidered shirts from the villages of Yakymivka, Chovnovytsia, Lopatynka, Mervyn, Orativ, Rozhychna, ceramics of local potters, as well as various items of Ukrainian folk life.

The Orlovsky Palace in Severynivka was built at the beginning of the 19th century and has remained almost unchanged to this day.

Severyn Orlovsky was a stingy person and did not want to invest a lot of money in the construction of a magnificent palace according to the project of a famous architect. From the outside, the building was quite modest, but from the inside it was impressive with luxury and splendor.

The richest collections of paintings, silver, ancient coins, stamps, etc. were gathered in the palace. Unfortunately, the interiors were not preserved. Some paintings from the Severynivka Palace are now exhibited in museums in Warsaw and Kyiv.

A park was built around the palace, the architect of which was Dionysius Mikler. At the end of the park there is a sandstone rock that offers a magnificent view.

Next to the palace, a large-scale building of the former arena with a gate has been preserved.

During Soviet times, the palace building was covered with tiles. Currently, the Severynivka Rehabilitation Hospital is located here.

About ten Pillboxs (DOTs) from the Second World War have been preserved in the area of Murovani Kurylivtsi.

Not far from here was the northwestern edge of the 12th Mohyliv-Yampil District (MYUR), established in the 1930s on the then southwestern border of the USSR. It was part of the gigantic system of defensive structures of the "Stalin Line", which stretched from the Baltic to the Black Sea.

In July 1941, the MIAUR became the defense border of the 18th Army of the Southern Front. Divisions of the 17th Rifle Corps fought in the area of Murovani Kurylivtsi. After the Germans broke through the defenses to the north, the Soviet troops disarmed the DOTs and retreated to the east.

One of the DOTs is located at the entrance to the village from the Vinnytsia side next to the monument to the liberating soldiers - an IS-2 tank on a pedestal. Another DOT is located in front of the bridge over the Zhvan River, and the third is on the territory of the Komar estate.

The local history museum in Pishchanka was created in 1987 on the initiative of local historian Volodymyr Bershadsky.

In the main exposition, ancient household items and tools of the inhabitants of Podillya are widely presented. Ukrainian shirts of the 18th and 19th centuries are particularly proud of the collection of the Pishchanka Museum of Local Lore, where there are embroideries with elements of both Ukrainian and Moldavian traditions.

The second exposition tells about important events of the 20th century that had a significant impact on the history of the region, including the Ukrainian revolution of 1917–1921, the Holodomor of 1932–1933, the Second World War, the reconstruction of the national economy, and Ukraine's independence.

An exhibition of paintings by local artist Stepan Trubalyevych has been opened in the exhibition hall of the Pishchanka Museum of Local Lore.

"Podilsky Zoo" in Vinnytsia is the youngest in Ukraine. Vinnytsia Zoo was created in 2005 thanks to the efforts of "Vinoblagrolis" workers.

Currently, the zoological nursery in Vinnytsia has 45 species of animals and 35 species of birds (about 400 animals in total). In particular, the zoo contains bison, bison, deer, mouflon, llamas, bears and others.

The Potocki Palace in Noskivtsi dates back to the 17th century.

Originally, the house in the Romanesque style was attached, had an arched entrance and an underground passage. In the 18th century, the Potockis rebuilt their manor house, turning it into an eclectic two-story palace (now in poor condition). The main rooms were located on the second floor (fragments of the decor have been preserved).

At the end of the 19th century, the landowner and philanthropist Yuliya Pashchenko, being a fan of the talented poet Semen Nadson, invited him to Noskivtsi for treatment and rest. The nature of Podillya inspired Nadson, who lived here in 1885-1886, to create many new poems.

The park and the ruins of the arena with stables along the road to the palace have also been preserved. In Soviet times, a secondary school was located on the territory of the manor, which now houses the local history museum and the Semen Nadson room-museum. Recently, part of the palace was damaged by fire.

The Museum of Pottery in the village of Novoselivka is a museum-estate of the brothers Yakym and Yakiv Herasymenko, who became famous all over the world thanks to their masterpieces of artistic ceramics.

The museum was opened in the house where famous masters were born in 1988, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Yakym Herasymenko. They made bright, decorated with floral and geometric ornaments Kumans, barrels, baths, eggplants, tiles, plates, half-bowls, smoothies, pots, toys, figured utensils, as well as tea and tableware.

The museum exposition presents the works of the Gerasymenko brothers and other potters from Novoselivka and neighboring Bubnivka, who have long specialized in the manufacture of household utensils, as well as making building ceramics. After all, pottery has existed here since the seventeenth century, when Count Stanislav Potocki settled here 30 masters from Uman. A special place among the products of tambourine pottery was occupied by ceramic toys and small plastics (icons, crosses, etc.).

A separate collection in the museum consists of traditional clothes and household items of Novoselivka residents.

The Museum of Village Culture and the Prokip Kolisnyk Gallery were opened in the village of Potashnia in 2004.

The initiator of the museum was a Ukrainian painter and writer, Honored Artist of Ukraine Prokip Kolisnyk, whose name is now the institution.

The museum is housed in a one-story building in the center of the village, built in the late XVIII century in the style of classicism.

The exhibition presents antiques of rural life and folk art, as well as a collection of paintings by the artist, who was born and spent his childhood in Potashnia.

The palace of the Rakovsky family in Kozyntsi was built by Kozyntsi landowner Andriy Rakovsky, who owned the village in the 19th century.

Initially, a small neo-baroque palace was built, which, after the construction of a large three-story palace, became an outbuilding. The manor buildings are surrounded by a landscape park with an area of ​​about 8 hectares.

In Soviet times, a military unit was located on the territory of the estate. Currently, the main building houses a comprehensive school, and the wing houses a teacher's dormitory.

The underground museum rocks and minerals was opened in 2025 in the village of Pechera, Vinnytsia region, on the territory of the Dunstan Pechera Center (a branch of the Dunstan Crafts Center near Stadnytsia). The exhibition was housed in a stone building of an authentic rural house from the beginning of the 20th century.

The museum displays over 130 minerals and rocks. Among the exhibits are rare minerals (purpurite, sinkankasite, painite), amonites, meteorites, burshtin and hostile collections of girsky crystals.

The Rocks and Minerals Museum near Pechera has become one of the locations of the new quest-mandrivka “Into the depths of the centuries”, which is presented to students by the Dunstan Pechera Center.

The city park in Pohrebyshche is all that remains of the estate of the Rzhevusky counts, who owned the city in the 18th and 19th centuries.

An obelisk commemorating the soldiers who died in Afghanistan and other hot spots has been installed in the park.

The Church of Saint John Nepomuk was founded by the owner of Makhnivka, Protaziy Potocki, in 1794, when the Bernardine church, which had been damaged during the War of Independence and had existed since the 17th century, finally became unusable.

In its current form, the church was rebuilt in 1840, reconstructed in 1905.

During the Soviet rule, the church was closed, the premises were rebuilt and adapted for economic needs.

In 1992, the church of Saint John Nepomuk was returned to the Catholic community and rededicated.

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.