Attractions of Vinnytsia region

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

The building of the Assumption Church is made in the classicist style. A stone two-level belfry was built in the 19th century on the site of a wooden one.

The Bakhmetievs-Sheremetievs estate is the decoration of the village of Tymanivka in Vinnytsia Region, a monument of architecture and landscape art of local importance. Despite its neglected condition, the palace and park remain the main tourist highlight of the village.

The palace in Tymanivka was founded at the beginning of the 19th century by Prince Gottfried Sviatopolk-Chetvertynsky, and was completed by the next owner of the estate, General Oleksii Bakhmetiev, who received the Tymanivka estate after marrying Princess Nataliia Sviatopolk-Chetvertynska. The building was designed in a neo-Gothic style, which was rare for the Podillia at that time.

At the beginning of the 20th century, when the owner of Tymanivka was a large landowner, Honorary Justice of the Peace of the Kyiv and Yampil Districts, Volodymyr Tolli (Tol), a side extension with an arch and a terrace was added to the palace, which smoothly transitioned into the park with steps to an artificial waterfall.

The next addition to the palace was made by the last owner of Tymanivka, Count Oleksandr Sheremetiev. He installed a cast-iron porch with columns at the main entrance, brought electricity, water supply and sewage to the estate, built a brewery and distillery in the village, and created the first fire brigade. The estate park around the palace was decorated with rare species of trees and shrubs.

In Soviet times, the Bakhmetievs-Sheremetievs palace housed the Tymanivka Regional Anti-Tuberculosis Sanatorium. Now the sanatorium occupies new buildings, and the palace stands empty. Local enthusiasts are taking care of its preservation.

Since 2024, a lavender plantation has begun to be planted in the park near the Bakhmetievs-Sheremetievs palace as part of the "Lavender Dream" project.

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.

The Chetvertynsky manor in Antopil was founded at the end of the 18th century by Prince Antoniy Yan Svyatopolk-Chetvertynskyi, castellan of Bratslav.

First, a landscape park in the English style was laid out, and in 1830 a large palace in the style of classicism was built. The main facade of the palace is decorated with a four-column portico of the Ionic order, crowned with a triangular pediment and a stepped attic. A distinctive feature of the building are the balconies, located along the axes of the risalites at the level of the second floor, fenced with metal angular bars. The park facade is more modest, its center is marked by a semicircular risalite.

In the interiors, moldings of ceilings, highly artistic marble fireplaces have been preserved. Single-story wings in the Neo-Renaissance style were attached to the main building. The farm buildings, built mainly at the beginning of the 20th century by the new owners of the estate, the Yaroshynskyi, have also been preserved: a stable, a garage and a warehouse, a glacier, a dovecote, a gate, a stone fence.

The 27-hectare park was laid out in the 1880s on the basis of a natural forest, as evidenced by the trees that have survived to this day, including giant ash trees that reach 2 meters in diameter. The compositional axis of the park is the system of ponds.

During Soviet times, the Chetvertynsky Palace housed first a rest house, and later the Antopil boarding house for the mentally ill, which still operates today (visiting is difficult).

The estate of the former estate of Count Dmytro Heyden is located on the granite banks of the Pivdenny Buh on the outskirts of Sutysky on the Tyvriv side.

It was built in the second half of the 19th century. In the middle of the landscaped park, one of the outbuildings with a high tower in the Neo-Gothic style has been preserved, as well as some farm buildings and an entrance gate with a stylized watchtower.

Now a boarding school is located on the territory of the Hayden manor, and there is a dining room in the wing.

The Dunstan Crafts Center is located in the village of Stadnytsia on the northeastern outskirts of Vinnytsia. This is a family and corporate recreation complex with elements of European history and Ukrainian traditions.

The center of the complex is the Glastonbury Museum, which acquaints guests with British mythology – here you can see King Arthur's sword "Escalibur", Saint Dunstan's boat, the Glastonbury field, the state of the Knights of the Round Table, the Chalice Well, and a medieval wood-burning stove.

Saint Dunstan's Museum displays ancient tools, weapons and household items from various European countries.

In the Medieval Amusement Park, guests are offered archery, stilts, a bag fight on a log and other team activities.

"Dunstan" has its own carpentry workshop and various locations for workshops on folk crafts (pottery, blacksmithing, weaving, felting, etc.). It is also offered to prepare and enjoy dishes according to the medieval recipe.

On the territory of the center there is a house for guests and a site for a tent camp. Nearby is the "Na Yaru" recreation center.

The annual "Dunstan" crafts festival is held on the basis of the Dunstan Crafts Center.

A branch of the Dunstan Crafts Center is the Dustan Pechera Center with the Rocks and Minerals Museum.

The Museum of Ethnography and Folk Art named after Mariya Rudenko in Mohyliv-Podilskyi is located in the premises of the House of Culture.

It is mainly dedicated to Podillya vytynanka - the traditional art of artistic carving. The exhibition is based on the works of local craftswoman Mariya Rudenko, an honored cultural worker of Ukraine, a famous folklorist, artistic director of the folklore and ethnographic ensemble "Horlytsia".

In addition to carvings, the exposition presents over 3,000 folk songs, thousands of proverbs and sayings, fairy tales, legends, tales, incantations, and lamentations.

The museum of the prominent Podillya folklorist and ethnographer Hnat Tansyura was opened in 1990 in his house in Haisyn, where he lived and worked in the middle of the 20th century.

Tansyura became known as a collector of more than 2,500 Ukrainian songs and the author of many printed works, among which the famous "Notes of a Folklore Collector". The samples of oral folk art recorded by him form the basis of the museum collection, which includes more than 4,500 items. Relics of the Tansyura's life tell about the work of an outstanding folklorist. Here you can see personal things, manuscripts, printed publications, photographs, embroideries. A prominent place among the exhibits is the harmonium purchased by Tansyura from the church of Saint John Nepomucen in the village of Kuna. 

The Folklore Museum of Hnat Tansyura is a cultural and educational center for the study and promotion of oral folk art, ethnology, and song richness of the Haisyn region.

The "Steinbruch" Headquarters of the commander-in-chief of the German Air Force, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering during the Second World War.

It was located 5 kilometers northeast of Kalynivka, next to the military airfield in Hulivtsi.

The construction of the Goering Headquarters began in 1941 at the same time as the Hitler and Himmler Headquarters located nearby. The complex consisted of two underground bunkers connected by a tunnel, a guard barracks, a dining room and several utility rooms. Since Goering was rarely here, the Headquarters was mostly used as a Luftwaffe command post.

In 1944, before the retreat, the Germans blew up the bunkers. Impressive ruins have been preserved.