Attractions of Ternopil region

Ternopil Academic Regional Ukrainian Drama Theater named after Taras Shevchenko was founded in 1915 on the initiative of the famous Ukrainian actor and theater director Les Kurbas as the first professional theater in Ternopil "Ternopil Theater Evenings".

The current building of the Ternopil Drama Theater was built in 1957 by architects Ivan Mykhaylenko, Volodymyr Novykov, and Dmytro Chornovol. It has a hall for spectators with 600 seats.

A monument to Taras Shevchenko has been erected in the park next to the theater.

The Great Pond in the center of the city of Ternopil was created at the initiative of Crown Hetman Yan Tarnovsky during the construction of the Ternopil Castle.

For this purpose, the channel of the Seret River was dammed. The area of the Ternopil pond is about 300 hectares. In addition to protective, it also performed an economic function - it was used for breeding fish.

Currently, Ternopil Pond has become surrounded by parks, which are a favorite place for walks among the citizens.

The Ternopil Regional Art Museum presents a modest gallery of works by little-known masters of the XVIII-XX centuries.

A collection of works of sacred art is presented separately: icons, crucifixes, sculptures and church bells. In particular, a unique icon of the beginning of the XX century by Antin Monastyrsky with the image of Jesus Christ in an embroidered shirt.

Also, the Ternopil Art Museum presents one of the works of the world-famous Ukrainian sculptor Ivan Heorhiy Pinzel - the Royal Gate from the Church of the Intercession in Buchach.

Ternopil Regional Museum of Local Lore was founded in 1913 as the Podillya Museum with four departments: ethnographic, historical and numismatic, natural history and archeology.

Today, the museum of local lore is housed in an unusual building from Soviet times. The exposition has more than 150 thousand exhibits and reflects the history of Ternopil since the X century. In particular, a collection of ceramics found during archeological excavations in the region is presented.

The most valuable exhibits of the Ternopil Regional Museum of Local Lore are 4 allegorical sculptures from the side altar of the Buchach Holy Intercession Church by the world-famous sculptor Ivan Heorhiy Pinzel.

The Kopychyntsi Theater Museum of Ternopil region was founded in 1968 on the initiative of Orest Savka, the director of the Bohdan Lepky Kopychynsky People's Amateur Drama Theater.

His collection of materials about the history of the theater life of the region became the basis of the exposition, which is located in 7 halls of the House of Culture. The exhibition tells about the origins of the birth of Ukrainian theater from the depths of the centuries, about the "Rus Conversation" theater society in Galicia from 1864-1924, about "Ternopil Theater Evenings" - the first professional stationary Ukrainian theater in Ternopil from 1915-1917, about the Kopychyna People's Drama Theater named after Bohdan Lepky.

Photographs, pictorial and graphic paintings, dolls, posters, sketches of scenery and costumes, models of scenery, theatrical costumes, furniture, etc. are presented.

There is a theater cafe at the museum.

The mini-palace in Trybukhivtsi was built at the beginning of the 20th century by the Polish landowner Timelman (or Kimelman). The manor was built in the style of romanticism with baroque elements.

In Soviet times, the Timelman manor house housed a hospital. Currently, the building is privately owned. The new owner is restoring the mini-palace. The roof is already covered with real red tiles, which were collected nearby and carefully washed.

The palace is surrounded by a large garden.

The ruins of the Toky (Ozhyhovetskyi) castle are located on a peninsula surrounded by the waters of a large pond.

The castle in Toky was built at the end of the 16th century by the Bratslav voivode, Yanush Zbarazky. Subsequently, the castle belonged to the Vyshnevetskyi, Charnetskyi, and Matkovskyi.

In 1648 it was captured by the Cossacks, and in 1675 it was destroyed by the Turks. In the 19th century, most of the towers and walls were dismantled for building materials.

The ruins of one pentagonal tower and a section of the wall have survived to this day. The upper part of the walls is destroyed, and the courtyard of the fortress is located level with the edge of the wall.

The People's Local Lore Museum of the History of the Tovste Village is located in the building of the People's House, built at the beginning of the 20th century by the "Prosvita" society.

The founder of the Ukrainian theater, Sadovskyi, as well as the founder of the Hutsul theater, Khotkevych, performed on the stage of its assembly hall.

In 1990, a local lore museum was opened here.

The Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord is the oldest church in Zbarazh. It is located on Chernecha Hill, on the southwestern outskirts of the city in the village of Zaluzhzhia, in the area of Stary Zbarazh.

Erected on the site of the ancient monastery of Saint Onufry at the expense of Yan Zbarazky. Walled loopholes in the thick walls testify to the defensive purpose of the structure.

Today it is the parish church of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in the village of Zaluzhzhia, which has been restored in recent years.

There is a sundial on the wall. A monument in honor of the 400th anniversary of the temple was erected nearby.

The picturesque ruins of the Tvorovsky Castle adorn the high bank of the Strypa River in Pidzamochok near Buchach. This is one of the objects of the National Reserve "Castles of Ternopil Region".

The inscription above the main entrance tower indicates that the castle was built in 1600 by Voivode Yan Buchachsky-Tvorovskyi. The Renaissance portal of the building is decorated with a coat of arms with crossed arrows, the origin of which is unknown, since it does not correspond to the coat of arms "Abdank" of the Buchachsky family, nor to the coat of arms of the "Pylyava" family of the Potocki family, who owned the castle later (perhaps this is the ancient coat of arms of the Buchachskys or the coat of arms of the illegitimate son of the owner of Buchach ).

The castle protected the approaches to Buchach from the northeast, and also served as a country residence for local feudal lords. It was repeatedly destroyed, in the 18th century it was abolished by the Austrian authorities. Currently in a neglected state.

A fascinating panorama of the Strypa valley opens from the ruins.

Twin Houses in Kremenets are unusual in terms of architecture, a residential building in the Baroque style.

It consists of two symmetrical parts, which are covered with separate gable roofs and differ slightly from each other in design details.

According to legend, twin brothers once lived here.

Restoration is planned.

The Ulas Samchuk Museum is located in Kremenets in the main building of the Ulas Samchuk Lyceum. It was opened in 2005 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the writer's birth as the cabinet-museum "Ulas Samchuk's Svitlytsya". It acquired the status of a literary museum in 2010.

The museum's exposition highlights the life and creative path of Ulas Samchuk, honoring the memory of the writer. Among the exhibits are student lists, pages of class magazines, a statement, pages of the student almanac "Youth" of Ulas Samchuk's gymnasium period; photographs, documents from the writer's stay in Rivne in 1941-1943. Among the valuable exhibits are photographs of the writer from different years, his family, friends; books published by the artist in Munich, Toronto; photo documents, press materials from past years, current publications, memoirs about Ulas Samchuk, works of the writer published in independent Ukraine, works of his contemporaries. A significant number of books of the writer's creative output came from the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada and the USA.

The museum's exposition has sections: "Childhood and Youth of Ulas Samchuk (1905-1921), "Study at the Kremenets Gymnasium (1921-1927)", "First Emigration (1928-1941)", "Return to the Homeland (1941-1943)", "Stay in camps for the displacement of persons (1943-1948)", "Second Emigration (1948-1987)", "Honoring the Memory of Ulas Samchuk in Ukraine", "Havrylo Chernykhivskyi - a Researcher of Ulas Samchuk's Creativity", "Honoring the Memory of Ulas Samchuk in the Lyceum".

On February 19, 2016, a memorial tablet dedicated to the memory of Ulas Samchuk was unveiled on the facade of the Lyceum.

The courtyard of a large building on the corner of Taras Shevchenko and Stefan Kachala streets is called the "Venetian (Italian) courtyard" in Ternopil.

In 1893, the Polish stock exchange and library "People's School Society" (Towarzystwa szkoly ludowej) opened here. In 1913, the Podillya Museum was opened with four departments: ethnographic, historical-numismatic, natural history and archeology (its exposition formed the basis of the current local lore museum). Later, the building housed a women's gymnasium, and now it houses the Ternopil City Council Education Department.

The inner courtyard of the building was nicknamed "Venetian" ("Italian") for its characteristic design with an arcade and a portal with columns.

Until recently, the Municipal Police Department was located there, the object was in a very bad condition. Currently, the partially restored "Italian Courtyard" is the summer patio-terrace of the conceptual restaurant-gallery "Bunkermuz".

The castle in the village of Novosilka (old name Novosilka-Kostyukova) was built in the 16th century by representatives of the noble family of Kostyuk-Volodiyevsky (it is believed that someone from this family inspired Henryk Senkevych to create the image of Mr. Volodiyevsky).

The castle was quadrangular in plan, with four towers. It was located on top of a hill and was washed by the waters of the Khromava River on three sides. In 1672, the castle was destroyed during the Turkish invasion and has not been restored since then. It remained in ruins until the middle of the 19th century, after which it was dismantled for building materials for the construction of a church and a road.

Currently, only the ruins of one of the towers remain from the castle, which in some literary sources is called the Volodiyevsky Tower.

The Volodymyr Hnatiuk Ethnographic Memorial Museum was founded in the village of Velesniv in 1969 on the initiative and with the participation of the outstanding Ukrainian local historian, ethnographer, literary critic and public figure Ostap Cheremshynsky.

The museum's exposition is located in eight rooms and a foyer, four of which tell about the life and scientific activities of Volodymyr Hnatiuk - a Ukrainian ethnographer, folklorist, linguist, literary critic, art critic, translator and public figure, academician. In particular, it contains photographs of Volodymyr Hnatiuk, maps of Austria-Hungary for 1895-1902, manuscripts, albums, books and separate collections with the scientist's autographs, books and collections of works of many writers and scientists of Ukraine and other European countries published by him, homespun towels, sackcloths created by the academician's father - Mykhaylo Hnatiuk.

The fifth room is dedicated to the memory of Volodymyr Hnatiuk, where unique publications with reports of his death and obituaries are collected.

The sixth room recreates the interior of the living room of Volodymyr Hnatiuk's family. The seventh room recreates his study - here are personal belongings of the scientist and his family members, manuscripts and letters of Hnatiuk, handwritten folklore collections of Osyp Bodyansky, Frantyshek Hlavachek, Serhii Hrabovsky, Zorian Dolenga-Khodakovsky, Ivan Franko from the archive of Volodymyr Hnatiuk, memoirs about him by Ivan Krypiakevych, editions of the scientist's works, books from his library, albums.

The eighth room is a fund and exhibition room.

In total, the museum's funds have collected over two thousand exhibits, over five hundred of which are presented in the exposition.

In 1971, a bronze bust of the academician was installed in front of the museum (sculptor Luka Bihanych, architect Volodymyr Blyusiuk).