Attractions of Khmelnytskyi district

The Holy Trinity Monastery near Sataniv began with caves that have survived to this day. The entrance there is at the foot of the monastery rock.

According to legend, the monastery was founded in the 11th century by a monk from Athos. Officially, the Trinity Monastery in Satanivska Slobidka dates back to the 16th-18th centuries. At first, the monastery was wooden. Stone buildings appeared at the beginning of the 17th century. The monastery ensemble included the Church of the Intercession, the Saint Nicholas Church and the Trinity Church, a bell tower and cells, an entrance gate and a fence. In 1744, the monastery was rebuilt in the Baroque style.

Today, one of the three monastery churches, built in honor of the Holy Trinity, has been preserved. On the northern wall of the church, a sundial with the ancient Podillya coat of arms is preserved - a smiling face, and numbers are located in a semicircle at the bottom. A small sculpture of Saint Rochus, the patron saint of plague patients, has been preserved on the facade of the bell tower.

At various times, the monastery was visited by Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, Russian Tsar Peter I, and General Suvorov.

From 1707 to 1793, the Sataniv monastery was Greek-Catholic, in 1893 it became a women's monastery. With the advent of Soviet power, the monastery was closed, but in 1942, during the German occupation, it was briefly revived. It was then that a spring with healing water gushed out from under the ground, and the pilgrimage began. But in 1962, the monastery was closed again, the buildings began to collapse.

In 1989, the Holy Trinity Monastery was returned to the Orthodox community and restoration began.

The Church of the Holy Virgin Mary - Mother of the Church was founded in the 16th century by the Kostka magnates, who owned Sataniv at that time.

At first, the temple was made of wood. Later, a stone temple in the Gothic style was built. In the 1930s, the shrine was destroyed by the Soviet authorities.

The new church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Yasnohora at the Catholic cemetery in Sataniv was built in 1990-1994. Since 1991, priests from the Pauline order (the monastic order of the Brothers of Saint Paul the First Hermit) have been serving in the Sataniv parish.

The ramparts of the Hubyn chronicled ancient Rus hillfort are located on the high bank of the Sluch River, opposite from the center of the village of Hubyn.

In the 12th and 13th centuries, Hubyn was one of the largest cities of the Bolokhiv Land - an ancient Rus historical region in the upper reaches of the Pivdennyi Buh bordering the Galicia-Volyn and Kyiv principalities. It was destroyed in 1241 by Prince Danylo Halytskyi in revenge for the participation of the Bolokhiv princes in the campaign to Bakota. Since then, the city has not been rebuilt, but a village of the same name arose in its place.

Since 1977, archaeological research has been conducted at the Hubyn hillfort. Many artifacts were found: elements of plows, horseshoes, sticks, stone axes, pendants and other women's jewelry. These are unsurpassed examples of jewelry art of that distant time. One of the most valuable finds is the lead seal of Prince Volodymyr Vsevolodovych of Novhorod, dated 1136.

The finds are exhibited in the Starokostiantyniv Museum of Local History.

The neglected building of the inn yard (korchma) is located in the central historical district of Starokostiantyniv, between the castle and the watchtower.

The main architectural accent of the two-story house in the style of early classicism (end of the 18th - beginning of the 19th century) is a wide, massive arch. The strictness and restraint of the design of the facades of the building is somewhat disturbed by the active plastic decoration of the window openings. The use of small decorative elements (diamond-shaped overlays and niches, multi-shaped protrusions) is characteristic of provincial architecture.

The Intercession church-castle stands surrounded by ponds on the southern outskirts of the village of Sharivka.

Its bell tower was built in the 14th century as a defensive tower on the "Kuchmansky Way". At first, it was five-tiered, square in plan. The thickness of the stone walls is 1.7 meters. In the 1430s, the nobleman Yan Domarat added a church building to the eastern facade. The volume of the church is a uniform cross.

In 1567, the church was damaged during the invasion of the Tatars, but was soon repaired by the manor headman Yakub Pretvych. For some time the temple was a Catholic church.

As a result of many alterations, the building lost its original Gothic forms. Paintings by the artist Prahtl have been preserved in the interior.

The Intercession Church-castle is a unique monument of defense architecture of Ukraine, representing a type of border triconch church.

The Holy Intercession Cathedral in Khmelnytskyi was built in 1992 on the site of a small cemetery church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which existed here since the first half of the 19th century. He was consecrated by the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

On April 2, 2023, an incident took place in the Holy Intercession Cathedral with a priest of the Moscow Patriarchate beating a Ukrainian military officer, which caused a wave of indignation in the community, and on the same day a meeting of parishioners took place, which unanimously voted for the transfer of the religious community of the Intercession Cathedral to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

The Church of Saint John the Theologian in Trebukhivtsi near Medzhibizh was built in 1812-1818 on the site of an older wooden church.

The church is cruciform in plan with a separate belfry, made in the style of classicism.

It was closed during Soviet rule. It currently belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The Museum of the History of the City of Khmelnytskyi is located in a modern building in the pedestrian zone.

This is a small chamber museum, the exposition of which tells about the main events in the history of the city.

The museum displays over 2,000 objects.

The Khmelnytskyi Regional Art Museum is located in the former bank building (1903).

The museum's collection includes 8,000 works of art by forty contemporary artists. All works have a bright national color - from the plot motifs and traditional element in the artistic form to the color structure. In particular, there is a permanent exhibition of the works of the artist Heorhiy Vereyskyi.

The Khmelnytskyi Regional Art Museum has a collection of works by the outstanding Ukrainian folk artist Mariya Prymachenko.

The art salon and fashion gallery "Art Podium" works at the museum.

The Khmelnytskyi Regional Literary Museum opened in 1992 as the Museum of the Writer Oleksandr Kuprin and the Writers of the Khmelnytskyi Region.

It is located in a small one-storey house in the center of Khmelnytskyi, opposite Shevchenko Park.

The exposition of the first hall tells about oral folk art, folklore, ancient writing, the beginning of new Ukrainian literature.

In the second hall you can get acquainted with the classics of Ukrainian literature, whose names are associated with modern Khmelnytskyi: Taras Shevchenko, Lesya Ukrayinka, Mykhaylo Kotsyubynsky, Leonid Hlibov, Mykhaylo Starytsky and others. The literature of national minorities of the region is also presented here.

The third exhibition hall tells about the writers of the XX century and modern Ukrainian literature.

Meetings with writers, presentations of new publications, thematic literary and musical evenings take place in the literary and musical room "Shine of Viburnum" with an exposition about the poet-biker Mykyta Hodovanets.

Khmelnytskyi Regional Museum of Local Lore is located in a modern building in the city center.

The museum's collections include over 60,000 items, including treasures of medieval coins and jewelry from the times of Kyivan Rus, including 4 treasures of jewelry from the Bolokhiv land.

The Khmelnytskyi Museum of Local Lore presents a large collection of porcelain from the 19th and 20th centuries, antique furniture, and tableware.

The palace of the Koselskyi landowners in Vinkivtsi was built by Karol Koselskyi in the first half of the 19th century in the so-called "Volochian style".

An architectural monument of local importance.

Now it is one of the buildings of the district hospital.

The Koselsky Palace in Manykivtsi dates back to the beginning of the 19th century, when the estate was bought by the nobleman Vinsent Koselsky.

The two-storey house in the Romanesque style has a rectangular shape with three corner towers - two hexagonal on the north side and rectangular on the south. Initially, the towers had pointed roofs with spiers, but they were replaced by ordinary tent roofs in Soviet times, when the palace housed an agricultural college, then a local club.

Parquet and tiles have been preserved in some rooms. Basements, which once housed a kitchen and pantry, have also been preserved.

Now the palace houses the Manykivtsi comprehensive school of I-III degrees.

The palace of the Polish writer Yuzef Krashevsky was preserved in the village of Kyseli, where he lived in 1854-1862.

Krashevsky inherited the Kyseli manor from Elzhbeta Urbanivska, the aunt of his wife Sofiya. In 1856, he completed the construction of the manor house started by the Urbanivskys.

A three-story tower rises above the one-story palace, in which Krashevsky kept a library. The entrance from the main eastern facade is under the balcony, which rests on two low columns.

The palace stands on a hill, on the slope of which a park used to descend to the river, which has practically not been preserved today.

Currently, the estate houses a secondary school.

The elegant round toothed tower rising above the Vinnytsia-Khmelnytskyi highway is a fragment of the Letychiv castle, built in the 16th century by the Kamyanets chief Yan Potocki at the request of the Polish king.

Previously, there was a wooden fortress in Letychiv, which was repeatedly burned by the Tatars. After Potocki converted from Protestantism to Catholicism in 1606, the castle came under the control of Dominican monks. They brought with them the icon of the Mother of God from the Vatican (a copy of the icon from Saint Peter's Cathedral in Rome) and began rebuilding the castle into a monastery.

The Church of the Assumption (XVI-XVII centuries) has since that time been the sanctuary (holy repository) of the icon of the Virgin of Letychiv - the patroness of Podillya (now the icon is in Lublin, Poland, and a copy is in Letychiv).

During the Liberation War of 1648-1652, the monastery was destroyed, but was soon restored.

During the Second World War, a concentration camp was located here, during Soviet times - warehouses.

In 1989, the church was returned to the Roman Catholic parish of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the restoration is ongoing.

In front of the tower there is a monument to the national hero Ustim Karmalyuk, who is buried here.