A 26-year-old officer, Kostiantyn Ksido, married a 37-year-old countess, Kateryna Levashova — deaf-mute, no longer young, and unattractive by contemporaries’ accounts, but the owner of …
Ihnatii Vitoslavskyi, a Polish nobleman and crown quartermaster, built one of Ukraine’s rarest examples of Neo-Gothic architecture in Cherniatyn — a palace with crenellated cornices, …
Cherepashyntsi Quarry gets called the “Vinnytsia Maldives” for its turquoise water and pale shores, but underneath that picture is a former granite pit that mining …
The town of Bar was once called “Riv,” after the Riv River that flowed past it. In 1537, Queen Bona Sforza bought this land and …
Sometimes the best places aren’t “sites.” Not castles. Not waterfalls. Not even ruins. Just a height from which the world suddenly gets bigger. Mokhnata Tract, …
Locals and tourists call Hubnyk Quarry the “Vinnytsia Baikal.” The comparison is not an exaggeration. The quarry depth exceeds 330 ft (100 m). According to …
Kaolin is a white, soft clay. It is used to make ceramics, paper, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics. In Hlukhivtsi in Vinnytsia region it has been extracted …
Locals in Ozarynivtsi show visitors their fortress and call it “the Turkish fortress.” But the Ottomans never built it here. They only destroyed it. The …
Krasnosilka sits on the left bank of the Southern Buh, in the southeast of the Vinnytsia region. An ordinary village. The railway stop “Henrykhivka” — …