Vinnytsya

Vinnytsya (Ukrainian: Вінниця ) is a city in Central Ukraine. The administrative center of the Vinnytsia area and Vinnytsia region. Located 267 km south-west of Kyiv. A historic town known since Middle Ages and a former Soviet Cold War-airbase, Vinnytsia is now an industrial center (particularly, dominated by the Roshen corporation), a growing international IT-outsource center and the main base of the Ukrainian Air Force.

Understand

Climate

A long lasting warm summer with a sufficient quantity of moisture and a comparatively short winter is characteristic of Vinnytsia. The average temperature in January is −5.8 °C (21.6 °F) and 18.3 °C (64.9 °F) in July. The average annual precipitation is 638 mm (25 in). Throughout the year, 6–9 days per year include snowstorms, 37–60 days of the year include mists during the cold period, and 3–5 days include thunder storms with hail.

History

The Old Water Tower in City Center

Vinnytsia has been an important trade and political center since the fourteenth century, when Fedir Koriatowicz, the nephew of the Lithuanian Duke Olgerd, built a fortress (1363) against Tatar raiders on the banks of the Southern Bug. From that time on, the town became a part of Lithuania, Poland, Turkey, Cossacks and eventually Russia, which annexed the city and region following the Second Partition of Poland in 1793. Russia moved to expunge the Roman Catholic religion – Catholic churches in the city (including what is now the Transfiguration Cathedral) were converted to Russian Orthodox churches. Victims' graves from the Vinnytsia massacre during the Stalinist repression of 1937–1938 were exhumed by the invading Germans in 1943. Adolf Hitler sited his easternmost headquarters 'Führerhauptquartier Werwolf' near the town and spent a number of weeks there in 1942 and early 1943. Nazi atrocities were committed in and near Vinnytsia by Einsatzgruppe C. Estimates of the number of victims run as high as 28,000. This included the virtual extinction of the town's large Jewish population.

Get in

By plane

• 🌍 Havryshivka Vinnytsia International Airport (Міжнародний Аеропорт «Вінниця» (Гавришівка)), T0231, Vinnyts'ka oblast, ☎ [phone], fax: [phone]. Airport bus 33 runs from the Airport to the Railway Station, Central bus station and West bus station. Schedules are according to the flight schedule. Bus tickets to Railway Station cost 21 hr (to be paid to the driver). Schedules may be found at the website of the airport. (updated Sep 2016)

By train

Freight locomotive TEM2M-063 near Vinnytsia railway station

• 🌍 Vinnitsa train station (Залізничний вокзал Вінниця, Централната ЖП гара във Виница), Heroiv Stalinhradu sq., 1 (NE 4 km from centre), ☎ [phone]. 

By bus

• 🌍 East or No.3 bus station (Східний автовокзал), Vatutina str., 20 (East 5km), ☎ [phone]. Buses to and from Haisyn 5 per day, Uman daily. 
• 🌍 Central or No.1 bus station (Центральний автовокзал, Винница автостанция №1), Kyivska str., 8, ☎ [phone]. Buses to/from: Cherkasy, Dnepropetrovsk, Yalta, Donetsk, Kamyanets Podolskiy, Berdichev daily, Chernivtsi (but see below) daily 3 times, Kiev between 00:05-23:00, 6-8 per day, Odessa 4 per day, Zhytomyr between 6:40–19:05, 10 per day, Uman between 05:40-17:30, 5 per day, Tulchin between 05:40-19:10, 12 per day, Bershad between 05:55-19:45, 8 times, Mohilyev Podolskyy 6 per day.
  
  The bus from Vinnytsia to Chernivtsi takes you to a one-horse-town called Chernivtsi in the Vinnytsia Oblast and not to the bustling University city of Chernivtsi in the Chernivtsi Oblast. Beware, as this is an easy mistake to make 
• 🌍 No.2 bus station (West Bus Station, Західний автовокзал, Винница автостанция №2), Khmelnytskoye shosse, 107, ☎ [phone]. Buses to/from: Mohyliv-Podilskyi between 05:55-18:45, 20 per day, Khmilnyk between 06:15-20:00, 35 per day, Lviv twice a day via Yaremche, Khmelnytskyi between 06:00-15:00 6-8 per day. Mostly for Vinnytsya oblast destinations. 
• 🌍 No.4 bus station (Винница - Автостанция №4, Грош), Chekhov st. 4? (East ~5 km). Buses only for suburbs. 

Get around

Vinnytsia Tramway

Vinnytsia public transport include Buses, Trams, Trolleys and minibuses. Tramway network routes:

Route № 1 «Railway Station — Electric Power Plant»

Route № 2 «Vishenka — Barske Parkway»

Route № 4 «Railway Station — Barske Parkway»

Route № 5 «Электросеть — Barske Parkway»

Route № 6 «Railway Station — Vishenka»

See

Churches

St. Nicolas church (1746)

• Baptist Church. Oe of the largest Evangelical church buildings in Europe. 
• 🌍 Christ's Resurrection Church (Храм Воскресения Христова), Khmelnitskoe hwy, 5. Built in 1902 
• 🌍 Dominicans monastery (Преображенський собор-домініканський монастир), Soborna st., 23. 
• 🌍 St. Nicolas church and bell tower (Миколаївська церква + дзвіниця), Mayakovs'kogo st., 6-12 (SW 2 km). 1746 
• 🌍 Jesuits monastery (Єзуїтський монастир), Soborna st. 17. Built in 17-18th c. 
• 🌍 Virgin Mary Church (Костел Діви Марії), Sobornaia str., 12, ☎ [phone]. This is part of the former Capuchins monastery (Mонастир капуцинів) 

Museums

• 🌍 Afghan War Museum and Slavic War Memorial Park, Kozytskogo st, ~20 (located in the red-brick bell tower). Exhibits include photos, letters and other artifacts representing Vinnytsia soldiers who fought in that war. The Memorial Park contains a large statue representing three different soldiers from World War II. An eternal flame burns in front of the statue. 
• 🌍 Literary Memorial Museum Kotsiubynskyi (М. Коцюбинського), I. Bevza Street, 15, ☎ [phone]. Th-Tu 10:00-17.00. The house where the writer was born and lived until 33 years. 
• 🌍 Vinnytsia Regional Museum (Vinnytskyi kraieznavchyi muzei, Вінницький обласний краєзнавчий музей), Soborna, (Соборна вул) 19, ☎ [phone], fax: [phone]. Tu-Su 10:00-18:00. It had nearly 90,000 items. The collection includes valuable archeological, numismatic, and ethnographic collections and artworks, such as artefacts from a Bronze Age burial mound (1500–1000 BC) from the village of Hordiivka, Trostianets (Vinnytsia oblast) raion, as well as archeological finds dating from the Scythian and Sarmatian periods. The other exhibition showing artefacts and weapons from the Cossack period of 1648–1676. There is an exhibit about the Soviet-Afgan War, in the 1980s. 
• 🌍 Regional Art Museum (Обласний художній музей), Soborna st., 21, ☎ [phone], fax: [phone]:00-18:00. This is housed in the former Jesuit monastery - part of the historical-architectural complex “Mura.” 
• 🌍 Miy kray-Podillia Museum (Mузей Мій край-Поділля), Pyrohova st., 148 (South 3 km), ☎ [phone]. 
• 🌍 Pharmacy Museum-Estate M. Pirogov (Аптека музея-усадьбы М. И. Пирогова), Pirogova str.. It is an exhibition about a Russian surgeon, anatomist, educator, and civic figure; corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; and lived in Vinnytsia county (1810-1881). 
• 🌍 Pyrogov Estate Museum (Mansion-museum of Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov, Музей-садиба М. Пирогова), Pyrogova st.(вул. Пирогова), 155 (Botanical Garden). Tu-Su 10:00-17:00. 1870 
• 🌍 Show-room at Regional department of National Artist s Union (Виставкова зала обласного відділення Національної спілки художників), Pushkina st. (Bул. Пушкіна), 2. 

Monuments

Hotel Savoy on the main street, 1913

• 🌍 Grokholskyi Palace (Палац Грохольських), Michurina str. (вул.Мічуріна), 32 (3.5 km North). 
• 🌍 Captain Dlugolenskyi House (Будинок капітана Длуголенского), Pervomaiskaya str., (Першотравнева вул) 66. 
• 🌍 General Brusylov House (Будинок генерала Брусилова), Artinova Arkhitektora str. (Артинова Архітектора вул.), 5. 
• 🌍 The complex of defensive structures Mury (Комплекс оборонних споруд Мури), Soborna st., 17-21. 

"The Walls" remains of fortress walls built around Dominican monastery (1610-1617)

• 🌍 Gymnasium (гімназія), Soborna st. 94. Built in 1894. 
• 🌍 Water tower (Водонапірна башта-водонапірна вежа), Kozytskogo st, ~20, ☎ [phone]. Tu-Su 10:00-17:30. Built in 1911. - Here is the Afghan War Museum 
• 🌍 Hotel Savoy (Готель Савой), Street Kozytskogo / Soborna (вулиця Козицького/вулиця Соборна), 48/36. Outside. A landmark of the City. Built in Neo-Baroque Modern style 
• 🌍 The building of regional administration (Будинок обласної державної адміністрації), Sobornaya str., 70. 
• 🌍 Secondary school building (College, училище, Будівля реального училища), Teatralnaya str. (Театральна вул.), 18/87.   Build in 1891. 
• 🌍 House of Commander Chetkov (Будинок капітана Четкова- особняк капітана Четкова), Pushkina st., 38. 
• Nativity of the Virgin cathedral? (Cобор Різдва Богородиці), Ivana Boguna str. 1912-14 
• 🌍 Crypt of M. Pirogov (Склеп-усипальниця М. І. Пирогова), Vishnevskogo 1 ln.(Вишневського 1-й пров) (SW 5 km). Near here St.Nicolas the Miracle-Worker church-mausoleum (Kомплекс церкви-мавзолея Св.Миколи Чудотворця) - Built in 1885 
• 🌍 Former Mansion (Палац), Chkalova st., 15. 19th century. 
• House of count D.Geiden (будинок графа Д.Гейдена), L. Tolstogo st., 2?. 1912 
• St.John the Divine church? (Церква Іоана Богословаруський). Russian style 
• Roshen Fountain (Фонтан Рошен), Roshen Embankment (Opposite the island of Kemp). Water and light music show takes place every evening. 

The "Roshen Fountain"

• Vaksman family’s real estate (24 Chkalov Street). Built by architect Moisey Aaronovitch Vaksman in 1915 in Art Nouveau style. Architectural landmark. 
• Vinnytsia city council (Вінницька міська рада), Soborna St., 59, ☎ [phone], fax: [phone]. 
• 🌍 Vinnytsia TV Tower (in the north-western part of the city, in a forest-park; take tram 2, 4, 6 to 'Lisopark'). This is a 354 metre high guyed steel tube mast used for FM- and TV-transmission. A special feature of its structure are three crossbars arranged in 120 degree angles in two levels, running from its structure to the guys. TV Tower Vinnytsia is not the only guyed mast of this unusual design in former Soviet Union, one of the tallest. It was built in 1961. 

Day tours

• 🌍 Selysche (20km SW of Vinnytsa - daily bus connections). Cherlenkivskyi castle, 16-18th century. Monastery ruins, end of 17th century. 
• 🌍 Voronovytsia (27km SE of Vinnytsia - to/from trains). Wooden Church of St. Michael, Grokholskyi palace and park (1770), Archangel Michael Church (1793), Virgin Mary Church (1777). 

Do

Parks

Glory Memorial and eternal fire in Kozitsky Park

• 🌍 Central City Park (Центральний міський парк), Gagarina sq.. Founded in 1936. The area is 40 ha. In the park are a concert hall "Rainbow", a summer theater, a stadium, an ice rink, the City Planetarium. 
• 🌍 Gorky Central Recreation Park (Центральний парк відпочинку ім.М.Горького), Khlibna st., 1. 
• 🌍 Park of friendship of people (Парк Дружби Народів), Kosmonavtiv ave./Stakhurskoho. 
• 🌍 Zoo (Зоопарк), Tarnohrodskoho, 9 (N 7 km), ☎ [phone]. 

Sport

• 🌍 Avangard Swimming pool (Спортивний комплекс Авангард), Soborna st., 1, ☎ [phone]. 
• 🌍 Mayak Sportcomplex (Спорткомплекс "Маяк"), str. Poryka Vasylia, 28 (West ~3 km). 

Theatres

Ukrainian Music and Drama Theatre

• 🌍 Arlekin Children Theater (Дитячий театр Арлекін), Street Teatralna (Вулиця Театральна), 25/8, ☎ [phone]. 
• 🌍 Ihromaniia Entertaining complex (Ігровий центр Ігроманія), Stanislavskoho st.,7 (N ~4 km), ☎ [phone]. 
• 🌍 Khimik Theater (Дом культури Хімік), Nekrasova str., 25 (NE). 
• 🌍 Officers' Club concert hall (Концертний зал Будинка офіцерів), Peremohy sq., 1, ☎ [phone]. 
• 🌍 Regional Philharmonic Society (Обласна філармонія), Khmelnytske highway, 7, ☎ [phone]. 
• 🌍 Sadovskyi Ukrainian Theatre of Music and Drama (Будівля театру ім.Садовського Український музично-драматичний театр Садовського), Street Teatralna (Вулиця Театральна), 13, ☎ [phone]. 1910. Cap.:700 seats 
• 🌍 Zoria Theater (Міський палац мистецтв Зоря), Chervonoarmiiska st., 44, ☎ [phone]. 

Buy

Markets

• 🌍 Kyivskyi Market (Ринок Київський), Kyivska st. (вул. Київська) ~110 (N ~4km). 
• 🌍 Pryvokzalnyi Market (Ринок Привокзальний), Pryvokzalna, 1A (At the Railway Station). 
• 🌍 Wholesale market (Оптовий ринок), Papanina st.,. 
• 🌍 Centralni Market (Ринок Центральний), Kotsiubynskoho ave., 13. 
• 🌍 Market MAKY (Ринок МАКИ), 50-richchia Peremohy st., 34. 
• 🌍 Suputnyk Market (Ринок Супутник), Hrushevs'koho st.,~66. 

Malls

Shopping centre

• Gamanets Shopping centre (Торговий центр Гаманець), Stanislavskoho pass., 7/46. (NE 5km), ☎ [phone]. 
• 🌍 Zhovten Shopping centre (Торговий центр Жовтень), Kotsiubynskoho ave., 34/46, ☎ [phone]. 
• 🌍 Kvartal (Торговий Центр Квартал), Papanina st., 1A (At the Railway Station), ☎ [phone], [phone]. 
• 🌍 Petrocenter Shopping centre (Торговий Центр Петроцентр), Kotsiubynskoho ave.(Коцюбинського просп), 70 (East - Tram 1, 4, 6 or Trolley 5, 6, 11 to 'Muzey Kotsubynskoho'), ☎ [phone]. 
• 🌍 Sky Park Magicentr Shopping centre (Торговий центр Магіцентр), Kozytskoho str(Козицького вул.). 51 (Tram 1, 4, 6 to stop 'Internatsionalna'), ☎ [phone]. 08:00-23:00. 
• 🌍 Vinnitsa Department Store (Вінницький універмаг), Gagarina sq.(Гагаріна пл.), 2 (Central), ☎ [phone]. M-F 08:00-17:00. 
• 🌍 Feride plaza Shopping centre (Торгово-развлекательный центр Фериде-Плаза), Pyrogova st.(Пирогова вул.), 23 (Tram 1, 2, 5, 6 to 'Likarnya Pyrohovo'), ☎ [phone]. 09:00–22:00. 
• 🌍 Bastyliya Shopping centre (Торгівельний центр Бастилія), Pyrogova str.(Пирогова вул.), 31, ☎ [phone]. 

Eat

• McDonald's (Ресторан МакДональдс), Street Sobornaya, 51, ☎ [phone], [phone]. Wi-Fi. 
• New-York-Street Pizzeria (Кафе-піцерія New-York-Street-Pizza), Street Hrushevskoho, 50 (Center), ☎ [phone]. Pizzeria chain. 
• Chelentano Pizzeria (Піцерія Челентанo), Str. Kozytskoho, 53 (Center), ☎ [phone]. Pizzeria chain. 
• 🌍 Domino Pizzeria (Піцерія Доміно), Str. Stusa Vasylia, 7 (1 km west of Center), ☎ [phone]. 
• 🌍 Pіdkova Restaurant (Ресторан Підкова), Soborna, 15A (Center), ☎ [phone]. 
• 🌍 SushiYA Japanese Restaurant (Японський ресторан СушіЯ), Str. Kozytskoho(ул. Козицкого), 51 (Center in the Sky Park Shopping Center (ТРК "Sky Park")), ☎ [phone]. Daily 10:00-22:00. 
• 🌍 Yerevan Restaurant (Ресторан Єреван), Str. Pushkina, 42 (Center), ☎ [phone]. 
• Lviv Handmade Chocolate Confectionery (Кавярня-магазин Львівська Майстерня Шоколаду), Soborna (вул. Соборна), 101/1, ☎ [phone]. 10:00-23:00. Cafe chain. 
• 🌍 Restaurant Bacchus (Ресторан Бахус), Street Kyivska, 14 (near Central Bus Station), ☎ [phone]. Wi-Fi 
• 🌍 Restaurant Izium (Ресторан Ізюм), Ave. Kotsiubynskoho, 11 (One block to Railway Station), ☎ [phone]. 

Drink

• Pechena Kartoplya (Кафе Печена Картопля), Street Stanislavskoho,7A, ☎ [phone]. Coffee and fast food. 
• 🌍 Planet Moda-Bar (Нічний клуб Планета Moda-Bar), Str. Stetsenka, 75A (near Central Bus Station), ☎ [phone]. A night club. 

Sleep

• 🌍 Dacha Mini Hotel and Hostel (Мини отель Дача), Street Pryvokzalnaya (ул. Привокзальная), 19-а (Next to 'OKKO' gas station), ☎ [phone]. Check-in: 12:00, check-out: 12:00. 8-bed dorm 150 hr, dbl room with shower 350 hr, 'deluxe' dbl 500 hr, suite 800 hr. 
• 🌍 Ideal (Готель Ідеал), Street Nekrasova (ул. Некрасова), 73 (E 2km), ☎ [phone], [phone]. Check-in: 13:00, check-out: 12:00. Bar, kitchen with room-service, laundry, 24/7, car park, taxi order, Wi-Fi Standard 190 hr, Semi-deluxe 300 hr, Deluxe 500 hr. 
• 🌍 Tovmed Hotel (Готель Товмед), Street Lebedynskoho, 5-7 (East), ☎ [phone], [phone]. Also here is a restaurant, 19 rooms/38 beds. 
• 🌍 Savoi-Ukraina Hotel (Готель Савой-Україна), Kozytskogo str.,48/36 (Center), ☎ [phone], [phone], [phone]. 
• 🌍 Vinnitsa Hotel (Готель Вінниця), Soborna str. (Ул.Соборная), 69 (Center), ☎ [phone]. 25 rooms /52 beds. Wi-Fi sgl 300 hr, dbl from 480 hr. 
• 🌍 Podillya Hotel and Restaurant (Готель Поділля), Pushkina st., 4 (Center), ☎ [phone], [phone]. Three star. 95 rooms, 122 beds. From US$40. 
• 🌍 Burgoise (Burzhuy) Hotel (Готель Буржуй), Teatralna st., 22-24 (Center), ☎ [phone], [phone]. 
• 🌍 Zhovtnevyi Hotel (Готель Жовтневий), Pyrogova st., 2 (Next to Tsum Department Store), ☎ [phone]. 
• 🌍 Saphari Club Hotel (Готель "Сафарі Клуб), Bloka str., 28 (West 1km), ☎ [phone]. 65 rooms, 110 beds. 
• 🌍 Dobrodiy Hotel and Restaurant (Готель "Добродій"), Street Medvedeva, 7A (West 1.3 km), ☎ [phone]. Wi-Fi, Cafe 
• 🌍 Hotel Gostinnyi dvir (Готель Гостинний двір), Street Pyrohova, 137 (SW 4 km), ☎ [phone]. Three star. From 44$. 
• 🌍 RIA Hostel, Street Frunze, 4 (Tram to Stop 'Munitsipalny Rynok'), ☎ [phone]. 3 rooms, 6 beds four-bed dorm 150 hr, dbl room 350 hr. 
• 🌍 Hotel Avtoport (Отель Автопорт, Винницкие хутора), Turbovskoye shosse ( ул.Турбовское шоссе), 6 th km (NE 6 km - Bus 3 a to 'Sto' and walk 2 km or take a taxi). 7 rooms, 14 beds. dbl shared bath/ dbl with bath 140/190 hr. 
• 🌍 Panska Hata (Панська хата с.Винницкие хутора), Street Michurina (ул. Мичурина), 88 (SE 5 km), ☎ [phone], [phone], [phone], [phone], fax: [phone] rooms, 21 beds. US$33-50. 
• 🌍 Sadyba (Mansion) Hotel (Гостиница Садыба), Nemirovskovo shosse 7th kilometer, Pisarevka village (7-й километр Немировского шоссе, с. Писаревка) (SE 8 km). Check-in: 12:00, check-out: 12:00. Two star. 12 rooms, 24 beds. dbl shared bath/dbl with bath 220/280 hr. 
• 🌍 Katrin (Отель Катрин), Street Artema (вул. Артема), 5 (Trolleybus 5, 6, 11 to stop "Papanina St"), ☎ [phone], [phone], [phone]. Two star. 17 rooms/34 beds. Sgl/dbl shared bath/ dbl with bath 220/260/350 hr. 
• 🌍 Rhytm (Ритм), Street Tarnovskoho (ул. Тарногродского) (N 2km). Check-in: 12:00. Two star. 6 rooms, 12 beds. Room Service. Conference hall. Possibility to order breakfast in the room. Laundry and ironing clothes. Taxi. Restaurant. Finnish sauna. Wi-Fi sgl/dbl shared bath/dbl with bath 250/290/440 hr. 
• 🌍 Drive club (Гостинично-ресторанный комплекс Drive Club), Street Tarnovskoho (ул. Тарногродского), 42a - next to Rhytm Hotel (N 2.5 km), ☎ [phone]. Check-in: 12:00. 5 rooms, 10 beds. Three star. Restaurant, bar, free parking, air conditioning dbl with shower/dbl with bath 360/390 hr. 
• Kontinent 1 (Континент1). Three star. From US$40. 
• Hotel Versaly (Версаль), (пгт Стрижавка, урочище Дубовый Гай). 40 rooms, 54 beds. From 50 $. 
• Denina Hotel (Денинна). 3 rooms, 6 beds. From US$50. 
• Dacha (Дача). 8 rooms, 16 beds. From US$50. 

Connect

• Central post-office, ☎ [phone], [phone]. 

Go next

• Uman - E 150 km.
• Khmelnytskyi - W 100 km. Take a train or a bus and start exploring Western Ukraine
• Zhytomyr - N 140 km. Four hours by bus.
• Stina - S 120 km 2 hours by bus or car