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About Vinnytsa

Vinnytsa offers many interesting sites to see within walking distance of the city center. For those more adventurous, there are also rewarding sites to see on short excursions from the center. Аdministrative division of Vinnytskaya oblast contains 27 region, 17 cities including 4 cities subordinated directly to oblast (Vinnytsa, Zmerinka, Mogilev-Podolsky, Khmelnik), 56 urban villages and 1053 villages.

The oblast has unique relief: 2 eminences: flat Pridnestrovskaya on the north and steep Podolskaya eminence with numerous ravines, valleys of rivers. There is more atmospheric precipitates in oblast comparing with other Ukraine regions because of it. It is creates a good condition for creating of reach humus soils and plowed land.

Vinnytsa as a small settlement was founded on the picturesque banks of the Southern Bug river in 1363 by Lithuanian Prince Olgert. The beginning of the history of Vinnytsia refers to 1363 when the Great Principality of Lithuania tried to confirm their rule in Podilla. After tatar-mongols were defeated. Vinnytsia had gone through 30 destroying raids of tatars since 1400 to 1569. But in these difficult conditions the city was developing as an economic and cultural center. With the building of the fortress on the Kamp island in 1558 the "New City" appeared on the right bank of the Southern Bug river and the "Old City" continued its development on the left bank of the river. According to the Lublin Union Vinnytsia became a part of Poland and since 1598 it was the center of the Bratslav province. Due to the efforts of Petro Mohila, the famous culture raiser, and Mikhailo Kropyvnytskiy, the Bratslav official, the Orthodox collegium was opened in 1632.

The important event of the century was the defeat of the army of Poland in March 1651 by the Cossack troops lead by Ivan Bohun. Bohdan Khmelnytskiy visited Vinnytsia in 1643 and 1653. The city became the center of the Vinnytsia district after the alignment of the Right Bank Ukraine to Russia and establishing the Podilla province in 1797. And at the beginning of 1798 the "Gorodovoye Polozheniye" was established in Vinnytsia while on all the other territory of Russia it was introduced only after 1801
Since 1914 Vinnytsia became an administrative center of the Podila province.
Main sights in Vinnytskaya oblast are: museum of Local Lore which is situated in the center of Vinnytsa, estate-museum of famous doctor Pirogov (1810-1881), Troitskiy cathedral.

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