Vinnytsia ( ; , ) is a

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in west-central

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, located on the banks of the

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. It serves as the

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Vinnytsia Oblast Vinnytsia Oblast (, ), also referred to as Vinnychchyna (), is an oblasts of Ukraine, oblast in central Ukraine. Its capital city, administrative center is Vinnytsia. The oblast has a population of History Vinnytsia Oblast, first established on ...

. It is the largest city in the historic region of

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. It also serves as the administrative center of

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, one of the six raions of Vinnytsia Oblast. It has a population of The city's roots date back to the

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. It was under Lithuanian and Polish control for centuries. From 1653 to 1667, Vinnytsia was a regimental city of the Hetman state, and in 1793, it was ceded to the

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. During the 1930s and early 1940s, the city was the site of massacres, first during Stalin's purges and then during

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and the Nazi occupation. A

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–era

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was located near the city. Currently, Vinnytsia is developing as one of the most comfortable cities for life in independent Ukraine.

Name

The name of Vinnytsia appeared for the first time in 1363. It is assumed that the name is derived from the

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word " *věno" (''вѣно''), meaning "a bride price." This name can be explained by the fact that Vinnytsia and the surrounding land were captured by

Lithuania Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P ...

n Duke

Algirdas Algirdas (; , ; – May 1377) was List of Lithuanian monarchs, Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1345 to 1377. With the help of his brother Kęstutis (who defended the western border of the Duchy) he created an empire stretching from the pre ...

in the 14th century, and then, they were given to his nephews. In addition to the Ukrainian (''Vinnytsia''), in other languages of the region, the name of the city is , , , , and . English sources used the Russian-derived Vinnitsa from the early 19th century until the 1990s and Winnica or Winnicza (from Polish) before that, reflecting the ultimate political authorities of those respective eras.

Geography

Location

Vinnytsia is located about southwest of the Ukrainian capital,

Kyiv Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...

, north-northwest of the

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port city of

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, and east of

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. It is the

(

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), as well as the administrative center of the surrounding

within the oblast. The city itself is directly subordinated to the oblast.

Climate

The city has a warm-summer

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(

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: ''Dfb''). 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 and in July. The average annual precipitation is . Over the course of a year there are around 6–9 days when snowstorms occur, 37–60 days when mists occur during the cold period, and 3–5 days when thunderstorms with hail occur.

Ecology and climate change

On 28 January 2022, Vinnytsia City Council announced Vinnytsia Green Deal by signing the Declaration and approving the Roadmap of measures for the implementation of its principles and approaches within the community.

History

Early history

Vinnytsia has been an important trade and political center since the fourteenth century, when

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, the nephew of the

n Duke

, built a fortress (1363) against

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raiders on the banks of the

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. The original settlement was built and populated by Aleksander Hrehorovicz Jelec, a

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under Lithuanian Prince

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. Aleksander Jelec built the fort, which he commanded as

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afterwards. In the 15th century, Lithuanian Grand Duke

Alexander Jagiellon Alexander Jagiellon (; ; 5 August 1461 – 19 August 1506) was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1492 and King of Poland from 1501 until his death in 1506. He was the fourth son of Casimir IV and a member of the Jagiellonian dynasty. Alexander was el ...

granted Vinnytsia Magdeburg city rights. In 1566, it became part of the

Bracław Voivodeship The Bracław Voivodeship (; ; , ''Braclavśke vojevodstvo'') was a unit of administrative division of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Created in 1566 as part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, it was passed to the Crown of the Kingdom of Pola ...

. Between 1569 and 1793 the town was a part of

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. In 1648, Vinnytsia found itself at the epicenter of the Cossack uprisings led by

Bohdan Khmelnytsky Zynoviy Bohdan Mykhailovych Khmelnytsky of the Abdank coat of arms (Ruthenian language, Ruthenian: Ѕѣнові Богданъ Хмелнiцкiи; modern , Polish language, Polish: ; 15956 August 1657) was a Ruthenian nobility, Ruthenian noble ...

. In February 1651, during the defense of the city, Ivan Bohun's Cossack regiment defeated a 20,000-strong Polish army. Vinnytsia was part of the Hetman state until 1667, and during 1672-1699 was a part of the

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(and still part of the historic region of

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). During Polish rule, Vinnytsia was a Polish

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. On 18 March 1783, Antoni Protazy Potocki opened the Polish Trade Company in Vinnytsia. The 1st Infantry Regiment of the Polish

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was stationed in the city in 1788 before it was relocated to

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Late modern period

After the

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in 1793 the

annexed the city and the region. Russia moved to expunge the

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religion. Catholic churches in the city, including what is currently the Transfiguration Cathedral, were converted to

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churches.

In the Russian census of 1897, Vinnytsia had a population of 30,563. It was the third largest city in

region after

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and

Uman Uman (, , ) is a city in Cherkasy Oblast, central Ukraine. It is located to the east of Vinnytsia. Located in the east of the historical region of Podolia, the city rests on the banks of the Umanka River. Uman serves as the administrative c ...

. After railway connections were completed in 1871, Vinnytsia developed rapidly economically and infrastructurally. The city architect Hryhorii Artynov erected a number of buildings (a water tower, a theater, churches, hotels and mansions), which still shape the city image. During the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917-1920, Vinnytsia was chosen three times as the seat of government structures of the

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. The residence of the Directory was Savoy Hotel, which turned the city into a de facto capital. On 16 May 1920, a meeting was held in Vinnytsia between the heads of Ukraine and Poland,

Symon Petliura Symon Vasyliovych Petliura (; – 25 May 1926) was a Ukrainian politician and journalist. He was the Supreme Commander of the Ukrainian People's Army (UNA) and led the Ukrainian People's Republic during the Ukrainian War of Independence, a pa ...

and

Józef Piłsudski Józef Klemens Piłsudski (; 5 December 1867 – 12 May 1935) was a Polish statesman who served as the Chief of State (Poland), Chief of State (1918–1922) and first Marshal of Poland (from 1920). In the aftermath of World War I, he beca ...

. Soviet Vinnytsia became an industrial giant with an emphasis on sugar production, but in the shadow of its prosperity it experienced a devastating man-made famine occurred in

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from 1932 to 1933. The Vinnytsia massacre was the mass execution of between 9,000 and 11,000 people in Vinnytsia by the

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secret police

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during the

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in 1937–1938.Valery Vasiliev, Yuriy Shapoval, "Stages of «Great Terror»: The Vinnytsia Tragedy", ''

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in Ukrainian
)

World War II

Vinnytsia was occupied by German troops on 19 July 1941 during

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. While Vinnytsia had a pre-war Jewish population of over 34,000, only 17,000 of these Jews remained, with the rest of them successfully being evacuated to the interior of the Soviet Union beforehand. Virtually all of the Jews who remained in Vinnytsia under Nazi occupation were subsequently murdered in the

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. Nazi atrocities were committed in and near Vinnytsia by Einsatzgruppe C. In 1942 a large part of the Jewish quarter of Yerusalimka was destroyed by Germans. Related to that period is one infamous photo, '' The Last Jew of Vinnytsia''.

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sited his eastern headquarters, ''Führerhauptquartier

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'' or ''Wehrwolf'', at the Wehrmacht headquarters near the city. The complex was built in 1941–1942 by Russian prisoners of war. Many of them were subsequently killed. Hitler's accommodation consisted of a log cabin built around a private courtyard with its own concrete bunker. The complex included about 20 other log buildings, a power station, gardens, wells, three bunkers, a swimming pool, and wire and defensive positions. Hitler spent a number of weeks at Wehrwolf in 1942 and early 1943. The few remains of the Wehrwolf site, described in one report as a "pile of concrete" because it was destroyed by the Nazis in 1944, can be visited. Plans to create a full-fledged museum had not come to fruition as of August 2018.

Later Soviet era

After the end of

, Vinnytsia was the home for major

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base, including an

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, a

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s, and other military installations. The headquarters of the 43rd Rocket Army of the

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was stationed in Vinnytsia from 1960 to the early 1990s. The 2nd Independent Heavy Bomber Aviation Corps, which later became 24th Air Army, was stationed in Vinnytsia from 1960 to 1992.

Independent Ukraine

The

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Command has been based in Vinnytsia since 1992. During the

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, the command center was significantly damaged by Russian

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s on 25 March 2022. On 14 July 2022 the center of the city was attacked with three Russian cruise missiles. Missiles hit the local NeuroMed clinic and House of the Officers, which was currently used as a concert hall. Due to the strike 27 people were killed (three children among them), 80 were hospitalized. The next day the Russian Ministry of defense said that the target was top-ranking Ukrainian military officers and representatives of foreign military industry companies. On 12 October 2022, a pilot Vadym Voroshylov (call sign ''Karaia'') destroyed 5 "Shahed 136" drones near Vinnytsia. Due to damage to the plane, Vadym ejected in Vinnytsia oblast, having previously diverted the fighter jet from the settlement. For this, he was awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine. In 2023, the city of Vinnytsia opened a representative office to the

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, becoming the fourth Ukrainian sub-national administration or organisation to take up an offer to use office space in the

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(CoR).

Population

As of 1 January 2025, the population of Vinnytsia is 399 485 people. By population, among

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Vinnytsia ranks among the 10 largest cities (excluding the temporarily occupied territories).

Language

Distribution of the population by native language according to the 2001 census: According to a survey conducted by the

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in April–May 2023, 85% of the city's population spoke Ukrainian at home, and 15% spoke Russian.

Education and science

Educational institutions of the city of Vinnytsia: * 58 preschool education institutions (56 communal, 1 state and 1 private forms of ownership). Electronic registration is available for enrolling children in communally owned pre-school education institutions; * 45 institutions of general

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(37 communal and 8 private forms of ownership). * 8 institutions of state-owned professional (vocational and technical) education; * 3 community-owned out-of-school education institutions: ** Vinnytsia City Palace of Children and Youth; ** Vinnytsia city center of artistic and choreographic education of children and youth "Barvinok"; ** Center for Extracurricular Education "School of Success". There are many universities and research institutions in Vinnytsia: * Mykola Pirogov Vinnytsia National Medical University; * Vinnytsia National Agrarian University; * Vinnytsia National Technical University; * Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi Vinnytsia State Pedagogical University; * Vasyl Stus Donetsk National University, evacuated from Donetsk in 2014 due to Russian armed invasion in eastern Ukraine; * Vinnytsia European University; * Vinnytsia Institute of Trade and Economics of

Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics State University of Trade and Economics (SUTE, ; prev.: Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics, KNUTE, ) is a Ukrainian university in the capital, Kyiv. Post address: 19 Kyoto St., Kyiv, Ukraine, 02156.

; *

Vinnytsia Institute of Economics and Social Sciences Vinnytsia Institute of Economics and Social Sciences () is a part of the Open International University of Human Development "Ukraine" (OIUHD Ukraine). Founded in 1999, the institute has eight departments. Located in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Resourc ...

. There is also the Regional Universal Scientific Library named after prominent local historian Valentyn Otamanovskyi in Vinnytsia.

Economy

Vinnytsia is a prominent industrial city in Ukraine. There are Roshen confectionery corporation, Crystal diamond polishing corporation,

RPC Fort Fort (' (full name), ''НВО "Форт"'' (short name)) is a Ukrainian weapons manufacturer from Vinnytsia, Ukraine. History In 1991, a new company was formed to design and manufacture small arms for Ukrainian Interior Ministry, Security Serv ...

largest Ukrainian

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manufacturing corporation, Mayak corporation, Budmash corporation, Pnevmatyka corporation, PlasmaTec corporation, a parquet board manufacturer Barlinek Invest, Vinnytsia Oil and Fat Plant, Vinnytsia Food and Gustatory Factory PJSC, Agrana Food LLC and others.

Industrial parks and investments

There are 4

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s on the territory of Vinnytsia City Territorial Community that are included in the Register of Industrial Parks of Ukraine: Vinnytsia Industrial Park (with an area of 35.7 ha), Industrial Park ''Vinnytsia Cluster of Refrigeration Engineering'' (with an area of 19.27 ha), Industrial Park ''Winter Sport'' (with an area of 25 ha), Industrial Park "VinIndustry" (with an area of 13.1 ha). The facilities of UBC Cool (production of refrigeration equipment for food and beverages), KNESS (production of solar panels) are already operating on the basis of industrial parks, HEAD plant (production of equipment for winter sports) is under construction.

Digital economy

Vinnytsia is among the top five cities in terms of the number of specialists in IT. This sector is represented, in particular, by the following companies: Gemicle, Playtika, Onseo, EPAM Ukraine, Infopulse, Avenga, Ajax System, Sigma Software, Ciklum, N-iX, RIA Internet Group. The main office of LetyShops, the largest cashback service in Ukraine, the leader in this market segment, is located in the city. Also in Vinnytsia, the project of the Innovation and Technology Park ″Krystal″ is being implemented.

Clusters

As part of the decentralized cooperation program between the city of Vinnytsia and Vinnytsia region with the city of

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, the Burgundy-Franche-Comté region, AgroVin agricultural cluster was created in March 2021. The participants of the agrocluster are processing enterprises of the city of Vinnytsia, agricultural producers and specialized scientific institutions (Agrana Fruit Ukraine LLC, Vinnytsia Food and Gustatory Factory PJSC, Agroposluhtransservis LLC, Dibrova LLC, Organik-d LLC, Vinnytsia National Agrarian University, Institute of Fodder and Agriculture of Podillia National Academy of Sciences). Vinnytsia Instrumentation and Automation Cluster was created in February 2021 by local enterprises (Promavtomatyka-Vinnytsia LLC, Innovinprom LLC, Maitek Plus LLC, Grampis LLC, Tiras LLC, Vinaerogis LLC, and others) that work in the instrument-making industry and are engaged in the automation of production with the aim of creating competitive products, creating jobs for the best local graduates, promoting the definition and implementation of smart specialization of the city territorial community and the region.

Military

The headquarters of the

is situated in Vinnytsia.

Politics

Vinnytsia is considered the long-time political base for

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and former

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. He owns a local

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(as part of the Roshen Corporation) and was elected member of

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from the local constituency for several convocations. However, contrary to some speculations, Poroshenko has never lived in the city.

Volodymyr Groysman Volodymyr Borysovych Groysman (; born 20 January 1978) is a Ukrainian statesman, politician, and businessman. He served as the 16th Prime Minister of Ukraine from 14 April 2016, to 29 August 2019. From 2006 to 2014, he was the mayor of Vinny ...

, the former Ukrainian

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(2016-2019) is from Vinnytsia.

Parks and squares

Central urban park in Vinnytsia Park of Culture and Recreation named after

Mykola Leontovych Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych (, ; 23 January 1921) was a Ukrainian composer, conductor, ethnomusicologist, and teacher. His music was inspired by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko and the Ukrainian National Music School. Leontovych spec ...

located in Vinnytsia city between the streets Soborna (center), Mahistratska and Khmelnytske Shose. The park is 40 hectares. There are numerous monuments (soldiers in Afghanistan, Sich Riflemen, killed police officers, victims of NKVD's purge), and the Alley of outstanding countrymen are objects of leisure and recreation: a summer theater, a stadium, an ice club, a city planetarium, a fountain, a chess club, Mini-Vinnytsia open air museum, numerous attractions and gaming machines. For more than 70 years of its history, the Central Park has always been a place of celebrations and recreation for the residents and for holding local/municipal events and holidays. It became a fine tradition to hold folk festivals and all major holidays in the Park, in particular on the City Day, Europe Day, Independence Day, and more.

Buildings and structures

* Saint Nicholas Church is considered to be the oldest building in the city — built in 1746 in the place of older one; * Baroque Transfiguration Cathedral, built in Vinnytsia in 1758 by Italian architect Paolo Fontana; * Baroque Church of the Holy Virgin Mary Angelic, built in 1748—1761 as Capuchin monastery; * The National Pirogov's Estate Museum and church where his

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body preserved. Built in 1866—1885, opened for visitors as a museum in 1947; * The Literary and Memorial Museum of a “great Sun Worshiper”, a classical author of Ukrainian literature

Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky Mykhailo Mykhailovych Kotsiubynsky (; 17 September 1864 – 25 April 1913) was a Ukrainian author whose writings described typical Ukrainian life at the start of the 20th century. Kotsiubynsky's early stories were described as examples of an e ...

, built in 1860-1890th and opened for visitors as a museum in 1927; *

Vinnytsia water tower The Vinnytsia water tower is a landmark of the city of Vinnytsia, Ukraine, constructed in 1912 and located on European Square. It was listed as a cultural monument of local significance on February 17, 1983. Vinnytsia water tower has served as a m ...

, built in 1912 by city main architect Hryhorii Artynov; * Savoy Hotel, built in 1912—1913; * Vaksman family's real estate, built in 1915 in

Art Nouveau Art Nouveau ( ; ; ), Jugendstil and Sezessionstil in German, is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and ...

style. Address: 24, Symona Petliury Street. Built by architect Moisey Aaronovitch Vaksman. Architectural landmark; *

TV Tower Vinnytsia The Vinnytsia TV Mast () is a 354-metre, 1161 ft high guyed steel tube mast, used for FM- and TV-transmission, in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. A special feature of its structure are three crossbars arranged in 120 degree angles in two levels, running ...

— the tallest guyed tubular steel mast in the world, built in 1961; * The new Greek Catholic Church at South Bug river, built in 1993—1996; * Baptist Church ″Evangelical House″– reportedly one of the largest Evangelical Church buildings in Europe, built in 1996; * Seventh-day Adventist Church, built in 2000th; * Multimedia Fountain Roshen, built in 2011, it is considered one of the largest floating fountains in Europe. It is the major multimedia attraction in the city. In the city, numerous historical buildings are being repaired and new ones are being built. Вінницькі Мури.jpg, Former Jesuit monastery and Transfiguration Cathedral File:Монастир Капуцинів, Вінниця, вул. Соборна, 12—14.JPG, Capuchin monastery (est. 1748—1761) File:Водонапірна вежа Вінниця.jpg,

(est. 1912) File:Vinnytsia Kozytskoho 36 SAM 0054.JPG, Savoy Hotel (est. 1912—1913) File:Vinnytsia, Soborna St 02.jpg, Main Cathedral Street (nowadays) File:UKR Winnica, kosc greko-katol, Najswietszej Bogarodzicy, 2019.09.08, fot Ivonna Nowicka (6) corr.jpg, Church of the Intercession (est. 1996)

Transport

Air

Havryshivka Vinnytsia International Airport (

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: VIN,

ICAO The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO ) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that coordinates the principles and techniques of international air navigation, and fosters the planning and development of international sch ...

: UKWW) is situated near Vinnytsia.

Railway

There is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

in Vinnytsia, Vinnytsia railway station, which is a part of

Southwestern Railways Southwestern Railways (PZZ), () headquartered in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, is a component part of the Ukrainian Railways, Ukrzaliznytsia company, its regional branch. It is named "Southwestern" because it is Southwest of Moscow, despite bei ...

. In 2013 it was named among 10 biggest railway stations in Ukraine. The current Vinnytsia railway station was built in 1952 and is the 4th railway building in Vinnytsia. The previous three were destroyed. Vinnytsia is an important transport hub for internal and external railway connections. Most of the international trains which cross through Ukraine have a stop in Vinnytsia. For example, trains to Przemyśl (Poland) and from Sofia (Bulgaria), Chisinau (Moldova), Bratislava (Slovakia), Belgrade (Serbia), Budapest (Hungary) transit through Vinnytsia. For internal railway connections, Vinnytsia is also an important transport point for trains heading to Western Ukraine (Lviv, Khmelnytskyi, Chernivtsi), the South (Odesa), as well as to Central Ukraine (Kyiv).

Tram

The tram is the most popular public transport in Vinnytsia. There are six tram routes in Vinnytsia: The most trams in Vinnytsia are donations from the ''

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'' (VBZ), the public transport operator of

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, Switzerland. In the early 2000s, the VBZ donated its 1960s ''Karpfen'' and ''Mirage'' rolling stock to Vinnytsia, and they will do so again in 2022 with 35 '' Tram 2000'' vehicles. The Swiss trams retain their blue and white liveries in Vinnytsian service. Since 2015, "Vinnytsia Transport Company" began manufacturing VinWay trams based on Tatra KT4SU wagons and VinLine trolleybuses. As of 2024, 10 modernized trams and 31 trolleybuses are running in the city.

Bus

There are the Central Bus Station and the Western Bus Station in Vinnytsia.

Healthcare

As for the 2022, the city's healthcare system is represented by more than 40 treatment and preventive medical institutions, 16 of which are communally owned by the city of Vinnytsia. There are more than 60 private medical institutions. Vinnytsia Regional Clinical Hospital named after Mykola Pirogov of Vinnytsia Regional Council was founded in Vinnytsia in 1805 as the first municipal hospital, and under the name of Mykola Pirogov has been operating since 1917. Today, the hospital is a multidisciplinary, highly specialised, curative and preventive health care institution, whose mandate is to provide medical assistance to patients in 22 specialized areas. 12 clinical departments and cycles of Vinnytsia National Medical University named after Mykola Pirogov are located in the centers and departments of the hospital. Vinnytsia Regional Clinical Treatment and Diagnostic Center for Cardiovascular Pathology is a specialized medical facility that provides routine and emergency medical care to patients with diseases of the circulatory system. The institution has 5 departments and a clinical diagnostic laboratory, where 186 medical workers work. The operating units of the center provides coronary angiography (diagnostics of heart vessels), stenting of damaged arteries, open heart surgery.

Sport and sportsmen

FC Nyva Vinnytsia FC Nyva Vinnytsia is a Ukrainian professional association football, football club based in the city of Vinnytsia. The name "Nyva" translates to "grain field". The club was originally created in 1958 in the Soviet Union and folded in 2005 and 201 ...

(former "Locomotive") was created in 1958. During the Soviet Union, "Niva" from Vinnytsia was on good terms, not among the best, but it showed decent results against the background of other clubs of the

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkrSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the Republics of the Soviet Union, constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1991. ...

. Vinnytsia won the championship of the republic twice, in 1964 and 1984, and in 1972 and 1973 Lokomotiv even won the Cup of Ukraine. On 2 January 2021, Niva player Artur Zahorulko became the club's president. Vinnytsia is the base of the Ukrainian field hockey. 2 leading Ukrainian teams are registered here: "Hockey Club Olympia-Kolos-Sequoia" (HC OKS-SHVSM) and "Dynamo-ShVSM-VDPU". Vinnytsia is known for playing sports such as basketball. There are two professional teams: the women's "Vinnytsia Lightnings" and the men's "Vinnytsia Bisons". "Vinnytsia Bisons" is a fairly well-known brand in Vinnytsia and Ukrainian sports. This men's basketball team twice won silver medals and once - bronze of the higher league of the championship of Ukraine in 2018. In 2006, the first American football championship of Ukraine took place, in which "Vinnytsia Wolves" took second place. In 2013, 6 "Wolves" players were invited to be selected for the national American football team of Ukraine. Three of them became part of it. In 2014, the team started playing in the higher league, where they played in the group stage with Kyiv "Bandits", Odesa "Pirates" and Kyiv "Vityaz". 2017 — silver medalists of the ULAF Championship of Ukraine. The youth teams of the Vinnytsia Wolves sports club, which formed the basis of two national flag football teams of Ukraine, became participants in the New Generation Bowl 2022 and returned home with achievements. The U15 national team won the silver cup of the tournament, and the U17 team won the bronze. Vinnytsia Olympians Pavlo Khnykin — swimmer, two-time silver medalist of the

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; Inna Osypenko-Radomska — sprint kayaker, champion of the Olympic Games in Beijing, silver medalist at the Olympic Games in London in single kayak rowing (distance of 500 and 200 meters) and bronze medalist of the Olympic Games in Athens as part of the women's foursome, world champion in Poznan (Poland) K1 500 meters; Hanna Balabanova — sprint canoeist, bronze medalist of the Olympic Games in Athens. Vinnytsia boxers Serhii Bohachuk — Vinnytsia boxer, WBC Continental Americas title holder; Viacheslav Uzielkov — WBA Intercontinental light heavyweight boxing champion, politician and TV-presenter; Roman Holovashchenko — international (2009—2010) and intercontinental champion (2017—2018) according to the IBO version, world champion according to the GBC version (2009—2010), European champion according to the IBF version (2016);

Culture

Theaters of the city * Vinnytsia State Academic Music and Drama Theater named after Mykola Sadovskyi, founded in 1910; * Vinnytsia Academic Regional Puppet Theater "Zolotyi Kliuchyk" — one of the oldest in Ukraine (founded in October 1938); * Vinnytsia Regional Philharmonic named after

, founded in 1937. List of the museums * The National Pirogov's Estate Museum; * Vinnytsia Regional Museum of Local Lore; * Vinnytsia Regional Art Museum; * Military-historical Museum of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine; * Vinnytsia Literary and Memorial Museum of Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi; * Oleh Lutsyshyn Pottery Museum; * Vinnytsia Tram Museum; * AutoMotoVeloFotoTeleRadio Museum; * Museum of the Ukrainian postage stamp named after Yakiv Balaban; * Museum of transport models; * Holocaust Museum in Vinnytsia; * Museum of Jewish life.

Notable people

Isaac Joel Linetzky line drawing portrait from Dos Poylishe Yungel

* Nathan Altman (1889–1970) a Jewish and Soviet avant-garde artist, Cubist painter, stage designer and book illustrator; * Larysa Artiugina (born 1971) a Ukrainian documentary film director and activist; * Sam Born (1891–1959) an American businessman, candy maker and inventor of

Peeps Peeps are a marshmallow confection produced by candy maker Just Born since 1953 for sale the United States and Canada in the shape of chicks, bunnies, and other animals, as well as holidays, holiday shapes, with themes revolving around Hallowe ...

Matvei Petrovich Bronstein Matvei Petrovich Bronstein (, – February 18, 1938) was a Soviet theoretical physicist, a pioneer of quantum gravity, author of works in astrophysics, semiconductors, quantum electrodynamics and cosmology, as well as of a number of books in pop ...

(1906–1938) a theoretical physicist, a pioneer of

quantum gravity Quantum gravity (QG) is a field of theoretical physics that seeks to describe gravity according to the principles of quantum mechanics. It deals with environments in which neither gravitational nor quantum effects can be ignored, such as in the v ...

; * Valeriy Chaly (born 1970) diplomat; Ambassador of Ukraine to the USA from 2015–2019; *

Todros Geller Todros Geller (Yiddish: טודרוס געלער; July 1, 1889 – February 23, 1949) was a Jewish American artist and teacher best known as a master printmaker and a leading artist among Chicago's art community. Early life and education Gell ...

(1889–1949) a Jewish American artist, teacher and master printmaker; *

(born 1978) politician,

Prime Minister of Ukraine The prime minister of Ukraine (, , ) is the head of government of Ukraine. The prime minister presides over the government of Ukraine, Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, which is the highest body of the executive branch of the government of Ukrain ...

2016-2019; * Oleg Khoma (born 1966) translator and historian; * Victoria Koblenko (born 1980) Dutch actress, presenter and columnist; *

(1864–1913) author of novels and short stories. His home is a museum; * Volodymyr Kozhukhar (1941–2022) conductor and academic teacher; *

(1877–1921) Ukrainian composer who worked here; * Alexander Lerner (1913–2004) Soviet-Israeli

cyberneticist Cybernetics is the transdisciplinary study of circular causal processes such as feedback and recursion, where the effects of a system's actions (its outputs) return as inputs to that system, influencing subsequent action. It is concerned with ...

and

dissident A dissident is a person who actively challenges an established political or religious system, doctrine, belief, policy, or institution. In a religious context, the word has been used since the 18th century, and in the political sense since the 2 ...

; *

Yuri Levada Yuri Alexandrovich Levada (; 24 April 1930 – 16 November 2006) was a well known Russian sociologist, political scientist and the founder of the Levada Center. Scientific activity to 1988 In 1952 Levada graduated from the Philosophical fac ...

(1930–2006) sociologist, political scientist and the founder of the

Levada Center The Levada Center is a Russian independent, nongovernmental polling and sociological research organization. It is named after its founder, the first Russian professor of sociology Yuri Levada (1930–2006). The center traces back its history t ...

; * Yitzkhok Yoel Linetzky (1839–1915) a Yiddish language author and early Zionist; * Anatoly Lysenko (1937–2021) a Soviet and Russian TV figure, journalist, director and producer; *

Marina A marina (from Spanish , Portuguese and Italian : "related to the sea") is a dock or basin with moorings and supplies for yachts and small boats. A marina differs from a port in that a marina does not handle large passenger ships or cargo ...

(born 1989) Polish singer of Ukrainian origin; * Jerzy Niezbrzycki (1902–1968) captain of the Polish Army; *

Alla Pavlova Alla Yevgenyevna Pavlova (born July 13, 1952, in Ukraine) is a Russian composer. Pavlova was born and initially raised in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. She and her family moved to Moscow in 1961, and she then moved to Brooklyn, New York in 1990, where she ...

(b. 1952), composer; *

Nikolay Pirogov Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov (Russian: Николай Иванович Пирогов; – ) was a Russian scientist, medical doctor, pedagogue, public figure, and corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1847), one of the most wi ...

(1810–1881) originally from Moscow, an Imperial Russian doctor, founder of field surgery, spent his later years in Vinnytsia; his home is a museum; * Olya Polyakova (born 1979) a Ukrainian singer, actress, TV presenter and comedian; * Maksym Shapoval (1978–2017) intelligence officer and head of a special forces of the Ukrainian Chief Directorate of Intelligence; assassinated by Russian agents in 2017; * Vladyslav Skalsky (born 1976) a Ukrainian civil servant and politician; * Olga Storozhenko (born 1992)

Miss Ukraine Universe Miss Ukraine Universe () is national beauty pageant in Ukraine. The winner represents Ukraine at the most prestigious international beauty contest "Miss Universe". The pageant exists since 2006, after the Miss Ukraine Organization lost the Miss ...

2013 & Top 10 Miss Universe 2013; * Mykola Tochytskyi (born 1967) diplomat, politician and deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs; * Leonid Isaakovich Vail (1883–1945) a Jewish Painter and art theorist; *

Selman Waksman Selman Abraham Waksman (July 22, 1888 – August 16, 1973) was a Russian-born American inventor, biochemist and microbiologist, whose research into the decomposition of organisms that live in soil enabled the discovery of streptomycin and severa ...

(1888–1973) American biochemist and microbiologist, Nobel prizewinner, born near Vinnytsia; * Inna Abramovna Zhvanetskaia (born 1937) composer, piano teacher and lecturer.

Sport

* Aonishiki Arata (born 2004) sumo wrestler; the second Ukrainian to reach the top division in Japanese Sumo. *

Serhiy Cherniavskiy Serhii Volodymyrovych Cherniavskyi, or Serhiy Volodymyrovych Chernyavsʼkyy (; born 2 April 1976) is a retired Ukrainian cyclist. He won a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics and a world title in 2001 in the 4000 m team pursuit The team ...

(born 1976) a cyclist; silver medallist at the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, officially branded as Sydney 2000, and also known as the Games of the New Millennium, were an international multi-sport event held from 15 September to 1 October ...

; * Sergey Fedorchuk (born 1981) a Ukrainian Grandmaster chess player; * Pavlo Khnykin (born 1969) freestyle swimmer, team silver medallist at the

; * Illia Nyzhnyk (born 1996) a Ukrainian chess grandmaster; * Sergei Polyakov (born 1968) a Russian sport shooter, silver medallist at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece. The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...

International relations

Twin towns – Sister cities

Vinnytsia is twinned with:

Partner cities

Vinnytsia also signed the partnership agreements with cities:

Gallery

File:Винница. Областная Рада..JPG, Vinnytsia regional council File:EChB Church Vinnitsa 2010 G1.jpg,

Baptist Baptists are a Christian denomination, denomination within Protestant Christianity distinguished by baptizing only professing Christian believers (believer's baptism) and doing so by complete Immersion baptism, immersion. Baptist churches ge ...

church File:Pushkin street Vinnytsya new.jpg,

building, built by architect V.P. Listovichiy File:Вінниця, Медуніверситет (Головний корпус), вул. Пирогова 56.jpg, Medical University in Vinnytsia File:Садиба Пирогова!.JPG, Mansion-museum of

File:Винницкая мэрия.JPG, City hall File:Vinnytsia-memorial.jpg, Monuments to the victims of the terror of 1937-1938

Notes

References

External links

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