Sights in Vinnytsya
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Wehrwolf
WWII buffs might fancy a trip out to the remains of Hitler's forward bunker. Hitler visited this bunker a couple of times (accounts vary) between May 1942 and July 1943. Presumably it was on one of these visits that he ordered the execution of the 15,000 Ukrainian slave labourers who built the complex - he was ostensibly worried that they would spill the beans about the bunker's location.
At its peak the Wehrwolf complex consisted of three bunkers and 20 standing structures, complete with swimming pool, movie theatre and casino. The Nazis blew it all up on their retreat in 1944. Today there's not a whole lot to see here besides some large fragments of the bunker in an oth…
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Pirogov Chapel
The second most-famous embalmed corpse in the former Soviet Union (after Lenin in Moscow) rests in the basement of a chapel about 6km southwest of Vinnytsya centre. Nikolai Pirogov was a Russian medical pioneer who invented a type of cast as well as a revolutionary anaesthesia technique. His wife had him embalmed when he died in Vinnytsya in 1881.This is without question one of Ukraine’s oddest sites.
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Pirogov Museum
In Nikolai Pirogov’s house, this museum is actually more interesting than you’d expect, and not just because of the Soviet character of the place (the Soviets claimed Pirogov as a hero many years after his death because his inventions saved countless lives in the world wars). The doctor’s anatomical sketches are also quite interesting, and one room remains unchanged from the surgeon’s era.
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Regional Museum
If you have time to kill, the diverse Regional Museum has some interesting archaeological artefacts, stuffed wild animals, a model of the old Vinnytsya Castle, and a WWII exhibit with intact Soviet propaganda.
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Kozytskoho Park
West of the Afghan War Museum is Kozytskoho Park, where you'll find a very Soviet-style WWII monument of three brutes in front of an eternal flame.
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Afghan War Museum
Afghan War Museum has tributes to the 167 local young men who made the ultimate sacrifice in the Soviet–Afghanistan War.
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Transfiguration Church
The light yellow, gold-domed 1753 Transfiguration Church is worth checking out for its fine frescoes.
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