Other sights in Vinnytsya
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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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