Vinnytsia

Vinnytsia (Ukrainian: Вінниця, also transliterated Vinnitsa from Russian: Винница) is a city in Central Ukraine, the administrative center of the Vinnytsia region. 267 km southwest of Kyiv, it has been known since the Middle Ages, and is home to 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. There is useful website for tourists visiting Vinnytsia: vinnytsia.city.

Understand
In 2021, Vinnytsia was home to 370,000 people. In 2017, 67% of the city's population spoke Ukrainian at home, 13% spoke Russian, and 20% spoke Ukrainian and Russian equally.

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
Vinnytsia has been an important trade and political center since the fourteenth century, when Fedir Koriatowicz, the nephew of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Algirdas, 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, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Ottoman Empire, Cossack Hetmanat and eventually the Russian Empire, 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. In the beginning of 20th century, the city became a temporary capital of the independent Ukrainian People's Republic. 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 Wehrwolf' 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 annihilation of the town's large Jewish population.

By plane
In March 2022, the Vinnytsia International Airport airfield was destroyed by Russian missiles.

By public transport
Vinnytsia has a convenient public transport system:

Single ride tickets in trams and trolleybuses cost 8 грн, in buses — 12 грн, in marshrutkas — 15-18 грн.
 * 6 tram routes
 * 21 trolleybus routes
 * 20 bus routes
 * 29 marshrutka routes

You can pay for the ride using bank card (contactless payments are accepted) or paper ticket, which may be bought in EasyPay terminal (map, in Ukrainian). More information is available on the official website (in Ukrainian).

You can also buy transport card (where to buy, in Ukrainian) with the option to buy 130-rides pass for 510 грн or unlimited pass for 750 грн. Pass will work for 30 days. Card costs 60 грн with 0 balance (balance top up for any amount can be done in the same kiosks). Its main advantage is 1 free transfer during half an hour after first validation.

Schedules are available at each station, on the official website (in Ukrainian) on the map (in Ukrainain), and on rozklad.in.ua (in Ukrainian).

You can also check information about public transport on EasyWay and Google Maps.

By taxi
Taxi is the easiest way of getting around the city. Some popular taxi companies include:



By scooter
Kick scooter is a funny way to shorten your time while getting around the city.



By bike
There are more than 90 km of infrastructure for bicycles in Vinnytsia. While you can use your own bike, you can also rent one using one of the following companies:



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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