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Vinnytsia (also known by other names) is a city
City

A city is an urban area with a high population density and a particular administrative, legal, or historical status.Large industrialized cities generally have advanced systems for sanitation, utilities, land usage, house, and transportation and more....
 located on the banks of the Southern Buh River, in central Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
. It is the administrative center
Capital City

Capital City was a television show produced by Euston Films which focused on the lives of investment bankers in London living and working on the corporate trading floor for the fictional international bank Shane-Longman....
 of the Vinnytsia Oblast
Vinnytsia Oblast

Vinnytsia Oblast is an administrative divisions of Ukraine of Ukraine. Its capital city is Vinnytsia....
 (province
Oblast

Oblast is a type of administrative division in Slavic peoples countries and in some countries of the former Soviet Union. The word "oblast" is a loanword in English, but it is nevertheless often translated as "area", "zone", "province", or "region"....
), as well as the administrative center of the surrounding Vinnytskyi Raion (district
Raion

A raion is a type of administrative unit of some post-Soviet states. The term, which is of French origin, describes both a type of a subnational entity and a division of a city, and is almost always translated as "district"....
) within the oblast. The city itself is also designated as its own separate raion within the oblast, and rests in the historic region of Podillia.

The current estimated population is 350,400.

Since the end of World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, Vinnytsia has been the home for a major Air force
Air force

An air force, also known in some countries as an air army or historically an army air corps , is in the broadest sense, the national armed force or armed service that primarily conducts aerial warfare....
 base, including an airfield, a hospital
Hospital

A hospital is an institution for health care providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment, and often but not always providing for longer-term patient stays....
, arsenal
Arsenal

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s, and other military installations.






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Vinnytsia (also known by other names) is a city
City

A city is an urban area with a high population density and a particular administrative, legal, or historical status.Large industrialized cities generally have advanced systems for sanitation, utilities, land usage, house, and transportation and more....
 located on the banks of the Southern Buh River, in central Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
. It is the administrative center
Capital City

Capital City was a television show produced by Euston Films which focused on the lives of investment bankers in London living and working on the corporate trading floor for the fictional international bank Shane-Longman....
 of the Vinnytsia Oblast
Vinnytsia Oblast

Vinnytsia Oblast is an administrative divisions of Ukraine of Ukraine. Its capital city is Vinnytsia....
 (province
Oblast

Oblast is a type of administrative division in Slavic peoples countries and in some countries of the former Soviet Union. The word "oblast" is a loanword in English, but it is nevertheless often translated as "area", "zone", "province", or "region"....
), as well as the administrative center of the surrounding Vinnytskyi Raion (district
Raion

A raion is a type of administrative unit of some post-Soviet states. The term, which is of French origin, describes both a type of a subnational entity and a division of a city, and is almost always translated as "district"....
) within the oblast. The city itself is also designated as its own separate raion within the oblast, and rests in the historic region of Podillia.

The current estimated population is 350,400.

Since the end of World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, Vinnytsia has been the home for a major Air force
Air force

An air force, also known in some countries as an air army or historically an army air corps , is in the broadest sense, the national armed force or armed service that primarily conducts aerial warfare....
 base, including an airfield, a hospital
Hospital

A hospital is an institution for health care providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment, and often but not always providing for longer-term patient stays....
, arsenal
Arsenal

An arsenal is an establishment for the construction, repair, storage and issue of weapons and ammunition. The word arsenal appears in various forms in Romance languages , i.e....
s, and other military installations. The Ukrainian Air Force
Ukrainian Air Force

The Ukrainian Air Force is a part of the Military of Ukraine. Ukraine Air Force Command and headquarters are located in the city of Vinnytsia....
 Command has been based in Vinnytsia since 1992.

Vinnytsiacathedral

Names

Vinnytsia is also known by a variety of other names, such as Vinnytsya, Vinnitsa and Vinnica . Some of these reflect names in foreign languages that have had historical influences on the city.

Geography

Vinnytsia is located about from the Ukrainian capital, Kiev
Kiev

Kiev, also known as Kyiv , is the Capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River....
 (Kyiv), from the port city Odessa
Odessa

Odessa or Odesa is the Capital of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major port located on the shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 ....
 (Odesa), and from Lviv
Lviv

Lviv is a major city in western Ukraine.It is regarded as one of the main Ukrainian culture. In 2001, it had 725,000 inhabitants, of whom 88 per cent were Ukrainians, 9 per cent Russians and 1 per cent Poles....
.

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 and 18.3 °C in July. The average annual precipitation is 638 mm.

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.

Vinnytsiamuseum

History

Vinnytsia has been an important trade and political center since as early as the sixteenth century. More specifically, the city played a significant role during the Cossack
Cossack

The term Cossacks is applied to specific militaristic communities of various ethnicities living in the southern steppe regions of Ukraine and Russia....
 wars as well as during World War II. Great Purge
Great Purge

Great Purge was a series of campaigns of political repression and persecution in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin in 1936-1938. Also described as a "Soviet holocaust" by several authors, it involved the purge of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, repression of kulaks, Red Army leadership, and the persecution of unaffiliat...
 victims' graves
Vinnytsia massacre

The Vinnytsia massacre was a mass execution of people in the Ukraine town of Vinnytsia by the Soviet secret police NKVD during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge in 1937?1938....
 were exhumed by the Germans in 1943.

Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born Germany politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , popularly known as the Nazi Party....
 sited his easternmost headquarters FHQ Wehrwolf
Wehrwolf

F?hrerhauptquartier Wehrwolf was the codename used for one of Adolf Hitler's World War II Eastern Front military headquarters located in a pine forest about 12 km north of Vinnytsia in Ukraine that was used between 1942 and 1943....
 near the town and spent a number of weeks there in 1942 and early 1943.

Constructions

  • TV Tower Vinnytsia
    TV Tower Vinnytsia

    The TV Tower Vinnytsia is a 354 metre high guyed steel tube mast used for FM- and TV-transmission, located in Ukraine. A special feature of its structure are three crossbars arranged in 120 degree angles in two levels, running from its structure to the guys....
  • Baptist Church -- Vinnytsia is home to what is reportedly one of the largest Evangelical
    Protestantism

    Protestantism is a movement within Christianity that originated in the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation. It is considered to be one of the three principal traditions of Christianity, together with Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy....
     Church Buildings in all of Europe.
  • Afghan War Museum and Slavic War Memorial Park -- The Afghan War Museum is located in the red-brick bell tower. Exhibits include photos, letters and other artifacts representing Vinnytsia soldiers who fought in that war. The Memorial Park contains a large statue representing three different soldiers from WWII. An eternal flame burns in front of the statue.


Famous people from Vinnytsia

  • Nikolai Pirogov – famous Russian doctor who retired here. His home is a museum and his chapel tomb is open to visitors.
  • Mykhailo Kotsybyns’ky
    Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky

    Mykhailo Mykhailovych Kotsiubynsky , was an Ukrainians author whose writings described typical Ukrainian life at the start of the 20th century....
     – Ukrainian author of novels and short stories. His home is a museum.
  • Nataliya Dobrynska
    Nataliya Dobrynska

    Nataliya Dobrynska is an Ukraine heptathlon.She finished 6th in the heptathlon at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg. She also competed in the 2004 Olympics, finishing 8th....
     – Ukrainian heptathlete
    Heptathlon

    A heptathlon is a track and field athletics combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek hepta and athlon ....
    . She won the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics
    2008 Summer Olympics

    The 2008 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, People's Republic of China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008....
    .
  • Pavlo Khnykin
    Pavlo Khnykin

    Pavlo Khnykin is a retired freestyle swimming swimmer from Ukraine, Vinnytsia. He was born in Yekaterinburg, Russian SFSR.He competed in four consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992 for the Unified Team....
     – famous freestyle
    Freestyle swimming

    Freestyle is an unregulated swimming style used in swimming competitions according to the rules of International Swimming Federation. The front crawl stroke is almost universally used during a freestyle race, as this style is generally the fastest....
     swimmer. He won two silver medals in the men's 4x100m freestyle and 4x100 m medley relays at the 1992 Summer Olympics
    1992 Summer Olympics

    The 1992 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event celebrated in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain in 1992....
    .
  • Alexander Lerner
    Alexander Lerner

    Alexander Yakovlevich Lerner , Scientist and Soviet refusenik.Alexander Lerner was born to a Jewish family in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, which was part of the Russian Empire at the time of his birth....
     – Soviet-Israeli cyberneticist
    Cyberneticist

    A cyberneticist or an cybernetician is a person who practices cybernetics.Heinz von Foerster once told Stuart Umpleby that Norbert Wiener preferred the term "cybernetician" rather than "cyberneticist," perhaps because Wiener was a mathematician rather than a physicist....
     and dissident
    Dissident

    A dissident, broadly defined, is a person who actively challenges an established doctrine, policy, or institution. When individual dissidents unite in a common cause they may become known as a dissident Political movement....
    .
  • Oleh Ostapenko
    Oleh Ostapenko

    Oleh Ostapenko is a professional Ukraine football goalkeeper who plays for FC Vorskla Poltava in the Ukrainian Premier League. He joined FC Vorskla Poltava from FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih in February 2008....
     – football goalkeeper in FC Vorskla Poltava
    FC Vorskla Poltava

    FC Vorskla Poltava is a professional football team which plays in the Ukrainian Premier League and represents the city of Poltava....


Twin towns

Kielce
Kielce

Kielce is a city in central Poland with 202,609 inhabitants . It is also the capital city of the Swietokrzyskie Voivodeship since 1999, previously in Kielce Voivodeship ....
, Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
. Peterborough
Peterborough

Peterborough is a cathedral city and unitary authority area in the East of England, with an estimated population of as of June 2006. For ceremonial counties of England purposes it is in the Counties of England of Cambridgeshire....
, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
, United Kingdom
United Kingdom

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. Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama

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, United States
United States

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. Iasi
Iasi

Iasi , is a Cities in Romania and Municipality in Romania in north-eastern Romania. The city was the capital of Principality of Moldavia from the 16th century until 1861 and of Romania between 1916?1918 during World War I....
, Romania
Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
. Rybnitsa, Moldova
Moldova

Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east and south....
. Bursa, Turkey
Turkey

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.

See also

  • Vinnytsia massacre
    Vinnytsia massacre

    The Vinnytsia massacre was a mass execution of people in the Ukraine town of Vinnytsia by the Soviet secret police NKVD during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge in 1937?1938....
  • Wehrwolf
    Wehrwolf

    F?hrerhauptquartier Wehrwolf was the codename used for one of Adolf Hitler's World War II Eastern Front military headquarters located in a pine forest about 12 km north of Vinnytsia in Ukraine that was used between 1942 and 1943....
  • Vinnytsia tram
    Vinnytsia tram

    The Vinnytsia tram network is the part of the public transportation system that since 1913 serves Vinnytsia, the Capital city of the Vinnytsia Oblast....
  • FC Nyva Vinnytsia
    FC Nyva Vinnytsia

    PFC Nyva Vinnytsia is a Ukraine football club based in Vinnytsia. The name means a grain field. From 1992-98, Nyva Vinnytsia played in the Ukrainian Premier League, after being initially chosen to participate for being one of the top 9 Ukrainian teams from the West Division of the Soviet Second League in 1991....
  • TIK (band)
    TIK (band)

    TIK is a Ukraine folk rock band with heavy influences of ska and shanson. It was formed in 2005 in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. The band's name is an abbreviation of the Russian phrase "????????? ? ????????" which means "Sobriety and Culture"....


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