In 1955 the hospital was renovated. Nowadays it is the Municipal non-commercial establishment “Academician Yushchenko Vinnytsia Regional Clinic Psychoneurological Hospital of Vinnytsia Regional Council”.
The museum located at the main pavilion of the establishment is a keeper of all highlights, secrets, and mysteries of this special place. Besides, at present authorial excursions to the hospital are very popular, as the hospital walls hide lots of secrets. Here you can feel a remarkable atmosphere that has absorbed layers of different eras and generations.
In 1955 the hospital was renovated. Nowadays it is the Municipal non-commercial establishment “Academician Yushchenko Vinnytsia Regional Clinic Psychoneurological Hospital of Vinnytsia Regional Council”.
The museum located at the main pavilion of the establishment is a keeper of all highlights, secrets, and mysteries of this special place. Besides, at present authorial excursions to the hospital are very popular, as the hospital walls hide lots of secrets. Here you can feel a remarkable atmosphere that has absorbed layers of different eras and generations.
A small provincial town did not even dream of advances of civilization: electric lighting, sewerage, central heating, and water supply to every house; horses galloped and wheeled vehicles rumbled on its unpaved streets – this is how Vinnytsia looked like on the cusp of the 19th - 20th centuries. Just then the first psychiatric institution in Ukraine appeared in the city, built under a special project by architect Dmytro Prussak.
The hospital for the persons with mental disabilities being designed for 1000 patients, was built in 1897 as one of the most advanced hospitals in the Russian empire, as it had all distinctive features of comfort, achievements of those times, and technical innovations. As a matter of convenience, hospital pavilions are connected not only by ground corridors but also by underground communication tunnels. The style of architecture is eclecticism with elements of historicism. The original composition of the building is successfully complemented by a magnificent view of the confluence of the rivers Vyshnya and Southern Buh, as well as a large park, which back in the day was planted with help of the patients, as work therapy was one of the advanced treatments used in the establishment.
Vasyl Petrovych Kuznetsov, Doctor of Science, first director of the hospital, not only supervised the construction but also promoted its development in all possible ways, sparing no efforts, time, and own money. Railway road in underground walkways and lifts to each department, perfect insolation and ventilation of pavilions, hydrotherapy devices and a large bright hall for arranging balls and entertainment, a family chapel with a room for choir and the bell, own library and pharmacy, own farm and gardening plots – this is just a partial list of all benefits of the establishment.
In 1900 a parishional school was established at the hospital. During the First Ukrainian War of Independence (1917-1921) the hospital was used for the wounded and typhus-stricken shooters from the Ukrainian Galician Army. In 1936 the decision was made to name the hospital after Academician O.I. Yushchenko who had been working here as a hospital physician for three years.
The patients suffered a terrible fate during the Nazi occupation when the hospital was at the disposal of the German military administration: many of them were starved, shot, poisoned and buried with other Nazi victims in a mass grave on the territory of the establishment.
A small provincial town did not even dream of advances of civilization: electric lighting, sewerage, central heating, and water supply to every house; horses galloped and wheeled vehicles rumbled on its unpaved streets – this is how Vinnytsia looked like on the cusp of the 19th - 20th centuries. Just then the first psychiatric institution in Ukraine appeared in the city, built under a special project by architect Dmytro Prussak.
The hospital for the persons with mental disabilities being designed for 1000 patients, was built in 1897 as one of the most advanced hospitals in the Russian empire, as it had all distinctive features of comfort, achievements of those times, and technical innovations. As a matter of convenience, hospital pavilions are connected not only by ground corridors but also by underground communication tunnels. The style of architecture is eclecticism with elements of historicism. The original composition of the building is successfully complemented by a magnificent view of the confluence of the rivers Vyshnya and Southern Buh, as well as a large park, which back in the day was planted with help of the patients, as work therapy was one of the advanced treatments used in the establishment.
Vasyl Petrovych Kuznetsov, Doctor of Science, first director of the hospital, not only supervised the construction but also promoted its development in all possible ways, sparing no efforts, time, and own money. Railway road in underground walkways and lifts to each department, perfect insolation and ventilation of pavilions, hydrotherapy devices and a large bright hall for arranging balls and entertainment, a family chapel with a room for choir and the bell, own library and pharmacy, own farm and gardening plots – this is just a partial list of all benefits of the establishment.
In 1900 a parishional school was established at the hospital. During the First Ukrainian War of Independence (1917-1921) the hospital was used for the wounded and typhus-stricken shooters from the Ukrainian Galician Army. In 1936 the decision was made to name the hospital after Academician O.I. Yushchenko who had been working here as a hospital physician for three years.
The patients suffered a terrible fate during the Nazi occupation when the hospital was at the disposal of the German military administration: many of them were starved, shot, poisoned and buried with other Nazi victims in a mass grave on the territory of the establishment.