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up and flexes it muscles during the day, but it's well worth sticking around until 9pm to
see the full spectacle.
The fountain was voted 'Ukrainian Structure of the Year' in 2012.
Pirogov Chapel
TOMB
(vul Pyrohova 195; admission 10uah, combined with Pirogov Museum 50uah; 10am-7pm)
The
second-most famous embalmed corpse in the former Soviet Union (after Lenin in Mo-
scow) rests in the basement of a chapel in the suburb of Pyrohove about 6.5km southwest
of central Vinnytsya. Nikolai Pirogov was a Russian medical pioneer who invented a
type of cast as well as a revolutionary anaesthesia technique. His wife had him em-
balmed when he died in Vinnytsya in 1881 and chose the chapel as his final resting
place. The body is said to be much better preserved than Lenin's younger corpse.
Without question one of Ukraine's oddest sites. Take bus 13 or
marshrutka
70 or 48.
Pirogov Museum
MUSEUM
(vul Pyrohova 155; admission combined with Pirogov Chapel 50uah; 10am-7pm)
About 1.5km
before you get to the chapel containing Pirogov's body, you can see his house, now a mu-
seum. It's 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. Bus 13 or
marshrutka
70 or 48 pass the entrance on their way to the suburb of Pyro-
hove.
Regional Museum
MUSEUM
(
www.muzey.vn.ua
;
vul Soborna 19; admission 10uah; 10am-6pm Tue-Sun)
This large and di-
verse museum is well worth an hour or two for its interesting archaeological artefacts,
bug-eyed taxidermy and large WWII exhibition with Soviet propaganda posters galore.
Other highlights include a 30,000-year-old mammoth skeleton, pieces of Scythian gold
ornament and some Scythian-era stone figures.
Avtomotovelofototeleradio Museum
MUSEUM
(vul Soborna 1; admission 10uah; 11am-7pm Tue-Sun)
Big name for a small museum but
worthwhile for anyone with a wistful soft spot for the days of Soviet mass production.
This octagonal building near the main bridge over the river (on the city-centre side)
houses some interesting classic cars (Trabant, Zaporozhets, Moskvich, Lada), as well as
clunky old Soviet TVs, radios, gramophones, cameras and other assorted junk.
