Khotyn has its magic and fascinates with its beauty. It is not surprising that here there were ancient settlements where different peoples wanted to live, and princes and empires fought for the fortress.

Hyzhdeu Theatre

The theatre named after Oleksandr Hyzhdeu was built by Romanians in 1934 with the involvement of a local architect in honour of the arrival of King Karol II. In 1949 – 1950, the building was transformed into the municipal Culture Centre with some changes in the interior. Currently, it operates as the Khotyn House for Children and Students.

Villa Chernescu

The building was built in 1930 and belonged to the state lawyer, the dean of lawyers of Khotyn District. Stylized, the building is an example of a combination of two styles: functional modernism and regional Romanian-Moldavian architecture. After the arrival of the Soviet authorities, the building began to be used as a culture centre. Later, it was transferred to a music school, and since 2010, it has housed the Khotyn National Nature Reserve.

Villa Voskresensky

The building was built in the late 1930s by lawyer Voskresensky as his own residence and law office. The architectural style is functional constructivism.

After the Second World War, with the arrival of Soviet power, the lawyer’s family emigrated to Canada, fearing reprisals from the new government without reason. So the building began to be used as premises for administrative needs. The city architect was located here. Subsequently, the building was assigned the status of the city hall. Currently, there is a business hub, the Economic Development Department and International Cooperation of Khotyn City Council, the City Development Agency, and the office space of the relocated business.

Park-monument of garden and park art of local importance Khotyn Park

Located in the central part of the city of Khotyn, Chernivtsi region, at St. Holy Pokrovsky. The area is 4 hectares. About 20 species of trees grow, including 5 species listed in the Red Book of Ukraine.

The Customs

On October 8, 1408, the Moldavian voivode Alexander the Good, at the request of Lviv and Podil merchants, issued the “Statute on Customs”, which specified the customs and the amount of the monetary fee for various goods. According to this document, one of the customs offices was located “in Khotyn”, on the way from Suceava to Kamianets on the Podilla. Horses were the main goods that were taxed here.

House of Rices

The construction of the premises began in the 70s of the 19th century by Alfred Rice, a financier, merchant and merchant of the second guild. The building was planned as a residence, a place for receiving high-ranking guests and a summer house for unplanned vacations. After the Romanian occupation of the city and the region, Alfred took his capital out of the city and left for Austria, where he became one of the founders of the world-famous financial institution of the Raifanzen family – the Aval bank, and his former house was occupied by the Khotyn rebels, later a military hospital was placed there . In the interwar period, it was purchased by Oleksiy Bron, a master of artistic photography, who had a home and workshop here. It is thanks to Bron’s talent that today we can truly imagine the life of local residents in the 20s and 30s of the 20th century. After the war, the city court was located in the building, and since 1981 – a law enforcement institution.

Shabelman Palace

The building is located on the corner of Nezalezhnosti and Franka streets. It was built by a landowner-planter (owner of several factories), tycoon Shabelman, who had considerable influence on the political life of the region in the middle of 19th century and up to the beginning 20th century. The construction of the palace dates back to the 80s of the 19th century. It was conceived as a personal residence in the style of late classicism – Empire.

Behind the building are farm houses for servants, which have an organic combination with the palace.

After the death of the owner of the building and the emigration of his large family, the Romanian occupation authorities used the palace as a hotel. In 1943, the Romanian gendarmerie was stationed here. After the war, it was a technical school dormitory, in the 1960s, it was the prosecutor’s office. Finally from the beginning In the 1970s, a police station is located here.

Land administration

According to the “Regulations on Provincial and District Land Institutions” of 1864, district land institutions assemblies were established in Khotyn. The election system was based on election, property (qualification) and status principles.

In 1916, the leadership of the South-Western Front headed by General Aleksei Brusilov was stationed here. On March 29, 1916, the city was visited by Emperor Nicholas II, who inspected the local hospital, handed out awards and spent the night in this very building.

Since 1917, the municipality has been located here. Later, the building performed the functions of the commandant’s office, post office, court, etc.

The multifunctionality of the premises was changed in 1941 during the second coming of the Romanian authorities. The occupation administration of the region and the secret security police were located here, and on the first floor there was a filtering center for persons of Jewish nationality. The building played a fatal role for the large Jewish community of the city. At the end of 1941 and at the beginning of 1942, about 2 thousand Jews were shot according to the decisions issued in this building.

Currently, the building is a part of the Podilsk State Agrarian and Technical University.

Public library

In 1895, on the initiative of a group of representatives of the local intelligentsia, led by the sworn attorney of the second article Yurii Tomashevskyi, the Khotyn Public Library was founded. In 1905-1906, the library stock numbered 4,000 copies. A reading room has been opened at the library. A fierce fight broke out around the library, as a result of which it was closed by order of the county gendarmerie. It was possible to reopen the doors to readers only in 1910, as of 1918, its stock consisted of 20,000 copies of books.

A fierce struggle broke out around the library during the stay of the region under Russian rule, as a result of which it was closed. During the Second World War, the premises of the Public City Library were destroyed, the book collection was partially destroyed. The revival of the book fund began in the post-war period, when the institution began to function properly again. And already in 1953, it amounted to 18,910 copies of books. In the early 1990s, the premises of the reading room were completed and the previously functioning reading room was reconstructed.