Vinnytsya oblast museum of the local lore has a collection of post cards with sites of the city. They have not been published for several decades and it is the first time they have appeared in the anniversary issue "Silver moment", dedicated to 80 years since the museum was founded. These photos will interest the natives of Vinnytsya, having a desire to compare the modern streets and buildings and their "young faces", as well as worshippers of old times from the other regions.

1. Railway station. It was 1,5 versts away from the city. 14 trains of wide gauge and 6 trains of narrow-gauge railway were passing by it day and night. The photo of 1915.

2. Not so many private residences of refined style have left in Vinnytsya. One of them, in Pushkin street, belonged to the captain O.M.Chyetkov. Nowadays there is a medical establishment there.

3. The former house of the doctor L. Dlugolyenskiy, decorating Pyervomaiskiy street, is the building of the school of fine arts now.

4. Pryeobrazhenskiy Cathedral belongs to the Orthodox Church nowadays. But there was a time, when Catholics said a mass there and this building was called organ hall.

The restored temple is much alike the one on the postcard of the beginning of the 20-th century.

5. Popular at one time name of hotels "Savoy" got acclimatized in Vinnytsya too. The appearance and the functions of this house have survived up to now. Though the hotel is called "Ukraina" now, the previous name can be seen on one of its advertising boards. And you can see the vestiges of the historical events, having taken place within the precincts of this building.

In Soviet times the memorial board was hung up on the corner of the house in memory of Nickolai Shchors's stay in the hotel, and the last ten years of the 20th century the other one was hung. It reminds of the government of the Directory was in Vinnytsya. Such discorse doesn't disturb municipal authorities. And the former mortal enemies bare each others' presence without a word and expect to see the memorial board honoring the hero of our time on the walls of "Savoy".

6. Vinnytsya oblast theatre of music and drama named after Nikolay Sadovskiy had not always appropriate for such establishment colonnade. This photo was published in 1910 in the literary-artistic calendar-reference book "The whole Vinnitsya". It had 3 curtains, 10 "make-up rooms with mirrors ", had 1000 seats and was leased, 600 roubles per month.

7. This street was always the central street of Vinnitsya, though it had different names. Some of them (Pochtovaya, Nikolayevskiy avenue, Lyenina) were stamped on the students' of local lore memory. Its present name is "Sobornaya".