Hnivan

The city of Gnivan on the river. Southern Bug is located 20 km south of Vinnitsa. It was first mentioned in 1629. There are several legends about the origin of the name, and all of them are associated with the word "anger". For a long time Gnivan was a simple village. The first industrial enterprise in 1848 was the sugar factory of the landowner I. Yaroshinsky (ruins have survived). During the construction of the Kiev-Odessa railway, which in 1866-71 ran through Gnivan, industrial development of the Gnivansky granite quarry, which belonged to Yaroshinsky, began. The town developed rapidly, becoming at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries. the volost center. In 1969, the largest in Europe Gnivansky plant of special reinforced concrete was put into operation. The Catholic Church of ...

The city of Gnivan on the river. Southern Bug is located 20 km south of Vinnitsa. It was first mentioned in 1629. There are several legends about the origin of the name, and all of them are associated with the word "anger". For a long time Gnivan was a simple village. The first industrial enterprise in 1848 was the sugar factory of the landowner I. Yaroshinsky (ruins have survived). During the construction of the Kiev-Odessa railway, which in 1866-71 ran through Gnivan, industrial development of the Gnivansky granite quarry, which belonged to Yaroshinsky, began. The town developed rapidly, becoming at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries. the volost center. In 1969, the largest in Europe Gnivansky plant of special reinforced concrete was put into operation. The Catholic Church of St. Joseph, built in 1906, has been preserved.