The main coach station and the crossroads, Vynohrad
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The main coach station of Vynohrad (shown on the left) is the place where you arrive if you come to the village by public transport. The station is usually open from 5:30-6 am until approximately 4-5 pm, although opening times may vary by season of the year and personal circumstances of the station officer (e.g., the station may be temporarily closed at some point during the day if the station officer is taking a lunch or feeding her pigs/other domestic animals).
The station stands on the intersection of the two main highways crossing the village, the east-west one and the south-north one.
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[edit] Bosivka direction
The next village in the eastern direction (photo on the right) is Bosivka, followed by Buzhanka and then the administrative center of the Lysiansky raion, Lysianka. This photo had been taken after walking about 50 meters in the northern/Ripky direction from the main coach station (see the photo below), and then turning right in the eastern direction, looking across private vegetable gardens and collective fields.
[edit] Pavlivka direction and the village center
The next village in the southern direction (photo on the left) is Pavlivka.
[edit] The former park and the sewing factory building
An interesting historic building can be seen at the front view of the picture. It stands in what used to be a public park for several decades during the Soviet times. The park was quite notable for exceptional density of weed plants covering its entire area in between the several trees that also grew there. This weed jungle used to be very popular with the local kids who immensely enjoyed the opportunity of getting completely lost in such a relatively small area, as well as the local goats who found the diverse vegetation of the park quite nourishing.
The building itself was initially built around 1990 (one of the last years of the Soviet Union) at the cost of the village's collective farm. At the time of construction the park was destroyed, with the exception of the few acacia trees that still remain standing around the building as is shown on the photo. The idea was apparently to have a new bakery installed at this place. However, the economic realities of the time brought corrections to this plan. The collective farm struggled finding additional financial resources to complete the project, while the innate resourcefulness of the local people naturally gave them the bright idea of using the incomplete public building as a source of bricks and other materials for their own private construction projects. By around 1995, only the foundation in the form of the empty trenches and some especially well-cemented brick lumps was remaining of the original building.
The current building actually shown on the photo was rebuilt almost from skretch around 1997-2000, and its intended purpose, according to some village rumours, was to host a new sewing factory. However, due to the global financial crisis of 1998 or some other more localised reasons, this project was also never completed. However, the natural resourcefulness of the villagers this time around extended itself only as far as the window panes of the new construction (which now stand empty, as can be seen from the photo). Historians remain in doubt about the exact reasons of this setback of the free market forces. The most plausible hypothesis is that the quality of construction had improved between 1990 and 1997, making it technically more difficult to dismantle the brick walls without destroying the bricks - which would make such project economically unprofitable to undertake. A less likely view held by the more idealistic minority of historians in that the villagers actually started caring more about their collective property.
[edit] The postoffice
Among other landmark buildings linked to the picture above is the village post office, which is located immediately after the first opening in the fence that can be observed on the left hand side of the southward road (opposite to the former park). The post office itself is not visible on this photo, however, its back side can be seen through the trees on the photo on the left.
[edit] The village center
After the post office, the road in this direction shortly arrives to the main square of the village, where most of the shops are located. The village council and the school are located still further on the Pavlivka road, at the opposite side of the village center from the main coach station.
[edit] Tynivka direction
The next photo (to the right) shows the westward highway going in the direction of the Tynivka village. The part of the Vynohrad village itself in this direction has been historically called "Varshava" (Ukrainianised name of the Polish capital Warsaw), after some Polish landlords who used to have their mansions in this part of the village in the XVIIIth - early XIXth centuries. Currently there is the village market on the opening to the left of the Tynivka road just after the park (opposite to where the horse is grazing on the photo). On the right from the Tynivka road and a bit further from the coach station there is the village cemitery.
[edit] Ripky direction
Finally, this last photo on the left shows the northward highway going in the direction of the Ripky village. The small golden edge of the ripening wheat field on the horizon indicates the end of the Vynohrad village in this direction.
| Villages in the Lysianskyi Raion |  |
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| Administrative center: Lysianka Bosivka | Boyarka | Budysche | Buzhanka | Vereschaky | Vynohrad | Votylivka | Ganzhalivka | Dashukivka | Dibrivka | Dubyna | Zhab'yanka | Zhuryntsi | Kam'yanyi Brid | Kuchkivka | Mar'yanivka | Mykhailivka | Orly, Ukraine | Petrivka-Popivka | Petrivs'ka-Huta | Pysarivka | Pohyblyak | Pochapyntsi | Ripky | Rozkoshivka | Rubanyi Mist | Semenivka | Smil'chyntsi | Tyhonivka | Tovsti Rohy | Fedyukivka | Huzhyntsi | Chaplynka | Chesnivka | Shesteryntsi | Shubyni Stavy | Shushkivka | Yablunivka | |
