Ukraine; Khmelnitsky region; Kamyanets-Podilsky city; Museum of Antiquities; Armenian church

Museum of Antiquity and ruins of Armenian church of Saint Nicholas. So let's begin with from museum. So museum is located in this small old church of Lodz building. Very small there are five or six rooms I don't remember. Initially there are some rats less to say of forest animals which used to live here. For example giant deers or this tur, yeah the horns of tur. And on these maps you can see the previous forest in Ukraine. And this map the current situation with forest. So you can imagine that in Kamianets-Podilskyi area maybe 1 000 years ago there was a wild forest around. But humans decided to cut off all these trees and now there is steep, almost steep. So in another rooms there are some different household items, plates, jars and other things which our ancestors used to have in their houses. Moreover in this area there were a lot of excavations. So I think the result of excavation you can see in this small museum. Further through this long corridor you can come to the open air area. Yes and in this area there is a collection of stone idols. Usually such idols they are mostly they were mostly common in the south area of Ukraine. In Odessa area, Kherson area, the Kyrgyz area. But also in Kamianets-Podilskyi there were some of them and it means some tribes how to say built up very actively here them here too. Moreover there are some inscriptions in English so foreigners also can visit this museum without Ukrainian speaking guide. So and around the corner to next to the museum there is a ruins of Armenian church of Saint Nicholas. There are some rare photos how this church used to used to look like in the end of 18th, 19th and beginning of 20th century. So the church was very luxurious and big. But as you see on these photos Soviet communists came into power in Ukraine and they decided to destroy all the church including this one. So this church was destroyed in 1935 and only some front part remained as you see here on the video and also some basement of this church. Tower was not destroyed but even lately in 1976 it was how to say renovated by Soviet authority. Lately they decided to keep this historical place. Some entrance to former church basement. I don't recommend to enter there. Also you can climb up by the way the tower itself is closed for visiting but you can climb up to this the rest of this facade part here to make some photos and videos from the height of this.