Nyrkov (village)

The village of Nyrkov is located on the left bank of the Dzhurin River , upstream at a distance of 4.5 km is the village of Podillya , downstream at a distance of 0.5 km is the village of Nagoryany .

• 1714 is the date of foundation.

• School I-II art.
• Kindergarten.
• House of Culture.
• Outpatient clinic.

• Near the village are the ruins of the ancient fortress city of Chervonograd. Chervonograd was first mentioned in chronicles as Castrum rubrum (Red Castle) in the 9th century. Until the XIII century in Chervonograd there was a castle (most likely a wooden one), referred to as the subject of disputes between the princes of Kievan Rus. In 1240, Chervonograd, like other cities in Podil, was subjected to the Tatar-Mongol invasion. In 1313, Podillia was captured by the Lithuanian prince Olgerd, and the whole region passed to the Koryatovich brothers. Lithuanians strengthen the castle, and in 1331 a Dominican monastery was founded in the city. In 1340, Casimir the Great conquered the city. In 1434 Chervonograd receives the status of a royal city, and in 1448 - Magdeburg Law. During this period, trade and crafts developed in the city, Dominicans returned to the city. At the beginning of the 17th century, the Danilovichi, who owned the surrounding lands, erected a castle fortified with ramparts on the site of a wooden fortress. In 1615, a church was erected next to the castle, built at the expense of the four Lisetskys. In 1621–1672, Chervonograd, together with the surrounding lands, was under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. The city fell into decay, and by the time the Ottoman occupation ended, Chervonograd was only a small village.

Until the first partition of Poland in 1772, Chervonogradsky Castle was the center of Chervonogrodsky Povet - one of the three Povets of Podolsk Voivodeship. After the partition of Poland, the city ceded to Austria, lost its significance, and began to belong to the Zaleschytsky district of the Ternopil Voivodeship.
In 1778, Chervonograd passed into the possession of Prince Karol Poninsky, who buys it from the Austrian government. In 1820, Poninsky erects a magnificent castle-palace according to the project of the architect Julian Zakharovich on the remains of a dilapidated castle. The son of Karol Poninsky, Kalist Poninsky continues to build the palace, including rebuilding the surviving castle towers, while the remains of the old castle are dismantled to the ground. Around the new castle-palace, a park in the Italian style is decorated, decorated with fountains and flower beds.
In 1835, for the Poninsky family tomb, Gelena Poninskaya orders a sculpture from the famous sculptor Bertel Torvaldsen in memory of the dead children. Seven years later, in 1842, the master ends his work. Currently, the sculpture is stored in the Lviv Art Gallery. In 1846, Helena Poninskaya opened in Chervonograd the monastery of the Sisters of Mercy, who were engaged in the education of orphans and took care of the sick. In the early 1940s, about 500 people lived in Chervonograd. On February 2-3, 1945, the OUN-UPA fighters engaged in battle with Polish self-defense units located in the city. As a result of the battle, more than 50 Poles died, the castle received significant damage. After the war, the city did not recover and disappeared from geographical maps.

In the second half of the 20th century, by order of the head of the collective farm of the village of Nyrkiv, located near the ruins of Chervonograd, the palace was partially dismantled into building materials for the construction of a pig farm. In the 1970s, near the ruins of Chervonograd, a children's camp “Camomile” was built. In 2003, the construction of a monastery belonging to the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church began nearby.

• Mass grave of Soviet soldiers.