Grotto of Saint Onuphrius, Ulashkivtsi

The Grotto of Saint Onuphrius (Ukrainian: Грот святого Онуфрія) is a unique geological monument of nature, archeology, and history of the left bank of Middle Podnistrovia.

It lies in the western outskirts of the village on the first floodplain terrace of the right bank of the Seret River, on a rocky travertine ledge of the mountain 4 meters below its top (Pid kliashtorom tract), above which is the monastery of the Basilian Fathers).

[1] It is mentioned in scientific publications by such Polish and Ukrainian researchers as Mieczysław Orłowicz,[2] Ivan Krypiakevych,[3] Bohdan Ridush[4] and others, who reported that there is a grotto associated with the cult of St.

[1] It has been established that 70 meters north of the grotto, in the slope of the ravine from which the spring flows (there is a figure of St. John the Baptist near it), a flint oblong-pyramidal plate made by chipping nucleos was found.

[1] In the spring of 2013, Volodymyr Dobrianskyi discovered and investigated a multilayered settlement 250–300 meters west of the grotto, located in the village suburb, which bears the toponymic name Khatky.

[1] In all likelihood, in pre-Christian times there was a pagan sanctuary here,[5] the existence of which is evidenced by a preserved limestone menhir that was specially brought here from a distance.