Vyshnivets (Ukrainian: Вишнівець; Polish: Wiśniowiec) is a rural settlement in Kremenets Raion, Ternopil Oblast, western Ukraine.

[2] Vyshnivets is better known as a family estate of the Polish royal house of Wiśniowiecki (originally Ruthenian princes), which is known for switching from Eastern Orthodoxy to Catholicism (as part of Polonization) as well as the Cossack Hetman Dmytro "Baida" Vyshnevetsky, who established the first Zaporizhian Sich on the island of Small (Mala) Khortytsia on the Dnipro River in 1552 in defense of the lands.

[4] In the mid-1500s, one of the family's descendants, Dmytro Vyshnevetsky (1516-1563) established the Zaporozhian Cossack stronghold on the Small Khortytsia Island.

[4] Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the town was occupied by the Soviet Union until 1941.

The town was directly in the path of the German invasion of Russia in June 1941, following the repudiation by Germany of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact.

[4] On August 11–12, 1942, German troops and Ukrainian Auxiliary Police executed nearly 2,700 Jewish men, women and children.