Attractions of Chernivtsi region

The "new" Rus (that is, Ruthenian - Ukrainian) church of Saint Nicholas was built by architects Valter Shtyubkhen-Kirkhner, Yozef Lener and Virdzhyl Ionesku, modeled on the masterpiece of Romanian medieval architecture - the mid-14th century royal church in Kurtya-de-Ardzhesh.

It is nicknamed the "drunken church" for its original "twisted" baths.

During Soviet times, the Nicholas Church remained active (it was the cathedral and the residence of the bishop), thanks to which the original interior was preserved.

It is now used by parishioners of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The Saint Nicholas Church is located in the center of Putyla, next to the museum-manor of Yuriy Fedkovych, who at one time allocated land and money for its construction.

It is a typical Bukovyna three-tiered church. The wooden church has a rectangular vestibule, a square nave and a faceted altar, covered by three almost identical tops, the middle of which is slightly higher and more slender than the others. On both sides of the nave, faceted-shaped parapets are attached, which gives the temple an almost cruciform appearance.

The two-tiered belfry, the walls of which are also covered with wood, and the top of the tent with sheet metal, harmoniously complements the church and together with it forms a whole temple architectural ensemble.

The wooden church of Saint Paraskeva in Ust-Putyla was built in 1881.

It belongs to the type of three-part, three-headed temple common in the Bukovyna Carpathians. The monument embodies all the characteristic features of this type: faceted nave and apse and rectangular nave; widely spaced, almost equal in height tent domes with a pronounced interception at the base, sheathed with shingles, with a slope inward, girdled by a shallow belting of the wall. The folds of the tops in the interior contribute to the vertical opening of the space. The entire massive volume of log cabins turns into domes of heads, repeating the contours of the mountains surrounding the valley.

The belfry is located to the west of the church, vertically sheathed with tesserae, eight on four, with a tent ending.

The Monastery of Saint Righteous Anna was founded in Vashkivtsi in 1993 on Mount Anna, revered by the people.

According to oral traditions, there was once a women's monastery here, founded in honor of the brave and rebellious girl Anna, who escaped Turkish dishonor on the mountain. A healing spring appeared at this place. In the middle of the 19th century, the first wooden temple was built, which burned down at the beginning of the 20th century.

After Ukraine gained its independence, the construction of the Saint Anne's Monastery began. The Cathedral of Saint Anna with the lower church of the Great Martyrs of the Maccabees, cells, utility buildings was built.

The Church of Saint Spyridon in Hertsa is a typical church of the Bukovyna architectural school.

Founded in 1807.

The church is brightly painted both outside and inside.

The Church of the Saints Apostles Peter and Paul in Vyzhnytsia was built in 1876 on the site of an old wooden church founded in 1812 by Polish immigrants.

The new stone church was built at the expense of the tycoon of Armenian origin Hryhoriy Ayvas.

In 1930, the wedding ceremony of Yuriy Fedkovych's parents took place in the Peter and Paul Church - the noblewoman Anna Dashkevycheva and the famous German climatologist Adalbert Hordynskyi-Fedkovych.

In 1946, after the arrival of Soviet power, the Peter and Paul Church was closed.

In the early 1990s, after Ukraine gained independence, the church was returned to the Roman Catholic community of Vyzhnytsia.

The wooden church of Saint Nicholas is the oldest building in Chernivtsi (restored after a fire in 1992). An architectural monument of national importance.

It is made in the typical Bukovyna log cabin (so-called cottage) style.

The Saint Nicholas Church is active and belongs to the parish of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The house at the intersection of Holovna and Sholom-Aleykhema streets, which resembles a ship in shape (in the Bukovyna dialect, "ship" is from the German schiff). The narrowed facade resembles the nose of a ship, the open area on the second floor is a deck, and the tower above the roof is a mast or pipe.

Urban legend says that the house was built by a local entrepreneur for his sailor brother, who was called to return home after many years of traveling across distant seas.

Shurdyn Pass is the highest mountain pass in Ukraine (1173 meters).

It passes through the Carpathian ridge of Rakov between the settlements of Berehomet and Seliatyn.

It is believed that this path was paved in 1914 by Russian troops under the command of General Oleksiy Brusylov. During the First World War, bloody battles with Austro-Hungarian troops took place in this part of the Carpathians, with Ukrainians fighting on both sides.

On the mass grave of fallen soldiers on the Shurdyn pass, the chapel of Archstrategist Mykhaylo was built.

The pass offers a wonderful panorama of the Bukovyna Carpathians.

The palace of the landowners Skybinetskyi (Skybnivsky) in Hlyboka is the most interesting architectural monument of this small Bukovyna town, although it has survived to our days in a rebuilt form.

The palace was founded in the 19th century (according to other sources, at the beginning of the 20th century) by the Polish tycoon Bronyslav Skybinetskyi, who moved to Hlyboka from the family estate in Dunaivtsi in 1874.

The complex-shaped three-story structure, after numerous reconstructions, now looks like an ordinary administrative building. Currently, it houses the children's department of the central district hospital.

The Historical Museum of the Sokyriany City Council of the Chernivtsi Region was opened in 2015.

The exposition in four halls tells about the history of Sokyrianshchyna and the whole Bessarabian-Bukovynian region from ancient times to the present day.

Among the exhibits are archeological artifacts and finds, icons, books and photographs, household items, utensils, clothes, household items. In particular, an adult mammoth tusk 1.6 m long and weighing 60 kg, found in 2008 on the banks of the Dniester near the village of Voloshkove, is presented. You can also see the flint products of primitive people from excavations of a Paleolithic site on the outskirts of the village of Molodove.

The Storozhynets City Hall was built in 1905.

It is considered the second highest in Bukovyna after Chernivtsi.

The main architectural element of the city hall is a two-story clock tower with an observation deck, where steep stairs lead.

As before, the town hall building is a symbol of local self-government in Storozhynets - it houses the city council.

The building of the Ukrainian People's House in Chernivtsi has been a center of national culture for over a hundred years.

The date 1884 is indicated on the facade - the year of foundation of the Ukrainian society "People's House". A two-story building was built for it in 1899.

The Ukrainian community in Chernivtsi has always been one of the largest. By the end of the 19th century it was inferior in number only to the Jewish one. Before the First World War, an active process of revival of the Ukrainian language and the national identity of Bukovyna Ruthenians, who recognized themselves as Ukrainians, took place in the city.

In the premises of the People's House, Ukrainian societies operated, periodicals were published, solemn events and meetings with outstanding figures of Ukrainian culture were held. Lesya Ukrayinka, Mykhaylo Hrushevsky, Ivan Franko and others performed here.

Now the building also belongs to the "Ukrainian People's House in Chernivtsi" society.

The viewing platform in the village of Khreshchatyk is located on a high cliff above the Dniester, from which the most fascinating panorama of the city of Zalishchyky, located on the opposite bank, girdled by a steep bend of the river, opens.

From here, the road bridge over the Dniester and the domes of the Khreshchatyk Monastery can be clearly seen.

The observation deck is not equipped.

The building of the Vyzhnytsia Town Hall is located in the center of the city, on the former Rynok  Square.

The two-story building of the city magistrate with a stylish decorative tower was built at the beginning of the 20th century. Throughout its existence, it performed administrative functions: it was a magistrate during Austrian times, a city hall during the Romanian occupation, a district administration during the Ukrainian statehood of 1918-1920, and a branch of the State Treasury during Independence. Today it is a city court.

In front of the town hall, there is a monument to Lukyan Kobylytsa, a member of the Austrian Parliament, the leader of the popular uprisings of 1843-1849.