Attractions of Chernivtsi region

The original Orthodox Church of Saint Michael's in Vyzhnytsia is distinguished by its architecture in the Baroque style, uncharacteristic of Bukovyna churches.

Saint Michael's Church was built in 1924 by the architect Henrikh von Kosovskyi and originally had other domes. Its current appearance is the result of reconstruction after a fire that occurred in 1961 as a result of a lightning strike. The baths destroyed by fire were later restored in the Old Believer style - low and as if flattened.

Saint Michael's Church is an architectural monument of local importance. Belongs to the religious community of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

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 Nicholas was built at the beginning of the 20th century at the village cemetery of Vyzhenka.

The three-domed temple is made in the Hutsul style. Architectural details are hidden under a modern sheet metal coating.

Nearby is a stone chapel under a shingled roof, erected in honor of the abolition of serfdom in the Austrian Empire in 1848. Ancient inscriptions on the walls of the chapel tell about the difficult life of the Ukrainian peasantry under the oppression of serfdom.

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 Shymonovych barons in Dubivtsi was built in 1914. A small two-story manor house of light green color, designed in the Art Nouveau style.

In Soviet times, a village club was located here. Today, it is the building of the Dubivtsi Rural Council. Only a pond and a few old trees remind of the manor park.

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.