Attractions of Kolomyia district

The Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Immaculate Virgin Mary in Horodenka became the first monumental work of the famous Italian architect Bernard Meretin on Ukrainian lands.

He was invited to Horodenka for this work by the influential Polish tycoon Mykola Potoski. It was also Meretin's first joint work with the brilliant sculptor Ivan Pinzel. The iconostasis, the pulpit, the main altar, above which the image of the Mother of God is today, and two small altars belong to Pinzel's hand. After that, Meretin and Pinzel fulfilled several more orders of Potoski in Horodenka and Buchach.

In the 30s of the 19th century, a bell tower was built outside the church, and a more elegant wrought iron fence was installed around the church instead of a defensive wall.

Several of Pinzel's works from the church in Horodenka are exhibited in the sculptor's museum in Lviv, but a stele with Pinzel's original sculpture of the Virgin Mary has been preserved in front of the church.

Nearby is the monastery building.

The building of the Kolomyia City Hall is located in the corner of the market square, facing away from other buildings. The 33-meter-high clock tower of the city hall dominates the low-rise buildings of the central part of the city.

The three-story building of the city magistrate of Kolomyia was built in 1877 on the site of the burned down wooden town hall. Made in the neo-renaissance style. The tower bears the coat of arms of the city and chimes with three dials. In 1880, Ivan Franko spent several hours under arrest in the premises of the city hall, who was detained by the gendarmerie post for violating the passport regime.

As in the old days, the premises are now occupied by the city government - the Kolomyia City Council is located here.

The Torhovytsia Literary and Memorial Museum of Les Martovych was founded in 1971 on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the satirist writer.

Oleksa Martovych was born in 1871 in the family of a village clerk in the village of Torhovytsia, near Horodenka. He went to school here. He started writing while studying at the Kolomyia Gymnasium. Together with Vasyl Stefanyk and Mark Cheremshyna, Les Martovych was a member of the so-called Pokuttya group of novelists. The high-relief "Pokuttya Trinity" greets visitors in the lobby of the museum.

During his lifetime, he published 27 short stories about peasant life, written in the Pokuttia dialect of the Ukrainian language. Lifetime editions of the writer's works are presented in the exposition.

You can also see a model of the house in which the writer was born, his portrait by the artist Mykola Varennya, some personal belongings, photos, documents. The writer's office is reproduced according to the photo.

In one of the museum halls, the interior of a peasant house of the beginning of the 20th century is recreated with authentic elements of decoration and household items. A bust of the writer is installed in front of the museum.

The Literary and Memorial Museum of Les Martovych is a branch of the Ivano-Frankivsk Local Lore Museum.

The Museum of the Liberation Struggle of the Pokuttya Region was opened in Zabolotiv in 2007 for the 65th anniversary of the formation of the UPA.

The exhibition is housed in five halls. The exhibits are conventionally divided into two sections. The historical department tells about the armed struggle of the Pokuttya people against the occupation regimes in the 1920s - 1950s. In particular, the reconstruction of the situation of the rebel bunker is presented.

Original documents and photographs illuminate the history of the liberation movement in Pokuttya.

In addition, the museum has a small ethnographic exposition.

The Sniatyn Liberation Struggles Museum is named after OUN-UPA Colonel Vasyl Andrusiak (Gregit-Rizun), who was born in Snyatin in 1915. Even in his youth, he became the founder of the OUN branch in the Sniatyn gymnasium, and in 1941 he headed the district leadership of the OUN in Sniatyn.

The Andrusiak Museum was founded in 1995. It is located on the second floor of the Sniatyn town hall.

The museum exposition highlights the theme of the national liberation struggle of the Ukrainian people of the 20th century and the state-building processes on the territory of the Pokuttia region. In particular, here you can find out about the activities of the public association "Sich", about the events of the First World War and the participation of the inhabitants of the region in the ranks of the USSR and UGA, about the social life of the inhabitants of the region during the Polish, Bolshevik and German occupations, about the armed struggle of the OUN-UPA with the German and Russian invaders.

A separate exhibition is devoted to the life and exploits of OUN-UPA colonel Vasyl Andrusiak (pseudonyms "Gregit", "Rizun", "Rizbyar", etc.), who was originally from Sniatyn.

The Pyadyky Literary Museum in the village of Pyadyky near Kolomyia is named after the Ukrainian writer Myroslav Irchan, who was born here in 1897. His father's house under a thatched roof has been preserved to this day.

More than a hundred exhibits tell about the life and creative path of the writer. In the literary part of the museum, the publications from his lifetime are presented, the author and translator of which is Myroslav Irchan.

A bust of Myroslav Irchan is installed next to the museum premises.

Kolomyia Lyceum named after Mykhaylo Hrushevskyi is located in the former building of the Ursuline sisters' monastery, built in 1907.

In 1892, deputies of the Galician Diet decided to open a Ukrainian gymnasium in Kolomyia. Initially, only the Ukrainian class was created at the Polish gymnasium (the Ukrainian writer Vasyl Stefanyk studied there). The public demanded the separation of Ukrainian classes from Polish classes, and this happened in 1900. At the same time, the gymnasium got its own premises (the northern wing of the Polish gymnasium was completed).

In 1939, the Ukrainian gymnasium was closed, and a secondary school was opened in its premises. In 1990, the regional executive committee decided to revive the Kolomyia humanitarian gymnasium. It was placed in a complex of buildings of the monastery of the Ursuline Sisters, where there was a private female gymnasium before the Second World War.

Today it is the Mykhaylo Hrushevsky Lyceum in Kolomyia.

The Sniatyn Literary and Memorial Museum of Marko Cheremshyna was opened in 1949 in the house where the writer lived in 1912-1927.

He bought this classicist villa from Sniatyn lawyer Solomon Markuszon. The exposition includes about 4,000 objects.

The writer's personal belongings and books, his photographs, articles and lifetime editions of his works, as well as a personal library, are stored in eight exhibition rooms.

The interior of the writer's office, where he worked and received visitors, has been preserved – a wardrobe, a table, writing utensils, a kerosene lamp. In the living room there is the most rare exhibit – an old Viennese grand piano, which was played by the writer's wife Nataliya Semanyuk.

Since 1999, the creative club named after Marko Cheremshyna has been operating at the museum.

The Greek-Catholic Church of the Miracle of Saint Archangel Michael was built in the center of Sniatyn in 1880-1886 on the initiative of the local priest Teofil Kobrynskyi, the husband of the famous writer and activist of the gender movement Nataliya Kobrynska.

The monument to national hero Oleksa Dovbush was erected in 1971 at the entrance to the village of Pechenizhyn, where he was born in 1700.

According to legend, the house of his father, shepherd Vasyl Dovbush, was located in the Kalynnyk tract, where another memorial was erected in 1988.

In 1738, Dovbush led a rebel detachment of opryshks, which operated first in the area of Pechenizhyn and the adjacent Yablunivsky Pass, and then in almost the entire territory of the Ukrainian Carpathians. Opryshki terrorized the local nobles and robbed rich landowners, distributing the loot to the peasants, for which they earned the fame of the people's avengers, and the tragic death of Dovbush at the hands of a traitor created for him the halo of a national hero and martyr.

The monument to Oleksa Dovbush was made by the sculptor Valentyn Borysenko in the form of a large bust of the rebel leader with an ax that seems to grow out of his native land.

The Church of the Mother of God of the Holy Scapular was built in 1721.

The Roman Catholic parish in Sniatyn was founded in the 15th-16th centuries. Initially, the temple was wooden, rebuilt several times. In its current form, it was rebuilt and consecrated in 1857.

Restoration was carried out in 1928-1935.

In 1946, the church was closed by the Soviet authorities, and the monks left for Poland, taking with them the icon of the Mother of God of the saint. Scapulary.

Since 1993, the church has been operating again.

National Museum of Hutsulshchyna & Pokuttya Folk Art named after Yosaphat Kobrynskyi is located in the premises of the former People's House, built in 1902 at the expense of the Ukrainian community of the Kolomyia.

The Viennese Neo-Renaissance building was designed by local architects who studied in Krakow.

The creation of the People's House with a theater and museum in 1880 was initiated by the local priest Yosaphat Kobrynsky, who played an important role in the formation of Ukrainian national identity in Pokuttya.

The museum was opened in 1926 by the efforts of his nephew Volodymyr Kobrynskyi, having survived the difficult Polish period, the German occupation, Soviet repression and post-perestroika devastation.

Now the collection includes 50,000 exhibits representing all kinds of traditional folk art of Hutsuls and inhabitants of Pokuttya: wood carving, blacksmithing, pottery, weaving, embroidery, etc. Widely presented samples of traditional clothing of mountaineers, Hutsul jewelry made of non-ferrous and precious metals, weapons opryshki and others.

There is a permanent exhibition of tapestries by Mykhaylo Bilas.

Branches of the National Museum of Hutsulshchyna & Pokuttia Folk Art are the Museum of Easter Painting Museum "Pysanka" in Kolomyia, the Kosiv Museum of Folk Art and Life of Hutsul Region, the Carpathian Region Ethnography and Ecology Museum in Yaremche.

Nicholas Assumption Cathedral in Kolomyia was built according to the project of Kolomyia architect Viktor Mytsay at the end of the 20th century.

The author of the murals is the Ternopil artist Ivan Holoshyn.

On January 13, 2019, the Nicholas Assumption Cathedral changed its subordination from the Moscow Patriarchate to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

"People's House" in Kolomyia was built in 1892.

Initially, it housed a savings bank. Ukrainian artists often performed in its conference hall: Solomiya Krushelnytska, Mariya Zankovetska, Mykola Lysenko, Vasyl Stefanyk, Nataliya Kobrynska, concerts and cultural evenings of the local intelligentsia were often held.

Nowadays, the "People's House" is the city's cultural and artistic center. It celebrates state and professional holidays, holds thematic evenings, lectures, conferences, concerts, performances of folk groups, exhibitions, and festivals.

The Museum of Sacred Art named after Bishop Mykola Simkaylo opened in Kolomyia on March 22, 2014.

The museum is located in the lower church of the Transfiguration Cathedral. It was created with the blessing of Bishop Vasil Ivasyuk through the efforts of the church's fathers and with the professional help of the staff of the National Museum of Folk Art of Hutsul region and Pokuttya.

The museum exhibits works of sacred art that belonged to the bishop of the Kolomyia-Chernivtsi eparchy of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church Mykola Simkaylo (1952-2013). The bishop collected a unique collection of church art all his life.

The collection consists of icons, wooden sculptures, handmade crosses and liturgical books. Many of them are drawn by world-famous artists, and they are written by folk masters of Bukovyna, Galicia, Pokuttia, as well as Volhynia. The temporal dimension of the exhibited works of the 17th - 20th centuries.