Attractions of Kalush district

The historical and memorial museum of Stepan Bandera was opened in the village of Staryi Uhryniv, where the ideologue of the Ukrainian national movement was born in 1909.

The Bandera family lived here from 1906 to 1933. The exposition reveals the environment in which Stepan Bandera grew up and was brought up, illustrates the life and activities of the leader of the OUN. Personal belongings, documents, photographs are presented.

A collection of Ukrainian banknotes of the 20th century is on display.

The historical and memorial museum of Stepan Bandera in Staryi Ughrynoiv is a branch of the Ivano-Frankivsk regional museum of the liberation struggle named after Stepan Bandera.

The city hall of Bolekhiv in its current form was built in 1863, although it was laid back in the 18th century.

Bolekhiv had the Magdeburg right since 1603 according to the privilege granted by the Polish king Sigismund III.

The city magistrate was stationed here on the corner of the central square. The small, elegant building of the Bolekhiv City Hall has a clock tower with a figured top.

Recently, the town hall was restored, new chimes of the work of modern Lviv master Oleksiy Burnaev were installed on the clock tower.

To this day, the town hall is used for its intended purpose - it houses the Bolekhiv City Council.

The "Angels Residence" Museum in Dolyna was opened in 2023 by a collector from the Luhansk Region, Olena Stetsenko.

During the large-scale Russian invasion, she was forced to leave her hometown of Kreminna. The exhibition was exhibited in different parts of Ukraine until it found a permanent place in Dolyna.

The exposition presents hundreds of different figurines of angels from all corners of Ukraine and from 37 other countries of the world. Professional and amatro works are made in more than 30 techniques.

The owner of the museum conducts tours, organizes photo sessions in romantic locations.

"Kalush Prison" Memorial Museum was established in 2013 in the basement of a 19th-century building, which housed judicial and investigative institutions during the Polish and German occupations, and during the Soviet regime, the repressive bodies of the NKVD and the KGB.

Many OUN and UPA activists were under arrest here. The exposition in the hall "Early-Middle of the 20th Century National Liberation Struggle History" tells about their activities in the Kalush region.

In the hall of archaeological finds, materials from excavations on the territory of the city are presented. In another hall, the interior of a city room of the middle of the 20th century is recreated. A separate exposition is devoted to the history of the Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian war. The basement is used as an exhibition space for thematic exhibitions.

The "Kalush Prison" Memorial Museum is one of the subdivisions of the Communal Institution "Museum and Exhibition Center of the Kalush City Council".

The Plast Camp-Museum "Sokil" in the village of Hrynkiv in the Ivano-Frankivsk region is the oldest stationary base of the National Scout Organization of Ukraine "Plast".

The camp was built in 1926 on the left bank of the Lymnytsia River, at the foot of Sokil Mount – on land near Osmoloda, donated by Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi for the development of plast movement.

Until 1939, dozens of boys and girls camped here every summer. The revival of the camp began in 1990, the buildings were restored according to the old drawings, a chapel was opened and a memorial cross was installed on the symbolic grave of the scouts who died in the struggle for the freedom of Ukraine.

Now the camp-museum "Sokil" is an active institution of children's recreation, sports and patriotic education. Excursions are possible only by prior agreement.

The Carpathian tram is an original narrow-gauge excursion route through the picturesque foothills of the Carpathians, which runs from Vyhoda to Senechiv.

It was opened in 2004 on the basis of a narrow-gauge railway created by Baron Leopold Popper fon Podhrahi at the end of the 19th century to service mountain logging. The width of the narrow track is 760 millimeters, which is almost 2 times smaller than the traditional European track.

The train includes a locomotive in which you can observe the driver's work, a closed car with comfortable seats, a cabriolet car, and an open platform. Along the route, the train crosses 4 bridges.

Stops are planned near the bridge over the Myzunka River, the source of mineral water "Horyanka", the height of the Shirkovets swamp, Dubovy Kut station and near the cascade of the Myzunsky Waterfall. It is possible to organize picnics.

The Greek-Catholic church in the village of Staryi Uhryniv has a unique name - the Church of the Entry of Our Lord Jesus Christ into Jerusalem.

The wooden temple was founded in 1820, but in 1914 it burned down from a shell, and was later rebuilt (according to some reports, in 1924).

Andriy Bandera, the father of the UPA leader Stepan Bandera, served as a priest in the Staryi Uhryniv church, as evidenced by a commemorative plaque with a bas-relief.

The Bolekhiv City History Museum named after Roman Skvoriy is located in a small old building in the central part of the city, which is an architectural monument of local importance.

The museum is named after Bolekhiv local historian Roman Skvoriy, who founded this institution in 1967 (a memorial plaque has been installed).The basis of the exposition was the collection of objects collected by Skvoriy, related to the life and social activities of the well-known resident of Bolekhiv, activist of the gender movement Nataliya Kobrynska (since 2005, this selection is presented in a separate museum of Nataliya Kobrynska).

Currently, the museum's exposition consists of six sections: "History of the Bolekhiv city", "Boykos Room", "Development of industry, education and culture in the 20-30s of the 20th century", "Second World War, victims of Nazi and Bolshevik occupation", "National and spiritual revival of our region", "The struggle of the Ukrainian people for the establishment of their statehood".

Among the exhibits: fragments of handwritten liturgical books of the 17th century, a series of photographs of sculptor Mykhaylo Chereshnevsky and Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, notes of Taras Bobrynsky with Nataliya Kobrynska's own stamp, etc.

A monument to ukrainian sich riflemen, artist, sculptor and poet Mykhaylo Havrylko was erected near the museum.

The women's monastery of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family is located on the southern outskirts of the village of Hoshiv, not far from the Hoshiv Monastery of the Basilian Fathers.

The monastery was built at the end of the 20th century near Hoshiv Yasna Hill. The main building of the monastery, two-story, with a basement floor, is made of a chapel built along the axis of the main entrance and an inner semi-enclosed courtyard, around which are located a gallery and cells. On the first floor there is a refectory with a separate entrance, a library, cells, auxiliary and technical rooms. The second floor is occupied by cells, a chapel and other premises. The built-in chapel is completed by a high tented octagonal covering, which is harmoniously combined with the dome of the temple on Yasna Hill and the surrounding landscape.

The rocks of Dovbush in the Bubnyshche tract, which have long amazed people with their fantastic forms, are called the Carpathian Sphinxes.

A group of rock remains up to 80 meters high is scattered in the middle of a beech-spruce forest near the village of Bubnyshche on an area of 100 hectares. The massif of sandstone rocks about 200 meters wide and 1 kilometer long was formed more than 70 million years ago at the bottom of a warm sea.

In pre-Christian times, there was a pagan sanctuary here. Probably, in the 13th century, during the reign of King Danylo Halytskyi, a rock fortress was created here, which withstood the Mongol-Tatar invasion and lasted until the 16th century.

In the middle of the 18th century, opryshka rebels were active in this area, and in 1743, the camp of the detachment of the legendary people's avenger Oleksa Dovbush was located in the rock caves, which is where the current name comes from.

The rocks of Dovbush are a complex natural monument of national importance and are part of the Polyanytsky Regional Landscape Park. Many climbing routes of different difficulty categories are laid out on the rocks, and climbing competitions are held regularly.

The exhibition hall of the Communal Institution "Museum and Exhibition Center of Kalush City Council" was opened in 1991.

The institution presents the work of Ukrainian and foreign artists: painting, graphics, sculpture, decorative art.

Symposiums on various types of arts, demonstrations of embroidered clothes, presentations, charity and book fairs, tourist and industrial exhibitions take place here. In particular, an exhibition of antiquities of the Slobozhanshchyna was held by the ethnofoundation "Rid" from the city of Kramatorsk.

The Hoshiv Transfiguration Monastery of the Basilian Fathers is a place of mass pilgrimage of Greek Catholics from various countries.

The first historical mention of the monastery near Hoshiv dates back to 1509. Initially, the Hoshiv Monastery was located in the "Chorny Dilok" tract, but in the 17th century it was burned down by the Tatars, and the monastery was rebuilt on Yasna Hill, where it is still located today.

In 1835-1842, the wooden buildings of the monastery were dismantled and stone ones were built. In 1842, the construction of the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord, which has survived to this day, was completed.

The monastery flourished during the time of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi.

Before the First World War, the Hoshiv monastery was considered one of the largest spiritual centers of Galicia. But since 1939, persecution of Greek Catholic monks and attempts to close the monastery began. It was able to hold out until 1950, when it was completely liquidated. The premises housed an orphanage, then an army warehouse, then a recreation center.

In the early 1990s, the monastery was revived. The monastery premises and the church were renovated thanks to the donations of believers. German restorers restored 5 large canvases of the 18th century, created 15 new paintings. The electronic bells of the Hoshiv monastery are the only ones in Ukraine.

The main shrine is the miracle-working icon of the Mother of God of Hoshiv (18th century; copy of the Chenstokhova icon), which is called the "Queen of the Carpathians". The icon was crowned in 2009 by Pope Benedict XVI.

The Ivan Franko Family House Museum in Kalush is located at the exit from the city in the direction of Ivano-Frankivsk. This area of the city was once a separate village of Pidhirky, where the family of Onufriy Franko, the brother of the writer Ivan Franko, lived since 1904. The writer himself also often visited his brother's estate.

A two-story house, built in 1935 by the son of Onufriy Franko, Omelyan, has been preserved. In 1992, Omelyan's daughter Oksana Franko initiated the transformation of the house into a museum.

Letters and other family documents, household items, clothes, paintings are stored in seven exhibition halls. In "Franko Room" original things of Onufry Franko's family are presented, in particular, a unique collection of embroideries and household items. On the second floor, you can see a rare grand piano and antique household items that have been preserved since Onufriy Franko's family moved. 

The Ivan Franko Family House Museum is one of the subdivisions of the Communal Institution "Museum and Exhibition Center of the Kalush City Council".

The Kalushchyna Ethnographic Museum was created in 1994 at the Higher Vocational School No. 7 of the Kalush city on the initiative of teacher Valeriy Serdyuk.

The exposition presents the ethnographic collections of objects of traditional culture of Boykivshchyna and Prykarpattia collected by students and teachers, in particular, household and artistic objects of the 18th-20th centuries. In the section "Folk crafts and crafts" products of pottery, weaving, and blacksmithing are presented.

The collection of agricultural implements tells about ancient methods of farming and animal husbandry. The interior of a village house of the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century is reproduced.

There are many collections of embroidery, folk clothes, artistic products of folk crafts. In the section "Sacred monuments of Boykivshchyna" church antiquities of the 18th-20th centuries are presented.

The Kalushchyna Local Lore Museum is one of the subdivisions of the Communal Institution "Museum and Exhibition Center of the Kalush City Council". It was opened in 1997 in the building of the former Jewish community, which is an architectural monument of the first half of the 20th century.

The basis of the exposition is the archaeological monuments of Kalushchyna, ancient documents, old church prints, works of fine art, old photographs, materials on the history of bell-making, household items, etc.

An art gallery is located in the same room.

The Museum and Exhibition Center also includes the Memorial Museum "Kalush Prison", the memorial complex "Kryivka of the Cheremosh", the Franko Family House-Museum and an exhibition hall.