Attractions of Kalush district

The building of the great synagogue in Bolekhiv was built in 1789-1808.

Before the Second World War, more than half of the population of Bolehov consisted of Jews, but almost all of them were exterminated by the Nazis.

In Soviet times, the synagogue premises were used as a club. The building is currently in a state of disrepair.

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 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 Cathedral of the Holy Women of Myrrh was built in Bolekhiv in 1908 on the site of an old wooden church.

The temple is built with three domes, one of the domes is large, and the other two are slightly smaller and absolutely identical to each other. Church windows are made in an elongated arched form, which gives them elegance. To the right of the central entrance to the church is a fairly large chapel built in the same style as the church. Outside, the church has a gray color, and its central entrance is decorated with three icon paintings. The domes on the church also have an unusual color: the upper part of each dome is painted blue, and the lower part is gold.

The priest Ivan Ozarkevych, who came to Bolekhiv in 1884, was engaged in the construction of the new church. In 1909, the building of the new church was consecrated by Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi.

In Soviet times, the church did not function and was closed to parishioners. In the spring of 2009, in honor of the celebration of the centenary of the church, the church of the Holy Myrrh-bearers received the status of a cathedral. Belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Cathedral of the Holy Women of Myrrh is an architectural monument of local importance.

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 Kalush town hall was built in Kalush in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, opposite the Saint Valentyne's Church.

The city of Kalush used Magdeburg law since 1549. The first stone town hall existed in the 17th-18th centuries, but its location is unknown.

The current building of the city municipality is built in the style of classicism with elements of modernism, has an L-shaped shape. The main decoration is a low clock tower.

Until 1939, the Kalush magistrate sat here, and during the Soviet times, the district committee of the party moved here. In the early 1970s, the premises were transferred to the Department of Agriculture. Since 2005, the building has been undergoing long-term reconstruction, and its condition remains in a state of disrepair.

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". 

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.

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.

Rozhniativ Local Lore Museum "Boykivshchyna" is located in an ancient building built in Rozhniativ by the Ukrainian count Dumka at the beginning of the 20th century.

In Soviet times, there was a court here, then a museum of the artist Volodymyr Kharchenko.

Currently, the museum exhibits about 400 objects that acquaint visitors with the history of the region over the past two millennia, folk household and sacred art of Boyko region, and the lives of prominent people.

Part of the collection of paintings by the artist Volodymyr Kharchenko is kept in the museum.

The memorial complex "Kryivka Cheremosh" is located on the territory of the Kalush Central District Hospital, which is located on the residential area "Pidhirka".

It was here during the Second World War that there was an secret bunker of the OUN underground group headed by Ivan Mahas (pseudonym "Cheremosh"), which was engaged in printing propaganda materials. All six rebels died on September 6, 1945 in a battle with a special unit of the NKVD. The remains of the shelter were found and investigated by Kalush activists.

In 2017, the ceremonial opening of the reconstructed kryivka (hiding place) and a memorial sign in honor of the dead underground members of the OUN took place.

The memorial complex "Kryivka Cheremosh" is one of the subdivisions of the Communal Institution "Museum and Exhibition Center of Kalush City Council".

The spring of healing mineral water in the "Shandra" tract is located right next to the R-21 highway on the road from Dolyna to Mizhhirya.

Hydrogen sulphide waters are a minor group of mineral waters found mainly in the foothills of the Carpathians. They are divided into three subgroups: sulfate-hydrogen sulfide, chloride-hydrogen sulfide, and bicarbonate-hydrogen sulfide. Sulfate-hydrogen sulfide is water with a sulfate-calcium composition, with a content of 78 mg/l of total and 55-65 mg/l of free hydrogen sulfide.

Near the spring there is an area for recreation and picnics.

The Museum of the Ukrainian writer Nataliya Kobrynska is a branch of the Bolekhiv City History Museum.

The initiative for its creation belongs to Bolekhiv local historian Roman Skvoriy, who for a long time collected materials about the life and social activities of this famous activist of the gender movement, the founder of the Society of Ruthenian Women.

Nataliya Kobrynska lived in Bolekhiv for the last 30 years of her life. Here she wrote most of her literary and critical works on current topics of those times, as well as several works for the future collection "Tales".

The museum is located in the former building of the synagogue. The following sections are presented in the exposition: "Beleluya", "Bolekhiv during the time of Nataliya Kobrynska", "Nataliya Kobrynska in the circle of contemporaries", "Memorial corner", "Bolekhiv honors the memory of the writer", "Nataliya Kobrynska and Ukrainian Sich Riflemens", "Nataliya Kobrynska and Ivan Franko".

A monument to Nataliya Kobrynska was erected in front of the museum.