Attractions of Kalush district

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 Dolyna Museum of Local Lore "Boykivshchyna" was opened in 2003 thanks to the world-famous charitable foundation of Tetyana i Omelyan Antonovychy (USA).

The exhibition tells about the nature, history and culture of Boykivshchyna, an ethnographic region on the northern and southern slopes of the Carpathians.

Of greatest interest is the reconstruction of the exterior and interior of a Boyki house - a typical Boyki dwelling consisting of a large living room (skylight), a corridor (sine) and a room for livestock. Authentic furniture, work tools, household items and traditional Boyki clothes are collected here.

There are also departments of the nature of this region of the Carpathians, the history of the city of Dolyna, Boykiv way of life and ethnography, sacred art.

The memorial room of the Antonovychy family contains materials that tell about their life in the Dolyna, their emigration to the USA, and their philanthropic activities.

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.

The large wooden Church of the Nativity of Christ is located in the center of Rozhniativ.

Built in 1900.

Although the temple is considered an architectural monument of local importance, now it is covered with plastic lining, which has lost its authentic appearance.

Ostrich farm "Savanna" in the village of Lovahy in the Ivano-Frankivsk region breeds and sells African ostriches. It is one of the largest ostrich farms in Ukraine.

Among the fields of activity of the farm: green tourism, production of products from ostrich skin, production of souvenir products, mini golf, shooting range.

On the farm "Savanna" there are tours conducted by the owner of the farm. During the excursion, you can see the entire process of ostrich development from an egg in an incubator to an adult ostrich.

The OUN-UPA History Museum was opened in 1995 in the premises of the Broshniv-Osada Lyceum. More than 500 exhibits were collected for the museum exhibition by the students and teachers of the lyceum with the participation of veterans of national liberation struggles.

The exposition tells about the history of Broshniv, the activities of the OUN and UPA in this region, the tragic fate of the rebels in exile. Among the original exhibits: a collection of ideological materials of the UPA, the annals "Red viburnum", the insurgent leaflet "What the UPA stands for", embroidery "Prison souvenir of 1946".

A model of the kryivka (hideout) in which the insurgents hid was presented.

The Church of the Reformers is located in the very center of the village of Tsvitova.

The temple in neo-gothic style was built in 1938 according to the project of the architect Vavzynets Daichak. The structure of the church is decorated with a large number of arches, ledges, large and small spires. The church is decorated with wooden arched doors in the spirit of the Middle Ages, narrow rectangular window openings typical of defensive structures.

The bell tower stands on a platform with numerous arched openings and culminates in a tower with a central wooden Gothic spire in the form of a pointed cone and smaller cones around it.

The metropolitan residence "Cedar Chambers" (Kedrovi Palaty), also known as "Dacha Andrey Sheptytskyi", is a recreational complex in the Pidlyute tract on the Limnytsya River, which is considered the cleanest in Europe.

In 1892, the Lviv Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Sylvester Sembratovych, bought 6 hectares of land on the slopes of Mount Lyuta, next to healing hydrogen sulfide springs, and built a summer metropolitan residence there.

The house got the name "Cedar Chambers" because it was built from cedars that still grow in this area.

Three pools were equipped under the symbolic names of Sylvester, Andriy and Titus. Aristocrats from all over Austria-Hungary, and later Poland, came to the Pidlyute tract for rest and treatment.

During the First World War, the residence burned down, but it was soon restored by Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi. 5 houses were built, in which up to 400 people could live at the same time. Opposite the residence was a stone grotto on which a cross rose.

In Soviet times, the dacha was used by the party elite as a hunting lodge.

In 1999, the "Cedar Chambers" were returned to the Ivano-Frankivsk Diocese of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. Currently, it is the diocesan retreat center "Urochyshche Pidlyute".

The wooden church of Saint Nicholas was built in 1770.

It is located in the center of Krasne village.

Currently, the log house is covered with plastic lining. The modern brick belfry is located northeast of the church.

The wooden church of Saint Nicholas with a bell tower in the village of Khotyn (now part of Kalush) was built in 1888 by craftsmen from the village of Perehynsk (Rozhnyativ district).

in 1961, the Saint Nicholas Church was closed, in 1970, a museum of atheism began to operate in the premises. Only in 1989, the Church of Saint Nicholas was re-consecrated as a temple of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

The large "Dmytro" bell, donated to the church by Yanush Felchynsky in 1991, is installed in the belfry.

Behind the gate of the church is a symbolic grave of fighters for the freedom of Ukraine.

The Roman Catholic Church of Saint Valentine in Kalush was built in 1841-1845 on the site of the wooden Catholic Church of Saint Mary Magdalene, which has been known since 1464.

The new brick church is made in the Neo-Gothic style. In 1786, a new tower was built. In 1910-1912, a major reconstruction was carried out: side chapels were completed, stairs were built in front of the facade, new main and side altars were made, etc.

From 1954 to 1999, the temple was closed, and a gymnasium was placed in it. For some time he belonged to the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church.

Currently, the church of Saint Valentine in Kalusha is active. In 2008, the last restoration was carried out, which returned the temple to its authentic appearance.

Count Skarbek's castle (Skarbko) in Rozhniativ can be considered a tourist attraction only with a great stretch, since almost nothing remains from its medieval history in appearance.

Probably, the first castle in Rozhniativ was built in the 15th century. It had two towers and a defensive moat. In the 18th century, Count Rafayil Skarbek of the coat of arms "Abdank", who received these lands as a dowry for his wife Yuliya Mahdalena Benoe, rebuilt the castle in the neo-Gothic style, turning it into a grand magnate's residence.

Later, the district court and the police department were located in the castle premises. During Soviet times, the building was almost completely rebuilt once again. Only the decoration of the hexagonal corner tower has survived from the neo-Gothic decor. Currently, the building houses a branch of the National Police of Ukraine.

The wooden Orthodox Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord was built in 1938 in the center of the village of Novytsia, a hamlet of Staryi Uhryniv, with donations from parishioners.

The Transfiguration Church in Novytsia was the largest wooden church in Galicia. In Ukraine, it was inferior in size only to the Trinity Cathedral in the city of Novomoskovsk.

On the night of June 11, 2018, the temple burned down as a result of a fire. Currently, the church is being rebuilt.

The Museum of Ukrainians Deportations in the 20th Century was founded in 2019 in the urban-type village of Broshniv-Osada. It is located in the oldest preserved building of the town, built in 1927 for the administration of the forestry enterprise of Yozef Hlezinher.

An exposition is currently being formed, which will tell about the life of people during their stay in the Broshniv-Osada detention center. A special exhibit is a four-axle wooden carriage of a freight train in which the Soviet authorities transported people to Siberia.

The museum is preparing for opening.