Attractions of Kalush district

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 Ukrainian People's House was built in Kalush in 1880. The building in the Art Nouveau style with elements of classicism is L-shaped, with a dome at the corner.

The People's House was the center of Kalush Ukrainian culture. In 1884, the writer Ivan Franko spoke here at the meeting of the literary circle, as evidenced by the commemorative plaque.

During Soviet times, the building housed a district cultural center. It is located next to the church of Saint Valentine.

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 Greek Catholic Church of Saint Archangel Michael was built in Kalush in 1910-1913. The previous temple, built in 1771, was wooden.

For the new brick church, the architect Vasyl Nahirnyi, according to one of the versions, took as a basis the project of the Church of the Transfiguration in Lviv, and the project was implemented by the architect Teodor Melnychuk with the assistance of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi.

Saint Michael's Church was built in the traditional Byzantine style with 3 naves and a small vestibule, topped by 5 domes. On both sides of the portal there are two columns with towers in the form of small domes. The five-tiered iconostasis was made in 1927 by Ivan Lenil, a Bolekhiv carver. Artistic polychrome paintings were made in 1936-38 by a group of artists from Lviv under the leadership of Pavlo Kovzhun and Mykhaylo Osinchuk.

During Soviet times, the Church of Saint Michael in Kalush belonged to the Russian Orthodox Church. In 1990, it was returned to the parish of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

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.

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 Samar city.

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.

The kryivka (hideout) of UPA fighters was restored in 2018 in Playek tract near the village of Hrynkiv.

In 1947, there was an underground bunker at this place, which was used by the propaganda department of the Regional Leadership of the OUN of the Carpathian Territory. On November 5, 1947, ten rebels led by Geletiy Leon "Tysa" fought here with a large squad of NKVD punishers. Almost all of them died.

Local activists found the site of the battle in the forest and rebuilt the kryivka according to the preserved drawings.

The room-museum of Volodymyr Ivasyuk was opened in 2000 in the premises of the Broshniv-Osada children's art school, which since 2002 also bears the name of the Hero of Ukraine Volodymyr Ivasyuk.

Among the exhibits are a large collection of photographs, handwritten collections of poems and songs by the author, memories of his father and sister about the outstanding composer, as well as memories of his contemporaries – Nazariy Yaremchuk, Vasyl Zinkevych, Lyudmyla Pakhmutova, Rostyslav Bratun, Roman Kudlyk.

A bas-relief of Ivasyuk is installed on the facade of the art school.

The water mill on the Limnytsya River was built in the village of Yasen in 1930.

In 2017, the non-profit organization "Ukrainian Women's Guard" leased a non-working for several dozen years Yasensky mill and restored it with the help of the local community. An operational bread mill-museum is being created on its base, where the attributes of the traditional baking art of Prykarpattya will be exhibited.

With the support of the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Ukraine, a social bakery was opened next to the Yasen mill, the profits from which are directed to the further development of the project and to the needs of Ukrainian soldiers and their families, as well as a training center for the wives of fallen soldiers, where women are taught entrepreneurship.