Attractions of Verkhovyna district

The private museum of the film "Oleksa Dovbush" in Verkhovyna was opened in 2018 by local entrepreneurs and public activists Mykola Danylyuk and Volodymyr Sumaruk.

The exposition tells about the legendary Opryshky leader Oleksa Dovbush, whose rebel unit operated in Prykarpattia in the middle of the 18th century, as well as about the shooting of the film of the same name by the Oleksandr Dovzhenko film studio, which was shot by director Viktor Ivanov in 1959 in Verkhovyna and nearby Kryvorivnia.

The exhibition presents photos and various rare items related to the shooting of the film. A special feature of the museum is the presence of a large multimedia screen, which shows fragments of the film "Oleksa Dovbush" and other films that were shot in the Carpathians.

For children in the courtyard of the museum there is a play zone "Oprishky fun", where you can compete in strength, dexterity and dexterity.

The "Kotsyubynskyi" Art Space Museum in Verkhnii Yaseniv opened in 2024 as a bookstore-cafe. It is located on the banks of the Chorniy Cheremosh River at the entrance to the village from the Kryvorivnia side.

The institution is dedicated to the figure of the outstanding Ukrainian writer Mykhaylo Kotsyubynskyi, who in 1911 visited ethnographer Volodymyr Hnatyuk in Kryvorivnia. Here he collected and wrote down in detail information about the way of life of the Hutsuls, their customs, beliefs, folklore, which became the basis of his most famous work "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors".

Initially, the institution functions as a cafe, bookstore and art space. There is a reading room, a terrace and access to the river. An interactive museum will be opened soon, where a private collection of books and objects will be presented, productions and theatrical performances will take place, as well as an audiovisual reproduction of the works of Mykhaylo Kotsiubynskyi.

The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Verkhovyna is one of the largest wooden architectural structures in Ukraine.

It was built in the 18th century. Burned down in 1944, restored in 1994.

A vivid example of Hutsul folk architecture.

Lake Brebeneskul is the highest mountain lake in Ukraine (1801 meters). The Brebeneskul River flows from here.

The glacial lake is located on the southwestern slope of the Chornohora ridge, in the valley between the Brebeneskul and Gutyn Tomnatyk mountains.

The lake is 67 meters wide and 147 meters long. The greatest depth is 3.2 meters. Lake Brebeneskul has an oval shape. The banks are steep, high, with stone screes. The water is clean and slightly mineralized, the bottom is covered with gray silt.

Popular among lovers of mountain tourism.

The "Corkscrew Museum" tasting room was opened in 2020 by collector Petro Antypov in his own yard in Verkhovyna. In his collection there are more than 600 corkscrews of various shapes and sizes – in the form of animals, birds, keys, weapons, glasses, etc.

The exhibits are hung in a large gazebo, which also serves as a tasting room. The owner personally conducts tours with stories about the history and varieties of corkscrews.

Visitors are also offered tastings of homemade wines and chacha, which the owner produces from Transcarpathian grapes. Smoked budz cheese is offered with the wine.

The grazhda-museum of the "Annychka" film in Verkhovyna was opened in 2016 in a hundred-year-old Hutsul hut, in which in 1968 the film director Borys Ivchenko shot some episodes of this famous film produced by the Dovzhenko Film Studio.

The opening of the museum took place during the film festival "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: On the trail of the "Annychka" film".

The museum premises are one of the few Hutsul grazhda preserved in the Carpathians from the beginning of the 20th century. It is a complex of a residential building and outbuildings that form an enclosed courtyard with a gate, which provides residents with the best protection from bad weather and wild animals.

The exposition reflects the life, customs and traditions of the Hutsuls, and also contains interactive elements. Presented are photos of the former owners of the barn and actors who were involved in the "Annychka" film, shoot here the footage from of the film, some items of film props.

The regional Historical and Local Lore Museum "Hutsulshchyna" in Verkhovyna was opened in 1938 thanks to the active support of the public and political figure, ethnographer-folklorist and original writer Petro Shekeryk-Donykiv.

Objects of folk life, clothes, paintings, etc. are presented.

Workshops are held, during which you can observe the process of making Hutsul carpets.

Historical and Local Lore Museum "Hutsulshchyna" is a branch of the Ivano-Frankivsk Museum of Local Lore.

The Ethnographic Museum of Antiquities of the Hutsul region was opened in the yard of his own house by Yaroslav Zelenchuk, an ethnographer and historian from Kryvorivnia.

In one hall, several thematic expositions are successively placed: ancient times (gathering, hunting, fishing tools), shepherding and Polonynian farming, woodworking and construction, crafts and handicrafts, samples of decorative and applied art (clothes, painted pottery, wood carvings), musical instruments (drums, violins), liberation struggle (world wars, opryshk movement).

In particular, a copy of the smoking pipe of the legendary hutsulka of Chukutykha is presented.

The Hutsul Life Museum of Vasyl Tupylyuk in Krasnyk is located on the territory of the "Krynta" guest house. In 2009, the owner of the estate recreated an exact copy of his great-grandfather's house in his neighborhood and opened a museum of traditional Hutsul culture in it in two years.

The house has an authentic setting: a working stove, a wooden bed, ancient icons on the walls. The exposition presents embroidery, ceramic and wooden products, folk instruments, national clothes. The main exhibit is the bartka (battle ax) of a 1914 Sich Riflemen.

Excursions are conducted personally by the owner of the collection, Vasyl Tupylyuk. It also offers workshops using traditional instruments and equipment: grinding corn into flour on millstones, making woolen thread using a reel, spindle, spindle and cone, making oil from flax flour in an oil press, making cheese, etc.

The Literary and Memorial Museum of Ivan Franko was opened in Vasyl Yakibyuk's house, where the writer rested several times in 1906-1914.

He liked Kryvorivnia so much that he chose this village for his permanent summer vacation and came here almost every summer with his family for 12 years. Here he was visited by Lesya Ukrayinka, Hnat Khotkevych, Mykhaylo Kotsyubynsky, Mykhaylo Hrushevsky, Volodymyr Hnatyuk, Volodymyr Shukhevych and others. Already sick, Franko continued to work here, dictating the texts of his works to a local teacher.

The Literary and Memorial Museum of Ivan Franko was founded in 1960 on the initiative of the wife of the writer Hnat Khotkevych - Platonida. In the exhibition, located in 5 rooms, Franko's personal belongings are stored: a bed, a desk and a chair, a bench for guests, a clock, etc. An interesting Hutsul stove decorated with tiles made by Oleksa Bakhmatyuk (1874).

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

The Museum of Local Lore was established in the village Kryvorivnia in 1965 on the basis of a secondary school.

The exposition tells about the history of the Hutsul village, life and way of life of the region's inhabitants.

The museum has more than 100 exhibits.

Mount Pip Ivan is one of the highest peaks of the Chornohora Carpathian massif, the third highest in Ukraine (2022 meters).

It used to be called Black Mountain (Chorna Hora), which is where the name of the entire Chornohora range comes from. According to legend, Oleksa Dovbush was killed here by the "black calamity", i.e. hell, and the mountain turned black. In ancient times, there was a pagan temple on the mountain, and the folk tradition of a mass ascent on the night of Ivan Kupala has been preserved. The current name comes from the rock on the top, which resembled a priest in a cassock (now it has lost its characteristic shape).

Mount Pip Ivan is formed by sandstones, has a pyramidal shape, in the upper part - stone placers. It is covered with subalpine vegetation - widespread shrubs (Siberian juniper, rhododendron) and spruce forests. It is located within the Carpathian State National Park.

At the top are the picturesque ruins of the Polish astronomical and meteorological observatory "White Elephant" in the style of constructivism, which operated in 1938-1941. The three-story building had 43 rooms and a conference hall. The tower with a copper dome with a diameter of 10 meters housed a Scottish astrograph. Currently, the building is in a dilapidated state.

The most convenient route to the top begins in the village of Dzembronia.

The "Grandfather's Pharmacy" museum in Kryvorivnia near Verhovyna is dedicated to the history of folk medicine in the Hutsul region. The exposition presents healing herbs, fruits, roots and tinctures from them, which were used to treat Ukrainian highlanders in ancient times.

The excursion begins with the herbal room (museum-pharmacy pantry), where visitors are told about the history of medicine in the Carpathians and about the healing properties of Carpathian herbs and the preventive properties of herbal teas.

In the second room, visitors can learn about the use of special tinctures with fly agaric mushrooms, snakes and bees in traditional medicine for the prevention and treatment of serious diseases.

"Grandfather's Pharmacy" also offers tastings of tinctures based on herbs, fruits, berries and Montenegrin roots, aromatic Carpathian teas, and berry syrups for children. The same products can be purchased in the museum shop.

The house-museum of the famous historian and politician of the Ukrainian People's Republic Mykhaylo Hrushevsky was opened in Kryvorivnia at the place where he bought the estate from the local landowner Pshebylivskyi at the beginning of the 20th century.

The future president of Ukraine visited here on vacation several times.

The villa burned down in 1917, but in 2003 it was recreated based on the surviving drawings and memories of eyewitnesses.

The museum presents biographical documents and photographs, an ethnographic collection, and household items from the beginning of the 20th century.

Kryvorivnia Museum of Mykhaylo Hrushevsky is a branch of the Ivano-Frankivsk Museum of Local Lore.

The People's Museum of the Hnat Khotkevych Hutsul Theater in Krasnoillia, Ivano-Frankivsk region, was founded in 1987 in a small wooden building in which the first Hutsul theater operated in 1908-1912.

The main exposition in the hall with a stage is devoted to the activities of the theater and its founder Hnat Hotkevych, other theater figures, including Oleksa Remez and Les Kurbas. You can see historical photos, manuscripts, play posters, theater costumes and props.

Materials on the history of the village of Krasnoillia, schooling in the Hutsul region, and participants in the Hutsul Uprising of 1920 are also presented.