Attractions of Khust district

High-altitude glacial Lake Synevyr (989 meters above sea level) is located on the territory of the Synevyr National Nature Park. This is the largest and most beautiful lake in the Carpathians.

Syn and Vyr - this, according to an ancient legend, was the name of the blue-eyed princess and the shepherd who fell in love with her. Preventing their unequal marriage, the prince killed Vyr, and the tears from Syn eyes formed a whole lake. From the top of the nearby Ozerna mountain, it looks like a huge eye with an island pupil, which is why it is called the "Eye of the Sea".

Lake Synevyr was formed 10,000 years ago as a result of landslides covering the river valley. It is replenished by the waters of mountain streams. The size of the lake varies depending on the amount of precipitation. The average area is 4-5 hectares, the depth is 8-10 meters. The deepest point is 22 meters. The water is very clean, it seems bright blue. Lake, rainbow and brook trout are caught, but fishing is prohibited.

A Rehabilitation center for brown bears operates on the territory of the Synevyr Nature Reserve.

The Tereble-Ritska hydroelectric power station is the only hydroelectric power plant in the world that stands on two rivers at the same time.

The power station was built in 1949-1955 by Finnish prisoners of war according to the project of engineer Kryzhka. The essence of the unique project is that the HPP united two rivers - Tereblya and Rika, which flow approximately parallel at a distance of 4 kilometers from each other, separated by a natural watershed - the Bovtsar ridge. At the same time, Tereblya is 210 meters above the level of the Rika.

A spillway dam with a length of 153 meters and a maximum height of 45.8 meters was built on Terebly, which formed the Vilshanske Reservoir with an area of 1.6 square kilometers. A derivation tunnel 3.7 kilometers long and 2 meters in diameter was cut in the mountain, through which water from the Tereblya basin is discharged into the Rika. At the bottom is a 350-meter-long metal water pipe and a hydroelectric power station building with a turbine hall. Turbines manufactured by the Finnish company "Francis" and generators "Uralelectroaparat", which were installed during the commissioning of the HPP, are still operating at the station.

Currently, the Tereble-Ritska HPP is part of the Burshin Islands energy complex.

There is a museum on the territory of the HPP.