Attractions of Ivano-Frankivsk region

Gothic or Yaremche folds are outcrops of flysch (layered) sedimentary rocks on the western slope of Mount Makovytsya on the right bank of the Prut River near the center of Yaremche.

Due to its characteristic shape, this rocky outcrop is also called the "Elephant" rock.

The folds arose in the Miocene period (according to other data - from 60 to 75 million years ago) as a result of deformation during the movement of rocks in the eastern direction after their transformation from sediment to rock. The structure of folds is associated with Gothic architecture.

The museum of ethnography and life of the Carpathian village of Bohrivka was founded in 2021 by the teacher of the Bohrivka gymnasium, Halyna Hotsanyuk.

The ethnographic exposition presents ancient household items, samples of folk embroidery, relics, antiquities of the village, products of folk craftsmen.

In particular, a working loom is exhibited, on which visitors can try to work.

"Hutsul Land" ethnopark in Polianytsia in the Carpathian region reproduces the traditional life of the highlanders of the Ukrainian Carpathians: Hutsuls, Boyks and Lemks. This ethnographic complex, located on the territory of TC "Bukovel" near the Lake of Youth, combines various areas for recreation and entertainment.

At the heart of the "Hutsul Land" complex is an interactive open-air museum (skansen), where authentic wooden huts and farm buildings of the highlanders are presented. All of them are monuments of folk architecture of the 19th – early 20th centuries, which were transported to the territory of the complex from different regions of the Carpathians. Among them are a hut from the village of Rozhanka, Lviv Region, 1860-1880, a Hutsul hut of wealthy shepherds from Vorokhta at the end of the 19th century, and a traditional grazhda hut of a closed type.

In all buildings, the interior is reproduced in detail, household items and works of folk art are presented. All of them are open to visitors – here you can sit on a bench, look at the fire in the oven, grind wheat flour in millstones, make a path on a real loom, see the process of cheese making in a cheese factory, and even take part in a theatrical performance of a Hutsul wedding.

A contact zoo is located on the territory of "Hutsul Land", where domestic, exotic and wild animals and birds live in natural conditions. In the area for creative workshops and cognitive workshops, you can learn folk crafts. In the art gallery "Skrynia" there are areas for recreation, entertainment, a club of Ukrainian cinema.

The wooden Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross was moved to Nadvirna from the Maniava Monastery, which was closed in 1793.

From that time, it bore the name of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos.

Rebuilt in 1840 by master Molot. It burned down during the First World War in 1914, but was restored in its original form.

The Exaltation of Holy Cross Church belongs to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. It is a typical example of the Hutsul school of folk architecture.

The wooden church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Mykytyntsi was built in 1859. The Exaltation Church, which existed since 1764, was converted into a bell tower.

The complex is an architectural monument of national significance. The Church of the Exaltation of the Cross belongs to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. Temple Day - September 27.

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.

"Tysmenytsia" factory is the largest fur enterprise in Ukraine. "Tysmenytsia" fur coats are known far beyond the borders of the country.

The secret of fur production was brought here by Armenian settlers in the 16th century. Gradually, fur craft, production of fur, saffian and suede passed to local craftsmen and became famous throughout Europe.

In 1970, the Tysmenytsia factory was built - one of the largest fur factories in the former Soviet Union. The skins of rabbits, muskrats, martens, minks, pizh and others are processed here. It has its own school of modern design, up to 300 new models of ready-made clothes and fur hats are put into serial production every year. "Tysmenytsia" mink fur coats are especially popular.

Products can be purchased at the company store on the territory of the "Tysmenytsia" factory.

The private museum "Forest Sculpture" in Yabluniv is a permanent exhibition of the master Ihor Fartushny. The museum is located in a two-story building in the western part of the village.

The wooden sculptures collected here are made from snags found by the author in the forest, which were hardly processed. The main sculptor is nature. For this reason, products are tinted only with natural colors and varnished.

The Galician Transversal Railway Museum was opened in 2022 in the building of the sports and educational center "Kamenyar" in the village of Nyzhniv on the initiative of a local enthusiast for reviving the memory of the railway, Dmytro Romanyshyn.

The construction of the 768-kilometer-long Galician Transversal Railway began in 1871. On November 15, 1884, the first train set off on the newly constructed Stanislaviv – Husyatyn branch, in particular the bridge over the Dniester in Nyzhniv. During the Second World War, the railway was destroyed by the Nazis and has not been rebuilt since then, but its remains have been preserved in some places.

The exhibition of the Galician Transversal Railway Museum presents several dozens of authentic exhibits, including a fragment of an Austrian rail, a railway lantern, other instruments and household items of railway workers.

Also on display are weapons from the First World War, old newspapers, currency notes, railway-themed paintings and photographs.

A memorial sign has been installed at the place where the railway runs in Nyzhniv.

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 Great Synagogue in Horodenka was built in 1743, when the Jews who settled here from the middle of the 17th century received the right to engage in crafts and trade, as well as land for building a temple.

In the 1760s, a group of supporters of Hasidism emerged in Horodenka. One of them was Nachman from Horodenka, the closest disciple of the founder of the Yisrael Baal-Shem-Tov movement.

The synagogue was reconstructed in 1885.

During the Second World War, more than 2,500 Jews were shot in Horodenka. In Soviet times, the synagogue was rebuilt.

The Museum of Liberation Struggles of Halych District in Burshtyn is located in the premises of the "Prometheus" Palace of Culture. It was started in 1996 by the Brotherhood of the OUN-UPA of Halych district station and the Society of political prisoners and repressed people of Halych district.

The exposition presents materials about the events of the Second World War in the territory of the region, outstanding figures of fighters for the freedom of Ukraine, the work of the local intelligentsia of those times. You can see models of hideouts in which UPA soldiers hid, some types of weapons used in those times, maps of combat operations.

The Halych National Nature Park occupies an area of almost 15,000 hectares along the Dniester River and below its tributaries: Limnytsya, Lukvya, Hnyla Lypa.

It includes forest massifs, swamps, forest-steppe areas and various geological formations at the junction of Opillya, Halych basin and Prykarpattya. Among the individual monuments of nature are three oaks aged from 200 to 500 years.

The "Nature of the Galician Land" museum has been opened in the premises of the Halych National Park administration. Collections of stuffed animals of typical and rare representatives of vertebrates, entomological collections, herbarium specimens are presented.

Historical and ethnographic museum "Berehynya" in Burshtyn was founded in 1987 on the initiative of Tamara Husar, a teacher of the Burshtyn Energy College. The exposition is located in the assembly hall of the college dormitory.

The museum collection includes more than 1,500 exhibits - mostly ethnographic and archaeological materials.

The archaeological section presents materials from excavations in the vicinity of Burshtyn: stone axes, bones of extinct animals, etc. The collection of Opillya embroidery includes about 250 towels and 160 shirts. The section "Opillya housing" presents the interior of a village room and storeroom filled with tools, household items, furniture and old clothes. The next section introduces the history of the region from Ancent Rus times to the Second World War.

The Oleshiv Village Historical and Local Lore Museum is located in the premises of the Oleshiv educational complex. The institution was founded in 1980 on the initiative of local historian Vasyl Tatarchuk.

About 300 exhibits are presented in two rooms of the museum, which tell about the nature, history and culture of the Transnistrian village of Oleshiv.

Expositional sections of the museum: "Tools of work of primitive man", "Ukrainian village during the times of Austria-Hungary and Polish Poland", "Ukrainian residence of the beginning of the 19th century", "First and Second World Wars", "Ukrainian village in the post-war period", "Ukraine - independent".