Attractions of Ivano-Frankivsk region

"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 is located on an area of ​​almost 15 thousand hectares along the Dniester River and its lower tributaries: Limnytsia, Lukva, Hnyla Lypa. It was created in 2004 with the aim of preserving, recreating and rationally using typical and unique forest and forest-steppe natural complexes of the Ciscarpathian.

The territory of the Halych National Nature Park 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.

Since 2007, the Wild Animal Rehabilitation and Reintroduction Center "Halytskyi" has been operating on the territory of the Halytskyi National Nature Park, and excursions are held.

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 Historical and Local Lore Museum of Vorokhta village was opened in 2006 in the premises of the House of Culture.

The museum is dedicated to Ukrainian politician, Minister of Finance of the Ukrainian People's Republic Stepan Fedak, whose life is connected with Vorokhta.

The exposition tells about the origin of the settlement, about the liberation movement in these regions in different periods. Materials on the development of the forest industry, sports and tourism industry, biographies of prominent Vorokhta natives, etc. are also presented.

WARNING! Currently, the Historical and Local Lore Museum of the village of Vorokhta is not working.

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".

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.

The exposition of the "Hutsulshchyna" museum presents folk household items, clothing, paintings, etc.

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 Historical and Local Lore museum of Oleksa Dovbush in Pechenizhyn, the birthplace of the legendary leader of the Opryshkys, was established in 1971.

Since 2004, the exposition has been housed in an adapted room near Saint Michael's Church.

The museum covers the history of the village from ancient times to the present day. There are many household items, tools, folk clothing. The main section is devoted to Oleksa Dovbush, a native of Pechenizhyn, a robber and people's avenger, the most famous leader of the opryshki insurgent movement in the Carpathians of the XVIII-XIX centuries.

Pechenizhyn Museum of Oleksa Dovbush is a branch of the Ivano-Frankivsk Museum of Local Lore.

The wooden church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Kosmach was built in 1904.

At first, it held Greek Catholic services, but after the 1946 cathedral, it became a parish of the Russian Orthodox Church, and in the early 1990s it transferred to the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church.

In 1965-1770, Volodymyr Romanyuk, the future patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, served as a priest in the Peter and Paul Church in Kosmach.

The wooden church of the Holy Great Martyr Paraskeva Pyatnytsya was built in Sheshory in 1874.

Currently, the landmark of Hutsul folk architecture of local importance has lost its authentic appearance - the church is almost completely covered with tin, wooden windows have been replaced with plastic ones.

The temple belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The multi-tiered church of the Saint Prophet Elijah in Yaremche was built in 1937. by local master Ivan Yavorskyi.

A classic example of Hutsul wooden architecture.

It is part of the complex of the Saint Elijah Monastery of the Studites, whose patron saint is Saint Elijah.

The interior has a unique iconostasis with wood-burned ornaments and carved icons.

During the Soviet period, a warehouse was arranged in the church, and later - a museum of atheism. In 1990, after Ukraine gained independence, the church of Saint Elijah was returned to the Studites, who carried out restoration and restored the monastery. Now the church is active.