Attractions of Ivano-Frankivsk region

The Lebedyn mountain lake is located on the territory of the Hutsulshchyna National Park, 5 kilometers northwest of the village of Sheshory.

Located in the mountains at an altitude of 650 meters, surrounded by a beech forest.

The legend tells about how in the waters of Lebedyn Lake, a young man and a girl in love, whose parents were against their marriage, joined forever, like swans.

The area of the Lebedyn protected tract is 45 hectares. Many medicinal plants can be found here.

The Torhovytsia Literary and Memorial Museum of Les Martovych was founded in 1971 on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the satirist writer.

Oleksa Martovych was born in 1871 in the family of a village clerk in the village of Torhovytsia, near Horodenka. He went to school here. He started writing while studying at the Kolomyia Gymnasium. Together with Vasyl Stefanyk and Mark Cheremshyna, Les Martovych was a member of the so-called Pokuttya group of novelists. The high-relief "Pokuttya Trinity" greets visitors in the lobby of the museum.

During his lifetime, he published 27 short stories about peasant life, written in the Pokuttia dialect of the Ukrainian language. Lifetime editions of the writer's works are presented in the exposition.

You can also see a model of the house in which the writer was born, his portrait by the artist Mykola Varennya, some personal belongings, photos, documents. The writer's office is reproduced according to the photo.

In one of the museum halls, the interior of a peasant house of the beginning of the 20th century is recreated with authentic elements of decoration and household items. A bust of the writer is installed in front of the museum.

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

The Museum of the Liberation Struggle of the Pokuttya Region was opened in Zabolotiv in 2007 for the 65th anniversary of the formation of the UPA.

The exhibition is housed in five halls. The exhibits are conventionally divided into two sections. The historical department tells about the armed struggle of the Pokuttya people against the occupation regimes in the 1920s - 1950s. In particular, the reconstruction of the situation of the rebel bunker is presented.

Original documents and photographs illuminate the history of the liberation movement in Pokuttya.

In addition, the museum has a small ethnographic exposition.

The Sniatyn Liberation Struggles Museum is named after OUN-UPA Colonel Vasyl Andrusiak (Gregit-Rizun), who was born in Snyatin in 1915. Even in his youth, he became the founder of the OUN branch in the Sniatyn gymnasium, and in 1941 he headed the district leadership of the OUN in Sniatyn.

The Andrusiak Museum was founded in 1995. It is located on the second floor of the Sniatyn town hall.

The museum exposition highlights the theme of the national liberation struggle of the Ukrainian people of the 20th century and the state-building processes on the territory of the Pokuttia region. In particular, here you can find out about the activities of the public association "Sich", about the events of the First World War and the participation of the inhabitants of the region in the ranks of the USSR and UGA, about the social life of the inhabitants of the region during the Polish, Bolshevik and German occupations, about the armed struggle of the OUN-UPA with the German and Russian invaders.

A separate exhibition is devoted to the life and exploits of OUN-UPA colonel Vasyl Andrusiak (pseudonyms "Gregit", "Rizun", "Rizbyar", etc.), who was originally from Sniatyn.

The Pyadyky Literary Museum in the village of Pyadyky near Kolomyia is named after the Ukrainian writer Myroslav Irchan, who was born here in 1897. His father's house under a thatched roof has been preserved to this day.

More than a hundred exhibits tell about the life and creative path of the writer. In the literary part of the museum, the publications from his lifetime are presented, the author and translator of which is Myroslav Irchan.

A bust of Myroslav Irchan is installed next to the museum premises.

Rozhniativ Local Lore Museum "Boykivshchyna" is located in an ancient building built in Rozhniativ by the Ukrainian count Dumka at the beginning of the 20th century.

In Soviet times, there was a court here, then a museum of the artist Volodymyr Kharchenko.

Currently, the museum exhibits about 400 objects that acquaint visitors with the history of the region over the past two millennia, folk household and sacred art of Boyko region, and the lives of prominent people.

Part of the collection of paintings by the artist Volodymyr Kharchenko is kept in the museum.

Kolomyia Lyceum named after Mykhaylo Hrushevskyi is located in the former building of the Ursuline sisters' monastery, built in 1907.

In 1892, deputies of the Galician Diet decided to open a Ukrainian gymnasium in Kolomyia. Initially, only the Ukrainian class was created at the Polish gymnasium (the Ukrainian writer Vasyl Stefanyk studied there). The public demanded the separation of Ukrainian classes from Polish classes, and this happened in 1900. At the same time, the gymnasium got its own premises (the northern wing of the Polish gymnasium was completed).

In 1939, the Ukrainian gymnasium was closed, and a secondary school was opened in its premises. In 1990, the regional executive committee decided to revive the Kolomyia humanitarian gymnasium. It was placed in a complex of buildings of the monastery of the Ursuline Sisters, where there was a private female gymnasium before the Second World War.

Today it is the Mykhaylo Hrushevsky Lyceum in Kolomyia.

The museum of the creative family of Hennadiy and Anastasiya Malyavsky was created at the Kosiv Children's School of Arts.

The artist Hennadiy Malyavsky was from Ternopil region, graduated from the Lviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts, and taught at the Kosiv School of Applied Arts since 1961. Here he met his future wife Anastasiya Yusypchuk, who also became his partner on the artistic path.

The best examples of Malyavsky's painting include works made in the genres of landscape and portrait. Some of them are presented in the Malyavsky Family Museum. Among them are works in oil, tempera, graphics.

The Mykhaylo Strutynsky Folk Art Museum also operates at the Kosiv Children's School of Arts.

The Museum of Mariyka Pidhiryanka was opened in 1996 in the birthplace of the poet – in the mountain village of Bili Oslavy in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. It was here in 1881 in the family of a forester that Mariya Lenert was born, who at the beginning of the 20th century became known as the children's writer Mariyka Pidhiryanka, the author of many fairy tales, poems and poems.

The museum is housed in five large rooms of the plebany (priest's house) near the wooden church of the Immaculate Conception of the Immaculate Virgin Mary. The exposition highlights the historical past of Bili Oslavy, the life and work of Mariyka Pidhiryanka. Memorial items of the writer, lifetime editions, photographs, her handwritten works and memories of contemporaries are presented.

In front of the museum, a monument to Mariyka Pidhiryanka has been installed.

The Sniatyn Literary and Memorial Museum of Marko Cheremshyna was opened in 1949 in the house where the writer lived in 1912-1927.

He bought this classicist villa from Sniatyn lawyer Solomon Markuszon. The exposition includes about 4,000 objects.

The writer's personal belongings and books, his photographs, articles and lifetime editions of his works, as well as a personal library, are stored in eight exhibition rooms.

The interior of the writer's office, where he worked and received visitors, has been preserved – a wardrobe, a table, writing utensils, a kerosene lamp. In the living room there is the most rare exhibit – an old Viennese grand piano, which was played by the writer's wife Nataliya Semanyuk.

Since 1999, the creative club named after Marko Cheremshyna has been operating at the museum.

In Yaremchy, the glade surrounded by trees under the rock on the banks of the Prut, one kilometer upstream from the Probiy waterfall, is called "Meadow of Love".

The legend of the hutsulka, who threw herself off the cliff because of unrequited love, is connected with the field.

There is a beach and a source of curative hydrogen sulphide mineral water. It can be used in the treatment of gastritis, gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer, and chronic colitis. In small doses, this water is used for preventive treatment of the gastrointestinal tract of children in the Chornobyl zone.

The tract of Demyaniv Laz on the outskirts of Ivano-Frankivsk is the site of a mass shooting of prisoners of the NKVD prison.

The executions were carried out before the retreat of the Soviet troops in 1941. During excavations, human bones were found here and they were able to identify 524 individuals. It was possible to establish the identity of 22 people, work in the archives of the SBU made it possible to determine the names of another 400 executed.

In 1998, the "Demyaniv Laz" memorial complex was opened near the graves. The museum was opened in 2009.

The name of the tract is related to the name of one of the local peasants, Demyan from the village of Zahvizdya, who owned a plot of the Posichnyansky forest here.

The memorial complex "Demyaniv Laz" is a branch of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Museum of the Liberation Struggle named after Stepan Bandera.

The memorial complex "Kryivka Cheremosh" is located on the territory of the Kalush Central District Hospital, which is located on the residential area "Pidhirka".

It was here during the Second World War that there was an secret bunker of the OUN underground group headed by Ivan Mahas (pseudonym "Cheremosh"), which was engaged in printing propaganda materials. All six rebels died on September 6, 1945 in a battle with a special unit of the NKVD. The remains of the shelter were found and investigated by Kalush activists.

In 2017, the ceremonial opening of the reconstructed kryivka (hiding place) and a memorial sign in honor of the dead underground members of the OUN took place.

The memorial complex "Kryivka Cheremosh" is one of the subdivisions of the Communal Institution "Museum and Exhibition Center of Kalush City Council".

The spring of healing mineral water in the "Shandra" tract is located right next to the R-21 highway on the road from Dolyna to Mizhhirya.

Hydrogen sulphide waters are a minor group of mineral waters found mainly in the foothills of the Carpathians. They are divided into three subgroups: sulfate-hydrogen sulfide, chloride-hydrogen sulfide, and bicarbonate-hydrogen sulfide. Sulfate-hydrogen sulfide is water with a sulfate-calcium composition, with a content of 78 mg/l of total and 55-65 mg/l of free hydrogen sulfide.

Near the spring there is an area for recreation and picnics.

The Greek-Catholic Church of the Miracle of Saint Archangel Michael was built in the center of Sniatyn in 1880-1886 on the initiative of the local priest Teofil Kobrynskyi, the husband of the famous writer and activist of the gender movement Nataliya Kobrynska.