Attractions of Ivano-Frankivsk region

The wooden Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin Mary in Nyzhnii Verbizh was built in 1808 at the expense of local resident Hryhor Semenyuk.

According to legend, in his youth, Semenyuk was a soldier in the rebel unit of Oleksa Dovbush, but escaped from accomplices with a treasury, and began building a temple to atone for sins. The construction lasted for 20 years.

The five-bay Church of the Nativity of the Virgin is considered a masterpiece of wooden Hutsul architecture, but the problem is returning it to its authentic appearance, as the church is now covered with galvanized tin. Restoration is planned.

The Nativity of Holy Virgin Church is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List in the category "Wooden Churches of the Carpathian Region of Ukraine".

The Defense Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Virgin is the oldest building in the city of Rohatyn.

It was founded during the times of the Galicia-Volyn principality - no later than the 14th-15th centuries, and possibly even earlier. During the Tatar raids, the temple served as a small fortress, as evidenced by the defensive walls.

The church burned down three times and was rebuilt with some changes, as a result of which Gothic and Baroque elements were intertwined in the architectural form.

During Soviet times, the Church of the Nativity remained active. It was damaged during the Second World War, but in 1955 the restored temple was consecrated. A little later, the iconostasis was restored.

The Greek-Catholic Church of the Nativity of the Virgin is located in the historical district of Tysmenytsia, which is called "Monastery".

The wooden monastery church in the Hutsul style was built in 1736. Nearby is a three-tiered wooden belfry (XVIII century). The type of the cross-domed church repeats the plan and structure of the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross (1681) of the Maniava Hermitage, which legend connects with the main temple of the Spaso-Mizhhirsky Monastery near Kyiv.

A Baroque-Renaissance iconostasis has been preserved, which some researchers attribute to the time of the foundation of the temple.

The nature reserve "Gorgany" was created to preserve the mountain landscapes of the central part of the Ukrainian Carpathians in their natural state.

The first European cedar pine reserve (previously this species was called cedar) in the Carpathians was created in the headwaters of the Limnytsia River near the village of Yasen in 1919. The current reserve "Gorgany" with an area of ​​5344.2 hectares was established in 1996. It included landscape reserves of national importance "Djurdzhi" and "Sadky", protected tracts "Chornyk", "Hnylyak", "Novobudova", "Elmy", "Dovzhynets", "Stoli".

The Gorgany Mountains occupy the central part of the Ukrainian Carpathians and are difficult to access due to very steep slopes and rocky outcrops. The reserve covers mountain slopes from 710 to 1754 meters above sea level (Mount Dovbushanka).

The uniqueness of the territory of the reserve is the high security of natural forests and primeval forests, which differ in the hardness of their natural structure. Coniferous forests dominate. Broad-leaved forests occupy approximately 1% of the area. Flora includes more than 450 species. 42 species of mammals and 104 species of birds are common on the territory of the reserve. Red deer, forest cat, brown bear and others are found.

The picturesque high-altitude lake Nesamovyte (1750 meters) is located under the peak of Turkul near the Chornohora Range on the territory of the Hoverla Reserve.

The length is 83 meters, the width is 45 meters, the depth is 1.5 meters, the area of the water mirror is 0.3 hectares. It is of glacial origin, fed by groundwater and atmospheric precipitation.

According to local legend, the souls of great sinners and suicides languish at the bottom of the Nesamovyte lake, which is where the name comes from ("nesamovyte" means "crazy" in Ukrainian).

The surrounding area is an unusual corner of untouched alpine nature. A 6-kilometer scientific trail has been laid from the "Zaroslyak" camp to the Nesamovyte lake.

Nicholas Assumption Cathedral in Kolomyia was built according to the project of Kolomyia architect Viktor Mytsay at the end of the 20th century.

The author of the murals is the Ternopil artist Ivan Holoshyn.

On January 13, 2019, the Nicholas Assumption Cathedral changed its subordination from the Moscow Patriarchate to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

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 historical and memorial museum of Oleksa Dovbush in Ivano-Frankivsk was created in 1995 on the basis of the private collection of the famous historian Volodymyr Hrabovetsky, who for 50 years studied the Carpathian insurgent movement of opryshki of the 16th–19th centuries and the life of the legendary hero Oleksa Dovbush, a noble robber and people's avenger, who fought for the liberation of the enslaved peasantry.

The small museum exposition consists mainly of documents and paintings, as well as some ethnographic materials.

The most interesting exhibit is the legendary ax of Dovbush, which was kept for two centuries by the descendants of witnesses to the death of the robber in the village of Kosmach.

The monument to national hero Oleksa Dovbush was erected in 1971 at the entrance to the village of Pechenizhyn, where he was born in 1700.

According to legend, the house of his father, shepherd Vasyl Dovbush, was located in the Kalynnyk tract, where another memorial was erected in 1988.

In 1738, Dovbush led a rebel detachment of opryshks, which operated first in the area of Pechenizhyn and the adjacent Yablunivsky Pass, and then in almost the entire territory of the Ukrainian Carpathians. Opryshki terrorized the local nobles and robbed rich landowners, distributing the loot to the peasants, for which they earned the fame of the people's avengers, and the tragic death of Dovbush at the hands of a traitor created for him the halo of a national hero and martyr.

The monument to Oleksa Dovbush was made by the sculptor Valentyn Borysenko in the form of a large bust of the rebel leader with an ax that seems to grow out of his native land.

The private museum of the history of the Opryshky movement of Oleksa Dovbush was created in Kosmach in 1988 by local historian and folk craftsman Mykhaylo Yusypchuk-Didyshyn.

He moved the old Hutsul hut of the Dzvinchuk family to his residence, near which, according to legend, in 1745, the leader of the Opryshky, Oleksa Dovbush, died at the hands of a traitor.

The exhibition presents household items, weapons from the time of the Opryshky movement and rare items: bartki, axes, keptars, cheres and much more. One of the most interesting exhibits is an ancient gun with which, according to legend, Oleksa Dovbush was shot.

The museum also has unusual sculptures made of wood and stone, which are created by the owner of the museum.

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 museum of wax figures of celebrities "Oscar" opened in 2022 on the territory of the resort of Bukovel.

Here are more than 30 realistic sculptures of famous actors, presidents, athletes, researchers, artists, performers. In particular, you can see the figures of Arnold Schwarzenegger in the likeness of the Terminator, Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump, Daniel Craig as James Bond, the characters in the series "Harry Potter", scientist Albert Einstein, painter Vincent Van Gogh, footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, etc.

There are photo areas and a souvenir shop for visitors.

Ostrich farm "Savanna" in the village of Lovahy in the Ivano-Frankivsk region breeds and sells African ostriches. It is one of the largest ostrich farms in Ukraine.

Among the fields of activity of the farm: green tourism, production of products from ostrich skin, production of souvenir products, mini golf, shooting range.

On the farm "Savanna" there are tours conducted by the owner of the farm. During the excursion, you can see the entire process of ostrich development from an egg in an incubator to an adult ostrich.

The Park-Museum "Carpathians in Miniature" is located in the open air on the banks of the Zhonka River in Yaremche, on the territory of the Carpathian National Nature Park.

Opened in 2015 by the Center for Social Business Initiatives of Yaremche city. The park presents miniature models of 18 Carpathian monuments, including accurately reproduced models of sacred buildings – churches and monasteries. Among the iconic tourist attractions of the Carpathians, you can see the "White Elephant" observatory on Mount Pip Ivan, the bridge over the Probiy waterfall on the Prut River, famous monuments of the region, as well as the only operating miniature railway in the Carpathians, which includes copies of the legendary stone bridges in Vorokhta, a station in Tatariv, and a tunnel.

Also presented are 25-fold reduced copies of the famous wooden buildings of the Carpathians, for example, the restaurant "Hutsulshchyna".

The Museum-Estate of the Patriarch of Kyiv and all Ruthenia-Ukraine Volodymyr (Vasyl Romanyuk) was founded in 2002 in the village of Khimchyn in Prykarpattia, where one of the founders of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate was born and grew up.

A typical village house of the beginning of the 20th century has been recreated on the site of the Romanyuk manor, with a chapel and a memorial cross on the occasion of the first anniversary of the patriarch's death.

In the first room, the interior of the residence of the Romanyuk family is reproduced, family items are presented: a table, a bed, sofas, a cradle, a chest, a bowl with ceramic dishes, wooden products, traditional clothes, icons.

The exposition of the second room highlights different periods of the life of Patriarch Volodymyr in documents and photographs.