Attractions of Volia-Vysotska

The monument in honor of the military pilot, the founder of the highest aerobatics, the author of the "dead loop" Petro Nesterov, is located on the outskirts of the village of Volia-Vysotska, at the place of the pilot's death.

In 1914, during an aerial battle with the Austrian ace, Baron Fridrikh fon Rozental, who piloted the heavy biplane "Albatross", Nesterov on his light "Moran" made the first air ram in the world. Both planes crashed, the pilots were killed. A memorial sign was installed at the place where Nesterov's plane crashed.

In Soviet times, a memorial with a museum and a 45-meter monument in the form of a jet plane emerging from the "dead loop" was built, and the neighboring town of Zhovkva bore the name of Nesterov for some time.

During the years of independence of Ukraine, the memorial in honor of the Russian pilot was neglected, but the monument was preserved.

The wooden church of St. Michael the Archangel in Volia-Vysotska is one of the oldest preserved wooden churches of the Lviv region.

In the interior you can see the iconostasis of 1655, some of the icons for which were executed in 1688-1689 by the artist Ivan Rutkovych.During the restoration in 1992, paintings from 1611 were also discovered, which are considered to be among the oldest in wooden churches in Ukraine.