Attractions of Volia Yakubova

The Ethnographic Museum "Ukrainian Khutir" was opened in 2024 on the territory of the eco-landscape park "Cossack Sloboda Rakovets", located in the village of Volia Yakubova in Drohobych region.

The museum complex recreates an authentic Ukrainian yard of the 18th-19th centuries: a restored Ukrainian house with a warm stove, a barn with household goods, a barn with domestic animals. In the yard there is a working Carpathian forge, a real cart, a well with a crane and a covered shelter for recreation.

The exhibition is interactive. Here you can learn to forge iron, try baking bread or smoke ribs in a painted oven. Excursions are held.

The manor-museum of the leader of the Ukrainian national liberation movement, the second head of the OUN, Colonel Andriy Melnyk, was opened in his native village of Volia Yakubova in 2020 on the occasion of the 130th anniversary of his birth.

Andriy Melnyk was born in 1890 in the family of a local priest and public servant Atanas Melnyk, who was friends with the family of Ivan Franko. Franko himself visited the Melnyky residence in Volia Yakubova more than once. This formed the foundations of the national consciousness and patriotism of young Andriy even in his childhood.

The museum was set up in an old house of the beginning of the 20th century, in which Andriy Melnyk's relatives once lived.

One of the rooms in the house has been preserved in an authentic state - with a clay floor. Household items and farm tools used by village craftsmen at that time were collected here. Some of them belonged to relatives of Colonel Melnyk. The exposition in another part of the house is dedicated directly to the life of Andriy Melnyk and his participation in the national liberation movement.