Attractions of Pniv

The Museum of Oil Industries of Galicia was opened in 2013 in the village of Pniv near Nadvirna, which is one of the centers of Ukrainian oil production and oil refining.

Industrial oil production in Pryka rpattyabegan in 1771, when oil was extracted en masse from a well in Sloboda-Runhurska in Kolomyia Region.

The Oil Museum is located on the territory of the Training and Course Complex of the Nadvirnanaftogaz Oil and Gas Production Department.

The exposition consists of two parts. Archival materials, photographs, models of oil production facilities are presented in the museum premises. On the museum territory, industrial equipment and models are exhibited in the open air - from the first rigs for drilling and oil production of the 17th century to modern equipment.

The powerful defensive Pniv Castle was built in the foothills of the Carpathians at the end of the 16th century on the ancient Transcarpathian trade route from Galicia to Hungary.

It served as a residence for magnates of the Polish (according to other sources - Hungarian or Moldavian) Kuropatv family, and also served as a customs point. The pentagonal structure with four corner towers and one gate tower was at one time the most powerful fortress in the Carpathian region. The residential palace of Kuropatv was located in the center.

The castle repeatedly withstood tests of strength during the Polish-Turkish wars of the 17th century, as well as during popular uprisings led by Hrynia Kardash, Oleksa Dovbush and others. In 1648, the Pniv Castle, whose defense was managed by Mykola Kuropatv, withstood the siege of the 5,000-strong Cossack army under the command of Colonel Semen Vysochan. After the end of the Liberation War under the leadership of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, the owners had to rebuild the castle from the ruins, but soon it lost its importance and fell into disrepair.

Restoration attempts were made both in the 19th and 20th centuries, but so far without success.

Access is free.