Attractions of Stryi district

The palace and park in Skole were founded by Baron Yevheniush Kaminski in the middle of the 19th century, after he bought the Skole lands from his friend, Count Potocki.

At the end of the 19th century, the palace was rebuilt in the neo-baroque style by the Austrian baron Hermann Gredel and his brothers Bernard and Albert, who controlled the local industry.

The palace is located in the upper part of the city (Demnya district), next to the highway "Kyiv - Chop". The building is well preserved, but without interior decoration. A park with a fountain in front of the main facade is surrounded by an authentic fence.

Until 1956, the district branch of the NKVD was located here. Today it is a boarding school.

The National Nature Park "Skolivski Beskydy" protects the unique nature of the northeastern part of the Ukrainian Carpathians.

The park with an area of ​​more than 35,000 hectares was created in 1999 on the basis of the Skole Forest Reserve, declared here in 1983 for the purpose of protecting beech forests, as well as part of the territory of the Zelemin and Maidan landscape reserves, the protected tracts of Dubynske, Sopot , "Zhuravlyne".

The Skolivski Beskydy mountain massif is located between the Stryi, Opir and Myzunka rivers. The absolute heights in the territory of the park are from 600 to 1200 meters. Pure beech forests of natural origin have been preserved here, as well as reference spruce and fir forests (the trees are over 100 years old). Deer, roe deer, wild boar, wolves, bears, and if from rare species - badger, ermine, forest cat, lynx and others are found in them. In 1965, 10 bison were brought here from Bilovezshska Pushcha.

On the territory of the National Park "Skolivski Beskydy" there are such well-known natural attractions as the waterfalls "Kamyanka" (the village of Kamianka) and "Hurkalo" (the village of Korchyn), as well as the historical and cultural reserve "Tustan" (the village of Urych ).

Directly adjacent to the city of Skole is the protected tract "Pavliv Potik", in which there are two small waterfalls, sources of mineral water, Blackberry meadow.

Tents and bonfires are allowed in designated areas.

The wooden church of the Holy Great Martyr Panteleymon in Skole is said to have been founded in 1597 as the church of Saint Paraskeva.

Built by masters of the Boykyv school, three square log cabins are covered with four-sided tents. A special feature of the church's architecture is the two-tier solution of the babinets, which has a frame structure at the top of the walls, which brings it closer to some landmarks of the Boykyv type in Transcarpathia.

The square two-story bell tower was added in 1760.

During the Soviet rule, a museum of folk architecture was opened in the premises of the temple.

Today it is an active church of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

The wooden church of Archstrategist Michael was built in 1856 (according to other data - in 1807).

It is located in the center of the village of Volia-Zaderevatska, near the cemetery.

It is characterized by simple forms. Nearby is a small two-story bell tower.

The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Slavsko was built in 1901 (architect Vasyl Nahirny) on the place where, according to legend, a cross fell twice, torn by the wind from an old wooden church on a nearby hill.

The bell tower at the cemetery survived from the wooden Assumption Church.

A monument to the writer Mykola Ustyyanovych was erected near the church.

The Roman Catholic Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was founded in Zhydachiv in 1301.

At first it was wooden. In 1415, the brother of King Svydryhaylo, who owned these lands, decorated the temple. In 1602, the construction of the Assumption stone church was started at the expense of Mykola Lihenza and Yezhy Zholchynsky.

In 1676, the Polish king Yan III Sobeski celebrated the victory over the Turks near Zhydachiv in this church.

In 1895, there was a fire in the church, and only in 1938 was the reconstruction completed.

During Soviet times, the Church of the Assumption was closed, first a bus station was placed in it, and then a museum of local history.

Currently, the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is active.

According to legend, there used to be a family estate on three hills outside the city, to which an underground passage leads from the church. Until now, the old "man's" stables have been preserved, which now contain classrooms and garages of the local professional lyceum.

The Austrian Pillbox (DOT) from the First World War is located on a 30-meter cliff on the northern outskirts of Mykolaiv.

An entrance and two separate rooms 20 by 7 meters have been cut into the sandstone rock. Stairs lead to the second floor to the stone-concrete tower of Pillbox.

Pillbox was used as an observation post and fire control center - the northern part of the city of Mykolaiv and the road leading to it are clearly visible from a height.

The memorial museum-manor of the family of the outstanding Ukrainian politician, leader of the OUN, Stepan Bandera, was opened in Stryi for the 101st anniversary of his birth.

The exhibition, which is mostly devoted to the school years of young Stepan, is located in the house of his grandfather Mykhaylo Bandera, where he lived while studying from 1919 to 1927 at the Stryi Gymnasium.

Also, the exposition of the house-museum tells about all the members of the large Bandera family, each of whom in one way or another participated in the struggle for Ukrainian independence. Documents, photographs, personal belongings are presented.

A square named after Stepan Bandera has been opened in front of the house.

The Buvet "Hrybok" is the main source of "Morshynska" mineral water, which has become a hallmark of the resort due to its characteristic architecture.

Depicted on the coat of arms of the city and on the label of bottled mineral water "Morshynska".

The Buvet "Hrybok" was opened in 1935 in the central park of Morshyn, it is designed to serve 6 thousand people. Preparation and heating of therapeutic concentrations of mineral waters is carried out in a special department of the pump room under the constant control of the hydrochemical laboratory.

Nearby "from the hands of the mermaid" flows weakly mineralized water of spring No. 4 - "The Mother of God". Nearby is a large closed pavilion of the resort-wide mineral water pumping station, as well as the resort-wide balneo-gyrazeli.

Throughout the park there are many sculptures on an antique theme.

The wooden Church of the Epiphany in Oriavchyk was built in 1865.

An expressive example of Boyko architecture of the 19th century.

The parish belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The school ethnographic museum of Stilsko village is located in the premises of the local educational complex. Its exposition includes 460 original exhibits.

In particular, maps and drawings of the Stilsko settlement, photos from archaeological excavations are presented. The interior of a peasant's house of the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century is reproduced.

The ethnographic collection includes embroidery, pottery, tools, musical instruments, etc.

The first museum of Hetman Ivan Vyhovskyi in Ukraine was opened in 2004 in the village of Ruda near Zhydachiv.

Since 1660, this village belonged to the Vyhovsky family for more than a hundred years. The manager's house has been preserved from their estate, which houses an exposition reflecting the period of the struggle for Ukraine's independence from the times of Zaporizhzhian Sich to the end of the 1940s and 1950s.

Painting works by domestic and foreign artists of the XVII-XX centuries are widely presented here. In particular, a painting by an unknown artist (19th century) depicting Ivan Vyhovsky's wife Olena Stetkevych. Among the exhibits are works of sacred art of the XVII-XIX centuries. An icon of the Ascension (an unknown artist of the 2nd half of the 18th century) from the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in the village of Yosypovychy in Stryi region is kept here - the family church of the Vyhovskys. The icon was restored in 2004 by the workers of the restoration department of the Lviv Art Gallery.

The museum exhibits objects of material culture found near the former hetman's castle in the village of Ruda. Among the rare ones is an oak door from the Vyhovsky family church with a gift inscription of the hetman's daughter-in-law Tereza Zavadska, wife of Ostap's son.

The picturesque and full-water Gurkalo waterfall is a hydrological monument of nature.

It is located on the territory of the National Nature Park "Skolivski Beskydy" at an altitude of 570 meters above sea level, on the slope of Mount Parashka at the mouth of the Velyka Richka River.

It was formed at the place of the breakthrough of Paleogene sandstones. The height is about 5 meters. The Hurkalo waterfall is surrounded by a forest, and there are several meadows nearby for relaxation.

You can get there from the village of Korchyn or from the village of Krushelnytsia, from which a marked path leads to the Hurkalo waterfall. Due to the bad condition of the road, it is very difficult to enter by car.

The Iliv settlement-sanctuary of the 8th–10th centuries is a part of the Historical and Cultural Reserve "Stilsko Settlement".

It is located 5 kilometers to the east of the Stilsko settlement, the ancient capital of the Slavic tribe of White Croats.

The settlement is located on a promontory of the plateau at a height of about 80 meters above the Ilovets River, which washes its foothills partly from the northern and western sides. Traces of two concentric defensive ramparts and ditches are still visible on the high, rocky, forest-covered Tokareva Mountain, which rises above the southern outskirts of the village of Iliv. There is also a rock with three small caves. One of them is a cave-room, hollowed out of the rock by human hands. The entrance to the cave is made in the form of a woman's womb. Perhaps the goddess Mokosha was once worshiped here.

Presumably, the Iliv settlement was the main sanctuary of the White Croats. Later, monks settled in the caves, and during the Second World War, local residents and UPA soldiers hid here.

A very steep path equipped with a wooden handrail leads to the cave complex.

The memorial homestead museum of the sculptor Ivan Samotos was opened in 2023 in his family home in the village of Ustia in the Lviv Region.

The outstanding Ukrainian sculptor, People's Artist of Ukraine Ivan Samotos was born in Ust in 1933. He graduated from the Lviv Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts - now the Lviv National Academy of Arts, where Samotos headed the Department of Monumental and Decorative Sculpture.

During his lifetime, Samotos created more than 120 monuments and memorial signs, the most famous of which is the monument to Vyacheslav Chornovol in Lviv.

During his lifetime, Samotos dreamed of creating a museum-workshop in his parents' house in Usta. The idea was implemented on the initiative of Ivan Samotos' wife Oksana and his daughter Natalia. The authentic interior has been preserved in the house. The exposition presents the personal belongings of the artist, family photos, as well as some author's works of the sculptor.