Attractions of Stryi district

The Pryima Grotto is located in the middle of the forest, 2 kilometers southeast of Mykolayiv, not far from the small village of Pryima.

A 46,000-year-old settlement of Neanderthals was discovered in the cave. Also recorded are materials from the Early Iron Age, XVIII-XIX centuries (Upper canopy), XVIII-XIX centuries (Lower Cave) and Mousterian era (Upper floor-grotto).

The Kokhavyne monastery of Saint Gerard was founded in 1755 by monks of the Carmelite order at the wooden temple built in 1748 for the miraculous icon of the Our Lady of Kokhavyne.

The current southern part of the village of Hnizdychiv used to be a separate village of Kokhavyne, which is associated with a legend about the phenomenon of the miraculous icon of the Mother of God of Kokhavyne. According to legend, the icon was discovered in the Kokhavyne forest in 1646, and soon this place became an object of mass pilgrimage. At first, the icon was kept in a small chapel, later a new wooden church was built at the expense of Kostyantyna Vyhovskyi.

During the Austrian rule, the monastery was closed, but in 1868 the construction of a large stone church in the neo-Gothic style began, which was consecrated in 1894. The neo-Gothic stone chapel was built in 1901-1902.

During the Soviet rule, the monastery and temple were closed, and a boarding school was placed on the territory.

Today it is the monastery of the Redemptorists of Saint Gerard. The temple was consecrated in honor of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God (remnants of paintings have been preserved). The miraculous icon was exported to Poland in 1945. Now there is a copy of it in the church. Next to the chapel is a holy spring.

The Church of Saint John the Chrysostom was built in Poliana in 1770.

It is located on the territory of an ancient cemetery, where you can find very old tombstones.

In the 19th century, a parish school operated near the church, until a new school was built in the center of the village in 1890.

During Soviet times, the church of Saint John the Chrysostom was closed. Since 1991, it has been returned to the community of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

The Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church of Saint John the Baptist was built in Verkhnie Synovydne at the end of the 19th century as the Roman Catholic Church of Virgin Mary of Chenstokhova.

The church building has a typical appearance for Carpathian churches: a tall structure with a steep bell tower. To the right and left of the entrance, the church is decorated with biblical frescoes: the image of the angel who brought the good news to Mary about the birth of a son, and the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist.

On the territory of the Church of Saint John the Baptist there is a memorial sign in honor of the residents of the village - heroes of Ukraine who died in the fight against the invaders. There is also a cross on a pedestal with a figure of the Virgin Mary next to the church.

The wooden church of Saint Archangel Michael on the territory of the ski resort "Play" was built in 2010 in the classic Boyki style.

The church has a carved iconostasis and a unique candle 2 meters high.

Saint Michael's Church belongs to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

The wooden church of Saint Nicholas was built in Urych in 1911 on the site of an old fallen church.

The new church was built according to the project of the architect Vasyl Nahirniy, using a typical constructive solution: a single-story log cabin with a cruciform plan was installed on a stone foundation. The church bathhouse and the roofs of the chapels were covered with sheet metal. In 1914, a carved iconostasis was installed.

Today, the Saint Nicholas Church is completely hidden under a tin shell and needs serious restoration.

The wooden church of Saint Nicholas in the village of Kozova was built in 1926 by master Leon Dulfik.

The temple is five-bay, cross-shaped in plan. Gilded domes are topped with lanterns with crowns.

The Saint Nicholas Church looks spectacular from the road passing by. Belongs to the community of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

The Church of the Holy Great Martyr Paraskevia in the village of Stilsko was founded in 1831 next to the new cemetery at the foot of the Stilsko settlement.

Due to a lack of funds, the construction was delayed and was completed in 1843 thanks to the financial assistance of Count Stanislav Skarbek.

The architecture of the temple is an example of the Teresian style characteristic of that time. The church is single-nave, rectangular in plan, basilica type, with a three-tiered tower above the entrance. Above the entrance door, the coat of arms of Skarbek is embossed - as a sign of gratitude for his patronage. A stone arch-bell tower is placed in front of the entrance.

Now Saint Paraskevia Church belongs to the community of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. The temple holiday is celebrated on November 10.

The Greek-Catholic Church of Saints Cosmas and Damian, sanctified in 1953, impresses with its size.

Its construction, designed by the architect Yakiv Rudnytskyi, began in 1922 by order of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi.

The Church of Saints Cosmas and Damian was painted by famous artists Zenoviy Ketsalo, Volodymyr Patyk, Roman Khoma, Serhiy Boreyko.

The corner one-story building at the intersection of Mykola Mikhnovsky Street and Mykola Hohol Street in Stryi differs from the surrounding typical buildings of the late 19th and early 20th centuries with bas-reliefs and sculptures on the facades.

Since 1952, the sculptor Kostyantyn Levchenko, the author of more than a hundred sculptures, has lived here, some of which are exhibited in museums in Canada, France, the Czech Republic, Romania and Ukraine, in particular in the Stryi Museum of Local Lore "Verkhovyna".

Levchenko's house houses 12 of his sculptures, including "Jesus Christ", "Donechka", "Taras Shevchenko", "John Paul II", "Mykola Hohol", "Mother of God", "Sich Riflemen" and others.

The wooden Church of the Sending of the Holy Spirit in Verkhnia Rozhanka was built in 1804 by master Mykhaylo Bylen. This is a vivid example of sacred architecture of the Boyko type, an architectural monument of national importance. It is part of the "original Carpathian trinity" (churches in Skole, Verkhnia Rozhanka and Isai).

The previous church on this site existed in the 18th century. The date of construction of the current church is indicated by a carved inscription in Polish to the right of the main door: "Cerkiew zbudowana 9 juny 1804". In 1891, the temple was restored and painted. Restoration and replacement of the shingle covering was carried out in 1969 and 1977.

The church is three-log, built of spruce beams on the same spruce foundations. The tops are crowned with octagonal tents, completed with crowns. The church is surrounded by a wide porch, resting on the outcroppings of log cabin crowns.

The gilded iconostasis of 1891, made by the carver Heinrich Heiche, is preserved in the interior. The walls of the church are covered with his oil paintings, restored in 1969.

During Soviet times, the church was closed. In 1987, by decision of the Lviv Regional Council, it was transferred to the ownership of a religious community. Then the church was restored, repaired, the walls and ceilings were painted.

The Roman Catholic Church of the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin Mary was built in 1892.

Before that, there was a wooden church in Skole from the 17th century. The new stone Catholic church was built according to the project of the architect Alfred Kaminobrodsky and was donated by the parishioners.

After the Second World War, the church was closed, the premises were used as a warehouse.

In 1994, the church of Seven Sorrows in Skole was re-consecrated and restored.

Two oak trees in the center of the village of Dobriany were planted by local residents in 1914 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Taras Shevchenko.

Having decided at the general meeting to celebrate this date, the people of Dobriany instructed the most respected citizens of the village to plant three oak trees: Ivan Solonynka, Yosyp Biletsky, and Yosyp Fedun. In the autumn of 1914, when the village was on the front line, a bullet hit one of the oak trees and destroyed it. Therefore, only two trees remained.

In 1976, it was decided to install a commemorative plaque with a bas-relief image of Taras Shevchenko and fence the oak trees.

The museum of the Ukrainian politician and participant in the liberation struggle Yaroslava Stetsko was opened in 2009 in the premises of the school in the village of Yushkivtsi, where Hanna Muzyka, better known as Slava Stetsko, taught in her youth. The initiator of the creation of the museum was local historian Volodymyr Lahotskyi.

Hanna Muzyka ended up in Yushkivtsi in 1939, hiding from the NKVD. Here, she worked as a principal of an elementary school for two years, until she moved to Lviv to enter the university. Took an active part in the activities of the OUN. In 1945, she organized the evacuation abroad of the wounded deputy leader of the OUN Yaroslav Stetsko, whom she later married. She returned to her homeland after Ukraine gained independence, where she headed the KUN party and became a people's deputy.

The museum presents the personal belongings of Slava Stetsko and her husband Yaroslav Stetsko. The interior of her office in Kyiv was reproduced: a chair, a table, a telephone, a typewriter, flags and an icon. Among the personal belongings are an embroidered jacket and a coat. In the basement, the underground printing house that worked here since 1944 has been recreated. A model of the rebel kryivka (hideout) is also presented.

The manor-museum of Stepan Bandera in the village of Volia-Zaderevatska was opened in the house where Andriy Bandera, the father of the OUN leader, lived in 1933-1936.

During these years, Andriy Bandera served as a priest in the church of Saint Archangel Michael in Zaderev, engaged in legal and underground activities. Stepan Bandera used to come to him on vacation.

Later there was a school in this building.

The museum was founded in the first years of Ukraine's independence by Bandera's sister's friend Anna Ivaniv. In the first room - the pedigree of the Bander family. In the second, there is a chapel where Stepan's father baptized children. In the third room there are documents, photographs, leaflets of the OUN-UPA.

A park named after Stepan Bandera has been laid near the house. The reconstructed hiding place is a disguised refuge of the rebels.