Attractions of Vyzhnytsia district

The Museum of Nature of the Vyzhnytsky National Nature Park in the village of Zeleniv has been housed since 1986 in an old building built in the early 20th century for a local priest.

The museum has nine departments that tell about the geography, climate, geology and nature of Zeleniv and other neighboring villages of the right bank of the Prypruttya. In particular, a geographical map of the relief is exhibited: the terrain is hilly, some parts of the territory are located at an altitude of up to 400 meters above sea level and are densely cut by a network of ravines, valleys and swamps.

Most of the natural exhibits are stuffed animals, fish and birds that are found in the region.

In the yard in front of the house grow both ordinary bushes and flowers, and exotic - ball-shaped thuja, juniper, Pissardii plum, evergreen myrtle, tulip tree, sycamore, etc.

The Vyzhnytsky National Natural Park was created in 1995 to preserve, reproduce and rationally use the natural landscapes of the Bukovyna Carpathians with unique historical and cultural complexes.

The landscape diversity of its territory is impressive: there are steep slopes, picturesque rocks, waterfalls and gorges, and fir-beech forests occupy almost the entire territory of the park (in some places they reach a height of 40 meters and 70-90 centimeters in diameter). This is one of the two places in Ukraine where a rare orchid grows - the leafless chinstrap. There are a large number of springs of mineral water: "Chereshenka", "Vyzhnytsia", "Luzhayky".

The territory of the Vyzhnytsky National Park has routes for active hiking tourism, ecological educational trails. Green tourism is developing.

The park administration operates an ecological and educational center.

The wooden church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin in Halytsivka is considered the oldest monument of wooden architecture in the Bukovyna Carpathians.

It was built by folk craftsmen in 1630 without a single nail. The church has a disproportionately oblong nave, a faceted altar part and an octagonal nave above which rises an octagonal pyramidal top. The pitched roof with a high overhang and the dome of the church are covered with aluminum sheet, the walls are horizontally lined with wood.

No less interesting is the bell tower, which was built in the 18th century. It clearly stands out among the majority of Bukovyna bell towers due to its octagonal shape and its unusual silhouette, which is more reminiscent of a watchtower or even a space rocket.

The manor-museum of the People's Artist of Ukraine Nazariy Yaremchuk is located in Vyzhnytsia in the village of Rivne.

The small "spruce house" in which the famous singer spent his childhood and youth was turned into a museum by his sister Kateryna.

In the museum, you can see family heirlooms of the Yaremchuk family, stage costumes, photos and personal letters of the maestro, magazine and newspaper articles collected by friends, fellow students, teachers and musicians, which tell about the life path of Nazariy Yaremchuk.

The wooden church of Saint Basil was built in Pidzakharychi in 1866 in a typical Hutsul style.

The upper part is covered with galvanized iron.

It is located in a cemetery located on a rise, from where a picturesque panorama of the Cheremosh valley opens.

The wooden church of Saint Demetrius of Thessalonica is located on the western outskirts of Vyzhnytsia, in the village of Rivnya.

Saint Demetrius Church was built in 1883. It resembles the earlier wooden temples of the Hutsul region found in the Ivano-Frankivsk region, but differs from them in the absence of a covered gallery and the significant displacement of the side extensions of the nave.

The Saint Demetrius Church is an outstanding monument of wooden Hutsul architecture of local importance.

The original Orthodox Church of Saint Michael's in Vyzhnytsia is distinguished by its architecture in the Baroque style, uncharacteristic of Bukovyna churches.

Saint Michael's Church was built in 1924 by the architect Henrikh von Kosovskyi and originally had other domes. Its current appearance is the result of reconstruction after a fire that occurred in 1961 as a result of a lightning strike. The baths destroyed by fire were later restored in the Old Believer style - low and as if flattened.

Saint Michael's Church is an architectural monument of local importance. Belongs to the religious community of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Saint Nicholas Church is located in the center of Putyla, next to the museum-manor of Yuriy Fedkovych, who at one time allocated land and money for its construction.

It is a typical Bukovyna three-tiered church. The wooden church has a rectangular vestibule, a square nave and a faceted altar, covered by three almost identical tops, the middle of which is slightly higher and more slender than the others. On both sides of the nave, faceted-shaped parapets are attached, which gives the temple an almost cruciform appearance.

The two-tiered belfry, the walls of which are also covered with wood, and the top of the tent with sheet metal, harmoniously complements the church and together with it forms a whole temple architectural ensemble.

The wooden church of Saint Paraskeva in Ust-Putyla was built in 1881.

It belongs to the type of three-part, three-headed temple common in the Bukovyna Carpathians. The monument embodies all the characteristic features of this type: faceted nave and apse and rectangular nave; widely spaced, almost equal in height tent domes with a pronounced interception at the base, sheathed with shingles, with a slope inward, girdled by a shallow belting of the wall. The folds of the tops in the interior contribute to the vertical opening of the space. The entire massive volume of log cabins turns into domes of heads, repeating the contours of the mountains surrounding the valley.

The belfry is located to the west of the church, vertically sheathed with tesserae, eight on four, with a tent ending.

The Monastery of Saint Righteous Anna was founded in Vashkivtsi in 1993 on Mount Anna, revered by the people.

According to oral traditions, there was once a women's monastery here, founded in honor of the brave and rebellious girl Anna, who escaped Turkish dishonor on the mountain. A healing spring appeared at this place. In the middle of the 19th century, the first wooden temple was built, which burned down at the beginning of the 20th century.

After Ukraine gained its independence, the construction of the Saint Anne's Monastery began. The Cathedral of Saint Anna with the lower church of the Great Martyrs of the Maccabees, cells, utility buildings was built.

The Church of the Saints Apostles Peter and Paul in Vyzhnytsia was built in 1876 on the site of an old wooden church founded in 1812 by Polish immigrants.

The new stone church was built at the expense of the tycoon of Armenian origin Hryhoriy Ayvas.

In 1930, the wedding ceremony of Yuriy Fedkovych's parents took place in the Peter and Paul Church - the noblewoman Anna Dashkevycheva and the famous German climatologist Adalbert Hordynskyi-Fedkovych.

In 1946, after the arrival of Soviet power, the Peter and Paul Church was closed.

In the early 1990s, after Ukraine gained independence, the church was returned to the Roman Catholic community of Vyzhnytsia.

Shurdyn Pass is the highest mountain pass in Ukraine (1173 meters).

It passes through the Carpathian ridge of Rakov between the settlements of Berehomet and Seliatyn.

It is believed that this path was paved in 1914 by Russian troops under the command of General Oleksiy Brusylov. During the First World War, bloody battles with Austro-Hungarian troops took place in this part of the Carpathians, with Ukrainians fighting on both sides.

On the mass grave of fallen soldiers on the Shurdyn pass, the chapel of Archstrategist Mykhaylo was built.

The pass offers a wonderful panorama of the Bukovyna Carpathians.

The building of the Vyzhnytsia Town Hall is located in the center of the city, on the former Rynok  Square.

The two-story building of the city magistrate with a stylish decorative tower was built at the beginning of the 20th century. Throughout its existence, it performed administrative functions: it was a magistrate during Austrian times, a city hall during the Romanian occupation, a district administration during the Ukrainian statehood of 1918-1920, and a branch of the State Treasury during Independence. Today it is a city court.

In front of the town hall, there is a monument to Lukyan Kobylytsa, a member of the Austrian Parliament, the leader of the popular uprisings of 1843-1849.

The manor of the Ukrainian writer Osyp-Yuriy Fedkovych family is located in the very center of Putyla.

The original wooden house in which the future writer was born and raised was built at the end of the 18th century. In the post-war years, a new building was built on the site of the manor that burned down, which housed the museum's administration and the literary section, which tells about the creative life of the writer. In 1974, the manor itself was reconstructed.

Yuriy Fedkovych's family house is a typical Hutsul wooden house, slightly elongated compared to the usual ones, without additional buildings. The three-log house in plan, built of spruce logs, consists of a hall and two rooms: a small living room and a living room.

Today, the Fedkovych estate is a real ethnographic museum of the Hutsul region. Here you can familiarize yourself with national costumes, everyday life, the main types of Hutsul art, from wooden carved utensils to the architecture of a residential building.

Near the manor there is a well, from which Yuriy Fedkovych himself drank water, opposite the entrance to the museum - his bust.

The Yuriy Fedkovych Manor Museum in Putyla is a department of the Chernivtsi Regional Museum of Local Lore.