Attractions of Vyzhnytsia district

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 "Luzhky" nature reserve is part of the Vyzhnytsky National Nature Park.

Here you can see unusual rocks with vertical peeling of rocks, waterfalls on the Vyzhenka River and its tributaries. There is a source of sulfate mineral water "Luzhky".

Recreational facilities are equipped.

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.