Attractions of Vyzhnytsia

The museum of Vyzhnytsia College of Arts and Design named after Vasyl Shkriblyak was opened for the 60th anniversary of the educational institution, which bears the name of the famous wood carver, who taught here since 1905.

The exposition includes 23,000 exhibits. The best graduation works of college graduates are presented: woodworking, jewelry, blacksmithing, artistic weaving, embroidery, clothing modeling, and more.

Some works can be purchased.

The house of Anna Moskva-Holota, the wife of Mykhaylo Moskva, a lawyer and member of the Austrian Parliament, was built in Vyzhnytsia in the second half of the 19th century.

Anna Moskva-Holota was one of the most educated women of Bukovyna, well versed in politics and culture, knew several foreign languages, knew how to play the piano, graduated from a teachers' gymnasium, was hardened in the fight for women's rights, for the will of Ukraine. Extremely energetic and patriotic, she renovated the People's House in Vyzhnytsia with her own funds (now it is located on the territory of the Vyzhnytsia boarding school) and became the last head of the "Prosvita" (Enlightenment) society in the city.

Moskva's house was a cozy place for rest, peace of mind, communication with creative people over a cup of coffee and rum, those who wanted could use the family's library of rare books. Moskva's house, which the local intelligentsia then called among themselves the "House under the green lantern", in the times of Austria-Hungary became a kind of House of creativity, where cultural figures, writers and scientists were guests. Ivan Franko stopped in Moscow several times - for the first time in 1884 during his expedition to collect materials about the legendary oprysh Oleksa Dovbush and the leader of the peasant uprising Lukyan Kobylytsa. In the summer of 1901, Lesya Ukrayinka, together with her husband, the ethnographer Klyment Kvitka, also stayed at the house of Anna Moskva-Holota, with whom she was friends until her death. At the beginning of the 20th century, the writers Mykhaylo Kotsyubynskyi, Olha Kobylyanska, Hnat Hotkevych, Yuriy Fedkovych and many other prominent Ukrainians visited here.

On the facade of the Moskva`s house, the old sign of the shop, which was kept by the family, has been preserved to this day.

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ivan Franko, on the initiative of the creative intelligentsia and the "Prosvita" society, a bas-relief to Ivan Franko, Lesya Ukrayinka and Olha Kobylyanska was unveiled on the building. The author of the bas-relief is the sculptor Volodymyr Rymar.

The massive three-story building of the Main Synagogue is one of the architectural landmarks of the central square of Vyzhnytsia.

It was one of the 11 Jewish sanctuaries that existed in the city during the Austrian rule.

During the First World War, the temple burned down. In the 1960s, the building was reconstructed as a district cultural center. It was here that the artistic career of the famous singer Nazariy Yaremchuk, whose childhood and youth were spent in Vyzhnytsia, began.

Today, the turquoise building of the former synagogue is a city house of folk creativity and leisure.

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 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 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.

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.