Attractions of Kolomyia district

The world's only museum of Easter egg painting "Pysanka" presents in Kolomyia a unique collection of traditional Ukrainian miniature painting on Easter eggs.

Is a branch of the National Museum of Hutsulshchyna & Pokuttya Folk Art in Kolomyia.

The museum building is made in the form of a huge Easter egg 13 m high (2000). The collection includes 10,000 works representing the traditions of Easter painting in all regions of the country. Works by masters from Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, Western Europe and America are also presented. Traditionally, the first persons of the state who visit the museum leave their autographs on Easter eggs.

There are master classes on Easter painting.

A wide selection of original handmade Easter eggs, including an ostrich egg, is presented in the souvenir shop of the Easter egg painting museum "Pysanka".

The Museum of History and Liberation Struggles named after UPA Corporal General Roman Shukhevych was opened in 2004 in the village of Tyshkivtsi, where his great-grandfather Osyp Shukhevych served as a priest.

The exhibition in several rooms of the museum tells about several generations of the Shukhevych family (Osyp Shukhevych, Volodymyr Shukhevych, Roman Shukhevych) and the participation of the village residents in the liberation struggle.

The exhibition "Underground Printing" is presented in the reconstructed hiding place in the basement.

The Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Immaculate Virgin Mary in Horodenka became the first monumental work of the famous Italian architect Bernard Meretin on Ukrainian lands.

He was invited to Horodenka for this work by the influential Polish tycoon Mykola Potoski. It was also Meretin's first joint work with the brilliant sculptor Ivan Pinzel. The iconostasis, the pulpit, the main altar, above which the image of the Mother of God is today, and two small altars belong to Pinzel's hand. After that, Meretin and Pinzel fulfilled several more orders of Potoski in Horodenka and Buchach.

In the 30s of the 19th century, a bell tower was built outside the church, and a more elegant wrought iron fence was installed around the church instead of a defensive wall.

Several of Pinzel's works from the church in Horodenka are exhibited in the sculptor's museum in Lviv, but a stele with Pinzel's original sculpture of the Virgin Mary has been preserved in front of the church.

Nearby is the monastery building.

The building of the Kolomyia City Hall is located in the corner of the market square, facing away from other buildings. The 33-meter-high clock tower of the city hall dominates the low-rise buildings of the central part of the city.

The three-story building of the city magistrate of Kolomyia was built in 1877 on the site of the burned down wooden town hall. Made in the neo-renaissance style. The tower bears the coat of arms of the city and chimes with three dials. In 1880, Ivan Franko spent several hours under arrest in the premises of the city hall, who was detained by the gendarmerie post for violating the passport regime.

As in the old days, the premises are now occupied by the city government - the Kolomyia City Council is located here.

National Museum of Hutsulshchyna & Pokuttya Folk Art named after Yosaphat Kobrynskyi is located in the premises of the former People's House, built in 1902 at the expense of the Ukrainian community of the Kolomyia.

The Viennese Neo-Renaissance building was designed by local architects who studied in Krakow.

The creation of the People's House with a theater and museum in 1880 was initiated by the local priest Yosaphat Kobrynsky, who played an important role in the formation of Ukrainian national identity in Pokuttya.

The museum was opened in 1926 by the efforts of his nephew Volodymyr Kobrynskyi, having survived the difficult Polish period, the German occupation, Soviet repression and post-perestroika devastation.

Now the collection includes 50,000 exhibits representing all kinds of traditional folk art of Hutsuls and inhabitants of Pokuttya: wood carving, blacksmithing, pottery, weaving, embroidery, etc. Widely presented samples of traditional clothing of mountaineers, Hutsul jewelry made of non-ferrous and precious metals, weapons opryshki and others.

There is a permanent exhibition of tapestries by Mykhaylo Bilas.

Branches of the National Museum of Hutsulshchyna & Pokuttia Folk Art are the Museum of Easter Painting Museum "Pysanka" in Kolomyia, the Kosiv Museum of Folk Art and Life of Hutsul Region, the Carpathian Region Ethnography and Ecology Museum in Yaremche.

The Greek-Catholic Cathedral of Saint Archangel Michael was built in Kolomyia in 1855 on the site of an ancient Dominican monastery and a holy spring.

A bell tower was built in 1871. Since that time, the appearance of the "Ruska Church" (Rus, Ruthenian, that is, Ukrainian) has practically not changed.

The authors of the original iconostasis and images were the famous Ukrainian artist Kornylo Ustiyanovych and the Hungarian artist Miklosh. Interior paintings were done by local artist Valerian Krytsinsky.

Several ecclesiastical brotherhoods were active at the temple of Archangel Michael.

During the Soviet rule, Saint Michael's Church was handed over to the Orthodox community of Kolomyia, but in 1990 it was returned to the Greek Catholics. The restoration was completed in 1996.

Across the road from the back side of the cathedral, a life-giving spring flows, which has preserved the ancient name "Klyashtor" (monastery). Its water is considered healing. Every year on Epiphany, the spring is consecrated.

The Museum-Manor of the Shukhevych family was inaugurated in 2019 in the village of Tyshkivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk region, where Father Osyp Shukhevych, the great-grandfather of UPA Commander-in-Chief Roman Shukhevych, lived most of his life.

In the house, the living and working premises where members of the Shukhevych family lived and worked have been recreated. The exposition presents their personal belongings, photos, documents, as well as a family tree.

The Museum of the Shukhevych Family is a department of the National Museum of Folk Art of the Hutsul Region and the Pokuttya named after Yosafat Kobrynsky.

Kolomyia Academic Regional Ukrainian Drama Theater named after Ivan Ozarkevych bears the name of the founder of the first Ukrainian drama theater in Galicia.

The fashion for theaters came here with the transition of the region under Austrian rule. In 1848, the chairman of the Kolomyia council Vereshchynskyi, burgomaster Drymalin and local priest Ozarkevych initiated the creation of a Ukrainian amateur theater. It lasted three years.

After a short break, the theater was revived in 1865 as a traveling professional troupe "Ruskyi People's Theater". Since 1939, the theater has acquired state status.

The Armenian Church is the oldest surviving building in Horodenka.

The strict defensive temple was built at the beginning of the 18th century at the expense of the city's Armenian community, which at that time became very influential and controlled almost all trade until the first half of the next century.

The wooden Church of the Ascension of the Lord in Sniatyn was built in 1838 (according to other data, in 1784).

The iconostasis of 1894 has been preserved.

Natalya Kobrynska, a well-known writer and activist of the gender movement, was the wife of the abbot of the temple Teofil Kobrynskyi.

The parish of the Holy Ascension Church belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Greek Catholic Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built in Horodenka in the 18th century at the expense of Mykola Vasyl Potoski.

According to legend, the temple was founded by Potoski to atone for his sin - the murder of a local girl (according to one version, these events formed the basis of the folk "Song of Bondarivna").

The author of the project is the famous architect Berdard Meretyn. Instead of the traditional cross, the temple is crowned with the "Pilyava" cross of the Potocki family coat of arms.

The iconostasis of the Church of the Assumption is similar to the iconostasis of Saint George's Cathedral in Lviv - it was also created by the outstanding Ukrainian sculptor Ivan Pinzel, who often worked together with Meretyn.

The Bernardine Monastery in Hvizdets was founded in 1715 by Prince Mykhaylo Puzyna. The baroque church of Saint Anthoniy and the Bernardine monastery were built in 1721-1735 at the expense of Princess Puzyna from the Potocki family.

The complex also includes a belfry over the gate and several outbuildings.

In the 17th century, Chernelytsia Castle was one of the most powerful eastern outposts of the Commonwealth of Nations.

It was built in 1659 by the Bratslav voivode Mykhaylo Chartoryskyi, as evidenced by his coat of arms "Pohon" on the gate tower. On the other side, there is the coat of arms of "Pilava" of the prince's wife, Yefrosyniya Stanislavitska (a legend is associated with her about the swarthy mistress of the castle, who committed suicide after cheating on her husband).

The castle is square in plan, with high walls on earthen ramparts and four bastions at the corners. It played an important role during the Polish-Turkish wars, Polish troops stored weapons and supplies here. The Polish king Yan III Sobieski repeatedly stayed in the castle during his Moldavian campaigns.

As a magnate's residence, the castle lasted until 1817, when its last owner, Mykola Tsensky, died. In Soviet times, a hospital was located on the territory.

Now the castle is in a dilapidated state.

The Catholic Church of Saint Ignatius Loyola in Kolomyia was built on the initiative of the Polish Catholic community of the city, which invited the Jesuit Fathers of the "Society of Jesus" order. In addition to missionary activity, the Jesuits were engaged in education and charity.

The construction of the temple according to the project of the Chernivtsi architect Yosyp Lyaytsner was supervised by the engineer Dioniziy Kzhychkovskyi. The church was called "man's" because most of the parishioners were wealthy people.

In Soviet times, the church premises were used as a shop. In 1990, the church of Saint Ignatius Loyola was returned to the Roman Catholic community of the city.

The majestic church of Saint Yosafat (the former church of the Virgin Mary) rises in the center of Kolomyia, next to the market square.

The parish Roman Catholic church in the baroque style was built according to the project of the famous Italian architect Bernard Meretin in 1775 (according to other sources - in 1762). Rebuilt in 1895 after a fire.

During Soviet times, the church was closed and turned into a Children's World store. In 1991, it resumed its activities as the Greek Catholic Church of the Holy Martyr Yosafat Kuntsevych.