Attractions of Kolomyia district

The Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is one of the oldest wooden churches in the Carpathians, a fine example of the Hutsul school of folk wooden architecture.

Initially, the temple was part of the monastery complex, which was destroyed by the Tatars. Paintings made in 1648 have been preserved. It is located near the cemetery.

In Soviet times, the exposition of the Museum of Easter Eggs was housed here. In 1990, the Church of the Annunciation was transferred to the church community of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. In 2018, the temple was returned to the Greek Catholics.

The Kolomyia City History Museum occupies the premises of the former county council, where the interiors of the XIX-XX centuries have been restored. During the Western Ukraine, the district military commandant Teodor Primak worked here.

The history of the city's development is presented in 18 exposition halls in documents, memorials and household items. Permanent exhibitions: "German colonies of Kolomyia", "Kolomyia and the Habsburgs", "Formation of Kolomyia at the end of the XIX - first half of the XX century", "Economy and trade of the city in the XIX-XX centuries", "From the history of the Jewish community of the city", " From the history of the Ukrainian ethnic lands of modern Poland until 1944. "

The exposition department of the Kolomyia City History Museum is the Museum of National Liberation Struggle, which opened in 2012 in the basement of the museum building. The exposition consists mainly of old photos of resistance members, which came from private collections. You can also see the clothes of rebels and political prisoners, fragments of weapons.

The Great Synagogue in Horodenka was built in 1743, when the Jews who settled here from the middle of the 17th century received the right to engage in crafts and trade, as well as land for building a temple.

In the 1760s, a group of supporters of Hasidism emerged in Horodenka. One of them was Nachman from Horodenka, the closest disciple of the founder of the Yisrael Baal-Shem-Tov movement.

The synagogue was reconstructed in 1885.

During the Second World War, more than 2,500 Jews were shot in Horodenka. In Soviet times, the synagogue was rebuilt.

The Historical and Local Lore museum of Oleksa Dovbush in Pechenizhyn, the birthplace of the legendary leader of the Opryshkys, was established in 1971.

Since 2004, the exposition has been housed in an adapted room near Saint Michael's Church.

The museum covers the history of the village from ancient times to the present day. There are many household items, tools, folk clothing. The main section is devoted to Oleksa Dovbush, a native of Pechenizhyn, a robber and people's avenger, the most famous leader of the opryshki insurgent movement in the Carpathians of the XVIII-XIX centuries.

Pechenizhyn Museum of Oleksa Dovbush is a branch of the Ivano-Frankivsk Museum of Local Lore.

The Horodenka City Local Lore Museum "Pokuttya" opened in 2009 in the historical building of the savings bank of the beginning of the 20th century, next to the main attraction of the city - the Immaculate Conception of Most Holy Virgin Mary Church.

The exposition presents ancient wooden furniture (tables, chests, bambetli), embroidered clothes, ceramics, a large collection of icons and photographs from centuries ago.

The exhibition "Dwelling of a Pokuttya peasant" reproduces the interior of an old village house. You can also see a collection of bricks with stamps collected at various historical sites in Horodenka.

One of the expositions reproduces the process of making a home-spun canvas, spinning workshops are held here.

The Illintsi Village History People's Museum was opened in 1987 on the initiative of the local teacher and local historian Roman Ryzyuk.

The museum is located on the second floor of the Illintsi Lyceum. Museum funds include about 2,000 exhibits.

The exhibition tells about the history of the village of Illintsi and its surroundings from the Neolithic era to the present day. In particular, you can learn about the development of the village in the 18th-19th centuries, the wave of emigration at the end of the 19th century, the formation of units of the USS in the region at the beginning of the 20th century, public organizations of the village in the first half of the 20th century, the liberation struggle of 1943-1953, the creation of a collective farm in the village, local schooling, etc.

The exhibition also introduces the folk culture and daily life of the village residents. Separate stands are dedicated to outstanding people of the region.

The monument to Ivan Franko was opened in Kolomyia for the 156th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Ukrainian writer, poet, philosopher and public figure.

Franko repeatedly visited Kolomyia, where he founded the radical society "People's Will", participated in people's meetings, read his works in the People's House.

Nine years have passed since the idea of ​​building a monument to Kamenyarev in Kolomyia came to fruition. Funds for the monument were collected all over the world. Regional and local authorities, patrons joined. The Kolomyia sculptor Vasyl Andrushko, professor of the Lviv National Academy of Arts Vasyl Hurmak, and architect Oleh Pril worked on the monument.

The Torhovytsia Literary and Memorial Museum of Les Martovych was founded in 1971 on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the satirist writer.

Oleksa Martovych was born in 1871 in the family of a village clerk in the village of Torhovytsia, near Horodenka. He went to school here. He started writing while studying at the Kolomyia Gymnasium. Together with Vasyl Stefanyk and Mark Cheremshyna, Les Martovych was a member of the so-called Pokuttya group of novelists. The high-relief "Pokuttya Trinity" greets visitors in the lobby of the museum.

During his lifetime, he published 27 short stories about peasant life, written in the Pokuttia dialect of the Ukrainian language. Lifetime editions of the writer's works are presented in the exposition.

You can also see a model of the house in which the writer was born, his portrait by the artist Mykola Varennya, some personal belongings, photos, documents. The writer's office is reproduced according to the photo.

In one of the museum halls, the interior of a peasant house of the beginning of the 20th century is recreated with authentic elements of decoration and household items. A bust of the writer is installed in front of the museum.

The Literary and Memorial Museum of Les Martovych is a branch of the Ivano-Frankivsk Local Lore Museum.

The Museum of the Liberation Struggle of the Pokuttya Region was opened in Zabolotiv in 2007 for the 65th anniversary of the formation of the UPA.

The exhibition is housed in five halls. The exhibits are conventionally divided into two sections. The historical department tells about the armed struggle of the Pokuttya people against the occupation regimes in the 1920s - 1950s. In particular, the reconstruction of the situation of the rebel bunker is presented.

Original documents and photographs illuminate the history of the liberation movement in Pokuttya.

In addition, the museum has a small ethnographic exposition.

The Sniatyn Liberation Struggles Museum is named after OUN-UPA Colonel Vasyl Andrusiak (Gregit-Rizun), who was born in Snyatin in 1915. Even in his youth, he became the founder of the OUN branch in the Sniatyn gymnasium, and in 1941 he headed the district leadership of the OUN in Sniatyn.

The Andrusiak Museum was founded in 1995. It is located on the second floor of the Sniatyn town hall.

The museum exposition highlights the theme of the national liberation struggle of the Ukrainian people of the 20th century and the state-building processes on the territory of the Pokuttia region. In particular, here you can find out about the activities of the public association "Sich", about the events of the First World War and the participation of the inhabitants of the region in the ranks of the USSR and UGA, about the social life of the inhabitants of the region during the Polish, Bolshevik and German occupations, about the armed struggle of the OUN-UPA with the German and Russian invaders.

A separate exhibition is devoted to the life and exploits of OUN-UPA colonel Vasyl Andrusiak (pseudonyms "Gregit", "Rizun", "Rizbyar", etc.), who was originally from Sniatyn.

The Pyadyky Literary Museum in the village of Pyadyky near Kolomyia is named after the Ukrainian writer Myroslav Irchan, who was born here in 1897. His father's house under a thatched roof has been preserved to this day.

More than a hundred exhibits tell about the life and creative path of the writer. In the literary part of the museum, the publications from his lifetime are presented, the author and translator of which is Myroslav Irchan.

A bust of Myroslav Irchan is installed next to the museum premises.

Kolomyia Lyceum named after Mykhaylo Hrushevskyi is located in the former building of the Ursuline sisters' monastery, built in 1907.

In 1892, deputies of the Galician Diet decided to open a Ukrainian gymnasium in Kolomyia. Initially, only the Ukrainian class was created at the Polish gymnasium (the Ukrainian writer Vasyl Stefanyk studied there). The public demanded the separation of Ukrainian classes from Polish classes, and this happened in 1900. At the same time, the gymnasium got its own premises (the northern wing of the Polish gymnasium was completed).

In 1939, the Ukrainian gymnasium was closed, and a secondary school was opened in its premises. In 1990, the regional executive committee decided to revive the Kolomyia humanitarian gymnasium. It was placed in a complex of buildings of the monastery of the Ursuline Sisters, where there was a private female gymnasium before the Second World War.

Today it is the Mykhaylo Hrushevsky Lyceum in Kolomyia.

The Sniatyn Literary and Memorial Museum of Marko Cheremshyna was opened in 1949 in the house where the writer lived in 1912-1927.

He bought this classicist villa from Sniatyn lawyer Solomon Markuszon. The exposition includes about 4,000 objects.

The writer's personal belongings and books, his photographs, articles and lifetime editions of his works, as well as a personal library, are stored in eight exhibition rooms.

The interior of the writer's office, where he worked and received visitors, has been preserved – a wardrobe, a table, writing utensils, a kerosene lamp. In the living room there is the most rare exhibit – an old Viennese grand piano, which was played by the writer's wife Nataliya Semanyuk.

Since 1999, the creative club named after Marko Cheremshyna has been operating at the museum.

The Greek-Catholic Church of the Miracle of Saint Archangel Michael was built in the center of Sniatyn in 1880-1886 on the initiative of the local priest Teofil Kobrynskyi, the husband of the famous writer and activist of the gender movement Nataliya Kobrynska.

The monument to national hero Oleksa Dovbush was erected in 1971 at the entrance to the village of Pechenizhyn, where he was born in 1700.

According to legend, the house of his father, shepherd Vasyl Dovbush, was located in the Kalynnyk tract, where another memorial was erected in 1988.

In 1738, Dovbush led a rebel detachment of opryshks, which operated first in the area of Pechenizhyn and the adjacent Yablunivsky Pass, and then in almost the entire territory of the Ukrainian Carpathians. Opryshki terrorized the local nobles and robbed rich landowners, distributing the loot to the peasants, for which they earned the fame of the people's avengers, and the tragic death of Dovbush at the hands of a traitor created for him the halo of a national hero and martyr.

The monument to Oleksa Dovbush was made by the sculptor Valentyn Borysenko in the form of a large bust of the rebel leader with an ax that seems to grow out of his native land.