Attractions of Kalush district

"Kalush Prison" Memorial Museum was established in 2013 in the basement of a 19th-century building, which housed judicial and investigative institutions during the Polish and German occupations, and during the Soviet regime, the repressive bodies of the NKVD and the KGB.

Many OUN and UPA activists were under arrest here. The exposition in the hall "Early-Middle of the 20th Century National Liberation Struggle History" tells about their activities in the Kalush region.

In the hall of archaeological finds, materials from excavations on the territory of the city are presented. In another hall, the interior of a city room of the middle of the 20th century is recreated. A separate exposition is devoted to the history of the Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian war. The basement is used as an exhibition space for thematic exhibitions.

The "Kalush Prison" Memorial Museum is one of the subdivisions of the Communal Institution "Museum and Exhibition Center of the Kalush City Council".

The Plast Camp-Museum "Sokil" in the village of Hrynkiv in the Ivano-Frankivsk region is the oldest stationary base of the National Scout Organization of Ukraine "Plast".

The camp was built in 1926 on the left bank of the Lymnytsia River, at the foot of Sokil Mount – on land near Osmoloda, donated by Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi for the development of plast movement.

Until 1939, dozens of boys and girls camped here every summer. The revival of the camp began in 1990, the buildings were restored according to the old drawings, a chapel was opened and a memorial cross was installed on the symbolic grave of the scouts who died in the struggle for the freedom of Ukraine.

Now the camp-museum "Sokil" is an active institution of children's recreation, sports and patriotic education. Excursions are possible only by prior agreement.

The Carpathian tram is an original narrow-gauge excursion route through the picturesque foothills of the Carpathians, which runs from Vyhoda to Senechiv.

It was opened in 2004 on the basis of a narrow-gauge railway created by Baron Leopold Popper fon Podhrahi at the end of the 19th century to service mountain logging. The width of the narrow track is 760 millimeters, which is almost 2 times smaller than the traditional European track.

The train includes a locomotive in which you can observe the driver's work, a closed car with comfortable seats, a cabriolet car, and an open platform. Along the route, the train crosses 4 bridges.

Stops are planned near the bridge over the Myzunka River, the source of mineral water "Horyanka", the height of the Shirkovets swamp, Dubovy Kut station and near the cascade of the Myzunsky Waterfall. It is possible to organize picnics.

The rocks of Dovbush in the Bubnyshche tract, which have long amazed people with their fantastic forms, are called the Carpathian Sphinxes.

A group of rock remains up to 80 meters high is scattered in the middle of a beech-spruce forest near the village of Bubnyshche on an area of 100 hectares. The massif of sandstone rocks about 200 meters wide and 1 kilometer long was formed more than 70 million years ago at the bottom of a warm sea.

In pre-Christian times, there was a pagan sanctuary here. Probably, in the 13th century, during the reign of King Danylo Halytskyi, a rock fortress was created here, which withstood the Mongol-Tatar invasion and lasted until the 16th century.

In the middle of the 18th century, opryshka rebels were active in this area, and in 1743, the camp of the detachment of the legendary people's avenger Oleksa Dovbush was located in the rock caves, which is where the current name comes from.

The rocks of Dovbush are a complex natural monument of national importance and are part of the Polyanytsky Regional Landscape Park. Many climbing routes of different difficulty categories are laid out on the rocks, and climbing competitions are held regularly.

The Dolyna Museum of Local Lore "Boykivshchyna" was opened in 2003 thanks to the world-famous charitable foundation of Tetyana i Omelyan Antonovychy (USA).

The exhibition tells about the nature, history and culture of Boykivshchyna, an ethnographic region on the northern and southern slopes of the Carpathians.

Of greatest interest is the reconstruction of the exterior and interior of a Boyki house - a typical Boyki dwelling consisting of a large living room (skylight), a corridor (sine) and a room for livestock. Authentic furniture, work tools, household items and traditional Boyki clothes are collected here.

There are also departments of the nature of this region of the Carpathians, the history of the city of Dolyna, Boykiv way of life and ethnography, sacred art.

The memorial room of the Antonovychy family contains materials that tell about their life in the Dolyna, their emigration to the USA, and their philanthropic activities.

The OUN-UPA History Museum was opened in 1995 in the premises of the Broshniv-Osada Lyceum. More than 500 exhibits were collected for the museum exhibition by the students and teachers of the lyceum with the participation of veterans of national liberation struggles.

The exposition tells about the history of Broshniv, the activities of the OUN and UPA in this region, the tragic fate of the rebels in exile. Among the original exhibits: a collection of ideological materials of the UPA, the annals "Red viburnum", the insurgent leaflet "What the UPA stands for", embroidery "Prison souvenir of 1946".

A model of the kryivka (hideout) in which the insurgents hid was presented.

The Church of the Reformers is located in the very center of the village of Tsvitova.

The temple in neo-gothic style was built in 1938 according to the project of the architect Vavzynets Daichak. The structure of the church is decorated with a large number of arches, ledges, large and small spires. The church is decorated with wooden arched doors in the spirit of the Middle Ages, narrow rectangular window openings typical of defensive structures.

The bell tower stands on a platform with numerous arched openings and culminates in a tower with a central wooden Gothic spire in the form of a pointed cone and smaller cones around it.

The historical and memorial museum of Stepan Bandera was opened in the village of Staryi Uhryniv, where the ideologue of the Ukrainian national movement was born in 1909.

The Bandera family lived here from 1906 to 1933. The exposition reveals the environment in which Stepan Bandera grew up and was brought up, illustrates the life and activities of the leader of the OUN. Personal belongings, documents, photographs are presented.

A collection of Ukrainian banknotes of the 20th century is on display.

The historical and memorial museum of Stepan Bandera in Staryi Ughrynoiv is a branch of the Ivano-Frankivsk regional museum of the liberation struggle named after Stepan Bandera.

The Vyhoda Narrow Gauge Heritage Center is housed in an ancient building built in 1855, where Baron Leopold Popper fon Podhrahi, the founder of the Vyhoda Narrow Gauge Railway, lived.

After the reconstruction, the building was transformed into a modern interpretive visitor center of the "Carpathian Tram", the terminus of which is located nearby.

The interactive exposition tells about the local nature and forest ecosystem of the Carpathians, the history of the development of the woodworking industry, the emergence of the Vyhoda narrow gauge railway, ethnography, folk crafts, etc.

In the center, you can rent equipment for active tourism, buy guidebooks, maps, and souvenirs.

The city hall of Bolekhiv in its current form was built in 1863, although it was laid back in the 18th century.

Bolekhiv had the Magdeburg right since 1603 according to the privilege granted by the Polish king Sigismund III.

The city magistrate was stationed here on the corner of the central square. The small, elegant building of the Bolekhiv City Hall has a clock tower with a figured top.

Recently, the town hall was restored, new chimes of the work of modern Lviv master Oleksiy Burnaev were installed on the clock tower.

To this day, the town hall is used for its intended purpose - it houses the Bolekhiv City Council.

Count Skarbek's castle (Skarbko) in Rozhniativ can be considered a tourist attraction only with a great stretch, since almost nothing remains from its medieval history in appearance.

Probably, the first castle in Rozhniativ was built in the 15th century. It had two towers and a defensive moat. In the 18th century, Count Rafayil Skarbek of the coat of arms "Abdank", who received these lands as a dowry for his wife Yuliya Mahdalena Benoe, rebuilt the castle in the neo-Gothic style, turning it into a grand magnate's residence.

Later, the district court and the police department were located in the castle premises. During Soviet times, the building was almost completely rebuilt once again. Only the decoration of the hexagonal corner tower has survived from the neo-Gothic decor. Currently, the building houses a branch of the National Police of Ukraine.

The "Angels Residence" Museum in Dolyna was opened in 2023 by a collector from the Luhansk Region, Olena Stetsenko.

During the large-scale Russian invasion, she was forced to leave her hometown of Kreminna. The exhibition was exhibited in different parts of Ukraine until it found a permanent place in Dolyna.

The exposition presents hundreds of different figurines of angels from all corners of Ukraine and from 37 other countries of the world. Professional and amatro works are made in more than 30 techniques.

The owner of the museum conducts tours, organizes photo sessions in romantic locations.

The blast furnace (domnytsia, domna) in the "Anheliv" tract near Hrynkiv was laid in 1810 by the Greek-Catholic Metropolitan Antin Anhelovych.

In 1812, the construction of the furnace and other industrial facilities was completed. There were 12 mines, an iron processing factory and a forge. In 1814, the Anheliv blast furnace was put into operation, but it did not work for long - it was closed already in 1818.

A residential building in the Art Nouveau style on Yevhena Konovaltsya street, near the turn towards Bubnyshche, is the most interesting example of Bolekhiv civil architecture of the 19th century.

A tower with a high spire gives a romantic look to a one-story house.

Currently, it is one of the buildings of the Bolekhiv city hospital.

The Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary was built in Bolekhiv in the 1820s on the site of an old church that existed from the 16th-17th centuries.

The first church was wooden. A new church was built in its place in 1730-1738, but it collapsed due to engineering miscalculations.

The present Assumption Church in the Art Nouveau style was closed in Soviet times, used as a sports hall, then a boiler room.

In 1994-2000, the church was restored. Today it belongs to the Catholic community of Bolekhiv.