Attractions of Ivano-Frankivsk district

The Church of Archangel Michael in Chesnyky recently celebrated its centenary. It was founded in 1906 on the initiative of the villagers, as the small old church could no longer accommodate parishioners.

The project of the new church was ordered from the famous Lviv architect Vasyl Nahirniy. In 1911, the temple was consecrated, but work continued until 1914.

Michael's Church is located on a high hill in the center of Chesnyky. Stone, cruciform, single-domed, with decorative elements of the classicist style. The ornamental and plot painting was done in 1994 by the artist Ivan Krasevych.

The Art Gallery of the National Reserve "Ancient Halych" opened in 2010. Located on the second floor of the administrative building of the reserve.

The gallery exhibits works of art by Ukrainian artist from Australia, a native of the town of Berezhany in Ternopil region Volodymyr Savchak. You can also see paintings by Galician artist Bohdan Kuziv, other local artists.

The art gallery hosts thematic exhibitions and conferences.

The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lysets was built in 1852 at the expense of Count Rudolf Stadion (Shtadion) on the site of a wooden church that had existed since the 17th century.

The church in the Romanesque style has five altars.

The peculiarity of the Lysets church was that parishioners of the Latin and Armenian religious denominations held services in it at the same time.

The oldest and most valuable treasure of the Assumption Church was the miraculous image of the Mother of God of Lysets. In 1945, deported Poles took the icon to Poland.

In Soviet times, the church had a cinema.

Currently, the temple has been returned to the Roman Catholics, restoration and repair work is ongoing. The image of the Mother of God of Lysets returned to the church in the form of a copy.

The brown bear museum in Maniava was opened in 2006 on the initiative of the public organization "Our Home - Maniava". In this way, local residents honored the four-legged beast, which is considered the master of the forest, a symbol of power and part of local culture.

More than 80 "bear" exhibits are collected in several rooms of the premises of the Maniava village council, including a stuffed bear.

Also on display are souvenirs made by local residents, toys, Hutsul tiles, watches and much more. A gallery of paintings dedicated to the bear theme is on display.

Excursions are free, but voluntary donations are welcome.

The monastery of the Catholic order of Capuchins was founded in Marynopil (Mariiampil) in 1742-1746 at the expense of the Bratslav voivode, Yan Kayetan Yablonovskyi.

In 1757, the construction of Saint Anthoniy's Church was completed. A collegium with philosophy and rhetoric classes, a school for orphans, and a hospital operated at the monastery.

Under the Austrian authorities, the monastery was handed over to the Sisters of Charity of the Order of Charits, and the church came under the control of the Greek Catholic community of Mariiampil.

In 1948, a boarding school was placed next to the monastery, then an LTP. Today it is the Halytskyi correctional colony.

The Roman Catholic Church of Christ the King in Ivano-Frankivsk is located in the suburb of Hirka. It was built in 1925-1939 according to the project of the architect Stanislav Trelya.

In 1961-1989, the shrine was closed by the Soviet authorities and was used as a warehouse.

In 1989, the future bishop Father Yan Olshansky consecrated the church. During 1990-1999, the temple was restored. An organ brought from the Netherlands is installed in the Church of Christ the King. There is also a copy of the "image" of the Mother of God of Chenstokhova (Belz) brought from Poland.

"Stanislaviv Sea" - this is what the current city lake of Ivano-Frankivsk was called when it appeared in 1955.

The history of the construction of the city lake is as follows: on the territory of the former Potocki menagerie, where the Polish nobility and local residents used to love to hunt, a number of ponds were dug back in Stalin's times, which were connected by locks to the Bystrytsia-Solotvynska river. One day, the floodgates were opened, water filled the reservoirs, and as a result, a "sea" was formed.

Currently, the city lake is one of the main recreation areas of Ivano-Frankivsk. The most romantic place is the bridge leading to the "Island of Love". There is a boat station.

The museum of ethnography and life of the Carpathian village of Bohrivka was founded in 2021 by the teacher of the Bohrivka gymnasium, Halyna Hotsanyuk.

The ethnographic exposition presents ancient household items, samples of folk embroidery, relics, antiquities of the village, products of folk craftsmen.

In particular, a working loom is exhibited, on which visitors can try to work.

"Tysmenytsia" factory is the largest fur enterprise in Ukraine. "Tysmenytsia" fur coats are known far beyond the borders of the country.

The secret of fur production was brought here by Armenian settlers in the 16th century. Gradually, fur craft, production of fur, saffian and suede passed to local craftsmen and became famous throughout Europe.

In 1970, the Tysmenytsia factory was built - one of the largest fur factories in the former Soviet Union. The skins of rabbits, muskrats, martens, minks, pizh and others are processed here. It has its own school of modern design, up to 300 new models of ready-made clothes and fur hats are put into serial production every year. "Tysmenytsia" mink fur coats are especially popular.

Products can be purchased at the company store on the territory of the "Tysmenytsia" factory.

The Galician Transversal Railway Museum was opened in 2022 in the building of the sports and educational center "Kamenyar" in the village of Nyzhniv on the initiative of a local enthusiast for reviving the memory of the railway, Dmytro Romanyshyn.

The construction of the 768-kilometer-long Galician Transversal Railway began in 1871. On November 15, 1884, the first train set off on the newly constructed Stanislaviv – Husyatyn branch, in particular the bridge over the Dniester in Nyzhniv. During the Second World War, the railway was destroyed by the Nazis and has not been rebuilt since then, but its remains have been preserved in some places.

The exhibition of the Galician Transversal Railway Museum presents several dozens of authentic exhibits, including a fragment of an Austrian rail, a railway lantern, other instruments and household items of railway workers.

Also on display are weapons from the First World War, old newspapers, currency notes, railway-themed paintings and photographs.

A memorial sign has been installed at the place where the railway runs in Nyzhniv.

The Museum of Liberation Struggles of Halych District in Burshtyn is located in the premises of the "Prometheus" Palace of Culture. It was started in 1996 by the Brotherhood of the OUN-UPA of Halych district station and the Society of political prisoners and repressed people of Halych district.

The exposition presents materials about the events of the Second World War in the territory of the region, outstanding figures of fighters for the freedom of Ukraine, the work of the local intelligentsia of those times. You can see models of hideouts in which UPA soldiers hid, some types of weapons used in those times, maps of combat operations.

The Halych National Nature Park occupies an area of almost 15,000 hectares along the Dniester River and below its tributaries: Limnytsya, Lukvya, Hnyla Lypa.

It includes forest massifs, swamps, forest-steppe areas and various geological formations at the junction of Opillya, Halych basin and Prykarpattya. Among the individual monuments of nature are three oaks aged from 200 to 500 years.

The "Nature of the Galician Land" museum has been opened in the premises of the Halych National Park administration. Collections of stuffed animals of typical and rare representatives of vertebrates, entomological collections, herbarium specimens are presented.

Historical and ethnographic museum "Berehynya" in Burshtyn was founded in 1987 on the initiative of Tamara Husar, a teacher of the Burshtyn Energy College. The exposition is located in the assembly hall of the college dormitory.

The museum collection includes more than 1,500 exhibits - mostly ethnographic and archaeological materials.

The archaeological section presents materials from excavations in the vicinity of Burshtyn: stone axes, bones of extinct animals, etc. The collection of Opillya embroidery includes about 250 towels and 160 shirts. The section "Opillya housing" presents the interior of a village room and storeroom filled with tools, household items, furniture and old clothes. The next section introduces the history of the region from Ancent Rus times to the Second World War.

The Oleshiv Village Historical and Local Lore Museum is located in the premises of the Oleshiv educational complex. The institution was founded in 1980 on the initiative of local historian Vasyl Tatarchuk.

About 300 exhibits are presented in two rooms of the museum, which tell about the nature, history and culture of the Transnistrian village of Oleshiv.

Expositional sections of the museum: "Tools of work of primitive man", "Ukrainian village during the times of Austria-Hungary and Polish Poland", "Ukrainian residence of the beginning of the 19th century", "First and Second World Wars", "Ukrainian village in the post-war period", "Ukraine - independent".

The Icons Museum in the village of Pomoniata has been created since 2024 in the premises of the People's House, which was built in 1932 at the expense of the local Ukrainian community.

The village of Pomoniata has long been known as a center of icon painting, which especially developed during the Soviet persecution of the church in the second half of the 20th century. Icons from Pomoniata were well known throughout Galicia. Icon-painting creativity of Pomoniata residents was especially popular among the residents of Hutsulshchyna and Boykivshchyna. This tradition has survived on a smaller scale to this day.

The exhibition will present a collection of Pomoniata icons from different years, collected by local residents.