Attractions of Ivano-Frankivsk region

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.

The museum of the creative family of Hennadiy and Anastasiya Malyavsky was created at the Kosiv Children's School of Arts.

The artist Hennadiy Malyavsky was from Ternopil region, graduated from the Lviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts, and taught at the Kosiv School of Applied Arts since 1961. Here he met his future wife Anastasiya Yusypchuk, who also became his partner on the artistic path.

The best examples of Malyavsky's painting include works made in the genres of landscape and portrait. Some of them are presented in the Malyavsky Family Museum. Among them are works in oil, tempera, graphics.

The Mykhaylo Strutynsky Folk Art Museum also operates at the Kosiv Children's School of Arts.

The Museum of Mariyka Pidhiryanka was opened in 1996 in the birthplace of the poet – in the mountain village of Bili Oslavy in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. It was here in 1881 in the family of a forester that Mariya Lenert was born, who at the beginning of the 20th century became known as the children's writer Mariyka Pidhiryanka, the author of many fairy tales, poems and poems.

The museum is housed in five large rooms of the plebany (priest's house) near the wooden church of the Immaculate Conception of the Immaculate Virgin Mary. The exposition highlights the historical past of Bili Oslavy, the life and work of Mariyka Pidhiryanka. Memorial items of the writer, lifetime editions, photographs, her handwritten works and memories of contemporaries are presented.

In front of the museum, a monument to Mariyka Pidhiryanka has been installed.

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.

In Yaremchy, the glade surrounded by trees under the rock on the banks of the Prut, one kilometer upstream from the Probiy waterfall, is called "Meadow of Love".

The legend of the hutsulka, who threw herself off the cliff because of unrequited love, is connected with the field.

There is a beach and a source of curative hydrogen sulphide mineral water. It can be used in the treatment of gastritis, gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer, and chronic colitis. In small doses, this water is used for preventive treatment of the gastrointestinal tract of children in the Chornobyl zone.

The tract of Demyaniv Laz on the outskirts of Ivano-Frankivsk is the site of a mass shooting of prisoners of the NKVD prison.

The executions were carried out before the retreat of the Soviet troops in 1941. During excavations, human bones were found here and they were able to identify 524 individuals. It was possible to establish the identity of 22 people, work in the archives of the SBU made it possible to determine the names of another 400 executed.

In 1998, the "Demyaniv Laz" memorial complex was opened near the graves. The museum was opened in 2009.

The name of the tract is related to the name of one of the local peasants, Demyan from the village of Zahvizdya, who owned a plot of the Posichnyansky forest here.

The memorial complex "Demyaniv Laz" is a branch of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Museum of the Liberation Struggle named after Stepan Bandera.

The memorial complex "Kryivka Cheremosh" is located on the territory of the Kalush Central District Hospital, which is located on the residential area "Pidhirka".

It was here during the Second World War that there was an secret bunker of the OUN underground group headed by Ivan Mahas (pseudonym "Cheremosh"), which was engaged in printing propaganda materials. All six rebels died on September 6, 1945 in a battle with a special unit of the NKVD. The remains of the shelter were found and investigated by Kalush activists.

In 2017, the ceremonial opening of the reconstructed kryivka (hiding place) and a memorial sign in honor of the dead underground members of the OUN took place.

The memorial complex "Kryivka Cheremosh" is one of the subdivisions of the Communal Institution "Museum and Exhibition Center of Kalush City Council".

The spring of healing mineral water in the "Shandra" tract is located right next to the R-21 highway on the road from Dolyna to Mizhhirya.

Hydrogen sulphide waters are a minor group of mineral waters found mainly in the foothills of the Carpathians. They are divided into three subgroups: sulfate-hydrogen sulfide, chloride-hydrogen sulfide, and bicarbonate-hydrogen sulfide. Sulfate-hydrogen sulfide is water with a sulfate-calcium composition, with a content of 78 mg/l of total and 55-65 mg/l of free hydrogen sulfide.

Near the spring there is an area for recreation and picnics.

The wooden church of the Miracle of Saint Archangel Michael was built in the village of Yaremche Dora in 1844 by the local craftsman Hnishik on the basis of an early church (XVIII century).

Made in Hutsul style. It is cruciform in plan with a large central square log that supports a tent-shaped roof with a pear-shaped crown.

The carved iconostasis and icons of the XVIII-XIX centuries, which have a high artistic value, have been preserved. Ornamental paintings on the walls were made at the beginning of the 20th century.

The appearance of Saint Michael's Church has been largely "modernized" with a metal coating.

From 1946 to 1990, the community of the Russian Orthodox Church worked on the basis of Saint Michael's Church. After Ukraine gained independence, the church building was returned to the Greek Catholic community.

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 Church of the Mother of God of the Holy Scapular was built in 1721.

The Roman Catholic parish in Sniatyn was founded in the 15th-16th centuries. Initially, the temple was wooden, rebuilt several times. In its current form, it was rebuilt and consecrated in 1857.

Restoration was carried out in 1928-1935.

In 1946, the church was closed by the Soviet authorities, and the monks left for Poland, taking with them the icon of the Mother of God of the saint. Scapulary.

Since 1993, the church has been operating again.

The sanctuary of the Mother of God in Bilshivtsi is one of the most beautiful sights of the late Baroque period in Galicia.

It was built in 1624 by the monks of the Carmelite order, who were invited by the owner of the town, Hetman Martyn Kazanovsky.

According to legend, one day the hetman fished the image of the Virgin from the Dniester, and soon won a battle with the Tatars. Taking this as a sign from God, Kazanovsky ordered the construction of a wonderful temple, to which was placed a miraculous icon of the Mother of God of the Holy Scapular, which is popularly called the Bilshivtsi Mother of God.

In 1669, the church had to be repaired due to damage it received during the Liberation War, and in 1718 - after the Turkish invasion. The temple was consecrated in honor of the Visitation of Elizabeth by the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Bilshivtsi icon was crowned by Pope Pius VI.

Before World War I, the Carmelite monastery in Bilshivtsi was one of the largest in Galicia. The Bolsheviks closed the temple in 1947, the monks took the icon to Poland. Only in 2002, its copy returned to the Bilshivtsi and was placed in the revived sanctuary of the Mother of God in Bilshivtsi.

The former Carmelite shrine is now under the care of the Franciscan fathers. Restoration is underway at the expense of the Ministry of Culture of Poland as part of the operational program "Cultural Heritage", with the support of the Metropolitan Curia of the Lviv Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine, as well as patrons and benefactors from Ukraine and Europe.

Mount Pip Ivan is one of the highest peaks of the Chornohora Carpathian massif, the third highest in Ukraine (2022 meters).

It used to be called Black Mountain (Chorna Hora), which is where the name of the entire Chornohora range comes from. According to legend, Oleksa Dovbush was killed here by the "black calamity", i.e. hell, and the mountain turned black. In ancient times, there was a pagan temple on the mountain, and the folk tradition of a mass ascent on the night of Ivan Kupala has been preserved. The current name comes from the rock on the top, which resembled a priest in a cassock (now it has lost its characteristic shape).

Mount Pip Ivan is formed by sandstones, has a pyramidal shape, in the upper part - stone placers. It is covered with subalpine vegetation - widespread shrubs (Siberian juniper, rhododendron) and spruce forests. It is located within the Carpathian State National Park.

At the top are the picturesque ruins of the Polish astronomical and meteorological observatory "White Elephant" in the style of constructivism, which operated in 1938-1941. The three-story building had 43 rooms and a conference hall. The tower with a copper dome with a diameter of 10 meters housed a Scottish astrograph. Currently, the building is in a dilapidated state.

The most convenient route to the top begins in the village of Dzembronia.