Attractions of Ivano-Frankivsk region

The Petro Shekeryk-Donykiv Memorial Museum was opened in Verkhovyna in 2018 on the initiative of his descendants.

The exhibition is dedicated to the Hutsul public and political figure, ethnographer, writer, participant in the liberation struggle, Petro Shekeryk-Donykiv, who in the 1920s and 1930s was a voivode of Verkhovyna and an ambassador to the Polish Diet. He collaborated with Ivan Franko, Mykhaylo Kotsyubynsky, Hnat Khotkevych and Stanislav Vincenz. After the annexation of Prykarpattia by the Soviet Union, Shekeryk-Donykiv was repressed.

The museum is located in the house built in 1933, in which he lived for some time in Verkhovyna. The exposition presents old photographs, archival documents, letters of Petro Shekeryk-Donykiv and his personal belongings. In particular, you can see the school desk at which he studied as a child.

In 2021, the UPA Museum-Hideout opened in the basement of the Petro Shekeryk-Donykiv Memorial Museum in Verkhovyna.

The Pohonia Monastery of the Assumption of the Mother of God in the village of Pohonia near Tysmenytsia is one of the great centers of Greek Catholic pilgrimage.

Here, in a small wooden church, there is a miraculous icon of the Mother of God Pohonska.

According to legend, in the 13th century, voivode Roman (perhaps the son of Danylo Halytskyi) with a small detachment defeated the army of Khan Baty here. According to legend, on the eve of the battle, Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker appeared to the voivode in a dream and ordered him not to defend himself, but to boldly attack the Tatars. On the site of Roman's victory over the Mongol-Tatars in 1634, the Church of the Assumption of the Holy Theotokos was built, and on the spot where the voivode had a dream, the Church of Saint Nicholas was built.

At the beginning of the 20th century, a new church and monastery of the Assumption of the Mother of God was built, but already in 1946 it was liquidated by the Soviet authorities. A boarding school for children with mental disorders was placed within the walls, and the church was destroyed in 1950.

The miraculous icon was preserved. In 1991, the monastery was revived. Hundreds and sometimes thousands of pilgrims flock here on holidays.

The Prutsky (Hoverlyansky) Waterfall is located near the source of the Prut River between the spurs of the Hoverla and Breskul mountains (the Chornohora massif of the Ukrainian Carpathians).

The cascading waterfall with a total height of 80 meters consists of six cascades, the highest of which reaches 12 meters.

It is most convenient to approach the waterfall along a gentle path from the "Zaroslyak" sports base (2.5 kilometers). There are also approaches from the path that leads to Hovrela.

The Prykarpattya Literary Museum was opened in 1986 for the 130th anniversary of the birth of the writer Ivan Franko.

The museum is located in a one-story town house of the end of the 19th century.

After the renovation in 2006, the museum exposition tells about all the main stages of the development of the literary process in the region starting from the 12th century. In particular, a copy of a page of the Galician Gospel of 1144, a reprint of the Galician-Volyn Chronicle, materials about the first Carpathian printing presses in Stratyn and Krylos are presented.

In total, the museum's funds include more than 40,000 exhibits. The most valuable among them are Lviv old prints of the 17th century: "Triodion" from 1664 and "Apostol" from 1684.

A prominent place in the exposition is occupied by a section devoted to the stay of Ivan Franko in Prykarpattya, illustrated with an electrified literary map.

The exposition presents manuscripts and lifetime editions of the works of Ivan Franko, Bohdan Lepky, Vasyl Stefanyk, Les Martovych, Mark Cheremshyna, Nataliya Kobrynska, Mykhaylo Yatskiv, Olha Duchyminska and other writers.

The museum also highlights the development of the literary process of Prykarpattya in the 20s and 30s of the 20th century, the work of writers of the OUN-UPA, the activities of the Stanislaviv Literary Association and the regional organization of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine.

The Prykarpattya Literary Museum is a branch of the Ivano-Frankivsk Museum of Local Lore.

The Rohatyn Historical and Local Lore Museum "Opillya" was founded in 1941 as the Arts Museum of the Rohatyn region on the initiative of the local intelligentsia, but then it did not exist for long.

The museum was revived in 2018 in a historical building, which is an architectural monument of the 18th century. The exhibition in five halls tells about the history of Rohatyn Opillya from the earliest times to the 20th century. In particular, fragments of ceramics from ancient archaeological cultures, Ancient Rus jewelry, collections of spheres and coins from the times of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, traditional Opillya clothing and embroidery, household items, etc. are presented.

The history of the city is revealed by a graphic visualization of the defense fortifications of ancient Rohatyn, a copy of the privilege of moving the city to a new location in 1415, portraits of Nastya Lisovska (Roksolana) and typical Turkish clothing of the 17th century, a map of Europe by the British cartographer William Faden in 1791, and items of traditional Jewish culture.

A separate exhibition is dedicated to the history and outstanding figures of the Rohatyn region in the first half of the 20th century.

It is possible to order a pottery master class.

Rushirskyi Waterfall (Rushirskyi Huk), on the southern edge of the village of Liucha, is located on the Rushir River, which flows into Liuchka.

The waterfall with a height of 4 meters was formed at the place where the Rushir River breaks through the fold of Mehura and Tarnitsa.

The Museum of Sacred Art of the Hutsul region was opened in 2016 on its outskirts by the Kosiv artist-carver Taras Strynadyuk - a famous master of plastic wood carving, the author of unique carved icons, a representative of the Strynadyuk creative family.

He has dozens of works to his credit, which impress with the technical execution of the details, the spirituality of the images, and the professional design. He is also involved in the restoration of wooden monuments of Hutsul sacred art and other antiquities.

His collection includes ancient Hutsul wooden crosses, carved icons, decorative plates, ancient carved chests, jugs and jugs, stove tiles, a collection of axes, etc.

The "Koka" Museum-Workroom of the Strynadyuk Family" is located nearby, where the works of Mykola Strynadyuk, brother of Taras, are presented.

The Museum of Sacred Art named after Bishop Mykola Simkaylo opened in Kolomyia on March 22, 2014.

The museum is located in the lower church of the Transfiguration Cathedral. It was created with the blessing of Bishop Vasil Ivasyuk through the efforts of the church's fathers and with the professional help of the staff of the National Museum of Folk Art of Hutsul region and Pokuttya.

The museum exhibits works of sacred art that belonged to the bishop of the Kolomyia-Chernivtsi eparchy of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church Mykola Simkaylo (1952-2013). The bishop collected a unique collection of church art all his life.

The collection consists of icons, wooden sculptures, handmade crosses and liturgical books. Many of them are drawn by world-famous artists, and they are written by folk masters of Bukovyna, Galicia, Pokuttia, as well as Volhynia. The temporal dimension of the exhibited works of the 17th - 20th centuries.

The Greek Catholic Church of Saint Archangel Michael was built in Kalush in 1910-1913. The previous temple, built in 1771, was wooden.

For the new brick church, the architect Vasyl Nahirnyi, according to one of the versions, took as a basis the project of the Church of the Transfiguration in Lviv, and the project was implemented by the architect Teodor Melnychuk with the assistance of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi.

Saint Michael's Church was built in the traditional Byzantine style with 3 naves and a small vestibule, topped by 5 domes. On both sides of the portal there are two columns with towers in the form of small domes. The five-tiered iconostasis was made in 1927 by Ivan Lenil, a Bolekhiv carver. Artistic polychrome paintings were made in 1936-38 by a group of artists from Lviv under the leadership of Pavlo Kovzhun and Mykhaylo Osinchuk.

During Soviet times, the Church of Saint Michael in Kalush belonged to the Russian Orthodox Church. In 1990, it was returned to the parish of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

The Greek-Catholic Church of Saint Archangel Michael in Pechenizhyn was built in 1870. Five-domed, cruciform in plan.

Saint Michael's Church is located in the very center of the village.

The wooden church of Saint Archangel Michael was built in the village of Verkhnii Verbizh in 1859-1861.

Currently, the exterior of the temple is distorted by the metal covering of the roof and plastic lining on the walls.

Saint Michael's Church belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The young wooden church of Saint Basil the Great appeared in Yablunytsia quite recently - in 1992, but it was built according to all the classic canons of Carpathian folk architecture.

The church is decorated with an iconostasis made in 1995 by craftsmen from Deliatyn, Vasyl Savchuk and Vasyl Pryima. The icons were painted by an artist from Lazeshchyna Mykhaylo Kuzyuk. Artistic wall paintings were made in 2000 by folk craftsmen from the village of Chornyi Potik: Mykola Paliychuk, Vasyl Vasylyshyn, Mykhaylo Tkachuk, Mykhaylo Menuyk. The tetrapod was carved and painted by Vasyl Vasylyshyn.

The wooden church of Saint Basil the Great (Moskalivka Church) is located in Kosovo in the Moskalivka district on the opposite bank of the Rybnytsia from the city center.

The original temple was built in 1895 in the traditional Hutsul style. In the same year, a wooden belfry was built.

In 2009, Saint Basil the Great Church completely burned down, but two years later it was restored in its original form.

In 1997, a monument to the fighters for the freedom of Ukraine (sculptor Ivan Andriykanych) was erected near the church of Saint Basil the Great, which includes a list of 1,186 residents of Kosiv region who died in 1939-1952.

The Church of Saint Basil is located in the center of the village of Cherche, next to the village council.

It was probably built according to the project of the architect Vasyl Nahirnyi. The church is wooden, cruciform in plan. In 1923-1933, the famous Ukrainian artist Antin Manastyrskyi painted a four-tiered iconostasis.

A new brick church is located nearby.

A small wooden church was built in Tatariv in honor of the Great Martyr Demetrius Solunsky in 1870.

The temple was designed by the architect Frantsyshek Menchynsky, and is considered an original work of the Hutsul school of folk architecture.

Tempera painting of the 19th century has been preserved on the walls. The five-tiered iconostasis, the work of local masters, was painted by Antoniy Orzhehovskyi.

Saint Demetrius Church is located in the cemetery right next to the highway.