Attractions of Irshava

The Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Irshava was built in 1802-1825 as a Greek Catholic church on the site of an old wooden church founded in the 18th century.

Later, the Peter and Paul Church became Orthodox. Belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The central bridge of Irshava , which connects the banks of the Irshavka river in the center of the city, was built in 1924, when Transcarpathia was part of Czechoslovakia. Before that, the city had only a wooden bridge.

The new Irshava bridge became part of the Czechoslovak project on the development of the transport infrastructure of Transcarpathia.

To this day, it has been preserved in an almost unchanged form - two supports on the shores and an arch that carries it. The busy route T-0719 passes through the Irshava Bridge.

The exemplary Irshava Historical and Local Lore Museum was founded in 2006 on the initiative of the local historian Vasyl Kerechanyn.

The museum is located in the premises of the Irshava city center of extra-curricular education. The main fund of the museum includes more than a thousand exhibits.

The archaeological exhibition presents items found during excavations of a Paleolithic site near the village of Malyi Rakovets, a Slavic settlement of the 9th-10th centuries near Irshava, a mound of the Kushtanovy culture near the village of Chorny Potik, etc.

The ethnographic collection includes household items and clothes of the 18th-19th centuries. Banknotes of the region of the first half of the 20th century, collections of glass bottles and kerosene lamps are also presented.

Separate expositions tell about the history of the Borzhava narrow-gauge railway and the life of the strongest man of the 20th century, Ivan Firtsak-Kroton, who was born in Irshava region in 1899.

Recently, the exposition has been supplemented with objects related to the Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian war.