Attractions of Stryi district

The monument to the Boyko Trembitars was erected in 1985 at the entrance to the town of Skole in the "Kolodka" tract on the "Tukholski Vorota" pass in the Skolivsky Beskids.

A sculptural composition in the form of a stele, at the foot of which are two trumpeter boys, is installed above the M-06 highway "Kyiv - Chop".

At the time of its opening, the monument was dedicated to the liberation of Skole from the German-fascist occupation. A figure of a Soviet soldier was installed on the ceiling. In 2016, the monument was restored, the fallen figure was replaced by a sculpture of Archstrategist Mykhaylo.

A recreation area "Kolodka" has been arranged near the monument.

The Buvet "Hrybok" is the main source of "Morshynska" mineral water, which has become a hallmark of the resort due to its characteristic architecture.

Depicted on the coat of arms of the city and on the label of bottled mineral water "Morshynska".

The Buvet "Hrybok" was opened in 1935 in the central park of Morshyn, it is designed to serve 6 thousand people. Preparation and heating of therapeutic concentrations of mineral waters is carried out in a special department of the pump room under the constant control of the hydrochemical laboratory.

Nearby "from the hands of the mermaid" flows weakly mineralized water of spring No. 4 - "The Mother of God". Nearby is a large closed pavilion of the resort-wide mineral water pumping station, as well as the resort-wide balneo-gyrazeli.

Throughout the park there are many sculptures on an antique theme.

The cave monastery complex in the rocky massif at the foot of the mountain is located on the southeastern outskirts of the village of Rozhirche.

The rock monastery existed here in the XIII-XIV centuries. The caves are carved on two levels connected by stairs. Most likely, the cave temple was located in the upper part, and the monastery cell and utility room were located in the lower part.

The walls of the cave monastery are covered with graffiti, the oldest of which date back to 1675.

The "Pysanka" chapel was built in Mykolaiv in 2002. The unique temple in the form of an Easter egg was designed by the famous Mykolaiv sculptor Kostyantyn Malyarchuk, and the inspiration for its construction was local resident Omelyan Ivaniv.

The Easter egg chapel can be seen from all sides of Mykolaiv, as it was built at the highest point of the city - in the "Vysokiy kaminʹ" tract. There is no direct access to the chapel - you have to go up on foot.

The current building of the Stryi City Council was built at the end of 1886 by the Austrian authorities as a district court complex with a prison. Under Polish rule, the building retained its profile, and during Soviet times it housed the city council.

In 1990, still under Soviet power, the national yellow-blue flag was raised on the flagpole above the city council for the first time in Ukraine.

A memorial to the victims of repression was opened on the territory of the former prison

The wooden Church of the Epiphany in Oriavchyk was built in 1865.

An expressive example of Boyko architecture of the 19th century.

The parish belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The school ethnographic museum of Stilsko village is located in the premises of the local educational complex. Its exposition includes 460 original exhibits.

In particular, maps and drawings of the Stilsko settlement, photos from archaeological excavations are presented. The interior of a peasant's house of the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century is reproduced.

The ethnographic collection includes embroidery, pottery, tools, musical instruments, etc.

The first museum of Hetman Ivan Vyhovskyi in Ukraine was opened in 2004 in the village of Ruda near Zhydachiv, where he lived in 1660-1664 and was probably buried. The museum is a branch of the Lviv National Art Gallery.

Since 1660, this village belonged to the Vyhovsky family for more than a hundred years. The manager's house has been preserved from their estate, which houses an exposition reflecting the period of the struggle for Ukraine's independence from the times of Zaporizhzhian Sich to the end of the 1940s and 1950s.

Painting works by domestic and foreign artists of the XVII-XX centuries are widely presented here. In particular, a painting by an unknown artist (19th century) depicting Ivan Vyhovsky's wife Olena Stetkevych. Among the exhibits are works of sacred art of the XVII-XIX centuries. An icon of the Ascension (an unknown artist of the 2nd half of the 18th century) from the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in the village of Yosypovychy in Stryi region is kept here - the family church of the Vyhovskys. The icon was restored in 2004 by the workers of the restoration department of the Lviv Art Gallery.

The museum exhibits objects of material culture found near the former hetman's castle in the village of Ruda. Among the rare ones is an oak door from the Vyhovsky family church with a gift inscription of the hetman's daughter-in-law Tereza Zavadska, wife of Ostap's son.

Since 2018, the Historical and Local Lore Museum "Skolivshchyna" has been housed in 12 halls of an elegant two-story villa, built at the beginning of the 20th century, when industry and recreation were actively developing in Skole.

In the first room, objects of the Boykos forestry industry, agricultural remnants, household items of the highlanders, and folk crafts are collected. In the next hall, the interior of a Boykos hut is recreated with traditional household items and figures of the landlord and the landlord in national dress. The development of the school industry in the 19th and 20th centuries is told by photos and things of local entrepreneurs of the Baron Groedl.

Next, military paraphernalia and rarities from the times of the two world wars and the modern Russian-Ukrainian war are presented. In the sacred art hall, an iconostasis from the Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin in Skole and a shroud from 1895 are exhibited.

You can also visit the stylized light house of Zakhar Berkut, the reconstruction of the UPA hideout, the NKVD interrogation room and the prison.

The wooden church of the Cathedral of Holy Virgin is located in Verkhnie Synovydne on the monastery site of the Golden Mountain, where in ancient times there was a monastery of the Most Holy Theotokos, which was visited by Prince Danylo Halytskyi.

After the monastery was destroyed in the 16th century, the monastery was empty for some time. In 1790, the church of Saint George (Yuriy) was founded in the northeastern part of the former monastery (perhaps on the site of the former monastery church).

The current church was built on the site of the fallen predecessor in 1939 according to the project of the architect Yevhen Nahirnyi.

Today it is the church of the Cathedral of the Most Holy Theotokos of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (the Cathedral of the Mother of God).

The wooden church of the Cathedral of the Holy Virgin in Matkiv is located on a low hill in the center of the village and occupies a dominant place in the panorama of the mountain village.

Included in the UNESCO World Heritage List in the category "Wooden Churches of the Carpathian Region of Ukraine".

The church was built by Boyko masters Ivan Melnykovych and Vasyl Ivanykovych, and is characterized by an unusual multi-tiered structure. In plan, the temple consists of three square log cabins: a larger central one and smaller side ones. All log cabins are covered with helmet-shaped partitions with intercepts on pyramidal figures of eight with folds (the central head has five folds, the lateral ones have four folds each).

Nearby is a wooden belfry built in 1924 with a balcony on the second floor.

Both buildings are considered masterpieces of the Boyko school of folk architecture.

The picturesque and full-water Gurkalo waterfall is a hydrological monument of nature.

It is located on the territory of the National Nature Park "Skolivski Beskydy" at an altitude of 570 meters above sea level, on the slope of Mount Parashka at the mouth of the Velyka Richka River.

It was formed at the place of the breakthrough of Paleogene sandstones. The height is about 5 meters. The Hurkalo waterfall is surrounded by a forest, and there are several meadows nearby for relaxation.

You can get there from the village of Korchyn or from the village of Krushelnytsia, from which a marked path leads to the Hurkalo waterfall. Due to the bad condition of the road, it is very difficult to enter by car.

The Iliv settlement-sanctuary of the 8th–10th centuries is a part of the Historical and Cultural Reserve "Stilsko Settlement".

It is located 5 kilometers to the east of the Stilsko settlement, the ancient capital of the Slavic tribe of White Croats.

The settlement is located on a promontory of the plateau at a height of about 80 meters above the Ilovets River, which washes its foothills partly from the northern and western sides. Traces of two concentric defensive ramparts and ditches are still visible on the high, rocky, forest-covered Tokareva Mountain, which rises above the southern outskirts of the village of Iliv. There is also a rock with three small caves. One of them is a cave-room, hollowed out of the rock by human hands. The entrance to the cave is made in the form of a woman's womb. Perhaps the goddess Mokosha was once worshiped here.

Presumably, the Iliv settlement was the main sanctuary of the White Croats. Later, monks settled in the caves, and during the Second World War, local residents and UPA soldiers hid here.

A very steep path equipped with a wooden handrail leads to the cave complex.

The memorial homestead museum of the sculptor Ivan Samotos was opened in 2023 in his family home in the village of Ustia in the Lviv Region.

The outstanding Ukrainian sculptor, People's Artist of Ukraine Ivan Samotos was born in Ust in 1933. He graduated from the Lviv Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts - now the Lviv National Academy of Arts, where Samotos headed the Department of Monumental and Decorative Sculpture.

During his lifetime, Samotos created more than 120 monuments and memorial signs, the most famous of which is the monument to Vyacheslav Chornovol in Lviv.

During his lifetime, Samotos dreamed of creating a museum-workshop in his parents' house in Usta. The idea was implemented on the initiative of Ivan Samotos' wife Oksana and his daughter Natalia. The authentic interior has been preserved in the house. The exposition presents the personal belongings of the artist, family photos, as well as some author's works of the sculptor.

The Kamyanka waterfall on the river of the same name is located on the territory of the National Nature Park "Skolivski Beskydy" near the village of Kamyanka.

Water falls from a height of 7 meters from massive stone boulders in a picturesque gap in the mountain range in two streams separated by a rock ledge.

The road to the Kamyanka waterfall is a source of "living water" - hydrogen sulphide mineral water, similar to the Truskavets "Naftusya", which can be used for preventive and therapeutic purposes.

On the opposite side of the road is Lake Zhuravlyne, which is also called "Dead" because no fish live in cold water with a high content of hydrogen sulfide. Routes to all these natural attractions are marked with pointers.

There is a souvenir bazaar and a large meadow where you can pitch a tent camp near the Kamyanka waterfall. Gazebos for relaxation are arranged above the stream. On hot weekends there is a large flow of tourists.