Attractions of Stryi district

The Literary and Art Museum of Ukrainian writers Ulyana Kravchenko and Mykola Ustiyanovych was founded in 1991 in their hometown of Mykolaiv, Lviv region.

The exhibition tells about the life and work of these artists, introduces photos from family archives and some personal belongings. In particular, the first collection of Ulyana Kravchenko's poems "Prima Vera", her other works, authentic items of clothing, paintings, busts of Ivan Franko and Ulyana Kravchenko are presented.

Visitors can also get acquainted with the lives and stories of other famous people of the Mykolaiv region - artists, artists, composers, sculptors, singers.

The Greek-Catholic Church of the Resurrection was built in Zhydachiv in 1900 on the site of the burned-down wooden Church of the Resurrection. Consecrated in 1901.

During the Soviet rule, the church was taken over by the Russian Orthodox Church, but remained in use, thanks to which the luxurious iconostasis (1912) and interior painting were preserved.

Since 1990, the Resurrection Church again belongs to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. The miraculous icon of the Mother of God "Zhydachiv Oranta" is kept here.

Before the arrival of the Bolsheviks, the romantic palace in Rozdil belonged to the Lyantskoronsky count family.

The palace was built in 1874 by Count Karol Lyantskoronsky on the site of the old manor house founded in 1704 by the Lviv Zemstvo judge Mikhal Zhevusky.

The building in the style of the French Renaissance, designed by the architect Ivan Levinsky (according to other sources – Yulian Zakharevych), has been well preserved to this day. The galleries of the palace are decorated with medallions depicting the Olympian gods.

Count Lyantskoronsky, fascinated by ancient culture, traveled a lot in Asia Minor and collected a rich collection of sculpture and painting. A large part of the collection later ended up in the Drohobych Museum of Local Lore, and recently discovered ancient sculptures in the park, which were considered to be plaster copies, are currently kept in the Lviv Art Gallery.

In Soviet times, a sanatorium functioned on the territory of the manor.

Currently, the Zhevusky-Lyantskoronsky Palace in Rozdil is in private ownership, restoration is planned.

The memorial complex "Fighters for the Freedom of Ukraine" was opened in 2005 on the territory of the former Stryi city prison, which operated from 1898 to 1963. It is part of the Stryi Local Lore Museum "Verkhovyna".

The exposition of the unique museum-prison is devoted to political prisoners tortured here in different periods by the Austro-Hungarians, the Polish authorities and the Soviet regime. The most terrible page of history is the mass execution of political prisoners in 1941 before the retreat of the Red Army.

The memorial complex includes a symbolic wrought-iron fence, fragments of walls with barred windows, a watchtower, an entrance arch with a crown of thorns, a two-story museum building, a mourning wall, a sarcophagus tomb, and a Pieta monument.

The monument to the heroes of the UPA in Slavsko was erected on the grave of the fallen soldiers of the UPA and victims of the repressions of 1940-1950.

It is located next to the Church of the Assumption.

The names of those who died for the freedom of Ukraine are engraved on the monument.

The interactive museum of traditional medicine "Grandfather's Pharmacy" was opened in 2018 in the village of Myrtiuky on the Stryi bypass.

This is the second museum of the "Grandfather's Pharmacy" network dedicated to the history of folk medicine.

The exposition presents healing herbs, fruits, roots and tinctures from them, with which local residents were treated in ancient times. The excursion begins with the herbal room (museum-pharmacy storeroom), where visitors are told about the history of medicine in the Boikivshchyna, the healing properties of local herbs and the preventive properties of herbal teas.

In the second room, visitors can learn about the use of special tinctures with fly agaric mushrooms, snakes and bees in traditional medicine for the prevention and treatment of serious diseases.

"Grandfather's Pharmacy" also offers tastings of herbal, fruit, berry and root tinctures, aromatic Boykos teas, and berry syrups for children. The same products can be purchased in the museum shop.

The first museum "Grandfather's Pharmacy" operates in Kryvorivnia near Verkhovyna.

The center of local history "Khata in Hlyboky" (House in Hlyboky) of the State Historical and Cultural Reserve "Tustan" opened in 2013 as a rural cultural and public center.

It is located in one of several dozen authentic Boyko houses of the early XX century, preserved in the village of Urych. The house-museum presents a modern ethnographic exhibition "Unnecessary? The story of Urych in objects and images", which presents old photos, household items, memories of the villagers.

The exposition uses modern technologies of material presentation with the use of multimedia means.

The Museum "Unconquered" in Stryi opened in 2022 during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The exposition of the museum consisted of war trophies of the Russian-Ukrainian war, which were brought by fighters of the "Karpatska Sich" battalion.

In the museum, you can see various types of weapons, equipment of the Ukrainian military, as well as clothing and protection of the occupiers, many photos and "unpacking" of the Russian dry ration.

The Museum-kryivka in Volosianka is part of the "Kurin Mokhnach" paintball club of the "Vezha Vedmezha" hotel complex.

The exposition of the museum tells about the history of the activity of the UPA in Skolivshchyna. In particular, the text of the oath of a UPA soldier, other authentic documents and photographs found in Carpathian hiding places are presented.

Samples of Soviet and German weapons from the Second World War period are active, and visitors are offered to shoot them.

The most interesting part of the museum is the recreated underground kryivka (hideout) of the UPA soldiers, where you can see the sleeping places of the undergrounders, a peasant stove, a kerosene lamp and a secret hatch.

The complex includes a large paintball field, a shooting range, a military tent, and a field kitchen.

Children's sports competitions and classes on patriotic education of young people are held.

The Historical and Local History Museum of Mykolayiv was opened in 1989 in one of the old one-story buildings in the city center opposite the Greek Catholic Church of Saint Nicholas.

In the department of archeology you can get acquainted with the archeological materials of the Stilsko settlement and the collection of ancient weapons.

The ethnographic section of the museum is devoted to the history of ancient Mykolayiv crafts - pottery and flax processing. The model of the Mykolayiv cement plant is presented.

The Museum of National Culture on the territory of the ski resort "Play" in the village of Plavya is a stylized Carpathian country house with a closed courtyard.

The gates and doors are decorated with wood carvings in Boykiv and Lemkiv style.

The museum includes an ethnographic exposition with items of folk life, a working forge, a weaving workshop, a cheese factory, a carpentry shop, windmills and water mills.

The elegant Gothic church-sanctuary of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin is considered a symbol of the city of Stryi.

The Roman Catholic parish was founded in the city by King Kazymyr the Great in the 14th century. The parish church of the Nativity of the Virgin was built in 1425. Several times the Gothic temple was destroyed by fire. In 1891, the last major restoration was carried out, an organ was installed.

In 1939, the temple was closed, but the building was preserved during Soviet times.

In 1995, the church was declared the Sanctuary of the Mother of God, the Patroness of Human Hopes, and in 2001, Pope John Paul II consecrated the icon of the Mother of God of Stryi.

The manor-museum of UPA Corporal Oleksa Hasyn opened in his native village of Koniuhiv in 2000. It is located in the family estate of the family of wealthy peasants Hasyns, in which Oleksa was born in 1910.

During the liberation struggle against the Nazi and Soviet occupiers, Oleksa Hasyn (pseudonym "Knight") was a regional colonel of the UPA, head of the UPA-West group, then chief of the UPA Main Military Staff and a close adviser to UPA commander Roman Shukhevych.

The museum exhibits personal belongings, documents related to the life of Oleksa Hasyn and his family.

The memorial museum of public figure Olha Bachynska was opened in 2001 as a department of the of Stryi Museum of Local Lore "Verkhovyna". It is located in the elegant house of the Bachynskys in Stryi, which was purchased in 1912 by Olha's husband, Ilarion Bachynskyi.

The exhibition highlights the life path of Olha Bachynska, who was the first Ukrainian woman of Galicia to head an important economic institution - the directorate of "Maslosoyuz". In addition, she collected a large collection of folk clothes and embroidery, which she exhibited in Vienna in 1915.

Part of Bachynska's collection is presented in the museum. Worthy of attention are samples of Ukrainian embroidery, embroidered shirts, woven socks, photos of Bachynska in national dress, some of her personal belongings.

In the second room, the situation that existed here during Bachynska's life is reproduced. Family furniture, household items of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, documents about Bachynska's many years of work as part of the "Maslosoyuz" directorate and her social activities are presented.

The Museum of the Liberation Struggle of the OUN-UPA in the village of Kavske in the Lviv region was created in 1993 on the initiative of local historian Zinovyi Kochmarskyi, who was born in exile because his parents were repressed by the Soviet authorities.

The museum is located on the second floor of the People's House of the village of Kavske. In four halls, materials are presented that tell about the history of the resistance movement during the Soviet occupation of Galicia and about the various stages of the struggle of Ukrainian patriots for the liberation of the enslaved people.

The uniforms of Sich riflemen and UPA soldiers, original documents from the declassified archives of the NKVD administration of the former Drohobytsk region, a typewriter and rebel belongings found in 1997 in a hiding place in the Beletsky forest, embroideries sewn in Stalin`s camps, OUN documents and unique photographs are presented.

A special exhibit is Stepan Bandera's handwritten letter dated March 28, 1956, which he wrote to his friends in the USA.