Attractions of Vyzhnytsia district

The Malanka Museum was opened in the city of Vashkivtsi on December 19, 2016 at the city library. In two rooms with a total area of 50 square meters, a wide variety of costumes, in which Bukovyna residents were dressed 50 years ago, are presented.

The museum's exposition includes about 30 costumes of the traditional Vashkivtsi Malanka. Both traditional masks (grandfather, grandmother, gypsy, bear) and modern ones are presented. In particular, the masks of the characters who manage Malanka - "Cossack", "Vulan", "Buk-shandar", as well as masks of the main characters - Malanka and Ukrainian women, are exhibited. In addition, the museum exhibits an exclusive costume-mask with a height of 3 meters - the so-called "Vashkivtsi Bahachka".

In addition, about 200 photographs from the end of the 19th century to the present time, 100 original traditional masks, which are made only in Vashkivtsi, are on display for visitors to view. They were presented by mask masters Vasyl Stolyar, Oleh Voloshchuk and Mykola Marchuk.

All the exhibits of the Malanka museum were provided by the residents of Vashkivtsi, who for many years support the tradition of malanka and are active participants of Pereberiya.

The Malanka museum is most proud of the cymbals and postols that Ivan Mykolaychuk held in his hands and walked in during the filming of the film "White Bird with Black Mark".

A small waterfall on the Vyzhenka River and a pool formed by rock washing are a place of Hasidic pilgrimage.

At the beginning of the 18th century, the founder of Hasidism, Izrael Baal Shem Tov, who lived at the foot of Nimchych, built a Jewish mikvah here - a place for ritual ablutions. Every Friday he took baths here.

According to legend, mikveh water has healing properties.

The state enterprise "Putyla Forestry" includes 9 forestry enterprises, including the Seliatyn Forestry, where an Environmental Education Center with a mini-zoo has been created.

The mini-zoo is home to wild animals of the Bukovyna Carpathians - seven deer, three bears, three roe deer, three wild boars, 6 hares, two badgers, a she-wolf, a fox, four peacocks, and a marten.

Next to the enclosures are two ponds with carp, catfish, and walleye.

The Museum of Nature of the Vyzhnytsky National Nature Park in the village of Zeleniv has been housed since 1986 in an old building built in the early 20th century for a local priest.

The museum has nine departments that tell about the geography, climate, geology and nature of Zeleniv and other neighboring villages of the right bank of the Prypruttya. In particular, a geographical map of the relief is exhibited: the terrain is hilly, some parts of the territory are located at an altitude of up to 400 meters above sea level and are densely cut by a network of ravines, valleys and swamps.

Most of the natural exhibits are stuffed animals, fish and birds that are found in the region.

In the yard in front of the house grow both ordinary bushes and flowers, and exotic - ball-shaped thuja, juniper, Pissardii plum, evergreen myrtle, tulip tree, sycamore, etc.

The Vyzhnytsky National Natural Park was created in 1995 to preserve, reproduce and rationally use the natural landscapes of the Bukovyna Carpathians with unique historical and cultural complexes.

The landscape diversity of its territory is impressive: there are steep slopes, picturesque rocks, waterfalls and gorges, and fir-beech forests occupy almost the entire territory of the park (in some places they reach a height of 40 meters and 70-90 centimeters in diameter). This is one of the two places in Ukraine where a rare orchid grows - the leafless chinstrap. There are a large number of springs of mineral water: "Chereshenka", "Vyzhnytsia", "Luzhayky".

The territory of the Vyzhnytsky National Park has routes for active hiking tourism, ecological educational trails. Green tourism is developing.

The park administration operates an ecological and educational center.

The wooden church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin in Halytsivka is considered the oldest monument of wooden architecture in the Bukovyna Carpathians.

It was built by folk craftsmen in 1630 without a single nail. The church has a disproportionately oblong nave, a faceted altar part and an octagonal nave above which rises an octagonal pyramidal top. The pitched roof with a high overhang and the dome of the church are covered with aluminum sheet, the walls are horizontally lined with wood.

No less interesting is the bell tower, which was built in the 18th century. It clearly stands out among the majority of Bukovyna bell towers due to its octagonal shape and its unusual silhouette, which is more reminiscent of a watchtower or even a space rocket.

The manor-museum of the People's Artist of Ukraine Nazariy Yaremchuk is located in Vyzhnytsia in the village of Rivne.

The small "spruce house" in which the famous singer spent his childhood and youth was turned into a museum by his sister Kateryna.

In the museum, you can see family heirlooms of the Yaremchuk family, stage costumes, photos and personal letters of the maestro, magazine and newspaper articles collected by friends, fellow students, teachers and musicians, which tell about the life path of Nazariy Yaremchuk.

The wooden church of Saint Basil was built in Pidzakharychi in 1866 in a typical Hutsul style.

The upper part is covered with galvanized iron.

It is located in a cemetery located on a rise, from where a picturesque panorama of the Cheremosh valley opens.

The wooden church of Saint Demetrius of Thessalonica is located on the western outskirts of Vyzhnytsia, in the village of Rivnya.

Saint Demetrius Church was built in 1883. It resembles the earlier wooden temples of the Hutsul region found in the Ivano-Frankivsk region, but differs from them in the absence of a covered gallery and the significant displacement of the side extensions of the nave.

The Saint Demetrius Church is an outstanding monument of wooden Hutsul architecture of local importance.

The wooden church of Saint Elijah is located in the center of Shepit village. It was built in 1898 on the site of the old Assumption Church, erected in 1763 in honor of the 60th anniversary of the reign of Emperor Frants Yosyf.

The Church of Saint Elijah in Shepit is a successful combination of the traditional architecture of a single-domed church characteristic of Bukovyna and the modern architecture prevailing at the end of the 19th century. The architectural dominant is a massive dome in the form of a flattened bulb. The steep roofs above the narthex and the altar are finished with pointed ridges. A characteristic detail is small arrow windows with multi-colored glass.

The temple houses the imperial throne, which, during the collapse of the Austrian Empire in 1918, was not taken away from Vienna and left in Shepit.

The wooden church of Saint John Suchavskyi is located on a low hill in the center of Vyzhenka. It was built in 1792 and consecrated in honor of the most revered saint in Bukovyna.

According to legend, in ancient times there was a chapel here, dedicated to the victory of the Bukovyna residents over the hordes of Khan Batiy. The three-log temple of the transitional type from "house" to "dome" is recognized as a masterpiece of the Bukovyna school of wooden architecture and is protected by the state as an architectural monument of national importance.

In the 19th and 20th centuries, the church of John Suchavsky underwent reconstruction: small rooms were added to the apse and nave, and the roof was raised. During the last restoration, the shingle roof was replaced with a metal one, as a result of which the temple partially lost its authentic appearance.

The original Orthodox Church of Saint Michael's in Vyzhnytsia is distinguished by its architecture in the Baroque style, uncharacteristic of Bukovyna churches.

Saint Michael's Church was built in 1924 by the architect Henrikh von Kosovskyi and originally had other domes. Its current appearance is the result of reconstruction after a fire that occurred in 1961 as a result of a lightning strike. The baths destroyed by fire were later restored in the Old Believer style - low and as if flattened.

Saint Michael's Church is an architectural monument of local importance. Belongs to the religious community of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Saint Nicholas Church is located in the center of Putyla, next to the museum-manor of Yuriy Fedkovych, who at one time allocated land and money for its construction.

It is a typical Bukovyna three-tiered church. The wooden church has a rectangular vestibule, a square nave and a faceted altar, covered by three almost identical tops, the middle of which is slightly higher and more slender than the others. On both sides of the nave, faceted-shaped parapets are attached, which gives the temple an almost cruciform appearance.

The two-tiered belfry, the walls of which are also covered with wood, and the top of the tent with sheet metal, harmoniously complements the church and together with it forms a whole temple architectural ensemble.

The wooden church of Saint Nicholas was built at the beginning of the 20th century at the village cemetery of Vyzhenka.

The three-domed temple is made in the Hutsul style. Architectural details are hidden under a modern sheet metal coating.

Nearby is a stone chapel under a shingled roof, erected in honor of the abolition of serfdom in the Austrian Empire in 1848. Ancient inscriptions on the walls of the chapel tell about the difficult life of the Ukrainian peasantry under the oppression of serfdom.

The wooden church of Saint Paraskeva in Ust-Putyla was built in 1881.

It belongs to the type of three-part, three-headed temple common in the Bukovyna Carpathians. The monument embodies all the characteristic features of this type: faceted nave and apse and rectangular nave; widely spaced, almost equal in height tent domes with a pronounced interception at the base, sheathed with shingles, with a slope inward, girdled by a shallow belting of the wall. The folds of the tops in the interior contribute to the vertical opening of the space. The entire massive volume of log cabins turns into domes of heads, repeating the contours of the mountains surrounding the valley.

The belfry is located to the west of the church, vertically sheathed with tesserae, eight on four, with a tent ending.