The Church of the Intercession. The Village of Ploske

The Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Mother of God is a working church on the grounds of the museum of folk architecture and life in Pyrohiv. In 1974 the shrine was brought to Kyiv from Zakarpattia to the newly created skansen, and the almost two-hundred-year-old church became an exhibit that drew both believers and tourists, who came to admire the flawless beauty of this masterpiece of wooden architecture and to touch the history of prayer and service.

Pyrohiv. Museum of Folk Architecture and Life. The Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Mother of God. 1792

Pavlovo and Ploske. Zakarpattia's Velyka Pynia Valley

The day before, I had been in Yakivske of the Svaliava district, and the next day I set off for the neighbouring Pavlovo and Ploske, which I had also seen from the mountain, laid out before me as if on the palm of my hand.