Liubizhnia. A Mountain River and the Liubizhnianskyi Huk

Look, the little mountain stream runs down,

It flows, it leaps down from the heights.

To her, proud to the very edge,

A peaceful life is beyond price.

But once she bursts out onto the valley,

She grows gentle forevermore.

You can't tell her apart from the flow

Of ordinary, untroubled rivers.

She drifts past, unhurried, by

Houses, forests, fields and ponds,

Dreamily leafing through

Her girlhood years.

19.06.2023  Alex Vinokur

Do you know what the foothill village of Deliatyn looks like from a bird's-eye view – emerald peaks cut through by valleys, in whose lowlands the Prut and its tributaries swirl in winding ribbons. The mountain stream Liubizhnia, a left tributary of the Prut, rises and is fed on the slope of the Carpathian ridge, where the mountains Studena Klyva and Vavtorova stand side by side; it flows eastward toward the central part of Deliatyn and forms the valley in which the settlement of the same name arose. With its stony bed and swift current, this blue ribbon of the Carpathians lays out its 16-kilometre course in the north-eastern Gorgany and hurries to meet its rebellious elder brother in the eastern part of Deliatyn.

 

Deliatyn. The Liubizhnia River

Vorokhta. The 'Karetnyi' Narrow-Gauge Bridge and Viaducts

The Carpathian Mountains, emerald primeval forests and mountain villages conceal many exceptional curiosities and unexpected gifts. At the starting point of the route up to Chornohora from Vorokhta via Zavoiela, where the mountain stream Nyzhnii Bakhonchyk merges with the unruly Prut, a narrow-gauge bridge from 1895 has survived.

 

Vorokhta. The «Karetnyi» Bridge. 1895.

The Malevskyi Complex. Picturesque and Little-Known

Despite all its achievements, humankind is inextricably linked to nature, which has given the people of Earth water, air, light, and warmth. People make everything they need for life from natural materials and forget to value and protect these priceless gifts. Nature offers visual aids for understanding the material world and inspires admiration for the astonishing beauty of the surrounding environment. One of the geological clues to the planetary order can be considered the rocky Malevskyi Complex, located in the south-eastern part of the sub-Carpathian village of Deliatyn.

 

Deliatyn, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. The Malevskyi Complex

Yaremche. The Probiy Waterfall and Other Hutsul Wonders

Yaremche – a climatic and ski resort in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast and a centre of green tourism – enchants visitors with its landscapes and its natural and man-made landmarks. 

Yaremche, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast

Tatariv. A Carpathian Resort and Health Retreat

Tatariv is a well-known Hutsul village in the Nadvirna district of Ivano-Frankivsk region. The village stretches out in branch-hamlets and homestead-kolybas with breweries and cafes along the Prut River from Mykulychyn to Yablunytsia and Vorokhta. Back at the end of the 19th century, the area was known as a low-mountain balneological climatic resort and was listed in European travel guides. In modern Ukraine, the natural landscapes of Tatariv are known to experienced travellers and novice tourists, lovers of cycling and hiking trips, mushroom pickers and gatherers of forest berries. Even some of the powerful have chosen the valleys and slopes of Tatariv's hills for their residences and dachas.

 

Deliatyn. The Gates of the Carpathians. The Very Best

Deliatyn in the Ivano-Frankivsk region is exactly the kind of place where travellers are ready to spend their precious tourist time usefully and with the utmost pleasure. The settlement stretches about 12 kilometres from north to south.

 

Deliatyn, Ivano-Frankivsk region. The Liubizhnia river

Prutets Chemyhivskyi. A Carpathian River, a Blue Ribbon

Great rivers absorb numerous streams along their course and are fed by the resources of small rivers. The Prutets Chemyhivskyi river is a right tributary and one of the main tributaries of the Prut, in the Danube basin. 

 

Prutets Chemyhivskyi, Nadvirna district, Ivano-Frankivsk region