Diesel Train Ivano-Frankivsk-Vorokhta. Travel and Errands

Trips on suburban trains attract tourists with their convenience and low cost. Travellers move about in large groups and with bulky backpacks, and a suburban train will always have room for groups of any size, as well as space for luggage. The Ivano-Frankivsk-Vorokhta route is quite popular with those who love conquering mountain peaks, and along the way you can already savour the beauty of the Ukrainian Carpathians.

Suburban diesel train Ivano-Frankivsk-Vorokhta

Chernytsia. The Stefanus estate. Among the lordly ruins

The village of Chernytsia is in the Stryi district of the Lviv region; the distance to the regional centre is 40 km, and to the Pisochna railway station 2.5 km. Today I am a guest at the former estate of the landowner Witold Stefanus; I shall see the manor house whose heyday was 100 years ago.

 

Chernytsia, Lviv region. The Stefanus manor house

Chortovi Skeli. Watch Post, Quarry and Tourist Spot

Close by us there are spaces that are at once historical in character and of scientific and practical importance, that shape our aesthetic sense and are also attractive to tourists and sportspeople. Within the bounds of Lviv, on the southern edge of the village of Lysynychi, a stony scatter rises in a picturesque ridge, named the Chortovi Skeli — the Devil's Rocks — for their air of mystery and their wondrous beauty.

 

Chortovi (Chotovi, Chatovi) Skeli

The Zhenets Huk. You could watch the running water forever

The Zhenets waterfall is one of the most picturesque and popular tourist spots in the heart of the Carpathians. The way to it begins on the border of Mykulychyn and Tatariv, in the Nadvirna district of the Ivano-Frankivsk region. From the "Tatariv" signpost the route westward takes, on average, about 2 hours at a slow pace, with stops to admire the natural beauty.

 

The "Tatariv" signpost on the H09 road

The Yavoriv Zabavka. Treasury of the Yavoriv Region

Fortunate are those who have held on to their own distinctive toys — some of the very first playthings through which a child comes to know the world.

 

Yasinia. The Museum of Local History

Every town or village ought to begin with a museum of local history or at least a museum room. Local history exhibitions preserve our traditions and cultural heritage, our historical records and objects of the past; they shape the national ethnic code and touch the state of the soul. In Yasinia, in the Zakarpattia region, one of the finest museums of local history in the district has been running since 1966.

Yasinia. Museum of Local History

Lviv. The Psychiatric Hospital: Architecture and Nature

We live in a hard time, when mental pain is familiar to us all and outweighs physical pain. Some cannot cope with their affliction on their own and end up in a specialised institution that in common speech is called a madhouse or a "loony bin". People have always needed psychiatric support. In Ukraine one of the oldest hospitals for the mentally ill first admitted patients in 1875, on the outskirts of Lviv. Over 150 years this "house for the mad" has grown into a large psychiatric centre with a wide range of treatment and prevention wards.

 

Lviv. The Regional Psychiatric Hospital

Monuments to T. H. Shevchenko Across Ukraine

From our school lessons we remember the dates tied to the life and work of Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko. 1814 — 1861 — these are the 47 years of the life's journey of a great poet, playwright, artist and public figure, at the dawn of industrial development in Ukraine and of the peasant movement against serfdom. Shevchenko spent 24 years in serfdom and 10 years in exile. There is a number that grows year by year — the number of monuments and memorial markers raised in honour of the national poet.

 

Ternopil. Monument to T. H. Shevchenko. 1982. Sculptors M. Neveselyi and S. Kalashnyk

Lviv. The Museum of Electrification of the Lviv Region

Electrification, which supplies energy to industry and to household consumers, has taken on a special importance during the war in Ukraine. How the making and the growth of electrification in Lviv and the region came about can be learned at the Museum of the History of Electrification of the Lviv Region, which is housed in the building of the advisory centre for work with electricity consumers.

 

Lviv. The Museum of the History of Electrification of the Lviv Region

The Evacuation Train. Rescue and a Humanitarian Mission

The evacuation train carries you ever further from your home. Alongside the carriages, villages, fields and forests rush past and fly away. The views beyond the window bring no joy at all, as they would in peacetime on a journey. In the half-darkness of the compartment mothers lull their children to sleep; ahead lies the unknown, but with it a deep faith in Victory and a hope of a swift return.