F. Shopen St
O.Terletskyi St Ivan Franko St
M. Pavlyk St A. Chekhov St
8 S. Petliura St
Ivan Franko St Kolomyia City Sichovi Striltsi St
7 Centre Map 9 Teatralna St for Audio Guided Tours M. Drahomanov St
CITY PARK S. Hordynskyi St Lesia Ukrainka Boulevard NAMED AFTER KYRYLO TRYLIOVSKYI
10 Yosaphat Kobrynskyi St 6 O. Kobylianska St
Braty Biberovychi St
Dovbush St Roksolana St 1 11 V. Chornovil St
Vichevyi Maidan
Valova St Lesia Ukrainka Boulevard
Valova St
Chornovil St
Pekarska St ‘Journey through an imperial city’ Audio Tour Stops
Konashevych-Sahaidachnyi St Konovaltsia St 1. Taras Shevchenko Street, near Vichevyi Maidan. Drama Theater Fedkovych St Taras Shevchenko St 2. Crossroads of Taras Shevchenko Street and Mykhailo Hrushevskyi Avenue. Cathedral of Saint Michael the Archangel Mukha St 12 3. 1, Hrushevskyi Avenue. Pereiaslavska St City hall 4. Corner of Ivan Mazepa Street and Iryna Vilde Street. Greek Catholic Church of
Hrushevskyi Avenue 2 R. Shukhevych St St.Josaphat
Vidrodzhennia Square 5. Crossroads of Ivan Mazepa Street and Adam Mickiewicz Street. Kolomyia secondary School # 1 Hrushevskyi Avenue 3 Valova St
Rynok St 6. Valova Street and Lesia Ukrainka Boulevard. Local History Museum of Kolomyia 7. Crossroads of Ivan Franko Street and Symon Petliura Street. The Heroes’ Square
Shevchenko Square V. Stus St (The Sorrow Square). Krynychna St Ivan Mazepa St 8. Mykhailo Pavlyk Street. Ivan Franko Medical School. The Roman Catholic Getmanska St 4 St.Loyola Church 5 Zamkova St 9. Teatralna Street. Cathedral of Transfiguration of Christ.Palace of Culture Ivan Mazepa St ‘Narodnyi dim’ 10. Teatralna Street. National Museum of Hutsul and Pokuttian Folk Art
Iryna Vilde St named after Yosaphat Kobrynskyi 11. Chornovil Street. Pysanka Museum (Museum of Painted Easter Egg)
12. Vidrodzhennia Square Adam Mickiewicz St Mickiewicz Adam CITY HALL THE CITY PALACE OF CULTURE ‘NARODNYI The starting point of any European city is a City Hall. The Kolomyia DIM’ (‘THE COMMUNITY HALL’) (Savings Bank) City Hall (1875-1877) is a place where friends and strangers meet, The Savings Bank was built in 1891-1892 (nowadays it hosts the City 7 REASONS TO VISIT KOLOMYIA where walking city tours, festive parades, and demonstrations Palace of Culture which has a traditional Galician name – ‘Narodnyi start, it attracts more and more people, and it is an excellent Dim’ (‘The Community Hall’). This is a perfect architectural structure The first reason background for a memorable photo. Despite two World Wars, it is with decor, columns, portico, cornices and balconies. Due to its still preserved in Kolomyia. Moreover, it is a seat of the municipal spacious hall and big scene, the Savings Bank immediately became In this very city it is worth listening to kolomyjkas as a live performance authorities. And though there are older buildings in the city, but a place of various meetings and celebrations. or audio recordings and to try to sing at least one of them. And if your visit this one is the heart of Kolomyia. Since 1987 the Music Festival in Honour of Anatolii Kos-Anatolskyi coincides with the festival ‘Kolomyjka’, then you will be doubly lucky. became a tradition in the Community Hall. During the festival the leading Ukrainian choirs, ensembles, orchestras and also famous composers. The second reason
THE CHURCH OF ANNUNCIATION HISTORY MUSEUM OF KOLOMYIA In Kolomyia there is the world’s largest Museum of Hutsul and Annunciation (or Saviour’s) church in Kolomyia is a pearl of (Building of the Kolomyia County Council) Pokuttian Folk Art. It is the only Ukrainian Museum included into wooden architecture and one of the oldest Hutsul wooden The building of the Kolomyia County Council was built in Secession style the Encyclopaedia Britannica as one of the world masterpiece museums. churches. It was built in 1587 and is famous for its marvelous at the end of the 19th century. It impresses with its lightness, practicality iconostasis and bell tower. During the Tatar attack in 1589, The museum exhibitions reveal the distinctiveness, way of life, aesthetic and artistic perfection. The building was a seat of Kolomyia County Kolomyia was ruined and burnt. The monastery near the church conceptions and art traditions of Hutsuls and Pokuttian natives. The Council (since 1875), later it hosted the District Military Unit of West was not reconstructed because the monks left the town but the Ukrainian People’s Republic. Since 1997 the building has become a museum collections include approximately 50000 exhibits from the church was built over again. For quite a long time it was the only shelter for the Kolomyia History Museum. period of the Trypillian culture to the present day. We bet our bottom church in Kolomyia. The church paintings are based on the ones made by Kolomyia artists in 1648. dollar you will be fascinated forever with everything related to Hutsul land. The third reason
Pysanka Museum is the only museum of its kind in the world and THE GREEK CATHOLIC CHURCH OF KOLOMYIA ACADEMIC REGIONAL DRAMA the eighth wonder of Ukraine. Having visited it you will see a collection ST.JOSAPHAT (Roman Catholic Parish Church of Virgin Mary) THEATRE NAMED AFTER IVAN OZARKEVYCH of more than 12000 Ukrainian and foreign pysankas, and perhaps you (Building of the Polish Handicraft Community ‘Gwiazda’) The Church history began in the second half of the 18th century. will try your hand at miniature works – take a masterclass in pysankas The building of the Polish Handicraft Community ‘Gwiazda’ underwent Kolomyia residents afforded to invite the Italian architect Bernard decoration and restoration of fragile souvenirs. Thus, if you buy an Merettiner for construction of a church. The construction was different architectural transformations in 1920s-1940s. Once it hosted various completed in 1775. communities, clubs and even a cinema. Way back in 1848 on the stage of authentic pysanka from Kolomyia, it will be an exceptional gift-souvenir the theatre an amateur group gave the performance ‘Divka na viddanniu for your family and friends. In the vaults of the temple there were burial places of Roman Catholic abo Na mylovanie nema sylovanie’ (‘A Girl at the Marriage Age or You priests and heroes of the liberation wars of the Poles against Russian can’t win love by force’), which was remade from ‘Natalka Poltavka’ of Ivan The fourth reason autocracy. The church had underground connections, which the local Kotliarevskyi by the local Greek Catholic priest Ivan Ozarkevych. The play was ethnographers are still trying to find. A miraculous painting of the Virgin an unprecedented success. The theatre festival ‘Kolomyiski predstavlennia’ Kolomyia is not too big, not too busy, and not too difficult. Mary was hanging in the church for a long time, but on April 2nd, 1946 (‘Kolomyia Performances’) is held here annually with participation of well- it was taken to Poland. known Ukrainian and foreign masters of scene. Here you can easily exchange currency, buy necessities, find a great coffee . . shop, rest on a bench and watch the world go by. There are neither trams, CATHEDRAL OF SAINT MICHAEL THE PYSANKA MUSEUM trolleybuses nor metro in the city, so even the legs of the elderly will stand ARCHANGEL OF GREEK CATHOLIC CHURCH The Museum was officially opened on October 26th, 1987. In 2000, a journey across Kolomyia. the special building for the Museum has been constructed and opened The Cathedral of St. Michael the Archangel was considered one of for visitors on September 23rd during the 10th International Hutsul City tourist map was produced within the project ’Eastern European Pearls: the largest in Galicia of that time. It was built within 1854-1855 and The fifth reason Folklore-Ethnographic Festival ‘Kolomyjka 2000’. The building was development and promotion of transboundary city tourism products’ implemented consecrated in 1871. Monumental church paintings and icons were built in the shape of an Easter egg of 13 meters of height. Nowadays within the framework of the Cross-Border Cooperation Programme Poland- created by the well-known Ukrainian and Polish painters. More than the Museum collections possess an extensive collection of over 12000 City feasts. Visit Kolomyia at the time of festivals. The festival ‘Kolomyjka’ Belarus-Ukraine 2007-2013 and is co-financed by the European Union through the seventy serpentine steps must be overcome in order to reach the bell Easter eggs, which attest to the unique diversity of ornamental elements, (every two years), the Hutsul Festival (every few years), the Music Festival European Neighborhood and Partnership Instrument. tower. In 1923 four bells made in Sambir were set here. One of the motivations and performance techniques. The Museum displays Easter in Honour of A.Kos-Anatolskyi (every December), the national Festival largest bells, that is almost one metre high, is called Michael. On the Kolomyia City Council Tourist Association eggs from all over Ukraine. The permanent collection of museum also left tower one can see an old clock made by an Austrian company and of Pysanka (every April - May), the Festival ‘Medovyi Spas’ (‘Saviour of 1 Hrushevskyi Avenue, Kolomyia, of Ivano-Frankivsk Region includes Easter eggs from 20 other countries. From 2008 the Easter eggs set here more than 150 years ago. 78200, Ukraine 26 Dnistrovska St., Ivano-Frankivsk, painting school is operating within the museum involving everyone to the Apple Feast Day’) (every August), Sich Festival in Kolomyia (every tel. +38 03433 5 07 60 76018, Ukraine study the painting techniques and eggs restoration. September) and the national theatre festival ‘Kolomyiski predstavlennia’ fax +38 03433 5 08 23 tel. +38 0342 72 02 32 . (‘Kolomyia Performances’). You will also have fun when the city will be e-mail: [email protected] fax +38 0342 55 91 56 THE ST.LOYOLLA ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH KOLOMYIA GRAMMAR SCHOOL filled with people dressed in different costumes from surrounding villages ww2.gov.if.ua/kolomiyskiy e-mail: [email protected] NAMED AFTER MYKHAILO HRUSHEVSKYI www.taif.org.ua The brick Roman Catholic Church was designed by the architect at Malanka Feast (the 13th of January). And the most visited events are (A school of nuns of the Order of St.Ursula) Dionizii Krychkovskyi and on October 31st, 1897 its construction was the City Day and the patronal festival (the 19th of August). Music, songs, completed. During the Soviet period it was closed and turned into A Convent and a school of nuns of the Order of St.Ursula. Nuns came a furniture shop and after Ukraine gained its independence it was to Kolomyia in 1899 and afterwards a building of red open bricks dances and a variety of souvenirs and attractions will entrance and returned to the Roman Catholic community. with wooden rafters was constructed and covered with a rooftop. It fascinate you. That’s why plan in advance your next trip to Kolomyia. The church keeps a famous in the Catholic world copy of the icon of resembles similar European architectural patterns. Now the Kolomyia The sixth reason the Kolomyia Mother of God (the original icon is located in Poland). Grammar School operates here. Plenty of monuments and statues to keep you and your camera busy. In addition to interesting architecture there are nineteen monuments. A true kaleidoscope of the imperial epoch is to be found in Kolomyia! NATIONAL MUSEUM OF HUTSUL AND CATHEDRAL OF TRANSFIGURATION The seventh reason POKUTTIAN FOLK ART NAMED AFTER OF CHRIST OF GREEK CATHOLIC CHURCH YOSAPHAT KOBRYNSKYI (Ukrainian Community Hall) The Cathedral 42 metres of length and 38 metres of width has the Don’t look for a reason to visit – just do it! It is worth remembering The Museum was founded in November 1926 on the initiative of height of 52 metres. This is the tallest building in Kolomyia (the that Kolomyia was always visited by widely known people. Among them Volodymyr Kobrynskyi. Museum collections include almost 50000 height of the City Hall equals to 33 metres). In the Cathedral there were the legendary English captain John Smith (in the 17th century), the artefacts representing all kinds of Hutsul and Pokuttian traditional folk art are the lower and the upper churches, a large and rich collection Austrian scientist Balthasar Hacquet (in the 18th century), the prominent English version. Distributed free of charge. 10 000 copies of icons left by the Bishop Mykolai Simkailo. The Cathedral can from 17th century till nowadays (wood art processing, metal treatment, Czech ethnographer František Řehoř and the Polish ethnographer and © Tourist Association of Ivano-Frankivsk region leather working, pottery, decorative weaving, tapestry, embroidery and accommodate up to 5 thousand people. It was consecrated on August 19th, 2012 by the Patriarch of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic folklorist Oskar Kolberg (in the 19th century), and in 1906 the famous This publication has been produced with the assistance of the European dress-making) In 2014 the Museum exposition was replenished with a Church Sviatoslav in concelebration of bishops and priests. Union. The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of the fragment of the petrified trunk of a giant coniferous tree, whose age is Jewish writer Sholem Aleichem stayed in Kolomyia for four days, after Tourist Association of Ivano-Frankivsk Region and can in no way be around 23-65 million years. It is the only Ukrainian Museum included into which he wrote a comic story on Kolomyia ‘To Brekhnia!’ (‘That is a Lie!’). taken to reflect the views of the European Union. the Encyclopedia Britannica as one of the world masterpiece museums.