Mount Kudriavets

Kudriavets is a 1,242 m summit on the Zelemianka ridge in the Skole Beskids, Lviv Oblast. About 750 m to the east stands the well-known Lopata (1,211 m), and the nearest villages are Hrebeniv (about 4.3 km) and Kamianka (about 5 km). Skole is about 6.4 km away.

Kudriavets is higher than Lopata itself, so hikes along the ridge from Skole usually take in both summits. About 1.1 km to the north-west lies Sharobialka (1,178 m), then Zelemin (1,177 m, about 2.3 km), while the higher Mutna (1,260 m) rises about 1.7 km to the south-east. The Zelemin landscape reserve lies on the slopes of the Zelemianka ridge near the summit.

How to get there

Six of our routes cross Kudriavets or pass within 40 m of it, and one more about 290 m away. The shortest is Hrebeniv – Mount Kudriavets – Mount Lopata – Skole (16.9 km, about 850 m of ascent). From Skole you can walk the loops Skole – Mount Kudriavets – Mount Lopata – Skole (21.2 km) or Skole – Mount Lopata – Mount Kudriavets – Demnia – Skole (20.9 km). The longest option is Tukhlia – Mount Kindrat – Mount Matahiv – Mount Lopata – Mount Kudriavets – Skole (29.6 km, about 1,770 m of ascent).

Water, shelter and safety

Our map shows the nearest springs below Lopata: about 700 m to the north-east (at roughly 1,060 m), 820 m to the south-west (about 1,100 m) and 920 m to the east (about 1,160 m); their condition is unknown. A shelter near Hrebeniv is about 2.3 km to the west. The crest is wooded and steep in places, and the paths are slippery after rain. The nearest summit with our forecast is Parashka, about 13 km away: weather on Parashka. In an emergency call 112 or 101 — contacts of the nearest units are on our mountain rescue page.

Interesting facts

• Plants from the Red Book of Ukraine — perennial honesty, wild garlic and martagon lily — grow in the Zelemin reserve on the slopes of the Zelemianka ridge.
• Part of the reserve belongs to the Skole Beskids National Park.

Photos: Rbrechko, CC BY-SA 4.0; ValeriySh, CC BY-SA 4.0 — Wikimedia Commons.