Rakhiv, via Mount Blyznytsia, Mount Troiaska and Mount Bratkivska to Osmoloda village
About the route:
Route Rakhiv, via Mount Blyznytsia, Mount Troiaska and Mount Bratkivska to Osmoloda village. Warning! This route is unmarked (it may be partially marked)! Unmarked routes are not equipped with: information boards; signposts; auxiliary signs (water, campsite, etc.). The decision to take the route is entirely your own responsibility! Trail length 134073m. Lowest point - 437m., highest point - 1858m. Total elevation gain 7086m. Along the route you will see: Cathedral of the Descent of the Holy Spirit, Rakhiv, Church of St. John Nepomuk, Rakhiv, Mount Bliznytsia, Mount Stig (Dragobrat), Mount Bolshoi Kotel, Lake Vorozheskaya, Lake Gereshaska (Dogyaska), Mount Dogyaska, Mount Trojaska, Mount Tataruka, Mount Bratkivska, Mount Grope, Mount Durnia, Mount End of Gorgan, Mount Velyka Popadia, Mount Mala Popadia, Mount Koretvina, Parenki Mountain, Mount Grofa, Grofa landscape reserve, Mount Kin Grofetsky, Mount Moloda, Mount Yayko-Pereginske, Mshana swamp, Trout farm in Osmoloda.
What to see along the route:
The three-domed church with a solemn main façade was built on the main square of Rakhiv from 1991 to 1993 according to the design of Rakhiv architect Mykhailo Kravchuk.
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TheChurch of St. John Nepomuky is one of the main architectural monuments of the small town of Rakhiv, Transcarpathian region. The temple is located in the central part of the city. The building was built in the middle of the 19th century. Nowadays the Church of St. John Nepomuky is the center of the spiritual life of the city. On the wall, on the right side of the entrance, there is a sculpture to the victims of communism in 1956.
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Blyznytsia (also called Bliznytsia, Blyzhnytsia) are two mountains of the Ukrainian Carpathians, located in the eastern part of the Svydovets mountain range. The peaks are located in Rakhiv district of Zakarpattia regionbetween the valleys of the Chorna Tysa and Kosivska rivers.
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Stig (locally known as Stug) is a peak of the Ukrainian Carpathians, located in the Rakhiv district of Zakarpattia region in the northeastern part of the Svydovets mountain range.
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Mount Velykyi Kotel is the peak of the Ukrainian Carpathians, which lies within the Svydovets mountain range. It is located in Rakhiv district of Zakarpattia region. The height of the mountain is 1771 m (other data - 1774 m).
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The real pearl of the Carpathians - Lake Vorozheska (other names - Vorozheska, Triton ) - is a hydrological natural monument of local importance, a high-mountain lake of glacial origin in the Ukrainian Carpathians at an altitude of 1460 m. It is located within the Rakhiv district of the Zakarpattia region, in the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve on the Svydovets massif. The NGO "Carpathian Trails" has installed a protective sign near the lake.
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Gerashaska (another name - Dogyaska ) is a high-mountain lake in the Ukrainian Carpathians, within the Rakhiv district of Zakarpattia region. It is a hydrological natural monument of local significance (according to the decision of the Transcarpathian Regional Executive Committee of 23.10.1984, No. 253), with an area of 1.35 hectares, where it is referred to as "Lake Gereshavske". The organization responsible for its protection is the Kosiv-Polyanske Village Council.
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Dogyaska is a peak in the Ukrainian Carpathians, located in the central part of the Svydovets mountain range. The mountain is located in Rakhiv district of Zakarpattia region.
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Troiaska is a 1702-meter peak of the Ukrainian Carpathians. The mountain is located in Rakhiv district of Zakarpattia region within the central part of the Svydovets mountain range.
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Mount Tataruka is the peak of the Ukrainian Carpathians, located in the northern part of the Svydovets mountain range. It is located on the border of two districts of Zakarpattia region - Tyachiv and Rakhiv.
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Mount Bratkivska is a peak in the Ukrainian Carpathians, 1788 m high (some sources give other data - 1792 m). The mountain is located on the eponymous ridge of the Gorgan mountain range on the border of two regions: Ivano-Frankivsk and Zakarpattia.
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Mount Gropa (height - 1759 m (according to other sources - 1763 m)) is a peak in the Ukrainian Carpathians, located on the Bratkivsky ridge of the Horhan mountain range. It lies on the border of Tyachiv district of Zakarpattia region and Nadvirna district of Ivano-Frankivsk region.
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Mount Durnia is a 1704-meter (according to other sources, 1709-meter) peak of the Ukrainian Carpathians of the Horhan mountain range, located on the Bratkivsky ridge. It is located on the border of two regions - Ivano-Frankivsk and Zakarpattia.
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The End of Horgan is a 1599-meter mountain of the Ukrainian Carpathians, which is located on the Horgan Ridge (its highest peak) in the Central Horgan Mountains. It is located in Ivano-Frankivsk region.
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Mount Popadia (also known as Velyka Popadia) is located in the watershed of the upper reaches of two rivers, the Teresva and the Limnytsia, on the border of Rozhniativ district of Ivano-Frankivsk region and Tyachiv district of Zakarpattia region. The height of the peak, which is located on the territory of the Ukrainian Carpathian Mountains, is 1740 meters.
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Mount Mala Popadia is the peak of the Ukrainian Carpathians, located in the Gorgan mountain range. It is located in the southern part of Rozhniativ district in Ivano-Frankivsk region.
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Mount Koretvina (also known as Korytvina) is a peak of the Ukrainian Carpathians, part of the western part of the Gorgan mountain range. It is located in the Rozhnyativ district of Ivano-Frankivsk region.
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Mount Parenky is a popular peak in the Ukrainian Carpathians. It is located in the Gorgan mountain range on the Parenky ridge of the same name in the southern part of the Rozhnyativ district of Ivano-Frankivsk region. The height is 1735 meters.
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Mount Hrofa (height - 1748 m) is a well-known peak among lovers of the Ukrainian Carpathians, located in the Gorgan Mountains within the landscape reserve of the same name of national importance. It is located in Ivano-Frankivsk region.
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If there is a river on the reserve's territory that is considered one of the cleanest in Europe, it says a lot about the area. This is exactly what the Limnitsa is, with the lands of the landscape reserve located in the upper part of its basin.
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Mount Kin Grofetskyi is a 1,552-meter peak of the Ukrainian Carpathians. It is located in the western part of the Gorgan mountain range in the Rozhnyativ district of Ivano-Frankivsk region.
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Mount Moloda is the peak of the Ukrainian Carpathians, which lies within the Horhan mountain range in the Ivano-Frankivsk region (the main area of the mountain is located in the Rozhniativ district, partially in the Dolyna district), to the west of the village of Osmoloda.
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Yayko-Perehinske (the mountain got its name because of its characteristic shape, which resembles an egg from a distance) is a mountain peak in the Ukrainian Carpathians, which is located within the Gorgan massif. It is located in the Rozhnyativ district of Ivano-Frankivsk region, to the west of the village of Osmoloda.
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Mshana Swamp is a hydrological natural monument of national importance in Ukraine. It is located in the Rozhniativ district of Ivano-Frankivsk region, west of the village of Osmolody, covering an area of 6 hectares. It is a rare bog with peat deposits for the Carpathians, and contains valuable species of herbaceous plants: round-leaved sundew, bog cranberry.
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A forestry engineer, public and military figure, private associate professor at the Ukrainian Economic Academy in Podebraty, Doctor of Philosophy, Law and Forestry, M. Sayevich, appointed by Metropolitan A. Sheptytsky as a steward of the metropolitan forests, founded the Forest Museum and an exemplary trout farm near the village of Osmoloda. Today, the trout farm of the Osmoloda State Forestry is the largest in the region.
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