Stryi district

Lviv region

Stryi district is a district of Ukraine in the south of Lviv region. The district and administrative center is the city of regional significance Stryi. The Stryi district is rich in the following tourist locations (settlements): the resort town of Morshyn, Dovholuka, Duliby, Verkhnia Stryina, Rozgirche, and Volia-Zaderevatska. The district is located in the northern strip of the Ukrainian Carpathians, at the intersection of important communication routes. There are 19 rivers flowing through the district. Among them are Stryi, Svicha, Sukil, Berezhnytsia. There are mineral water reserves in the villages of Lysovychi and Rozgirche.

The Stryi district borders on Drohobych, Zhydachiv, Skole, Mykolaiv, and Dolyna districts.

The diverse natural resources of Stryi district, picturesque landscapes, mineral springs and historical monuments attract tourists every year. The Morshyn health resort, Dovbush's rocks in Rozgirche village and Shepilska recreation center in Dovholuka village are particularly popular with vacationers.

Stryi region is a land of unique beauty and poetry. People here love art and music. They support creativity in 64 People's Houses. Part of the history is preserved in museums, and literature is promoted through a wide network of libraries. More than 20 folk groups perform concerts in the district and beyond. In the Stryi district, there are the Stepan Bandera Museum-Estate in the village of Volia Zaderevatska, the Oleksa Gasyn Museum-Estate in the village of Koniukhiv, the People's Museum of the Liberation Struggle of the Ukrainian People in the village of Kavsko, and the Ivan Franko Museum in the village of Zavadiv. The People's House in the village of Banya Lysovytska contains materials about the famous composer Roman Savytskyi. Residents of Stryi district are now creating the history of their land with their own hands, multiplying its wealth and glory.

The district is rich in such museums and monuments:

Cave Monastery Complex, Rozgirche
Cave monastery complex, Rozgirche village
Stepan Bandera's museum-estate in the village of Volia-Zaderevatska,
Oleksa Gasyn's museum-estate in the village of Koniukhiv,
People's Museum of the Liberation Struggle of the Ukrainian People in the village of Kavske,
Ivan Franko Museum in the village of Zavadiv.
The People's House in the village of Banya Lysovytska contains materials about the famous composer Roman Savytskyi.
Bell tower of St. Michael's Church (XVIII century - 1826) - Verchany village
Church of the Exaltation and Bell Tower (XVIII century) in Dobrivliany village
Church of the Holy Spirit and Bell Tower (1810-1826) in the village of Pidhirtsi
Church of St. Nicholas (1650) in the village of Pidhirtsi
St. Nicholas Church (1650) in the village of Strelkiv
The bell tower of the church of St. Nicholas (19th century) in the village of Strilkiv

But the greatest wealth and pride of the Stryi region is its population and history. It is a land of high culture and spirituality that has accumulated a large and rich treasury of folk traditions and artistic achievements throughout history. The Stryi region is known for such personalities as Yevhen Olesnytskyi, Ivanna Biberovych, Filaret Kolessa, Ostap Nyzhankivskyi, Oleksa and Ostap Bobykevych, Hryhorii Trukh, Myroslav Liubachivskyi, Stepan Bandera, Oleksa Gasyn, Volodymyr Tymchii Lopatinskyi, and others. Ivan Franko loved this land and was happy to visit its various places. The nature of the Stryi region gave Franko strength and energy. The poet enjoyed spending time in Duliby, Hirne, Liubyntsi, Zavadiv, and Holobutiv.

Archaeological monuments

Ancient Russian settlement, Kavske village, Bych river, 4 km southwest of the village, XI-XIII centuries, Kavske village;
Ancient Russian settlement, Kavske village, 4 km north of the village, in the central part of Buchyna forest, XI-XIII centuries;
Old Rus settlement, village Kavske. Kavske village, Yosypovychi ur., on the right bank of Litnyanka r. XI-XIII cc.
Kurgan burial ground (3), Dashava village, Ksyondziv forest, second half of the second millennium BC;
Kurgan burial mound, Dashava village, Zruby ur., 1.5 km east of the village, time not established;
Kurgan, Velyki Didushytsi village, 0.5 km south-west of the village;
Kurgan, Dovholuka village, 100 m north-east of the church;
Kurgan burial mound, Yosypovychi village, 3 km south of the village, in the forest "Buchyna";
Kurgan burial mound, Yosypovychi village, Zalisko ur., 2.5 km south-west of the village, in the forest;
Kurgan, Yosypovychi village, 0.5 km south-east of the village;
Kurgan, Komariv village, 0.3 km southeast of the village;
Kurgan burial (4), Oleksychi village, 1.5 km south of the village;
Kurgan burial (3), Oleksychi village, 3 km south of the village;
Kurgan burial (6), Semyhyniv village, on the south-western outskirts of the village;
Horodyshche (settlement), Holobutiv village, 2.5 km south-west of the village, 18th quarter of the local forestry, Horodyshske ur., forested promontory on the right bank of Ulychanka river, Slavic-Russian period (IX-XI centuries);
Multilayered settlement, Zahirne village, 2.5 km north of the village, Gelsendorf ur., on the right side of the road to Khodovychi village near the eastern fence of the cemetery, right bank of Zhyzhonya stream, Malitska culture, Carpathian mounds, Old Rus' (XII-XIII cc.) and late Middle Ages (XV-XVII cc.);
Single-layer settlement, Zahirne village, 0.25 km north-west of the village, west of the cemetery;
с. Khodovychi, Malicka culture;
Two-layer settlement, village. Nyzhnya Stynava, northeastern outskirts of the village, left bank of Stryi river, hillside, Thracian, Halstat and Carpathian culture;
Single-layered settlement, Oleksychi village, to the left of the road leading to Dashavy village, shallow hollow between hillsides, Malitska culture
Settlement and rock cave monastery of the VIII-VII centuries BC; XII-XIII centuries, Rozgirche village. "The Rock Cave Monastery of St. Onufriy" (XII-XIII centuries). The rock monastery in the village of Rozgirche, which stands at the head of all rock monasteries in Galicia, is fascinating for its small two-story church carved into the rock, a unique case of this type of architecture preserved in Galicia, particularly in the Boykivshchyna.

Sanatorium and resort facilities:

Kyiv+ Sanatorium LLC (Banya Lysovytska village)
Shepilska Recreation Center LLC (Dovholuka village, Shepilske tract)
Agricultural farm "Gostinyi Dvir Mizhhoryanka" (Verkhnia Stynava village)
Motel "U Andriy" (Duliby village)
Motel "612 km" (Stryi)
Recreation complex "Tsarske Urochyshche" (Rozgirche village)
"Rozgirche, Farm (Rozgirche village)
Recreation complex "Vulyk" (Duliby village).

Tourist routes in Stryi district:

AND THE ROUTE "FROM THE COHORT OF THE UNCONQUERED": Stryi (monument to S. Bandera) - Hrabivtsi (monument to V. Tymchiy-Lopatinsky) - Zavadiv (monument to the Nyzhankivsky, Okhrymovych, Korintsy family - "Borysten") - Konyukhiv (monument to O. Gasyn, chief of staff of the UPA, O. Gasyn museum, school - O. Gasyn's room);
II ROUTE - "WE LIVED IN UKRAINE, WE DIED FOR UKRAINE": Falysh village Pyla (grave of UPA rebels) - Stankiv (grave of victims of Stalinist repressions) - Morshyn (grave of Z. Krasivsky) - B. Lysovytska (sanatorium of UPA soldiers) - V. Zaderevatska (S. Bandera Museum);
III ROUTE - "THE VICTORY OF THE SICH RIFLEMEN IN NASTRIYA": B. Lysovytska (memorial cemetery of the Sich Riflemen and burials from the First World War);
ROUTE IV - "YEARS OF TRAGEDY, YEARS OF THE LIBERATION STRUGGLE OF THE OUN": Dobrivlyany (Holodomor monument) - Kavsko (People's Museum of the OUN-UPA Liberation Struggle);
V ROUTE - "THEY GLORIFIED UKRAINIAN ART": 1. Falysh (the birthplace of Ivanna Biberovych, a famous dramatic actress) - B. Lysovytska (local history museum - the room of Roman Savytskyi, an amateur composer). 2. Pishchany (Kolessa family) - Khodovychi (F. Kolessa Museum) - Dashava Music School named after F. Kolessa (monument to Z. Hoysak, a member of the OUN, a teacher at a local school);
VII ROUTE - "MEMORIAL SITES OF THE KOBZAR AND THE WAYS OF THE STONEMASON IN THE STRYI REGION": Zavadiv (first monument to Taras Shevchenko in 1914, monument to Ivan Franko, museum of the history of Zavadiv village) - Holobutiv (monument to Ivan Franko) - Hrabivtsi (monument to Taras Shevchenko);
VIII ROUTE - "LANDSCAPE HERITAGE OF THE STRYI REGION": Pidhirtsi (Pidhirtsi Park) - Rozgirche (Dovbush rocks, Naskelnyi Monastery);
VIII ROUTE - "SACRED ART OF THE STRYJ REGION": Monuments of sacred architecture;
IX ROUTE - "SPIRITUAL PILGRIMAGES OF THE STRYJ REGION": 1. Stryi (Cathedral Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary) - Dovholuka (Church of John the Baptist of 1925 included in the Local Register of Cultural Heritage). 2. Stryi (Department of Culture of the Stryi District State Administration, E Konovalets Street, Dobrivliany (Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross of the thirteenth century is included in the State Register of Cultural Heritage).