Vypchina

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Vypchyna is the highest village in the Hutsul region, in the Putyla district of Chernivtsi oblast. There is no population, the inhabitants left in the 90s of the last century, dispersed to the villages further away. But once a year, on a church holiday, they come up to the place of their ancestral homes, to the church and cemetery.

The village is located at an altitude of 1100 meters above sea level and is thus the highest settlement in Ukraine. Distance to the city of Chernivtsi: 136 km. To the northeast of the village, the Polonystyi stream, the left tributary of the Ripnya, originates.

Traditional folk crafts: folk embroidery, Easter egg making, logging, wood processing, sheep breeding.

The century-old church of Saints Peter and Paul and the old cemetery remind us that the village of Vypchyna used to be here. As long as the church and graves are well maintained, it will live on. This is the opinion of people who themselves or their parents left the high Carpathian village and moved to the valley. There are no inhabitants in the highlands of the village.

Every year, on July 13, villagers of all ages come to Vypchyna for a church festival. They take their children with them. They prepare for this trip. They hold a service in the old church, and then go to the graves of their relatives, inviting everyone to come up to pray for the souls of the dead and enjoy food. There is a certain sacrament in this journey to the ancestral land of the ancestors. Perhaps it is a place of strength and memory for people.

Obviously, the spiritual is important to people, and in this way they take care of and rethink their heritage, and they feed off of it, pass it on to their children, their descendants. The village began to disappear as soon as the Soviet regime went downhill, the economy collapsed, and the villagers moved to the valley.

Under the Soviets, horses were driven to Vypchyna and crosses were deliberately knocked down in the cemetery. Komsomol members were driven to neighboring villages to remove crosses from churches and break windows, but they did not reach here. Stories are told of how during World War II, the "jumpers" (NKVD special forces - ed.) came and drove people down from Vypchyna. They broke the stoves in the houses, but the villagers stayed. All the more conscious residents were taken to Siberia, and the villagers remained silent for a long time and died with their memories.

The community is proud of L. Kobylitsa's museum and estate, and Hutsul traditions.

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