Tuesday 23 October 2012

Kolomyya (part 2)

                             Kolomyya railway station, built in 1860.


The building of public organizations, constructed for them in 1895.


Memorial "Sorrow's Square" to all, who died during the Second World War.


Monument to the fighters for independent Ukraine, to the soldiers of UPA (Ukrayiinska Povstanska Armiya - Ukrainian Insurgent Army).


Several architectural examples of the end of the XIXth-the early XXth centuries in Kolomyya.


                                     Kolomyya City Council, built in 1877.


Memorable table on Kolomyya City Council, dedicated to Ivan Franko, which was inprisoned here in 1880.


Monument to Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian writer, poet, artist and public person.


Ancient pharmacy, founded in the XIXth century. Now one pharmacy is also working here.


Allegoric sculptures, made on the beginning of the XXIth century on Revival Square.


Memorable sigh on the place of the former monument to Taras Shevchenko, which was destroyed by Russian soldiers in 1914.


Former St. Mary Roman Catholic Church, constructed by Bernard Meretyn in 1762-1775, and reconstructed in 1830-1895. Nowadays it's St. Yosafat Greek Catholic Church.  


St. Mykhayil the Archangel Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, built in 1864.


Kolomyya synagogue, constructed in the second half of the XIXth century.


Ivan Ozarkevych Kolomyya Dramatic Theatre, built on the beginning of the XXth century.


Memorable table on the facade of Kolomyya Dramatic Theatre to Ivan Ozarkevych, the priest, public person, artist, poet, translator and the founder of the first Ukrainian theatre in the Western Ukraine in 1848 in Kolomyya.


Monument near Ivan Ozarkevych Kolomyya Dramatic Theatre to Myroslav Irchan (his real name - Andriy Babyuk), Ukrainian writer, which was born in the village Pyadyky in Kolomyya district.


Wonderful combination of ancient (the XIXth century) (on the left) and modern (2002year) (on the right) buildings on Viche Square. Evening in Kolomyya. And it's time to say good bye to Kolomyya city. :)

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