Friday 19 October 2012

Kolomyya (part I)

Annunciation of the Mother of God Church, wooden church, which was built in 1587 - it's the oldest temple in Kolomyya! City's cemetery was formed around this church and it functions there nowadays. Now this church is Ukrainian Orthodox temple of Moscow Patriarchy, though earlier it was Ukrainian Greek Catholic temple.  


The cross on the city's cemetery in the honour of the victims of holodomor (genocide of Ukrainians, the artificial famine, organized by Stalin) in 1932-1933.


Memorable monument in the honour of Ukranians, deported from Nadsyannya, Kholmshchyna, Lemkivshchyna, Pidlyashshya (Ukrainian ethnic territories, now it's Poland's territory) during special military operation "Visla" in 1944-1947 in USSR. This memorable symbolic monument is also situated on the cemetery in Kolomyya.


Monument to Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian politician, the head of Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and one of the leaders of Ukrainian national movement during the Second World War, the Hero of Ukraine.


                                        The Gates of Kyrylo Trylyovskyy Park.


Monument to Kyrylo Trylyovskyy, Ukrainian lawyer, politician, founder of the organization "Sich" and one of the founders of Ukrainian Radical Party, member of National Council of Ukrainian Western People's Republic, Ukrainian ambassador in Austrian parliament, publicist, journalist and public person in Halychyna the second half of the XIXth-the first half of the XXth centuries; he died in Kolomyya.


                                     St. Mary the Mother of God sculpture.


The museum of the history of Kolomyya. Ukrainian state flag and the flag of the city of Kolomyya are above the museum's entrance. On the building's facade there are memorabletables to Roman Shukhevych, the head of UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army) and Teodor Prymak, Ukrainian politician on the beginning of the XXth century.


One of the buildings, constructed on the beginning of the XXth century (1903).


St. Mykolay-the Assumption Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral of Moscow Patriarchy, built in 1997.


                                 Natural-Mathematical Liceum of Kolomyya.


Memorable table to composer Dmytro Tsyhankov on the facade of Natural-Mathematical Liceum.


Monument to Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer, poet, translator, public person. 


The first museum of pysanky in the world. Pysanky - Ukrainain traditional Easter eggs. Museum was opened in 2000 and the building of the museum was also made in the form of the egg.


The building of the post, built in the end of the XIXth century. 


One of the beautiful buildings (early XXth century) on Teatralna Street.


The project of the complex of the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the construction of which is still continued. (I made photo of the page of the book about this great religious complex). 


Wonderful mosaic on the facade of the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.


Museum of People's Art of Hutsulshchyna and Pokuttya, named after Yosafat Kobrynskyy, the initiator of the museum's foundation, and opened in 1926.


Memorable table on the museum's facade to Volodymyr Kobrynskyy, the founder and the first director of Museum of People's Art of Hutsulshchyna and Pokuttya, and Yosafat Kobrynskyy, the initiator and the participant of creation of this amazing Kolomyya's museum. 


Memorable table on the museum's facade to Ukrainian writer Andriy Chaykovskyy, who lived in the building of Museum of People's Art of Hutsulshchyna and Pokuttya in 1920-1935.
Memorable tables to Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian famous composer, and Markiyan Shashkevych, Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest, public person, writer and publicist, are on the facade of this museum from the other side of the building.


Weathercock on Museum of People's Art of Hutsulshchyna and Pokuttya.


Memorable table to Ivan Franko on Hrushevskyy Street, 1, where I.Franko stayed in the prison in 1880 for three months.


Mykhaylo Hrushevskyy Gimnasium, constructed in 1897. 


Ignatiy Loyola Roman Catholic Cathedral (jesuit temple), built in 1897.


Kolomyya's architecture of the beginning of the XXth century.


Another beautiful example of ancient architecture of the city.


Kolomyya lake - very nice and clean. Famous place for Kolomyya's fishermen.

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