Detachable Subdivision
"Rivne Professional College of
National University of Life
and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine"
In order to get acquainted with the nature, history, architecture and traditions of the Hutsul region, a trip was organized for college students to the city of Yaremche on May 10-12, 2024, with accommodation in the village of Mykulychyn and climbing Mount Yavirnyk (1467 m.).
Mykulychyn is a village in Ivano-Frankivsk region, subordinate to the Yaremche City Council. A low-mountain climatic resort located in the Prut River valley. Mykulychyn is the largest village in Ukraine and Europe by area, with a length of 44 km and an area of 160.86 km². Scientists have established that the first settlements on the territory of modern Mykulychyn arose more than 40 thousand years ago. The first mention of the village dates back to 1412. The decoration of Mykulychyn is an architectural monument - the Church of the Holy Trinity (1868) and the bell tower, which was built much earlier.
Yaremche is a city in Ukraine, a climatic resort and a center of "green" tourism in the Carpathian region and the entire Hutsul region. Nearby is the Bukovel ski resort.
Until 1770, the Hutsul region was part of Turkey, Moldova, Poland, and Hungary; later, Austria and Hungary; from 1920 to 1939, Romania, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. Despite the artificial administrative management, the Hutsuls for centuries created old-fashioned customs, mountain conditions, everyday life, Wallachian shepherd law, Polonyn livestock breeding, a common material and spiritual culture, and dialects. Mutual exchange between the Hutsuls was facilitated by their location deep in the mountains, far from communication routes. Now the entire Hutsul region, with the exception of 8 villages in Romanian Bukovina and several villages in Marmaroshyn, lies in Ukraine.
Yuriy KONYAKHIN,
history teacher
