Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
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Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, also referred to as Ivano-Frankivshchyna or simply Frankivshchyna, is an oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Ivano-Frankivsk. It has a populatio
Hutsul plays trembita trumpet
Hutsuls in traditional dress in wedding ceremony in Vorokhta
Mud volcano in Starunia
Maniava waterfall
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Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the north; Poland and Slova
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
…city of Bolekhiv in mountains. That location was a base of an anti-Polish Peasant movement. Near the Maniava Skete is located the highest waterfall in Ukraine, the Maniava waterfall (20 m). In the same Bohorodchany Raion visitors may find the local mud volcano located near the village of Starunia. It was…
Early Indo-European migrations from the Pontic steppes of present-day Ukraine and Russia
The furthest extent of Kievan Rus', 1054–1132
Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky established an independent Cossack state after the 1648 uprising against Poland
Polish troops enter Kyiv in May 1920 during the Polish–Soviet War. Following the Peace of Riga signed on 18 March 1921, Poland took control of modern-day western Ukraine while Soviets took control of eastern and central Ukraine