Attractions of Urych

The center of local history "House in Deep" of the State Historical and Cultural Reserve "Tustan" opened in 2013 as a rural cultural and public center. It is located in one of several dozen authentic Boyko houses of the early XX century, preserved in the village of Urych. The house-museum presents a modern ethnographic exhibition "Unnecessary? The story of Urych in objects and images", which presents old photos, household items, memories of the villagers. The exposition uses modern technologies of material presentation with the use of multimedia means.

Tustan Fortress City is an ancient Russian rock defense complex that served as a border fortress and customs point (the name is interpreted as an order to the traveler: "Tu stan!"). Also known as "Dovbush Rock". The first fortifications on the rock Kamin near the present village of Urich were built by white Croats in the ninth century. Wooden structures were inscribed directly into the rock massif (grooves and cuttings in the rock have been preserved, which were reconstructed). Tustan Fortress was an important stronghold of Kievan Rus, later the Galicia-Volyn principality. In 1241 it was destroyed by the hordes of Khan Batu, and in 1340 it was captured and rebuilt by the Polish King Casimir the Great as a royal fortress. Through it, salt was exported to Transcarpathia and Hungary, which was extracted in Drohobych and its environs. The last owner in the XVI century. was a Polish magnate Blitzynsky, after which the fortress lost its significance and disappeared from chronicles. Remains of a stone wall, caves, stairs, a well and two water cisterns have been preserved. In 1994, the State Historical and Cultural Reserve "Tustan" was established, there is a museum.

The Museum of the History of Tustan is located in the center of Urich, near the turn to the rock fortress Tustan, near the Church of St. Nicholas and the People's House "Enlightenment". The museum was established in 1997 to store and exhibit archaeological finds made on the territory of the ancient Russian settlement. Also presented are paintings and schemes of the artist and archaeologist Mykhailo Rozhko, a model of the fortress city and the reconstruction of the voivode's chambers. Model "Tustan - the fifth construction period", which reproduces all three rocks of Tustan (Stone, Sharp Stone and Small Rock), multi-storey wooden structure of the fortress, walls and towers. A separate model demonstrates how the mechanism of the entrance gate is arranged.