Attractions of Stryi

The memorial complex "Fighters for the Freedom of Ukraine" was opened in 2005 on the territory of the former city prison Stryja, which operated from 1898 to 1963. The exposition of the unique museum-prison is dedicated to political prisoners tortured here in different periods of Austria. Hungarians, the Polish government and the Soviet regime. The worst page in history was the mass shooting of political prisoners in 1941 before the retreat of the Red Army. The complex includes a symbolic wrought-iron fence, fragments of walls with barred windows, a watchtower, an entrance arch with a crown of thorns, a two-story museum building, a mourning wall, a sarcophagus tomb, a monument to Pieta.

The museum of the family of a prominent Ukrainian politician, OUN leader Stepan Bandera was opened in Stryi on the occasion of the 101st anniversary of his birth. The exposition, which is mostly dedicated to the school years of the young Stepan, is located in the house of his grandfather M. Bandera, where he lived, studying from 1919 to 1927 at the Stryi Gymnasium. The exposition of the house-museum also tells about all members of the large Bandera family, each of whom in one way or another joined the struggle for Ukrainian independence. Documents, photos, personal belongings are presented. In front of the house opened a square named after Stepan Bandera.

The Verkhovyna Museum of Local Lore in Stryi is located in the former house of the Stryi lawyer and public and political figure Yevhen Olesnytsky (built in 1899), which was a center of Ukrainian culture and public life in the early twentieth century. The funds number 26,000 storage units. The exposition consists of three departments: nature, ethnography, history of the region. The most valuable exhibits: ancient books, icons, Boyko and Hutsul Easter eggs, as well as weapons of the Cossacks and Opryshki. A separate exposition is dedicated to the activities of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.