OblastIvano-Frankivsk Region

ORIGINS.

Ivano-Frankivsk Region,  in Soviet times referred to as Stanislavshchyna or Stanislav Oblast, is is also known to Ukrainians by a deep-rooted alternative name: Prykarpattia that together with the oblasts of Lviv and Ternopil forms the main body of the historic region of eastern Halychyna or Galicia, which in the 13th century was a part of the Kingdom of Rus and the Halych-Volyn Principality or Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia. Along with the Lviv and Ternopil regions Prykarpattia is a component of the Carpathian Euroregion. Ivano-Frankivsk Region is home to several Ukrainian cultures including the Hutsuls, Lemky, Boyky, and others.

ART & CULTURE.

Ivano Frankivsk Oblast is home of numerous cultural festivals including the Ukrainian International festival of ethnic music and land art “Sheshory” that usually takes place in the picturesque Hutsul village of the same name in the  Kosiv Raion since 2003. The city of Ivano-Frankivsk hosts several other festivals such as the All-Ukrainian festival of art collectives “Carpathian Spring” that takes place every May. Every two years the festival of modern art “Impreza” takes place every other year.

In 2000 a monument of cultural heritage in the Ivano-Frankivsk Region was erected in the city of Kolomyya called the Pysanka Museum which now contains more than 13 thousand pysanky [Ukrainian painted Easter eggs] and is the only one of its kind in the world.