Kryvorivnya village

Kryvorivnya – one of the oldest Hutsul villages, with first written references found as far back as in 1654.

In the early twentieth century every summer Kryvorivnya became "Ukrainian cultural capital." Ivan Franko lived and worked in the village every summer for 12 years, his house now contains literary-memorial museum of the writer. Other prominent figures of Ukrainian culture spent time in this village, Hrushevsky, M.Kotsyubynsky, O.Kobylianska, V.Stefanyk, Lesya Ukrainka. Now the village is the site of several ethnic festivals, and the people themselves demand village a status of "village-museum".