Memorial Park in Perechyn. Part two.

The continuation of the article about the memorial park in Perechyn. The first part describing the story of the monument and the cemetery can be found here.

Continue reading   Comments (0)   29.11.2011. 16:16  

A memorial Park in Perechyn. Part One.

Perechyn (Hung. Perecseny, Slovak. Perečany, Czech. Perečín, German. Peretschyn, Polish. Pereczyn, Romanian. Perecin) is a small town, the regional center, located 22 km from Uzhhorod. According to words of some historians, Perechyn was firstly mentioned in historical documents in 1266, although others believe that the date of its founding is 1427, citing a reference in 1399 (as a settlement) in the records of dominant Drugets. In the opinion of Soviet historians, the founding date of Perechyn assumed in 1947. It was granted the town status in 2004 (formerly it was the village and the urban settlement). Its population is about 7,000 people. The huge wood chemical plant built in the late 19th century is the only significant object of the village. Once there were a few mills and factories, but now they are either in decline or have been closed at all. There is railway and bus station in Perechyn and the river Uzh flows by them.

Continue reading   Comments (0)   29.11.2011. 16:11  

The ruined church in the village Domashyn

The wooden church of St. architect. Michael was built in 1907 in the village Domashyn, Velykyy Bereznyy region. It belongs to the class of late small wooden churches of Transcarpathia simulating walled temples. Previously, the church roof was covered with a "shingle". Later shingle was covered with buckle. The walls are covered with boards. The pinnacle of frame type with baroque finishes is covered with a hipped roof. The iconostasis dates from the time of construction of the church. Old icons on it are covered with new, linen icons. The church stands on the spot where formerly its predecessor (1751) stood, which was even smaller in size and with a small bell.

Continue reading   Comments (0)   29.11.2011. 16:05  

Line of Arpad. The bunker in the village V. Hrabivnytsya. Part Two.

Aboveground tank facilities in the village of Verkhnya (Upper) Hrabivnytsya are no less interesting than a system of underground tunnels and rooms. Apart from the main exit from the bunker, there are three choices. All three are the massive bunkers; each of them was responsible for the shelling of a certain sector of the gorge in which a modern village is situated. In addition to these three outputs, there is another "object" - a pile of pieces of concrete in the hopper in a thicket of bushes. It is impossible to determine even approximately what it is.

Continue reading   Comments (0)   29.11.2011. 16:02  

Arpad’s line. The bunker in the village of V. Hrabivnytsa. Part One.

Actually the bunker is over the village of V. Hrabivnytsa at a distance of little more than a mile from the shelter at the pass Uklyn. Apparently, this is the most preserved and most valuable, in the historical sense, object of the fortifications of Arpad’s line in the territory of present-day Transcarpathia

Continue reading   Comments (0)   29.11.2011. 15:59