Hill-fort (Gorodishche) in the village Malaya Kopanya

The village Malaya Kopanya (укр: Мала Копаня) is located at an altitude of 211 m above sea level on the banks of the river Tisa. It is not far from district center Vinogradov and it`s separated from «Black Mountain» (Chornaya Gora, 565 masl). The village is famous for its hill-fort (Gorodyshche) for several years since the time of the Soviet Union and it is located one and a half kilometers from the center of the village. More precisely, not the hill-fort is famous but the place where it was and where for many years the excavations conduct. The hill-fort reffers to the Dacian culture and occupies an area of almost 5 hectares of which only 2 were investigated. Dacians lived in the territory of present day Transcarpathia 2000 years ago. Culture began to develop approximately in the 60th BC, when the first Thracian tribes headed by Burebista, King of Dacia, submitting to his authority the huge Thracian territory of modern Moravia in the West to the Bug River in the East of the Carpathians in the North to Dionisopolis (modern Balchik) in the South, came to Upper Potyssya in search of prey. The first that they captured were Celtic settlements in the tract Halish and Lovachka not far from Mukachevo. Soon all the territory from Mukachevo to Vinogradov was invaded and inhabited.

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The village Lipovets, Perechyn district

The village Lipovets (ua: Липовець, sk: Lipovec, hu: Hárs) Perechyn district is known to all the citizens of Transcarpathian region by its «Betonka» (military road which is covered with concrete slabs). It starts in this village and leads to the top of the valley (polonyna) «Rovna» (ua: полонина Руна). It starts with "Betonka" (two slabs) before the village then outside the village it turns into a "three slabs" road and near the first destroyed military facility point (3,5 km) which was ruined from the time when it was the old military barrack, the road again transformes into "two slabs" one. The total length of "Betonka" is about 7 kilometers. The road is almost destroyed. A lot of people are trying to drive to the top of the mountain by cars and then retell the stories of breakdowns and other "troubles".

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The Likitsary village, Perechyn region

The Likitsary village (ua: Лікіцари, sk: Likičar, Likicary, hu: Kuruczvár). The village is located in the mountain of Perechyn region. It is known by its church. The church of St. Vasyl` the Great (Vasylya Velykogo) with the belfry is the monument of wooden architecture. It is of Boykov style. It was built in the 17th century of spruce wood. In 1748 it was rebuilt. In addition, you can see the inscriptions "1980" and "1930" on the turrets of the church.

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Last Lenin of Transcarpathia

This is the last monument to adult Lenin in Transcarpathia. It stands in the town of Chop in the nursing home of railway men, built by Kirpa (let the land rest in peace to this man).

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The village of Bukovtsevo. Part One.

Actually, the aim of our visit was not the village Bukovtsevo itself (ua: Bukіvtsyovo, V. Bereznyy district), but the wooden church - the Church of St. Anne with a belfry, which was built in 17th century and then rebuilt in the 18th. Nevertheless, not yet entered into the village, but adrenaline was pumped into the blood on the narrow forest road with a lot of wells without fences and road signs, we realized that a walk through the village was going to be no less interesting.

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