Kosiv, the area center situated in southerly Ukrainian Carpathians on the banks of river Rybnytsya.
Geographically, it is not Hutsuls location, however Kosiv has long been almost the major commercial center of Hutsul location, since was lying at the junction of the main manner ins which linked Carpathians from Galicia and Podolia.
Today the population of the city is simply over 8000 people. Although the dimension of the "white house" of Kosiv would certainly be the envy of much bigger city.
Kosiv-- is the informal funding of the Carpathian souvenirs. Memento market that runs only on Saturdays (beginning with three o'clock in the early morning), is almost the biggest in Ukraine. Souvenir shops are virtually all over. And also nearly all genuine Carpathian souvenirs which are being offered on the market of Ukraine, passed through the Kosiv market, and also are created in Kosiv, or on the nearby hill areas.
In Soviet times, Kosiv was thought about the city of millionaires. There flourished Carpathian arts as well as crafts, as well as the items could be sold for good cash, with virtually no risk of being punished for "unearned earnings".
Formally arts and also crafts in Kosiv began to develop in the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1850, in the community, which was after that the facility of the area, was created weaving company. Later, the weaving institution was constructed. In the initial fifty percent of the twentieth century, in Polish times, Kosiv became the center of carpet weaving.
During the Soviet era college of arts as well as crafts was established in Kosiv, which is now transformed into an organization.
In the Polish-Lithuanian days Kosiv was currently a community. Its destiny was no various from the majority of Galician communities, whose proprietors were polish people (unless by nearness to mountains). It have been destroyed for often times by the Tatars as well as Turks. However Kosiv restored. In Austrian times it became a district center. Ukrainians at the time accounted the fifty percent of the populace, and also 35 percent were Jews. It is not unusual that such a multitude of Jews brought about the growth of the city as a center of trade.
Most of old residences, of those that endured in main Kosiv, were when Jewish. And from Jews a significant historic and also cultural monument stayed saved-- cemetery-- kirkut. It lies in the town hall on the mountain. Overgrown, dismal yet extremely interesting. Kosiv Each marker right here-- is a work of art and also it's a pity that these headstones are slowly obtaining ruined. Along with kirkut there was a synagogue as soon as. It was destroyed in Soviet times.
There are in Kosiv wood Orthodox Church of the Nativity of John the Baptist. Built it in 1912 in Hutsul design. Today the church is working and also effectively selected. It is located amongst the burial ground, which has lots of interesting burial places and markers there.
Church of Nativity of John the Baptist is known for that in 1990 had actually tonsured a monk Patriarch in it-- Volodymyr (Romaniuk)-- the one buried at St. Sophia.
One more relic of Kosiv was Greek Catholic wooden church of St. Basil the Great, which was constructed in 1895. In 2009 the church burned down. Individuals tried to save it, there's also a video. However could not be successful. Currently the church was rebuilt by the old style, yet it is quite various from old-- various other domes, eco-friendly steel, light tree-- well, not that.
There are 2 churches in Kosiv. One-- is modern, constructed near the Institute of arts and also crafts. The very first Catholic church on the website was erected in 1771. In 1881 it refuted. After six years a new church was erected in its area, which stood for 70 years of the last century (was taken apart by the Soviets).
An additional Kosiv's church depends on the Polish cemetery. A lot more specifically, it is a wonderful church, which worked as the primary Catholic church of the city prior to the building of a brand-new church. The church was erected in 1866, as well as given that 1911 it has run as a church.