Bohdan Barbil

The monument is referred to as the town’s guardian angel or talisman. A working municipal service chimneysweep served as a prototype and model for the monument erected in downtown Mukachevo. He is honorably called Berti-bachi or Uncle Berti. The 61-year old Bertalon Tovt now jokes that a...

A geodetic mark indicating the center of Europe was set up 125 years ago near Dilove, a village in Rakhiv district, Zakarpattia. Experts from the French Institute of Geography recently took new measurements and determined that the geographic center of Europe is actually in the vicinity of Vilnius....

There are 18,000 customs officers in Ukraine, including 1,200 in Transcarpathia. This region has 18 checkpoints on the borders of three neighboring countries - Hungary, Slovakia, and Rumania. It is also planned to open a checkpoint on the Polish border. This year, the Chop customs office, which has...

Transcarpathia still has 118 wooden churches that were built over the past five centuries. Forty-eight of them are registered as architectural monuments. By contrast, Slovakia has only 27 wooden churches, but they all function normally and are reliably protected by the state. In Transcarpathia...

The Transcarpathian village of Turya-Remeta, in Perechyn district, is famous for being the home of the world’s only bas-relief dedicated to a mailman half a century ago. A local mailman by the name of Fedir Feketa served the people with integrity and devotion. Recently, on the 215th anniversary of...

A monument to Avhustyn Voloshyn, President of Carpatho- Ukraine was unveiled in Uzhhorod as a tribute to a distinguished pedagogue, scholar, journalist, enlightener, public, political, and religious figure, commemorating his 130th anniversary of birth. It is also a tribute to his associates...

It is planned to study the river basin, status of the banks, protective installations, water, and biodiversity. An expedition of eight researchers decided to cover a distance of 500 kilometers to the Hungarian city of Szeged on two rafts (locally known as bokora or darab) made of pine trunks. Such...