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Monastery "Manyavskiy Skyt"
Hystory of Skyt Manyavskiy starts from 2-nd half of XIII century. In that time monks came to Manyavski mountains, they preach Cristianity and found skyt-monastery. Caves skyt-monastery apeared in Ukraine from times of Yaroslav Mudriy.
Skyt - is desolate, separated from whole world cloister, where monks live, spend time in pray, thinking of God, handicraft, and other doings of spiritual and body mercies.
Writen prove of foundation of monastery "Manyavskiy Skyt" of monks formations starts from 1608. Ivan Vyshenskiy and Yov Knyagynytskiy were founders of "Manyavskiy Skyt". Both of them were alumnus of Athos the Holly Mountain (Greece). In 1621 monastery comes under the direct jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
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Manyavskiy Waterfall
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The city of Ivano-Frankivsk
Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukrainian: Івано-Франківськ), is a historic city located in southwestern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (province). Prior to 1962, the city was known as Stanyslaviv.
The city, named Stanislawow, was erected as a fortress to protect the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from Tatar invasions. It was built on the site of the village of Zabolotiv, which had been known since 1435. The village and the land around it was bought by Stanislaw Rewera Potocki from another Polish nobleman Rzeczkowski. The area was utilized for recreations and particularly for hunting. The city's name was later coined by the son of Stanislaw, Polish nobleman Andrzej Potocki commemorating it to his father.
In 1962 the name changed to honor Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko.
Mixes of different architectural styles implied by Ivan-Frankivsk city in fotos: 1, 2
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