Frid Palace (in Hungarian - Fried Palota) is private house of the city, which was built in 1910. It was named in honor of its owner - Jewish entrepreneur Ignaz Fried. There were 18 small shops on the ground floor and 24 apartments on the first and second floors. Jewish families were renting 22 apartments, one flat was for...
It is named after the theater that was opened on July 7th ,1921. The official opening took place on January 3, 1921. In July, 1921 famous Ukrainian director Mykola Sadovskiy headed the theater. Since 2005 puppet theater has called "Bavka". In the past all theatrical spectacles were called so in Verkhovyna villages. In addition, the traditional puppet "vertep", includes...
The Transcarpathian Regional Music and Drama Theater was established according to the decision of the Council of People's Commissars of Transcarpathian Ukraine, it started to work from January 1, 1946 and started its activity in November 7, 1946, with the performance «Under Chestnuts of Prague» of K. Simonov. Producers of the theater were Volodymyr Mahar, Hnat Ihnanovych, Hryhoriy Volovyk,...
Botanical garden was founded on 28 November 1948 on a place where two nut and fruit gardens existed. There were 96 nuts and also apple, pear, cherry, plum, elderberry, rosehips, blackberries and willow. Botanical Garden is located on three terraces with difference in height of 22 meters. One third of area of the garden is located on the first...
It is situated on the left bank of the city (New Town), the first written record of which dates from 1631. This part of the city was slowly developed, as constantly was suffering from floods. The regulation of the river Uzh banks began just in 18 century. Today this part of the embankment has the name of Orthodox, dedicated...
It was built in 1781. Initially building was used for storage of food and drinks, but after the elimination of factory’s equipment the brewery was turned into hotel, then into the specialized school and joiner school. After the reunification of Transcarpathia with Czechoslovakia, wine bar was opened in the "owl's nest". By the end of the 70s of last...
From 1902-1907 the building housed a Christian educational institution for girls: the Roman Catholic Lyceum of St. Gizella. According to Hungarian history, St. Gizella was the wife of the first Hungarian king, Stephen I, who baptized Hungary. During Soviet rule, a music school was created in the building and the sculpture of St. Gizella, the symbol of the building,...
City Square is named after Eugene Fentsyk (1844-1903) who is a Transcarpathian educational activist and writer of Russophile direction, a Greek Catholic priest. Since 1885 he was also a publisher and editor of "Lystok" that published in mixed Russian and Church Slavonic language. E. Fentsyk known as the author of poetic drama "Conquest of Uzhgorod" and was one of...
The Church of St. George is a 17th century Roman Catholic temple, built by the mayor of Uzhgorod George Druget, in place of a destroyed Lutheran temple. In the 18th century the temple was rebuilt in neo-Baroque style. One piece of the interior that deserves special attention is an unusual neo-Baroque altar (1895) – the work of painter Johann Lucas Kracker. I In 2000-2001, after...
Uzhgorod University’s Botanic Garden is one of the best gardens in Ukraine and was created on the territory of two fruit-nut orchards in 1948. Its total area is 4.5 hectares. Here, more than three thousand species of plants grow, including not only local Transcarpathian, but hundreds of different species of tropical and subtropical varieties. It has more than 1,200...
