Transport bridge is the biggest bridge in Uzhgorod (length is 140m). The need for such transport interchange arose in the thirtieth of the twentieth century in times of Czech government. Its construction began in 1934. The estimate was 8.0 million korunas. In 1937 the bridge was opened in the presence of the second Czechoslovak President E. Benes (1935-1948). 7...
Active cultivation of the right bank embankment began after the First World War. Now it is called "Independence". In 1928 the Czech botanists have collected and planted there different varieties of linden, so that avenue blooms all summer. Linden alley - is a monument of landscape art of local importance in Ukraine. It is run by the Uzhgorod municipality....
The name “Calvary” is translated from the Latin as "a bowl of a corpse." It is considered as the cross of Christ, his torment that is why there are chapels on Calvary, symbolizing his way. The very first city cemetery, which appeared in the sixteenth century, was located in the modern Castle Hill. The castle servants and warriors were...
Physics Faculty of Uzhgorod National University – is a building of a former Vasylian Monastery. At the very beginning of the XX century it was needed to build such a big monastery for Uzhgorod. The first and main monastery of St. Vasil the Great in our region was founded in the fourteenth century by Prince Fedor Koryatovych on Chernecha...
Vasilian monastery was built to educate Vasilian monks and Ukrainian children. Project of the building was developed by Uzhgorod architect Ernest Kovosh. Originally a monastery, whose facade overlooked the street, had four-storey central and side parts, where Hanging Gardens were situated.
It was the highest building in Uzhgorod till the First World War. In 1947 the building was transferred to...
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...
Dominated by the regional administration building at one end, since 1999 the square has been decorated with a large statue of Ukraine’s national poet, Taras Shevchenko. In 2001 a grass lawn was installed, with lights. In 2011 a fountain was re-installed. On the left side of the square, there’s a rose garden and right behind it is the building...
This is a gastronomic festival with a variety of cultural and entertainment programs that combines Transcarpathian and Ukrainian traditions with modern trends. The name of the festival - "Palachinta" – comes from the Hungarian «Palacsinta», which in Transcarpathian dialect means "pancake".
The festival program includes:
* folk festivities, concert programs, fun entertainment and contests
*surprises for children
* prizes for the brave who...
Fentsyk Square is one of the most imposing places in Uzhgorod. Its construction began in the middle of the 19th century. Here, almost every building is of historical significance.
At the far eastern end of the square stands the largest and most beautiful Jewish synagogue of Transcarpathia. Next to it, on the bank of the river Uzh, is one of...
Uzhgorod’s Laudon arboretum was founded in 1886 and is named in honor of its founder, Ishtvan Laudon, a professor of the Uzhgorod gymnasium. The park contains about 20 species of trees. Here you’ll find trees from North and South America and Asia. There are also examples of the oldest tree species - ginkgo and also magnolia, swamp cypress, yew,...