Kryvorivnia (Ukrainian: Криворівня) is a village in the Verkhovyna Raion of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast of Ukraine. It is considered both the traditional summer and the winter capital of the Hutsul people.[1][2] Kryvorivnia belongs to Verkhovyna settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[3][4]

Religion

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

The film Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Sergei Parajanov was filmed in the village. The house where the filming took place is now a museum.[5][6]

Notable residents

  • Ivan Rybaruk (born 1966), Ukrainian priest, writer, editor, presenter
  • Oleksa Volianskyi (1862–1947), Ukrainian priest, ethnographer, cultural and educational activist

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