Бойківщина

Photographs and negatives of V. Scherbakivskyi are an important source for studying the genesis of Ukrainian sacred construction, architecture, folk art, and ethnography. They are the basis for the restoration of the artistic tradition, remain relevant, and go far beyond the boundaries of historiographical discourse.

The idea of writing an article appeared during the elaboration of sources for
historical and cultural essay about the village Duliby of the Stryi District. In publications
devoted to master V.Turchinyak, the Duliby’s Church of St. Yuriy building., there are a number
of provisions for which I am as a historian, architect must react, highlight your vision of this
figure. The relevance of the topic is outlined.
The purpose of the publication is to consider extensive historiography, to highlight the

The idea of writing an article appeared during the elaboration of sources for historical and
cultural essay about the village Duliby of the Stryi District. In publications devoted to master
V.Turchinyak, the Duliby’s Church of St. Yuriy building., there are a number of provisions for which
I am as a historian, architect must react, highlight your vision of this figure. The relevance of the
topic is outlined.
The purpose of the publication is to consider extensive historiography, to highlight the current

On the whole of Europe, the largest and most valuable examples of wooden construction have survived in Ukraine. In the Skolevshchyna and Turkivshchyna in the XVIII century a process of creating a new type of sacred object took place, that is, its Western-Ukrainian interpretation of the vertical composition of the church structure was going on. This process lasted for almost two centuries and ended with the fact that in these two regions formed its original volumetric planning decision, which later became known as the Boyk-type church.

The author has identified four schools of folk temple construction along the Carpathian region (viz. Boiko, Hutsul, Lemko and Transcarpathian ones). Within the borders of Boiko historio-ethnographical massif there have been 2 types and 3 groups of churches, 1 type and 1 group have been spread in Hutsul land, 8 types in Lemko area. 8 groups of temples have been known within the borders of Transcarpathian historio-geographical region.

The first written mention of Skole - a small Boyk settlement in the Carpathians dates from March 5, 1397. Nearly 1660, near the settlement of Skole, Prince Alexander Yanush Zaslavskyj lays a town and calls it his honor - Alexandria. The town is stretched in the basin of a lens shaped length of 3.5 km, a width of 1.5 km. The plan of the city had a geometric shape, close to the square, with a rectangular-mesh architectural-planning scheme. The center of planning composition and communication node of the city of Skole was a square market square, in the middle of which was the Town Hall.