Local history Museum is the largest Museum in the Transcarpathian region. The Museum was founded on 20.06.1945. Then it was called the people's Museum of Transcarpathian Ukraine and was located in 17 rooms of the former zhupanat. The Museum included departments of Ethnography, nature, and social construction. In June 1946, the people's Museum was reorganized into a local history Museum and moved to the Uzhhorod fortress in March-April 1947. At that time, there were 10,000 exhibits. Today, more than 133,000 exhibits are collected here.
The village of Zhdenievo in the Volovets district of the Transcarpathian region is a wonderful place for winter recreation at the foot of the Pikuy mountain. There is one ski trail with a length of 800 metres. Convenient for beginners. The track is equipped with a towpath and snowcat. There are very professional instructors. There are several legends about the origin of the name of the village Zhdenievo:.
In the middle of the emerald Carpathians, near the village of Pylypets near the foot of mount Gimba, stretches the magical waterfall Shipot, which is one of the seven wonders of Ukrainian nature
The Habsburgs are a powerful dynasty of German and Austrian emperors, Spanish, Czech and Hungarian kings. Hapsburgs originate from the Swiss Aargau, and they moved to Austria at the end of the XIII century.
In 1379, the Habsburg dynasty split into two branches: Albrecht (Upper and lower Austria) and Leopold (other lands). The Albrecht branch received the crown of the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation and for the first time United the Austrian lands with the lands of the Czech and Hungarian crown (1437-1457), including Transcarpathia.
During world war II, the Hungarian government built a military defensive line in the North-Eastern Carpathians – the Arpad Line. It consisted of several belts. The first is in the Carpathian region, to protect the approaches to the main Carpathian watershed
The first documentary mention of the city is recorded in 1447. Its first inhabitants were probably fleeing peasants from Galicia and the foothills of Transcarpathia. The inhabitants of Rakhov at that time were mainly engaged in cattle breeding and logging and rafting.
