Verkhovyna

Zabie - (since 1962 Werchowyna). A village located in Western Ukraine, in the Carpathian Mountains, in the Hutsul region, on the river Czarny Czeremosz, which is the tributary to the Prut. In 1918-1939 it belonged to Poland and was located in Stanislawòw Voivodeship, in the Kosow county. Back then, Zabie was one of main tourist centers of the country, attracting people from as far away as England. It was also the biggest rural community in Poland (in terms of territory).

Unfortunately, after years of Soviet rules, the village itself does not resemble a picturesque mountain spa from the 1930s. There is an interesting Orthodox church, a Hutsul museum in Ilce and a Polish cemetery with monuments of soldiers of Polish Border Patrol who died while protecting the pre-1939 border. Also, one should pay a visit to the museum of Roman Kumluk.

Currently, Werchowyna is located in the Ivano-Frankivsk oblast. It still is a center of Ukrainian tourism