Shuryn

Shuryn is a peak in Zelenska Terytorialna Hromada, Verkhovyna Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast and has an elevation of 1,773 metres. Shuryn is situated nearby to the locality Урочище Погорілець Великий, as well as near Ур. Гогодзи.

Photo: MSha, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pip Ivan and ‘The White elephant’ observatory.

Pip Ivan

Peak

Photo: Rafik k, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Pip Ivan is the third highest peak in the Chornohora range, with a height of 2022 meters above sea level. In the interwar period the peak marked the Polish - Czechoslovak, from March 1939 Polish - Hungarian border and numerous skirmishes between OUN and Polish border troops took place in the area.

‘The White elephant’ observatory

Building

Photo: Scythian, CC BY 2.5.

White Elephant is an abandoned campus of the former Polish Astronomical and Meteorological Observatory of University of Warsaw, located at remote area on the peak of Pip Ivan in the Chornohora range of the Carpathian Mountains, Ukraine.

Smotrych

Peak

Photo: MSha, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Smotrych is a 1,898-metre peak located in the Chornohora mountain range of Carpathian Mountains in western Ukraine. It is situated near Dzembronia in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.