Kolomyja

This section collects view postcards of Kolomyja through 1991. The city on the Prut River in Prykarpattia is known for Hutsul culture; the cards record its appearance in 1959 and 1987 series.
Subjects from 1959 include the former town hall, the Komsomolets cinema, the Hutsulshchyna Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz monument, Lenin Square, Secondary School No. 1, Stalin Street, and the road toward Stanislaviv (now Ivano-Frankivsk).
The 1987 series shows the railway station, the Kolomyja department store, the wedding palace, the district communications hub, the House of Culture, Secondary School No. 9, the monument to artist Myroslav Irvan, and a memorial at a mass grave in Rakivets (Rakushka) village.
Dates and captions are useful for collectors and urban historians of Prykarpattia. The catalogue is expanded with new views of Kolomyja; browse the current cards and compare them with other Ukrainian cities in the Old Postcards archive.