“Shipot” considered one of the most beautiful waterfalls in Zakarpat’e. Water in a waterfall hands down numerous picturesque cascades, charming the looks of tourists. Beginning a brook takes on the high Borzhavskikh poloniness. In spring, due to the melted waters, a waterfall is especially beautiful. General height – 14 m

Another feature of waterfall is that he collects for itself one time per a year crowds of people from different countries, due to a festival hippie, conducted from 1993. Other public measures are here conducted, there are a day of children, competition of beauty “miss of Shipot” and the most grandiose event – Bathed celebration of Ivan.

Birth of national natural park “Sinevir” it is related to the unique on the beauty mountain lake. Sinevir – the greatest and one of the most beautiful mountain lakes of Carpathians. Water in a lake is so clean, that it is possible to see a bottom. In 1989 in place of lake the National park Sinevir is created. Arriving here, you will get in the corner of untouched nature, will see beauty of high slender beechs which already a few centuries. It is here possible to meet many types of rare animals, and also to see about 90 types of rare and vanishing plants, added to the red book. The famous spherical bog of Glukhanya beds on territory of park. Not far from a lake on the Black river unique Museum of the forest and alloy is located.

In south-west part of Mukachevo, in the suburb of Palanok, a be single hill costs – castle mountain, crowned by towers once powerful and glorious medieval castle. Much saw the Mukachevskiy caslte on it to age. About a courage and inflexible spirit of castle as early as 17 century with kind regards talked in the capitals of the most states of Europe. For his domain princes and kings conducted a dispute. He purchased and sorrowful fame of the most strict prison of the Austrian empire. And today, converted into an architectural and historical monument, a castle costs above Latoricey, as character of high moral of spirit and talent of the people, as riches of his history and culture.

Did you notice how many English words entered to Ukrainian during the last years?The words «Sponsor, «Consensus», «Mentality» became frequently used in Ukrainian vocabulary.

Someone considers the «Mentality as the total of property of certain nation, others consider as the special determination of signs of nation which shows in periods of historical development. Certainly, every nation has own signs. During the centuries, they aren’t specially changed, as well as the mentality is not changeable.

The greatest sign of Ukrainian mentality development in a history of Ukraine is a period of Zaporizhian Sich, Cossacks, social spirit which is known in a world culture as Cossacks – Christian republic. We delight with heroism of Cossacks, but we can’t forget that Cossacks was peculiar not only heroism such as they are people, which had to live

in time of war

The ceremonies (traditions) are one of the main components of Culture of Ukraine.  They were always different for the originality and the fairy-tale reason. Nowadays some of them are followed. But they are followed in out of the way villages of Ukraine, where signs of civilization and modernization are lacking. Traditions of the Ukrainian people are mainly connected with holidays: New Year, Christmas.

I will tell you about the ceremonies of New Year and Christmas in Ukraine in this publication.

Special attention was paid to the supper at Christmas night, such as rich supper, the wide name of dishes accompanied to sufficiency and wealth of Ukrainian family. Festive supper was implied preparation of 12 dishes, 9 or 7 dishes, where Ukrainian carousing was the main. As the supper began from the peasant ceremonies (reading of prayer) but saved the feature of pagan culture of «fort