Kryivka — cacheron is an interesting tourist object, which does not depend on the time of year, the presence or absence of snow, is located in Slavske on Sechevykh Streltsov Street, house number 2. Carpathian Museum of the liberation struggle of Ukraine Yuriy Nikolsky. Sometimes a dozen excursion groups can visit this institution in a day.
The owner himself calls his «brainchild» modestly — a collection, because in the placement of exhibits does not observe the canons of the museum business. Mr. Yuri does not take money for visiting and asks that the guides, who bring tourists here, include his museum in the program free of charge for excursionists. Nikolsky’s «Gathering» is housed in two small houses. Two-thirds of the exhibits are military-themed: orders, helmets, sabers, rifles, shell casings (the largest is from an Austrian mortar of 30.5 centimeter caliber), assault rifles, etc. «Peaceful» exposition of books (in the place of honor — rare «Kobzar» editions 1862, 1907 and 1912), a variety of tools, medallions, cups-knives-forks, a bucket of buttons, etc.. Many original underground publications of the UPA and among them a self-published obituary on the death of Roman Shukhevych.
The theme of the liberation struggle is so close to Yuriy Nikolskiy that he built his own kryivka in the yard. Excursion to it the owner usually began with an unexpected tirade. «Comrade Colonel, within a radius of five meters discovered a bunker gang of bourgeois nationalists. Try to find it «, — with a trick asked Yuri, pretending to be a fighter special unit of the NKVD. (Indeed, it is not easy to find, especially if you know almost nothing about the UPA). Then Mr. Yuri (now in the role of an underground fighter) approached the masonry with firewood and quietly said: «Stepan, Stepan — it’s me». A small section of the masonry turns out to be a door, somewhere in the hiding place is the key. «Come in.» In the kryivka almost everything is reproduced as it was in reality: a well, a stove, a radio and a walkie-talkie, weapons, a typewriter, gas masks, maps and many other necessary things. All the exhibits here are originals. Only the figures of Roman Shukhevych, Vasily Kuk and the radio operator are moulages. Yuri Nikolsky said that this excursion often makes a great impression on foreign tourists, especially Germans and Frenchmen, and a group of women teachers from Donetsk once said goodbye to the owner of the museum, saying with a chorus: «She is not dead and not dead!»…..