ПРІОРИТЕТНІ ПЛОЩИНИ УКРАЇНСЬКО-ПОЛЬСЬКОЇ СПІВПРАЦІ З ГЕОГРАФІЇ ТА ТУРИЗМУ В СУЧАСНИХ УМОВАХ

Abstract

The article deals with new directions of Ukrainian-Polish cooperation in the field of tourism, on an example of the reconstruction of a high mountains observatory in the Carpathians and the use of tourist resources of towns – Ukrainian Kamyanets and Polish Tarniv. The Astronomical-Meteorological Observatory was built in the Eastern Carpathians on Mount Pip-Ivan (height 2028 m) in 1938 when the Carpathian region was part of Poland. Another name of the observatory is “White Elephant”, because in the winter under the snow the observatory house resembles the shape of the elephant. Mount Pip-Ivan has a pyramidal shape with the presence of ancient forms of glacial relief, made of sandstone. The observatory was equipped with the most up-to-date scientific equipment, in particular, a telescope, astrograph and refractor of British production. The Observatory was destroyed during the Second World War. Currently, with the joint efforts of Ukraine and Poland, in particular with the participation of the University of Warsaw and the Precarpathian University named after V. Stefanyk in Ivano-Frankivsk the restoration of the observatory is underway, as well as the construction of an International Center for Polish and Ukrainian Students Youth Meetings focusing on research in geography, meteorology, geology, seismology, astronomy and biology. Resource base and tourism development of Ukrainian Kamyanets and Polish Tarniv, which receives annually 4 times more tourists (more than 1 million), are characterized in comparison. Proposals are made for more effective use of the tourist potential of Kamyanets and increase of the number of Ukrainian and foreign tourists there.