The Rocks of Dovbush is a group of natural and man-made structures carved out of rock at around 980 m ASL approximately 3 km from the village Bubnyshche in the

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast ( uk, Іва́но-Франкі́вська о́бласть, translit=Ivano-Frankivska oblast), also referred to as Ivano-Frankivshchyna ( uk, Іва́но-Франкі́вщина), is an administrative divisions of Ukrain ...

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province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''Roman province, provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire ...

) of western

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

. The name of the formations comes from a leader of the opryshky movement,

Oleksa Dovbush Oleksa Dovbush ( uk, Олекса Довбуш) (born 1700, Pechenizhyn Kolomyia— died 24 August 1745) was a famous Ukrainian outlaw, leader of opryshky, who became a folk hero, often compared to Robin Hood. Biography Oleksa was born in the ...

. The rocks are a part of the Polyanytskiy Regional Landscape Park. File:Skeli Dovbusha 1.JPG, Heart of

File:Skeli Dovbusha 2.JPG, Rocks among the trees File:Skeli Dovbusha 4.JPG, Naturally formed lion face File:Skeli Dovbusha 3.JPG, A memorial for climbers File:Поляницький регіональний парк. Скелі Довбуша.jpg

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