THE PLACE WHERE MYKHALKOVA'S HOUSE WAS STANDING
The place where Mykhalkova's House was standing – the first house in the village of Urich for the participants of the Carpathian Architectural and Archaeological Expeditions of 1981, 1982, 1984, 1987.
Mykhailo Rozhko began studying the Tustan fortress in 1971. At first he searched for information in libraries and archives, later he took photographs, sketches and architectural measurements of traces on the rocks. And in 1978, he organized regular historical and ethnographic expeditions and archeological excavations in Tustan and Urich, in which the Lviv intelligentsia actively participated.
In 1982, the Carpathian Architectural and Archaeological Expedition of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine was established on the initiative of Mykhailo Rozhko. It allowed launching a systematic study of the unique monument complex. In addition to conducting field research on an unknown page of Ukrainian history, expeditions began to serve as an informal club of national-patriotic education. Scholars, graduate students, students and just enthusiasts of history and archaeology considered it an honour to join Rozhko’s team. For many of them, working in Tustan determined their future.
“Only mothers with children spent the night in the house, all the other expedition members slept in the stable in the hay. We woke up very early to start working before the heat. Those on duty had to wake up the earliest. In order not to oversleep, they set an alarm. And there were several cases when a sleepy person on duty turned the alarm clock awkwardly, and it fell into the hay, continuing to ring annoyingly. So now the whole expedition had to get up and look for an alarm clock”, - recalls Hanna, Mykhailo Rozhko's wife.