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.
«У хаті ночували лише мами з дітьми, всі інші експедиційники спали в стайні на сіні. Прокидалися дуже рано, щоб почати працювати ще до спеки. Раніше від усіх мусили прокинутися чергові. Щоб не проспати, ставили будильник. Й не один раз бували випадки, коли ще сонний черговий незграбним рухом перевертав будильник, і той падав у сіно, продовжуючи надокучливо дзеленчати. Так що тепер уся експедиція мусила вставати і шукати будильник», — згадує дружина Михайла Рожка Ганна.