The house my parents lived in, this house, is up above Rakhiv, said to be the highest city in the western Ukraine. Rakhiv (Ukrainian: Рахів, Hungarian: Rahó; Romanian: Rahău) is a city located in Zakarpattia Oblast (province) in western Ukraine. Part of the historical region of Hutsulshchyna, it is the administrative center of Rakhiv Raion (district). Population: 15,536 (2022 estimate).
Located on the Tysa river, Rakhiv, or more precisely, the nearby village of Dilove, is one of several European locations vying for the symbolic right to be Geographical centre of Europe. The sign in Dilove, the point calculated in 1887 by the Austro-Hungarian geographers, carries a Latin inscription: "Locus Perennis Dilicentissime cum libella librationis quae est in Austria et Hungaria confectacum mensura gradum meridionalium et paralleloumierum Europeum. MD CCC LXXXVII."
There was Thomas Garrigue Masaryk in his stay to study a situation on the Romanian front during World War I in Hotel "Ukraina" on the winter 1917 - 1918, which remind the memorial desk there.
The Headquarters of Carpathian Biosphere Reserve are located in Rakhiv. With an elevation of 430 meters above sea level, Rakhiv is Ukraine's highest city.
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