Boyko traditions

State enterprise "Ukrainian Studio of Television Films "Ukrtelefilm", 1995.

The documentary film "Boykos" is dedicated to the ethnographic group of Ukrainians living in the Carpathians; the film tells about their history, traditions and prominent cultural figures who come from this ethnic group.

On the video: Boyko Christmas traditions, prayer, decorating the house, bringing in the didukh; Boyko history; musicians performing folk music, landscapes of the Carpathians; comments by historians and ethnographers; a story about beliefs, features of the Christian rite of the Boykos; pottery and woodworking; The first Boyko festivals in the city of Turka.

Comments by Doctor of Historical Sciences, Director of the Lviv Institute of Ethnology Stepan Pavlyuk.

Reference: Boykos are an ethnographic group of Ukrainians who historically live in the central part of the Ukrainian Carpathians. They have preserved distinctive features of traditional material and spiritual culture: wooden sacral architecture of the tripartite type, original structure, archaic wedding and calendar rites, polyphonic choral singing and specific dialects with characteristic linguistic features. In the traditional economy of the Boykos, mountain cattle breeding, agriculture, forestry and salt production played a leading role. Today, their cultural heritage is an important component of the regional identity of the Carpathians.