Pop Ivan

Pip Ivan from the east from the summit of the massif Farcău

Pip Ivan (Ukrainian Піп Іван - also Піп Іван Чорногорський / Pip Ivan Tschornohorski; Russian Поп Иван / Pop Ivan - Pop called " priest " ) is 2022 m after Howerla and Brebeneskul the third highest mountain in the Chornohora Mountains in the Eastern Carpathians in western Ukraine.

Over the hill was in the interwar period the Polish- Czechoslovak border. In the war and the early postwar period, there was fighting between various Polish organizations of the Polish Armed Forces or of the Armia Krajowa on the one hand and on the other side of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.

At the summit, still stand the ruins of the Polish period 1936-1938 built observatory.

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