Castle on a small street, you can go down to the former building of the Greek Catholic Monastery of the Order of the Great sv.Vasiliya. This - the first five-storey building of Uzhgorod. It was built in 1912 four-story, and eventually completed and the fifth floor. It is built mainly from donations that have made Transcarpathia-workers who had returned from America. The monastery was founded a hostel for students in urban schools, so they could learn from the peasants' children. In 1925 here was established a printing house, which has issued about half a million copies of religious and educational literature in Ukrainian. In 1937, the monastery opened a classical school in the Ukrainian language learning, the main purpose of which is announced nurture a new generation of conscious agents, who never betray their faith and their people. Now here the physical and biological faculty UzhNU, as well as unique zoomuzey - one of the richest in the country. It exhibits 5500 - Transcarpathian whole fauna, as well as representatives of the animal kingdom all over the world. It also houses the largest collection of Ukrainian birds of prey, which is a half-century ornithologist Alexander Grabar collected. Interesting background of this case. When something in its place stood a small church built in the XVIII century, Orthodox Greeks, Elina Uzhgorod. Nevertheless, the community gradually declined. The last Orthodox priest there was a Serb, Svetozar Bolyarich. The church wanted to buy a Lutheran, but sold it to the Orthodox Greek Catholics, since the temple was built to service the Eastern rite. Order Vasiliyan built a monastery near the temple. The church was repaired later Bokshay J. painting done there, "Basil the Great - the founder of monasticism." Under Soviet rule the church was closed, its tower demolished. The temple was turned into a warehouse, and eventually opened here the audience.