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The village of Bukovinka in Transcarpathia is considered the highest mountain settlement in Ukraine. Several dozen of its inhabitants claim to live at an altitude of 1,200 meters. It is not officially confirmed, but Bukovinka is located higher than Lake Synevyr, which is nearby. It lies at an altitude of almost a kilometer. The nearest store or school is five kilometers away through forests and mountains. But local residents say that they do not want to leave their native places. Why? Kateryna Pallag and Viktor Pavlysh learned. #карпати #горы #україна Subscribe to BBC News Ukraine channel: / ukrainianbbc All news: http://bbc.in/1vBFclj We are on social networks: Facebook: / bbcnewsukrainian Twitter: / bbc_ua Twitter in Russian: / bbcukrainian Telegram https://t .me/bbcukrainian Telegram in Russian: https://t.me/bbcnewsukrainian_ru Please keep your posts decency, tact and appropriate. You should not send messages that violate the law, call for harassment or are perceived as harassment, contain threats, insults, defamation, obscenity, misogyny, discrimination based on race or sex, etc. Our pages are read by users of all ages, so please do not use abusive language. Do not send copies of your message or very similar messages multiple times. Do not post from a URL that is not related to the topic of the post. The BBC reserves the right not to publish your comments. If you do not agree with this, please do not send them.