The article deals with the Christmas congratulatory rites of the big village on Ukrainian
ethnographical region Bojkivshchyna, such as polaznyk arrival (arrival of the first visitor on Christmas), kolyaduvannya (singing Christmas songs) and vertep (thefolk performance about the Christ birth). The main source of information is the own author"s field research. What puts the article in a class by itself is that it contains not general and well-known, but concrete information about the Christmas congratulatory rituals of only one village. The author places emphasis on a firmness of the Tysiv Christmas customs.
