The ruins of the Khust Castle - in 1191 the Hungarian kings finished building a fortress, the construction of which took more than a hundred years.

In 1766, during a major thunderstorm over Khust, lightning struck the castle's powder tower and lit it, causing much of the fortress to be destroyed.

(1281), when brothers Mikó and Csépán of the Hont-Pázmány kindred on the lands donated to them by the Hungarian king Ladislaus IV built an earthen fort on Mount Var-Ged (height 589 m).

After the collapse of Austria-Hungary in the fall of 1918 many Transcarpathians expressed their desire to join Ukraine, and this was clearly stated at the congress in the small town of Khust, January 21, 1919.

It was proclaimed a new state formation - Carpathian Ukraine with a center in the city of Khust, and its first president was Augustine Voloshin.