The pass is located in the Carpathian Mountains just where the oblasts of Lviv and Transcarpathia meet, on the spine of the Northeastern Carpathians, between the Latorica (or Latorytsia) and Opir river valleys and at the river divide or watershed between the Latorytsia and the Stryi.

In 895 the Hungarian tribes entered the Carpathian Basin and during the next century established the Kingdom of Hungary.

[1] In 1914 during the First World War the pass saw heavy fighting between Austrian-Hungarian troops and those of Tsarist Russia.

During World War II the pass was the scene of further battles; the remains of the defensive fortifications of the Árpád Line can still be seen today.

The monument was designed by Hungarian sculptor Péter Matl (Петро Матл) who was born in Mukachevo.