Ostriv, Ternopil Oblast
Ostriv (Ukrainian: Острів) is a village in Velyka Berezovytsia settlement hromada, Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.
History
The first written mention of the village was in 1581.
Religion
- St. Michael's church (1878–1881, brick, painted by Kornylo Ustyianovych; damaged during World War I, rebuilt in 1935).
Famous people
- Myron Korduba (1876–1947), Ukrainian historian, professor of the history of Ukraine at the Warsaw University Faculty of Humanities in 1929–1939; and author of biographies of famous Ukrainians in the Polish Biographical Dictionary (PSB)
- Dmytro Pidruchnyi (born 1991), Ukrainian biathlete
References
- ^ "Великоберезовицька територіальна громада". Децентралізація.
- ^ (in Ukrainian) Уніят-Карпович, В., Острів // Ternopil region. History of cities and villages: in 3 v. / Ternopil: "Terno-graph", 2014, V. 3: М—Ш, S. 405—407. — ISBN 978-966-457-246-7.
Sources
- (in Ukrainian) Мельничук Б., Уніят В., Шикірява О., Острів // Ternopil Encyclopedic Dictionary: in 4 v. / editorial board: H. Yavorskyi and other, Ternopil: "Zbruch", 2005, V. 2: К—О, S. 695—696. — ISBN 966-528-199-2.
- "Ostrów (20)". Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (in Polish). 7. Warszawa: Kasa im. Józefa Mianowskiego. 1886. p. 707.
— S. 707–708.
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