Pererisl
Pererisl (Ukrainian: Перерісль; Polish: Przerośl) is a village in Nadvirna Raion, in the western Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast of Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of Pererisl rural hromada.
History
Pererisl was first mentioned in a 1424 document in which the village's chieftain, Khodko Holovachyn, sold half the village to his brother for 30 silver grivnas. In 1939, the village had a population of 1,980 people, including 1,660 Ukrainian Greek Catholics, 280 Ukrainian Roman Catholics, 20 Polish people, and 20 Jews.
Residents of the village participated in anti-Soviet resistance by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, raising the flag of Ukraine in the village centre on 31 October 1953.
Notable residents
- Ihor Boichuk , Ukrainian journalist
- Mykola Ersteniuk , Austrian-Ukrainian jurist and soldier in the Imperial-Royal Landwehr and Ukrainian Galician Army
- Antin Kobylianskyi , Ukrainian writer
- Fedir Mykytyshyn , Ukrainian Insurgent Army commander
- Omelian Reviuk , Ukrainian-American journalist