Polivtsi, Ternopil Oblast
Polivtsi (Ukrainian: Полівці) is a village in Ukraine, Ternopil Oblast, Chortkiv Raion, Bilobozhnytsia rural hromada.
History
The first written mention dates from 1536.
Religion
- Saint Nicholas church (OCU, 1884)
- Saint Nicholas church (UGCC, converted from the RCC church in 2000)
People
- Myroslav Motiuk (born 1950), Ukrainian doctor, lawyer, businessman, public figure
- Isydor Nahaievskyi (1908-1989), participant of the national liberation struggle, leading specialist in the manufacture of missile weapons in the US Department of Defense, dean of New York University, author of scientific works
- Vasyl Pohoretskyi (born 1954), Ukrainian publicist, writer, Doctor of Theology and Candidate of Historical Sciences
- Volodymyr Pohoretskyi (born 1967), Ukrainian writer, editor, public figure
- Nestor Chyr (1938–2014), Ukrainian poet, publicist, oilman (resettled in 1945 with his family to Ternopil Oblast during the deportation of Ukrainians from Poland and Poles from Ukraine)
References
- ^ Білобожницька територіальна громада, Децентралізація
- ^ (in Ukrainian) Б. Мельничук, В. Уніят, М. Федечко, Полівці // Ternopil region. History of cities and villages: in 3 v. / Ternopil: "Terno-graph", 2014, V. 3: М—Ш, S. 493—494. — ISBN 978-966-457-246-7.
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