Vytvytsia
Vytvytsia (Ukrainian: Витвиця; Polish: Witwica) is a village in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine, in Kalush Raion. It is the administrative centre of Vytvytsia rural hromada. Its population is 1,255 (as of 2023).
History
Vytvytsia was first mentioned in 1397, in a document by Władysław II Jagiełło. In 1939 the village had 1,690 residents (1,640 Ukrainians, 20 Polish people, 20 Jews, and 10 Latynnyky), according to Volodymyr Kubijovyč.
There are two churches in the town; the wooden Church of Saint Ivan the Theologian (Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church) and the brick Church of Apostle Andrew the First-Called (Orthodox Church of Ukraine).
Notable residents
- Pavlo Vytvytskyi, Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest and Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists politician
- Stepan Volkovetskyi, Ukrainian diplomat and politician, People's Deputy of Ukraine
- Zenovii Krasivskyi, Ukrainian poet and Soviet dissident, co-founder of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group
- Mykhailo Seleshko, Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists politician
- Petro Sichko, Ukrainian Insurgent Army soldier and Soviet dissident, member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group
- Stepan Yanishevskyi, Ukrainian Insurgent Army commander
References
- ^ "Витвицька громада" [Vytvytsia hromada]. gromada.info (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 27 July 2023.
- ^ "70. Владислав, король польський, дарує своєму слузі Михайлові Волошину село Гошів" [70. Władysław, King of Poland, grants to his servant Mykhailo Voloshyn the village of Hoshiv]. Izbornyk (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
- ^ Kubijovyč, Volodymyr (1983). Етнічні групи південнозахідньої України (Галичини) на 1.1.1939 [Ethnic groups of the South-Western Ukraine (Halyčyna - Galicia) 1.1.1939] (in Ukrainian). Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz. p. 23. ISBN 3-447-02376-7.
- ^ "Витвиця" [Vytvytsia]. Wooden Churches of Western Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 27 July 2023.
- ^ "Церква святого апостола Андрія первозванного" [Church of Apostle Andrew the First-Called]. Orthodox in Prykarpattia (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 27 July 2023.