|
Yamnytsia Rural Hromada
Yamnytsia ( uk, Ямниця, pl, Jamnica) is a village of Ivano-Frankivsk Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine, just few miles north from Ivano-Frankivsk. It hosts the administration of Yamnytsia rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The village is better known for the Battle of Yamnytsia during the Kerensky Offensive, when the Russian Imperial Army successfully secured area north of Stanislau for a brief period of time (June 27–July 6, 1917). During the battle, all the Kornilov Strike regiment soldiers were awarded the Cross of St. George. Until 18 July 2020, Yamnytsia belonged to Tysmenytsia Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast to six. The area of Tysmenytsia Raion was merged into Ivano-Frankivsk Raion. Today the village is better known for the chemical factory Barva that was built in 1975 as a factory of fine organic syntheses. Yamnytsia is con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uhryniv, Tysmenytsia Raion
Uhryniv ( uk, Угринів, pl, Uhrynów) is a village in Ivano-Frankivsk Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. The village is located just outside the Ivano-Frankivsk city municipality to its north-west. The village is part of its own rural commune, the Uhryniv village council (silrada). It hosts the administration of Uhryniv rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. There are over 3,000 residents. Until 18 July 2020, Uhryniv belonged to Tysmenytsia Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast to six. The area of Tysmenytsia Raion was merged into Ivano-Frankivsk Raion. The village is located at the intersection of the Halych highway and Kalush highway. Some commuter trains also stop at the railway station. The village is first mentioned in the 13th century. Two rivers flow through Uhryniv: the Potik Potik ( uk, Потік) is a village in the Kozova hromada of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kolodiivka, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Kolodiivka ( uk, Колодіївка, pl, Kołodziejówka) is a village in Ivano-Frankivsk Raion (district) of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in western Ukraine. It belongs to Ivano-Frankivsk urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The village's population was 571 as of the 2001 Ukrainian census. The settlement was first founded in the 12th century as Fedkovo ( uk, Федьково); in 1466, the village was renamed to its current name, Kolodiivka. It is located in the northern portion of the oblast on the Bystrytsia Solotvynska River at an elevation of . The village maintains its own local government as the Kolodiivka Village Council ( uk, Колодіївська сільська рада), which consists of 16 locally elected deputies. Until 18 July 2020, Kolodiivka belonged to Tysmenytsia Raion Tysmenytsia Raion ( uk, Ти́сменицький райо́н, translit=Tysmenyćkyj rajon) was an raion, administrative raion (raion, district) of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (oblas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bystrytsia River
The Bystrytsia ( uk, Бистриця; pl, Bystrzyca) is a river, a right tributary of the Dniester which flows through Ivano-Frankivsk Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. Bystrytsia river is formed by confluence of '' Bystrytsia of Solotvyn'' and '' Bystrytsia of Nadvirna''. Formation and course The ''Bystrytsia-Nadvirnyanska'', a typical mountain river; in its lower course ''(Subcarpathia)'', a river of the plains, has a length of and a drainage basin of , and the ''Bystrytsia-Solotvynska'' half has a length of and a drainage basin of . Both of the branches, typical mountain rivers, of the Bystrytsia river take their sourch in the '' Gorgany Mountains'' of the Carpathian mountain range in the Ukrainian province of Ivano-Frankivsk. With the city of Ivano-Frankivsk, the administrative center of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, the two branches merge, and then flow south of Halych near the town of Yezupil, where the river finally flows into the Dniester. The name, ''Bystrytsia'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yezupil
Yezupil ( uk, Єзупіль; pl, Jezupol) is an urban-type settlement in western Ukraine. It is located in Ivano-Frankivsk Raion (district) of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (region), approximately north of the administrative center of the oblast, Ivano-Frankivsk. Yezupil hosts the administration of Yezupil settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: History Yezupil was previously referred to as part of the Halych Powiat (county). It is also a part of the historic region of Pokuttya in Galicia. At the turn of the century, town Jezupol (former Zhovten) was a fair size town (with its own Jewish Kahil and Roman Catholic Church and Greek Catholic Church) in Galicia/Halychyna in Austro-Hungarian Empire. It is approximately 7 km from Halych, the former capital of the Principality of Halych Volhynia in the 10/12th centuries. In 1352 – 1772 it was a part of Ruthenia Voivodeship in the Kingdom of Poland. First mentioned in 1435 as Cheshybisy ( pl, Czesybie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tysmenytsia Raion
Tysmenytsia Raion ( uk, Ти́сменицький райо́н, translit=Tysmenyćkyj rajon) was an raion, administrative raion (raion, district) of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (oblast, province) in western Ukraine. It was created on December 8, 1966, as Ivano-Frankivsk Raion. Since March 28, 1982 the name of raion was changed to Tysmenytsia when the administrative center of it became the city of Tysmenytsia. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Oblast to six. The area of Tysmenytsia Raion was merged into Ivano-Frankivsk Raion. The last estimate of the raion population was . Subdivisions At the time of disestablishment, the raion consisted of six hromadas: * Lysets settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Lysets; * Tysmenytsia urban hromada with the administration in Tysmenytsia; * Uhryniv rural hromada with the administration in the Village ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivano-Frankivsk Raion
Ivano-Frankivsk Raion ( uk, Івано-Франківський район, translit=Ivano-Frankiwśkyj rajon) is a raion (district) of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine. It was created in July 2020 as part of the reform of administrative divisions of Ukraine. The center of the raion is the city of Ivano-Frankivsk. Five abolished raions, Bohorodchany, Halych, Rohatyn, Tlumach, and Tysmenytsia Raions, as well as Ivano-Frankivsk and Burshtyn Municipalities, were merged into Ivano-Frankivsk Raion. Population: Subdivisions At the time of establishment, the raion consisted of 20 hromadas: * Bilshivtsi settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Bilshivtsi, transferred from Halych Raion; * Bohorodchany settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Bohorodchany, transferred from Bohorodchany Raion; * Bukachivtsi settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Bukachivtsi, transferred from Rohatyn Raio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cross Of St
A cross is a geometrical figure consisting of two intersecting lines or bars, usually perpendicular to each other. The lines usually run vertically and horizontally. A cross of oblique lines, in the shape of the Latin letter X, is termed a saltire in heraldic terminology. The cross has been widely recognized as a symbol of Christianity from an early period.''Christianity: an introduction'' by Alister E. McGrath 2006 pages 321-323 However, the use of the cross as a religious symbol predates Christianity; in the ancient times it was a pagan religious symbol throughout Europe and western Asia. The effigy of a man hanging on a cross was set up in the fields to protect the crops. It often appeared in conjunction with the female-genital circle or oval, to signify the sacred marriage, as in Egyptian amulet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Imperial Army
The Imperial Russian Army (russian: Ру́сская импера́торская а́рмия, tr. ) was the armed land force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian Army consisted of more than 900,000 regular soldiers and nearly 250,000 irregulars (mostly Cossacks). Precursors: Regiments of the New Order Russian tsars before Peter the Great maintained professional hereditary musketeer corps known as '' streltsy''. These were originally raised by Ivan the Terrible; originally an effective force, they had become highly unreliable and undisciplined. In times of war the armed forces were augmented by peasants. The regiments of the new order, or regiments of the foreign order (''Полки нового строя'' or ''Полки иноземного строя'', ''Polki novovo (inozemnovo) stroya''), was the Russian term that was used to describe military units that were formed in the Tsardom of Russ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
