Duba ( uk, Дуба) is a village in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast,

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, located in

Kalush Raion Kalush Raion ( uk, Ка́луський райо́н, translit=Kalushsky raion) is a raion (district) of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (province). The city of Kalush is the administrative center of the raion. Population: . On 18 July 2020, as part of ...

. It is the centre of the Duba rural hromada.

History

The village of Duba was founded in 1535. Its residents participated in the 1648 Khmelnytsky Uprising. The Saint Nicholas Church of Duba, a wooden church, was first mentioned in 1685, and was also mentioned as part of the

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in 1708. Under the

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it was part of the

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, but it is today owned by the

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Demographics

In 1939, Duba had a population of 1,470. Of these, 1,440 were

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, 10 were

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, and another 20 were Latynnyky, a

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subgroup of Ukrainians. In the 1989 Soviet census Duba had a population of 1,269. This number dropped to 1,138 by the

2001 Ukrainian census The Ukrainian Census of 2001 is to date the only census of the population of independent Ukraine. It was conducted by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on 5 December 2001, twelve years after the last Soviet Union census in 1989.

. According to the 2001 census, 99.74% of the population spoke Ukrainian, while the remaining 0.17% spoke

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Notable residents

* {{ill, Svitlana Blonska, uk, Блонська Світлана Іванівна, Ukrainian poet

References

Villages in Kalush Raion