Pylypets ( uk, Пилипець) is a village located in

Khust Raion Khust Raion ( uk, Хустський район, hu, Huszti járás) is a raion in Zakarpattia Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is Khust, which does not belong to the district and is incorporated separately as a city of oblas ...

of Zakarpattia Oblast in Ukraine.

History

Pylypets was first mentioned in Hungarian written sources in 1463 under the name of Verelepets, which was founded by fugitive settlers from lower-lying villages who wanted to escape persecution by their feudal lords. According to legend, the current name of the village derives from a shepherd named Philip, who first settled here. Before 1919, the village was located in the Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen of the

Austro-Hungarian Empire Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire,, the Dual Monarchy, or Austria, was a constitutional monarchy and great power in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. It was formed with the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of ...

. During World War I, in October 1914, the village was briefly occupied by the

Imperial Russian 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 Ar ...

. After the war, it was briefly part of the Hungarian Soviet Republic. At the beginning of April 1919, a Soviet Council was elected in Pylynka, which, however, only existed until the village was taken by Romanian troops during the Hungarian–Romanian War at the end of the month. After the Paris Peace Conference, the village was annexed by Czechoslovakia as part of

Subcarpathian Ruthenia Carpathian Ruthenia ( rue, Карпатьска Русь, Karpat'ska Rus'; uk, Закарпаття, Zakarpattia; sk, Podkarpatská Rus; hu, Kárpátalja; ro, Transcarpatia; pl, Zakarpacie); cz, Podkarpatská Rus; german: Karpatenukrai ...

. On 15 March 1939, the village was occupied by Hungarian troops and annexed by Hungary until it was captured by troops of the

4th Ukrainian Front The 4th Ukrainian Front (Russian: Четвёртый Украинский фронт) was the name of two distinct Red Army strategic army groups that fought on the Eastern Front in World War II. The front was first formed on 20 October 1943, by ...

of the Red Army on 11 October 1944. After World War II, the local area became part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1946 within the Soviet Union. After its dissolution, Pylypets became part of independent Ukraine in 1991. Until 18 July 2020, Pylypets belonged to Mizhhiria Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Zakarpattia Oblast to six. The area of Mizhhiria Raion was merged into Khust Raion.

Demographics

Native language as of the Ukrainian Census of 2001: *

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99.64% * Russian 0.36%

Tourism

In Pylypets, there is a winter sports resort with three ski lifts and a total length of more than . The longest descent is at high Hymba (Гимба) and has a length of . During the Summer months, the village is a starting point for hiking tourists and a paragliding center. The eighteenth-century wooden Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary is an architectural monument. In the vicinity of the village is the high

Shypit Shypit ( uk, Шипіт; translation as "Sizzle”) is a waterfall located on the Pylypets River, about from the village of Pylypets, Mizhhiria Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast of western Ukraine The waterfall is high. See also The legend of the wa ...

waterfall and a mineral water spring with a high iron content, the water of which is suitable for treating heart, vascular and digestive ailments.

References

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