Vovchynets ( uk, Вовчинець, pl, Wołczyniec) is a village in
Ivano-Frankivsk Raion,
Ukraine
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. It belongs to
Ivano-Frankivsk urban hromada
Ivano-Frankivsk urban territorial hromada ( uk, Івано-Франківська міська територіальна громада, translit=Ivano-Frankivska miska terytorialna hromada) is a hromada located in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in w ...
, one of the
hromada
A hromada ( uk, територіальна громада, lit=territorial community, translit=terytorialna hromada) is a basic unit of administrative division in Ukraine, similar to a municipality. It was established by the Government of Ukra ...
s of Ukraine.
Vovchynets was founded in 1469.
The village is located right next to the city of Ivano-Frankivsk bordering it at the northern side. The village is located at the confluence of three local rivers Bystrytsia of Nadvirna, Bystrytsia of Solotvyn, and Vorona. Another important geographical feature in the vicinity is the Vovchynets Mount. The mount covers an area of . The rivers serve as a natural border for the village at all directions except of southern. Westward of the village across the Bystrytsia of Solotvyn are located villages of
Uhryniv and
Kluziv, eastward across Bystrytsia of Nadvirna and Vorona -
Pidluzhia. A little further to the north is located a village of
Kolodiivka. Until 1952 Vovchynets used to border other villages of Knyahynyn and Pasichna that eventually were incorporated into Ivano-Frankivsk.
Until 18 July 2020, Vovchynets belonged to
Ivano-Frankivsk Municipality
Ivano-Frankivsk Municipality is a former administrative subdivision of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast located within the Tysmenytsia Raion and completely surrounded by that raion. It consisted of the city of Ivano-Frankivsk, the administrative center ...
. The municipality 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 Ivano-Frankivsk Municipality was merged into
Ivano-Frankivsk Raion.
Notable personalities
* Mykhailo Ivanovych Debenko, a political figure of the early 20th century. In 1865 he built a local church that became a cultural benchmark of the village. He also built one of the first monuments of
Taras Shevchenko
Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko ( uk, Тарас Григорович Шевченко , pronounced without the middle name; – ), also known as Kobzar Taras, or simply Kobzar (a kobzar is a bard in Ukrainian culture), was a Ukraine, Ukrainian p ...
in
Prykarpattya. Debenko as a member of the local
Ukrainian Radical Party
The Ukrainian Radical Party, (URP), ( uk, Українська радикальна партія, УPП, ''Ukrajinśka Radykaľna Partija'') founded in October 1890 as Ruthenian-Ukrainian Radical Party and based on the radical movement in wester ...
, closely worked with such other Ukrainian personalities as
Mykhailo Vytvytsky,
Dmytro Vitovsky
Dmytro Vitovsky ( uk, Дмитро Вітовський) (8 November 1887 – 2 or 4 August 1919) was a Ukrainian politician and military leader.
Vitovsky was born into a family of gentry. in the village of Medukha in Galicia (today in Ivano-Fran ...
, and others.
* Myroslav Borysyuk (1912 - 1987), a deputy of
Verkhovna Rada
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ( uk, Верхо́вна Ра́да Украї́ни, translit=, Verkhovna Rada Ukrainy, translation=Supreme Council of Ukraine, Ukrainian abbreviation ''ВРУ''), often simply Verkhovna Rada or just Rada, is the ...
of the
Ukrainian SSR
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...
, head of the Oblast Department of Education, veteran of the
Nazi Germany Armed Forces Halychyna Division, doctor of
Classical Philology
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from the
Columbia University
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(his doctor's dissertation was published in "
Newsweek
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"), awarded a golden medal and a diploma signed by the
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...
, professor of
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
.
References
External links
Official website of Verkhovna Rada, for the explanation on administrative division no English version is available on the website.
Village website
History of the village at Historical Prykarpattya website
{{Ivano-Frankivsk municipality
Ivano-Frankivsk
Villages in Ivano-Frankivsk Raion