Lanchyn (; ; ; ) is a rural settlement in

Nadvirna Raion Nadvirna Raion () is a raion (district) of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (region). The town of Nadvirna is the administrative center of the raion. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of I ...

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (), also referred to as Ivano-Frankivshchyna () or simply Frankivshchyna, is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (region) in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Ivano-Frankivsk. It has a pop ...

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. It hosts the administration of Lanchyn settlement hromada, one of the

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s of Ukraine. Its population was

Location

Lanchyn is located on the

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about 42 kilometers south of

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and 16 kilometers southeast of

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History

''Łanczyn'', as it was known in Polish, formed part of the

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until the

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, when it was annexed by

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. It was part of

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or Austrian Poland until 1918. After the end of

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Łanczyn became again part of Poland, within which it was administratively located in the Nadwórna County in the

Stanisławów Voivodeship Stanisławów Voivodeship () was an administrative district of the interwar Poland (1920–1939). It was established in December 1920 with an administrative center in Stanisławów. The voivodeship had an area of 16,900 km2 and comprised twe ...

. Following the joint German-Soviet

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, which started

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in September 1939, Łanczyn was first occupied by the Soviet Union. In 1940 it became an urban-type settlement. From 1941 to 1944, it was occupied by

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and administered within the

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. In 1944, it was re-occupied by the Soviet Union, and eventually annexed from Poland in 1945. In 1945–1947, expelled

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from Lanchyn settled in the villages of

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and Olszyny. Postwar, Lanchyn was briefly the center of the raion. Until 26 January 2024, Lanchyn was designated

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. On this day, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Lanchyn became a rural settlement.

Notable people

* Zbigniew Horbowy (1935–2019), Polish glass artist * Mykhajlo Levitsky (1774–1858), Metropolitan of Lviv

References

{{Authority control Populated places on the Prut Rural settlements in Nadvirna Raion Historic Jewish communities in Ukraine Holocaust locations in Ukraine