Kachanivka () is a

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History

The first written mention of the village was in 1546. After the liquidation of the

Pidvolochysk Raion Pidvolochysk Raion () was a raion (district) in Ternopil Oblast in western Ukraine. Its capital (political), administrative center was the urban-type settlement of Pidvolochysk. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative ...

on 19 July 2020, the village became part of the Ternopil Raion.Постанова Верховної Ради України від 17 липня 2020 року № 807-IX
Про утворення та ліквідацію районів

Religion

* St. Michael church (1863, brick, OCU and UGCC), * St. Michael church (1798, reconstructed in 1920 and 1991, RCC).

Notable residents

* Casimir Zeglen (1869–1910), Polish Catholic priest who invented a silk bulletproof vest in the late 19th century The composer, conductor, and public figure

Ostap Nyzhankivsky Ostap Yosypovych Nyzhankivsky ( and ; 24 January 1863 – 22 May 1919) was a Ukrainian writer and cleric, a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, composer, conductor, and public figure. Life Ostap Nyzhankivsky was born in the vill ...

i served as the village's parish priest; in 1898 and 1913

Ivan Franko Ivan Yakovych Franko (, ; 27 August 1856 – 28 May 1916) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, translator, economist, political activist, doctor of philosophy, ethnographer, and the author of the first d ...

visited the village.

References

Sources

* * Pidvolochysk settlement hromada Villages in Ternopil Raion {{TernopilRaion-geo-stub