Spas () is a village in

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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, located in

Kalush Raion Kalush 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 the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Ivan ...

. It is the administrative centre of Spas rural hromada. Its population is 1,820 ().

History

The village of Spas was first mentioned in 1469. Two

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were built in the village in the 18th century, one of which (the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord, built in 1752) has survived to the present day. In 1939, according to

Volodymyr Kubijovyč Volodymyr Kubijovyč (also spelled Kubiiovych or Kubiyovych; ; 23 September 1900 – 2 November 1985) was an anthropological geographer in prewar Poland, a wartime Ukrainian nationalist politician, a Nazi collaborator and a post-war émigré in ...

, the village had a population of 2,750; 2,650 of these people were

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, 40 were

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, 40 were

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, and the remaining 20 were

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and of other ethnicities. A monument to five

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soldiers who were killed in the village was erected in 2019. Спас 1 30.jpg, Church of the Transfiguration Спас 1 24.jpg, Ceiling Спас 1 2.jpg, Bell tower

Notable residents

* , Soviet soldier accidentally not conferred

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due to an administrative error, later posthumously declared a

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References

Villages in Kalush Raion Populated places established in 1710 {{IvanoFrankivsk-geo-stub