Vovchynets, Ivano-Frankivsk

Vovchynets (Ukrainian: Вовчинець, Polish: Wołczyniec) is a village in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. It was founded in 1469.

Vovchynets Вовчинець
Village
Vovchynets Location of Vovchynets, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Coordinates: 48°57′06″N 24°44′46″E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
District	Ivano-Frankivsk municipality
Village	est. 1469
Government
• Head of village council	Mykhailo Nazar
Area
• Total	7.89 km^2 (3.05 sq mi)
Elevation	228 m (748 ft)
Population  (2001)
• Total	2,647
• Density	335.7/km^2 (869/sq mi)
Postal code	76491
Area code	380 03422
Website	http://vovchynets.if.ua/

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 30 hectares (74 acres). 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. All of the surrounding villages are part of the Tysmenytsia Raion that surrounds the Ivano-Frankivsk municipality, to which belongs Vovchynets. Until 1952 Vovchynets used border other villages of Knyahynyn and Pasichna that eventually were incorporated into Ivano-Frankivsk.

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 in Prykarpattya. Debenko as a member of the local Ukrainian Radical Party, closely worked with such other Ukrainian personalities as Mykhailo Vytvytsky, Dmytro Vitovsky, and others.
• Myroslav Borysyuk (1912 - 1987), a deputy of Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR, head of the Oblast Department of Education, veteran of the Nazi Germany Armed Forces Halychyna Division, doctor of Classical Philology from the Columbia University (his doctor's dissertation was published in "Newsweek"), awarded a golden medal and a diploma signed by the Pope John Paul II, professor of Harvard University.

References

External links

• Official website of Verkhovna Rada (in Ukrainian), for the explanation on administrative division no English version is available on the website.
• Village website (in Ukrainian)
• History of the village at Historical Prykarpattya website (in Ukrainian)