Polivtsi, Ternopil Oblast

Polivtsi (Ukrainian: Полівці) is a village in Ukraine, Ternopil Oblast, Chortkiv Raion, Bilobozhnytsia rural hromada.[1]

Polivtsi
Полівці
Polivtsi is located in Ternopil Oblast
Polivtsi
Polivtsi
Location in Ternopil Oblast
Coordinates: 49°0′18″N 25°34′48″E
Country Ukraine
Oblast Ternopil Oblast
RaionChortkiv Raion
HromadaBilobozhnytsia Hromada
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
48531

History

The first written mention dates from 1536.[2]

Religion

  • Saint Nicholas church (OCU, 1884)[2]
  • Saint Nicholas church (UGCC, converted from the RCC church in 2000)[2]

People

  • Myroslav Motiuk (born 1950), Ukrainian doctor, lawyer, businessman, public figure[2]
  • Isydor Nahaievskyi (1908-1989), participant of the national liberation struggle, leading specialist in the manufacture of missile weapons in the US Department of Defense, dean of New York University, author of scientific works[2]
  • Vasyl Pohoretskyi (born 1954), Ukrainian publicist, writer, Doctor of Theology and Candidate of Historical Sciences[2]
  • Volodymyr Pohoretskyi (born 1967), Ukrainian writer, editor, public figure[2]
  • Nestor Chyr (1938–2014), Ukrainian poet, publicist, oilman (resettled in 1945 with his family to Ternopil Oblast during the deportation of Ukrainians from Poland and Poles from Ukraine)[2]

References

  1. Білобожницька територіальна громада, Децентралізація
  2. (in Ukrainian) Б. Мельничук, В. Уніят, М. Федечко, Полівці // Ternopil region. History of cities and villages: in 3 v. / Ternopil: "Terno-graph", 2014, V. 3: М—Ш, S. 493—494. — ISBN 978-966-457-246-7.
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