Vytvytsia

Vytvytsia

Витвиця
Vytvytsia Витвиця
village
	The headquarters of Vytvytsia village council
	Coat of arms
	Vytvytsia Location of Vytvytsia in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Vytvytsia Location of Vytvytsia in Ukraine
	Coordinates: 48°59′26″N 23°50′38″E / 48.99056°N 23.84389°E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Raion	Kalush Raion
First mentioned	1397
Population	1,255

Vytvytsia (Ukrainian: Витвиця; Polish: Witwica) is a village in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine, in Kalush Raion. It is the administrative centre of Vytvytsia rural hromada. Its population is 1,255 (as of 2023^[update]).^[1]

History

Vytvytsia was first mentioned in 1397, in a document by Władysław II Jagiełło.^[2] In 1939 the village had 1,690 residents (1,640 Ukrainians, 20 Polish people, 20 Jews, and 10 Latynnyky), according to Volodymyr Kubijovyč.^[3]

There are two churches in the town; the wooden Church of Saint Ivan the Theologian (Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church)^[4] and the brick Church of Apostle Andrew the First-Called (Orthodox Church of Ukraine).^[5]

Pavlo Vytvytskyi [uk], Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest and Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists politician
Stepan Volkovetskyi [uk], Ukrainian diplomat and politician, People's Deputy of Ukraine
Zenovii Krasivskyi, Ukrainian poet and Soviet dissident, co-founder of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group
Mykhailo Seleshko [uk], Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists politician
Petro Sichko [uk], Ukrainian Insurgent Army soldier and Soviet dissident, member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group
Stepan Yanishevskyi [uk], Ukrainian Insurgent Army commander

^ "Витвицька громада" [Vytvytsia hromada]. gromada.info (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 27 July 2023.
^ "70. Владислав, король польський, дарує своєму слузі Михайлові Волошину село Гошів" [70. Władysław, King of Poland, grants to his servant Mykhailo Voloshyn the village of Hoshiv]. Izbornyk (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
^ Kubijovyč, Volodymyr (1983). Етнічні групи південнозахідньої України (Галичини) на 1.1.1939 [Ethnic groups of the South-Western Ukraine (Halyčyna - Galicia) 1.1.1939] (in Ukrainian). Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz. p. 23. ISBN 3-447-02376-7.
^ "Витвиця" [Vytvytsia]. Wooden Churches of Western Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 27 July 2023.
^ "Церква святого апостола Андрія первозванного" [Church of Apostle Andrew the First-Called]. Orthodox in Prykarpattia (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 27 July 2023.