Ostriv (Ukrainian: Острів) is a village in Velyka Berezovytsia settlement hromada, Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.[1]
Ostriv
Острів | |
|---|---|
  Ostriv Location in Ternopil Oblast | |
| Coordinates: 49°29′15″N 25°34′51″E / 49.48750°N 25.58083°E | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast | Ternopil Oblast |
| Raion | Ternopil Raion |
| Hromada | Velyka Berezovytsia settlement hromada |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Postal code | 47728 |
History
editThe first written mention of the village was in 1581.[2]
Religion
edit- St. Michael's church (1878–1881, brick, painted by Kornylo Ustyianovych; damaged during World War I, rebuilt in 1935).[2]
Famous people
edit- Myron Korduba (1876–1947), Ukrainian historian, professor of the history of Ukraine at the Warsaw University Faculty of Humanities in 1929–1939; and author of biographies of famous Ukrainians in the Polish Biographical Dictionary (PSB)
- Dmytro Pidruchnyi (born 1991), Ukrainian biathlete
References
edit- ^ "Великоберезовицька територіальна громада". Децентралізація.
- ^ a b (in Ukrainian) Уніят-Карпович, В., Острів // Ternopil region. History of cities and villages: in 3 v. / Ternopil: "Terno-graph", 2014, V. 3: М—Ш, S. 405—407. — ISBN 978-966-457-246-7.
Sources
edit- (in Ukrainian) Мельничук Б., Уніят В., Шикірява О., Острів // Ternopil Encyclopedic Dictionary: in 4 v. / editorial board: H. Yavorskyi and other, Ternopil: "Zbruch", 2005, V. 2: К—О, S. 695—696. — ISBN 966-528-199-2.
- "Ostrów (20)". Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (in Polish). 7. Warszawa: Kasa im. Józefa Mianowskiego. 1886. p. 707.
— S. 707–708.
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