Купчинці (Ukrainian: Kupchyntsi) is a village in Kupchyntsi rural hromada, Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.[1]

History

The first written mention dates back to 1312.[2]

In the village there was also a castle built in the 17th century, which has not survived to this day.[2]

After the liquidation of the Kozova Raion on 19 July 2020, the village became part of the Ternopil Raion.[3]

Religion

  • Church of the Presentation of Mary (1899, stone, UGCC)[2]

Monuments

  • Mass grave of the Fighters for the Freedom of Ukraine (1991)[2]
  • monuments to Ivan Franko (1970, sculpted by Ivan Honchar), soldiers from the same village who died in the German-Soviet war (1970), Pavlo Dumka (1994, sculptor Ivan Muliarchuk)[2]
  • memorial crosses in honor of the abolition of serfdom, the founding of the Brotherhood of Sobriety (1878)[2]
  • a garden to the fallen participants of Euromaidan (2014, "Garden of the Nebesna Sotnia")[2]

Notable residents

They were born in Kupchyntsi:[2]

  • Ivan Blazhkevych (1881–1945), Ukrainian teacher, cultural and educational activist
  • Illia Blazhkevych (1894–1978), Ukrainian legal scholar
  • Ilko Blazhkevych (1873–1943), Ukrainian conductor, singer, musician
  • Oleksandr Vilchynskyi (b. 1963), Ukrainian writer, journalist
  • Kateryna Danylchyk (b. 1949), Ukrainian teacher, public and political activist
  • Hryhorii Dumka (1882–1951), Ukrainian agricultural scientist
  • Pavlo Dumka (1854–1918), Ukrainian poet, publicist, ambassador (1908–1914) to the Galician Sejm, public figure
  • Olha Zastavetska (1953–2017), Ukrainian geographer and teacher
  • Bohdan Kachun (pseudonyms "Orel," "Borkun," etc.; 1912–1951), Ukrainian participant in the national liberation struggle
  • Mykola Koval (1889–1982), Ukrainian teacher, amateur actor, director
  • Mykola Kosar (pseudonym – Y. Chornobryvyi, cryptic – Y. C.; 1897–1945), Ukrainian amateur poet
  • Mykhailo Kosar (1895–1972), Ukrainian public figure
  • Vasyl Krysa (1904–1969), Ukrainian publicist, poet, cultural and public figure
  • Mike Mazurki (|Mykhailo (Markiian) Mazurkevych; 1907–1990), American film actor and athlete
  • Oleksa Oliinyk (1888–1971), Ukrainian military officer, lawyer, public and political figure
  • Yaroslav Oliinyk (b. 1953), Ukrainian a scientist in the field of economic and social geography
  • Yosyf Paratsii (pseudonym "Petryk"; 1900–1956), Ukrainian military officer, amateur actor and musician
  • Bohdan Pastukh (1924–2009), Ukrainian literary critic, artist, teacher, public figure
  • Ihor Pochynok (b. 1949), Ukrainian athlete, coach (biathlon, cross-country skiing)
  • Boryslav (Borys) Skopivskyi (1931–2007), Ukrainian journalist, editor, writer, teacher, local historian, public figure
  • Ivan Stadnyk (1888–1979), Ukrainian lawyer, publicist
  • Mykola Stadnyk (1879–1947), Ukrainian lawyer, publicist, cultural and educational activist
  • Mykhailo Tsybulko (b. 1949), Ukrainian artist, scholar, teacher
  • Nestor Chornyi (b. 1922), Ukrainian teacher, engineer, local historian, publicist
  • Mykhailo Shkilnyi (b. 1968), Ukrainian economist, public figure
  • Illia Yakymyshyn (1891–1937), Ukrainian lawyer

Ivan Franko visited the village.[2]

In literature

In 2000, Volodymyr Khoma published a book about the village called "Starovynni Kupchyntsi".[2]

References

  1. ^ Купчинецька територіальна громада, Децентралізація
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j (in Ukrainian) М. Косар, В. Хома, М. Федечко, Купчинці // Ternopil region. History of cities and villages: in 3 v. / Ternopil: "Terno-graph", 2014, V. 2: Г—Л, S. 471–473. — ISBN 978-966-457-228-3.
  3. ^ Постанова Верховної Ради України від 17 липня 2020 року № 807-IX "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів"

Sources


Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kupchyntsi
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