Tovstenke
Товстеньке | |
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  Tovstenke Location in Ternopil Oblast | |
| Coordinates: 49°1′11″N 26°3′46″E / 49.01972°N 26.06278°E | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast |  Ternopil Oblast |
| Raion | Chortkiv Raion |
| Postal code | 48521 |
Tovstenke (Ukrainian: Товстеньке) is a village in Ukraine, Ternopil Oblast, Chortkiv Raion, Kolyndiany rural hromada.[1]
Notable locations
Churches
- Church of the Holy Trinity (1846; UGCC; stone)
- Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (built in the beginning of the XIX century, functioned until 1946)
There are two chapels in the village (1991, 1998).
Monuments
In 1921, on the initiative of о. Ivan Blavatskyi, the first symbolic grave of the fighters for freedom of Ukraine was built; it was restored in 1990.[2]
Monuments were erected to the soldiers-fellow villagers who died in the German-Soviet war, and to Ivan Franko (2004).
Figures of the Mother of God (1864) and crosses in honor of the 50th anniversary of the abolition of serfdom (1848) were installed.
Notable residents
- Yaroslav Bilynskyi (pseudonym "Bystryi", 1921–1946), OUN and UPA activist
- Antin Borsa (1905-1997), Ukrainian priest and educator
- Sydir (Isydor) Holubovych (1875-1938), Ukrainian lawyer, public and political figure
- Taras Demkura (born 1964), Ukrainian entrepreneur, philanthropist, collector, publisher
- Roman Kolisnyk (born 1923) - Ukrainian writer, journalist, manager in Canada
- Yevstakhii Romaniuk (born 1952), Ukrainian doctor, public figure
- Borys Yavorskyi (born 1949), Ukrainian artist
- Franciszek Horodyski (1871-1935), Polish painter
References
- ↑ Товстеньке, Децентралізація
- ↑ Про найдавніший в Галичині пам'ятник "Полеглим Героям", TeNews, 16.06.2022.
Sources
- (in Ukrainian) Качмарський Б., Уніят В., Товстеньке // Ternopil Encyclopedic Dictionary: in 4 v. / editorial board: H. Yavorskyi and other, Ternopil: "Zbruch", 2008, V. 3: П—Я, S. 456. — ISBN 978-966-528-279-2.
- (in Ukrainian) Карпович В., Федечко М., Щавінський В., Товстеньке // Ternopil region. History of cities and villages: in 3 v. / Ternopil: "Terno-graph", 2014, V. 3: М—Ш, S. 512—513. — ISBN 978-966-457-246-7.
- "Tłusteńkie". Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (in Polish). 12. Warszawa: Kasa im. Józefa Mianowskiego. 1892. p. 353.
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