Pishchany
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| Піщани | |||
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| Oblast : | Lviv Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Stryi district | ||
| Height : | 260 m | ||
| Area : | 12 km² | ||
| Residents : | 463 (2004) | ||
| Population density : | 39 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Postcodes : | 82428 | ||
| Area code : | +380 3245 | ||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 17 ' N , 23 ° 56' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 4625388002 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 1 village | ||
| Address: | 82428 село Піщани | ||
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Pishchany ( Ukrainian Піщани ; Russian Песчаны Pestschany , Polish Tatarsko ) is a village in the western Ukrainian Lviv Oblast with about 450 inhabitants (2006).
Pishchany was founded as Tatarsko in 1862 and received its current name in 1955. The village in Stryi district is located on the banks of the Stryj River and on the Stryj – Ternopil railway line 10 km northeast of the Stryj district center and about 80 km south of the Lviv oblast center . Administratively, the village belongs to the district council of the neighboring village of Chodowytschi in the north .
Personalities
The Ukrainian ethnographer, folklorist, composer and musicologist Filaret Kolessa was born in the village in 1871 .
Web links
- Tatarsko . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 12 : Szlurpkiszki – Warłynka . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1892, p. 225 (Polish, edu.pl ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Pishchany on the official website of the Verkhovna Rada ; accessed on May 8, 2017 (Ukrainian)