Welykossilky
| Welykossilky | |||
| Великосілки | |||
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| Oblast : | Lviv Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Kamyanka-Buska district | ||
| Height : | 240 m | ||
| Area : | 20.47 km² | ||
| Residents : | 1,444 (2001) | ||
| Population density : | 71 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Postcodes : | 80453 | ||
| Area code : | +380 3254 | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 0 ′ N , 24 ° 25 ′ E | ||
| KOATUU : | 4622181601 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 4 villages | ||
| Address: | 80453 с. Великосілки | ||
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Welykossilky ( Ukrainian Великосілки ; Russian Великосёлки Welikosjolki , Polish Żelechów Wielki ) is a village in the western Ukrainian Lviv Oblast with about 1,400 inhabitants (2001).
The 1393 first written mention the village is the administrative center of the eponymous district municipality to which even the villages of Mali Nahirzi (Ukrainian Малі Нагірці , Polish Nahorce Małe ) Nowa Lodyna (Ukrainian Нова Лодина , Polish Łodyna Nowa ) and Sokoliw (Ukrainian Соколів , Polish Sokołów ) belong.
Welykossilky is located in the Kamjanka-Buska district north of the M 06 trunk road . The district center Kamjanka-Buska is 18 km northeast and the Oblast center Lviv 42 km southwest of the village. The formerly independent village Żelechów Mały was incorporated after the Second World War.
Sons and daughters of the village
- Jewhen Kurtjak , Ukrainian writer and journalist; * February 11, 1936
- Myroslaw Wantuch , Ukrainian choreographer; * January 18, 1939
- Sinowij Demzjuch , Ukrainian conductor; * February 7, 1943
Individual evidence
- ↑ Welykossilky on the official website of the Verkhovna Rada , last accessed on December 12, 2015