Wikno (Hussyatyn)
| Wikno | |||
| Вікно | |||
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| Oblast : | Ternopil Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Hussyatyn district | ||
| Height : | 240 m | ||
| Area : | 3.872 km² | ||
| Residents : | 1,332 (2004) | ||
| Population density : | 344 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Postcodes : | 48217 | ||
| Area code : | +380 3557 | ||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 20 ' N , 26 ° 4' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 6121685101 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 1 village | ||
| Address: | 48217 с. Вікно | ||
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Wikno ( Ukrainian Вікно ; Russian Окно Okno , Polish Okno ) is a village in the Ukrainian oblast of Ternopil with about 1300 inhabitants (2004).
geography
Wikno is the only village in the 40.122 km² district council of the same name in the north of Hussjatyn Rajon .
The village is located east of the urban-type settlement Hrymajliw on the bank of the Hnyla ( Гнила ), a 58 km long tributary of the Sbruch , and on the territorial road T-09-03 . The district center of Hussyatyn is about 40 km south and the oblast capital Ternopil about 50 km northwest of the village.
history
The village, first mentioned in writing in 1464, initially belonged to the Ruthenian Voivodeship of the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania and then from 1774 to 1918 to the Austrian crown land of Galicia . After the end of the First World War , the village first came to the West Ukrainian People's Republic and then fell to the Second Polish Republic , where it was in the Tarnopol Voivodeship . During the Second World War was the village from 1939 to 1941 by the Soviet Union then and until 1944 by Germany occupied and there the district of Galicia assigned. After the end of the war the village became part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and in 1991, after the collapse of the Soviet Union , it became part of the independent Ukraine.
Personalities
The Ukrainian journalist, politician and political activist Vasyl Mudryj was born in Wikno in 1893, and in the same year the Ukrainian religious leader and founding member of the Ukrainian Canadian Committee (UCC) Vasyl Kuzhnir ( Василь Михайлович Кушнір ).
Web links
- Okno . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 7 : Netrebka – Perepiat . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1886, p. 427 (Polish, edu.pl ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Local website on the official website of the Verkhovna Rada ; accessed on September 4, 2016 (Ukrainian)