Mykulychyn

Mykulychyn Микуличин
Flag Coat of arms
Mykulychyn Location in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Coordinates: 48°23′35″N 24°36′7″E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Raion	Nadvirna Raion
Hromada	Yaremche urban hromada
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	78590

Mykulychyn (Ukrainian: Микуличин) is a village in the Yaremche urban hromada of the Nadvirna Raion of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in Ukraine.[1]

History

The first written mention of the village was in 1412.[2]

On July 19, 2020, as a result of the administrative-territorial reform, the village became part of Nadvirna Raion.[3]

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  Entrance to the village, before 1892
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  Entrance to the town, before 1892
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  Main road
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  General view, before 1939
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  Railway tunnel, before 1930
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  Commune house, circa 1925
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  House of Lviv academicians, 1939
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  Orthodox church, 1914
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  The bell tower, before 1939
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  River Prut near Mykulychyn
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  Hutsuls from Mykulychyn, 1901

Religion

• Holy Trinity church with a bell tower (1868, wooden; architect Y. Chaikovetskyi, iconostasis painted by Kornylo Ustiyanovych, architectural monument of national importance; UGCC),[2]
• Church of the Ascension (2000s),[2]
• Monastery of the Congregation of Sisters Servants of the Immaculate Virgin Mary (1927, on the initiative of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky).[2]

Notable residents

The village was visited by Ukrainian writers Vasyl Stefanyk and Bohdan Lepkyi, as well as in 1875 by publicist Mykhailo Drahomanov, in 1890 by English writer Ménie Muriel Dowie (she left a mention in her book "A Girl in the Carpa-thians", published in 1891), and in 1912 by the future emperor of Austria-Hungary Charles I and his wife. The writer Iryna Vilde lived there.[2]

References

1. "* територіальна громада". Децентралізація.
2. Микуличин / П. Ю. Жіляк // Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine [Електронний ресурс] / Редкол. : І. М. Дзюба, А. І. Жуковський, М. Г. Железняк [та ін.] ; НАН України, НТШ. – К. : Інститут енциклопедичних досліджень НАН України, 2018.
3. Постанова Верховної Ради України від 17 липня 2020 року No. 807-IX "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів"

Sources

• "Mikuliczyn". Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (in Polish). 6. Warszawa: Kasa im. Józefa Mianowskiego. 1885. p. 411.