Shvaikivtsi
Place in Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Place in Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shvaikivtsi is a village in Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast of Ukraine. It belongs to Zavodske settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1] It is the administrative center of the former Shmankivchyky village council.
Shvaikivtsi
Швайківці | |
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Coordinates: 49°01′15″N 25°56′03″E | |
Country | ![]() |
Oblast | ![]() |
Raion | Chortkiv Raion |
Hromada | Zavodske Hromada |
Population (2021) | |
• Total | 135 |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Postal code | 48516 |
Located on the right bank of the river Nichlavka (right tributary of the Nichlava, Dniester basin), 12 km (7.5 mi) from the district center and 5 km (3.1 mi) from the nearest railway station Gadynkivtsi.
Mykola Krykun gives[2] the following variants of the names of the village. Schweik, recorded in chronological order in the relevant sources:
A mound and a settlement of Kievan Rus' were found near the village.
The first written mention of the settlement was in 1485 as the property of the Buczacki brothers with the Abdank coat of arms.
In 1485, the sons of David Buczacki, Michal, Stanislav and Jan, acquired the villages of Shvaikivtsi and Sekmanivtsi in Podilia from the Fredro family.[3]
According to the Podolsk Voivodeship tax register, compiled by the royal captain and customs officer of Podolsk Stanisław Jacimirski in 1569, the village belonged to the heir Golinski and had three plowmen, each of whom had to pay 10 groschen from the plow.[4][5]
The tax register of the Kamianets eyalet for 1681 describes the state of the village: "The village of Shvaikivtsi is abandoned, not far from Chortkiv. One watermill was destroyed, one was destroyed. By estimating the cost of 5000".[6]
In 1785 the village had 306 inhabitants. During the Austro-Hungarian Empire, there were two inns (owned by Jews) and two shops in Shvaikivtsi. In 1880 there were 96 houses and 633 people in the village. Several locals emigrated to Canada. In the village there was a folwark (owned by the deceased German Rudorf), and a mill.
For some time Shvaikivtsi was the center of the commune of the same name. From August 1, 1934,[7] to 1939, the village belonged to the Kolindiana commune.
On July 20–21, 1941, the NKVD shot the villagers Dmytro Ivantsiv and Anton Yavorskyi in the town of Uman in the Cherkasy Oblast.
From June 1941 to March 1944 the village was under Nazi occupation.[8]
In March 2009, a cross appeared on a poplar tree between Shvaikivtsi and Hadynkivtsi.[9]
Since November 27, 2020, Shvaikivtsi has belonged to the Zavodske settlement hromada.[10]
For some time there was an unorganized school in the village (in particular, in 1880), where Edward Paklerski worked as a teacher.[11]
In Austria-Hungary, there was a one-grade school with Ukrainian as the language of instruction; during the Polish Empire, there was a two-grade utraquist (bilingual) school.
The school building is well-preserved and children studied there until 2004.[12]
In the village there is a chapel of All Saints of the Ukrainian people in honor of the arrival in Ukraine of Pope John Paul II (built in 2004).
The village had a chapter of the Prosvita society since 1906, as well as a Sich, agricultural association, library, choir and theater groups, and cooperatives.
Until 2021, there was a club and a library, which were reorganized into a studio with Shmankivtsi Center for Cultural Services of the Zavodske settlement hromada.[15]
There is a first-aid post, Zlagoda PAP[expand acronym], and Andriy, Sokil-2, and Kurgan-2 farms.
In 2022, Liudmyla Humeniuk published the book Shvaikivtsi in the course of centuries.[16]
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