Velykyi Hlybochok

Velykyi Hlybochok (Ukrainian: Великий Глибочок) is a village in Bila rural hromada, Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.^[1]

Velykyi Hlybochok Великий Глибочок
Velykyi Hlybochok Location in Ternopil Oblast
Coordinates: 49°37′16″N 25°31′51″E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Ternopil Oblast
Raion	Ternopil Raion
Hromada	Bila rural hromada
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	47703

History

The first written mention of the village was in 1463.^[2]

Religion

• Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1846, brick),^[2]
• Roman Catholic church (1904).^[2]

Famous people

• Yaroslav Stetsko (1912–1986), Ukrainian politician, writer and ideologist who served as the leader of Stepan Bandera's faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, the OUN-B, from 1941 until his death.
• Petro Medvedyk (1925–2006), Ukrainian literary critic, folklorist, ethnographer, bibliographer, art historian, local historian.

The village was visited by writers Ivan Franko and Les Martovych (1898), poet Andrii Malyshko and novelist Vadym Sobko (1939), composers Yevhen Kozak and Heorhii Maiboroda, Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytskyi, public and political figure Leonid Kravchuk, and others.^[2]

References

1. Білецька територіальна громада, Децентралізація
2. (in Ukrainian) Сагайдак М., Уніят-Карпович В., Великий Глибочок // Ternopil region. History of cities and villages: in 3 v. / Ternopil: "Terno-graph", 2014, V. 3: М—Ш, S. 359—362. — ISBN 978-966-457-246-7.

Sources

• (in Ukrainian) Мельничук Б., Уніят В., Великий Глибочок // Ternopil Encyclopedic Dictionary: in 4 v. / editorial board: H. Yavorskyi and other, Ternopil: "Zbruch", 2004, V. 1: А—Й, S. 237—238. — ISBN 966-528-197-6.
• "Hłuboczek (2)". Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (in Polish). 3. Warszawa: Kasa im. Józefa Mianowskiego. 1882. p. 77.