Kulchytsi
Kulchytsi
Кульчиці | |
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  Kulchytsi  Kulchytsi | |
| Coordinates: 49°30′18″N 23°16′45″E / 49.50500°N 23.27917°E | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Province |  Lviv Oblast |
| District |  Sambir Raion |
| Established | 1284 |
| Area | |
• Total | 254 km2 (98 sq mi) |
| Elevation /(average value of) | 307 m (1,007 ft) |
| Population | |
• Total | 1,517 |
| • Density | 64.53/km2 (167.1/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Postal code | 81476 |
| Area code | +380 3236 |
| Website | село Кульчиці(Ukrainian) |
Kulchytsi (Ukrainian: Ку́льчиці; historic names – Кульчачке, Кольчиці, Polish: Kulczyce) is a selo (village), which is located in Sambir Raion, Lviv Oblast, of Western Ukraine. It belongs to Ralivka rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1]
The estimated population is around 1,517. Local government is administered by Kulchytska village council.[2]
Geography
[edit]The village is situated on the hilly area at a distance 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) from the district center Sambir. It is situated in the 83 kilometres (52 mi) from the regional center Lviv and 29 kilometres (18 mi) from the city Drohobych.
History
[edit]Archaeological excavations have revealed traces of settlements from the 5th to 4th centuries BC, although the official founding date of village is 1284.[3] Thirteen Stone-Age burial mounds (late 3rd millennium BC) near Kulchytsi were investigated. The settlement beginning Iron Age (about the 7th or 6th century BC) have been preserved in territory of village
A historic name of the village was Kulchachke (Кульчачке; Ukrainian of Tatar origin).
In the Second Polish Republic, the village was located in the Sambir County of the Lwów Voivodeship.
On April 17, 1944, Ukrainian nationalists from the OUN-UPA murdered 15 Poles here as a part of Volhynia genocide.[4] On August 8, 1944, the village was captured by Soviet forces.[5]
Religious structures and attractions
[edit]Christians have an opportunity to visit the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Orthodox Church, Church of the Transfiguration and Church of Saints Florus and Laurus.
In the village has an architectural monument of local importance of Sambir Raion (Sambir district). It is a wooden bell tower of Church of Florus and Laurus 18th century (499-М).
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Church of Saints Florus and Laurus -
Exaltation of the Holy Cross Orthodox Church -
A newly built wooden Church of the Transfiguration.
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Museums and monuments
[edit]Village residents know and want to learn of the history of the village and land. Valuable historical and architectural attractions been saved in the village. This is museum by name Hetman Sahaidachny,[6] a monument to Hetman Petro Sahaidachny, Yuri-Franz Kulchytsky monument, a wooden Bell tower of Church of Florus and Laurus 18th century and other.
The idea of the museum foundation appeared in 1992, when the monument to Petro Konashevych-Sahaydachny was opened. It was decided to found the museum in the native village of the Ukrainian Hetman who had played the most important part in the history of Ukrainian Cossacks. Museum Director Bogdan Sydor[7] is one of the founders of the museum.[8]
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Equestrian of Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny -
Museum by name Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny -
Jerzy Franciszek Kulczycki monument
Famous people
[edit]- Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny (1570–1622) — Cossack otaman and hetman of the Zaporozhian Host; a founder of the Kyiv Brotherhood (an Orthodox brotherhood), and supporter of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine and the Kyiv Mohyla Academy
- Marko Zhmaylo-Kulchytskyy — hetman of Registered Cossacks; leader of the Zhmaylo Uprising of 1625
- Jerzy Franciszek Kulczycki (1640–1694) — political and civic leader of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; coffee businessman
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Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny -
Jerzy Franciszek Kulczycki
References
[edit]- ^ "Ралевская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
- ^ Паспорт громади – Ралівська громада, Львівська область, Самбірський район [Community Passport – Ralivska community, Lviv region, Sambir district]. Ralivska Hromada – gov.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2024-06-11.
- ^ Село Кульчиці: карта вулиць, фото (in Ukrainian)
- ^ Ludobójstwo w lwowskim. 2006. pp. 904–905.
- ^ "ВОВ-60 – Сводки". Archived from the original on 2012-04-15. Retrieved 2012-04-15.
- ^ "Museum of HETMAN SAHAYDACHNY". Karpaty Info: Traveling in the Carpathians; (in English).
- ^ Sydor, Bohdan (1 March 2013). Музей Петра Сагайдачного в Кульчицях, або Як наша громада дбає про власну історію [Museum of Petro Sahaidachny in Kulchytsi, or How Our Community Cares About Its Own History]. (Letter to the Editor from the director of the Museum of Hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi). Дня [The Day] (in Ukrainian). No. 38. Archived from the original on 9 February 2015.
- ^ Українське Реєстрове Козацтво вшановує пам'ять гетьмана Петра Сагайдачного [The Ukrainian Registered Cossacks honor the memory of Hetman Petro Sahaidachny]. [URC News] Новини УРК. Kozatstvo: Ukrainian Registered Cossacks – All-Ukrainian NGO Українське Реєстрове Козацтво (in Ukrainian). 7 June 2011. Retrieved 26 September 2025.
Further reading
[edit]- History of Towns and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR, Lvov region. (in Ukrainian) – Київ : ГРУРЕ, 1968. р. 834.
- Богдан Сидор, Подільці і подільчани. (in Ukrainian) – Самбір, 2008.
External links
[edit]- Село Кульчиці (in Ukrainian)
- "КУЛЬЧИЦІ - Гетьманське село над Дністром" Історія села Кульчиці; (in Ukrainian)
- Kulchytsi – Wikimapia
- Кульчиці, Свв. Флора і Лавра 1904 (in Ukrainian)
- "Hetman Sahaidachny". Cossack Web Museum. Archived 9 February 2015 at the Wayback Machine
- "Kulchytsi Село Кульчиці (стара назва - Кульчичі)". [The village of Kulchytsi (old name - Kulchichi)]. Karpaty Info: Traveling in the Carpathians; (in Ukrainian).