Pererisl
Village in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine
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Pererisl (Ukrainian: Перерісль; Polish: Przerośl) is a village in Nadvirna Raion, in the western Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast of Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of Pererisl rural hromada.[2]
Pererisl
Перерісль | |
|---|---|
 Coat of arms | |
  Pererisl Location of Pererisl in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast  Pererisl Location of Pererisl in Ukraine | |
| Coordinates: 48°41′58″N 24°38′22″E | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast |  Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast |
| Raion | Nadvirna Raion |
| First mentioned | 1424 |
| Population | |
• Total | 2,430 |
History
Pererisl was first mentioned in a 1424 document in which the village's chieftain, Khodko Holovachyn, sold half the village to his brother for 30 silver grivnas.[3] In 1939, the village had a population of 1,980 people, including 1,660 Ukrainian Greek Catholics, 280 Ukrainian Roman Catholics, 20 Polish people, and 20 Jews.[4]
Residents of the village participated in anti-Soviet resistance by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, raising the flag of Ukraine in the village centre on 31 October 1953.[5]
Notable residents
- Ihor Boichuk, Ukrainian journalist
- Mykola Ersteniuk, Austrian-Ukrainian jurist and soldier in the Imperial-Royal Landwehr and Ukrainian Galician Army
- Antin Kobylianskyi, Ukrainian writer
- Fedir Mykytyshyn, Ukrainian Insurgent Army commander
- Omelian Reviuk, Ukrainian-American journalist