Balychi

Also known as Balice

thumb|right Balychi (; ; ) is a village in Yavoriv Raion, Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine. It belongs to Shehyni rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Balychi has 834 inhabitants. It is named after an aristocratic Balicki family who acquired the land from Jan Czech in 1400.

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Settlement.name: Balychi
Settlement.native_name: Баличі
Settlement.native_name_lang: ua
Settlement.settlement_type: Village
Settlement.pushpin_map: Ukraine Lviv Oblast#Ukraine
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Lviv Oblast##Location within Ukraine
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Oblast
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Lviv Oblast
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Region
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Yavoriv Raion
Settlement.established_date: 12th Century

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In the Second Polish Republic it was an independent unitary commune until 1934. Then it belonged to the collective rural Hussak commune in Mościce County in Lviv Voivodeship. In 1943–1945, Ukrainian nationalists from the OUN-UPA brutally murdered 5 Poles as a part of Volhynia genocide. After the war, the village was incorporated into the Ukrainian SSR. The parish church was closed and turned into a warehouse.