Mshanets

Mshanets () is a village in Ukraine, part of the Strilky rural hromada in the Sambir Raion of the Lviv Oblast. The first preserved written mention of the village dates back to 1446.

Key facts

Settlement.name: Mshanets
Settlement.settlement_type: Village
Settlement.image_flag: Mshanec prapor.gif
Settlement.image_shield: Mshanec gerb.gif
Settlement.shield_size: 80px
Settlement.mapsize: 230px
Settlement.map_caption: Mshanets shown within Strilky rural hromada
Settlement.pushpin_map: Ukraine
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Oblast
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Lviv Oblast
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Raion
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Sambir Raion
Settlement.leader_name: Mykola Drozd
Settlement.established_title: The first preserved written mention
Settlement.established_date: 1446
Settlement.area_total_km2: 1,568
Settlement.population_as_of: 2023

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Population: 256
Area: 1.568
Elevation: 519
Licence plate code: BC

Show 5 more facts

time of earliest written record: 1446-00-00
postal code: 82090
Commons category: Mshanets, Sambir Raion
inception: 1446-00-00
P8168: Khonj

Sources (6)

via Wikidata · CC0

~95 min read

Article

34 sections

Contents

Geography
History
Kyivan Rus' and the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia
Included within the Polish state (16th century - 1772)
Under the rule of the Habsburgs (1772-1914)
The taxation system
The system of community court
The era of Father Zubrytsky (1883-1914)
The "Prosvita" Reading Room in Mshanets
"Ruska Kramnytsia" (Community Store at "Prosvita")
The first comprehensive scientific expedition of Ukrainian ethnographers in the Boyko region (1904)
Field ethnographic research and visits by scholars
World War I (1914-1917) and the first liberation struggles (1917-1920)
Under Polish rule (1920-1939)
World War II (1939-1945) and the second liberation struggles (1944-1950s)
Under Soviet occupation (1950s - 1991)
Independent Ukraine (1991 - present)
The struggle for the road to Strilky-Mshanets ("Boykos Maydan")
As part of the Strilky hromada (2020 - present)
russian invasion of Ukraine (2022 - present)
"EuroBorder": The Fight Against the Establishment of the 5 km Border Zone "Ghetto" with the EU and the Black Sea (April 2024 - Present)
Population
National minorities
The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The first known wooden church of the 16th century
The second church building from 1762
The unrealized project of Father M. Zubrytskyi
Modern building
The Judgment Day Icon from Mshanets (1560s)
The Bell Tower of 1768
The sculpture of the Sorrowful Mother of Ukraine under the Cross, 1996.
Carol about Saint Sophia in Kyiv
Contemporary verteps performed by children from Mshanets, Halivka, Ploske, and Vytsiv
References

Mshanets () is a village in Ukraine, part of the Strilky rural hromada in the Sambir Raion of the Lviv Oblast. The first preserved written mention of the village dates back to 1446.

This village is the most researched in terms of historical and ethnographic dimensions not only in Ukraine but also in all of Central and Eastern Europe, mainly due to the efforts of Father Mykhailo Zubrytskyi. He served as a village priest of UGCC and community activist from 1883 to 1914, combining his pastoral duties with extensive scholarly work on the history, culture, and lifestyle of the village and the surrounding region. Zubrytskyi engaged prominent figures like Ivan Franko, Volodymyr Hnatiuk, Ilarion Sventsitsky, Khvedir Vovk in these studies, and they visited Mshanets for field research. Historians Mykhailo Hrushevsky and Bohdan Barvinsky also mentioned Mshanets in their works.