Kryvorivnia
Rural locality in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kryvorivnia (Ukrainian: Криворівня) is a village in the Verkhovyna Raion of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast of Ukraine. It is considered both the traditional summer and the winter capital of the Hutsul people.[1][2] Kryvorivnia belongs to Verkhovyna settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[3][4]
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Religion
- Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos (1719, PCU, wooden)
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
The film Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Sergei Parajanov was filmed in the village. The house where the filming took place is now a museum.[5][6]
Notable residents
- Andriy Burachynsky Ukrainian colonel, military doctor of medicine, head of the UGA medical service.
- Tit-Yevhen Burachynsky Ukrainian physician and public figure
- Yaroslav Chuperchuk, Ukrainian folklorist, choreographer
- Kekilia Gardetska (1898-1961) Ukrainian writer, journalist, and public figure.
- Mykola Potyak (1930-2019) Ukrainian physician and public figure
- Ivan Rybaruk (born 1966), Ukrainian priest, writer, editor, presenter
- Oleksa Volianskyi (1862–1947), Ukrainian priest, ethnographer, cultural and educational activist
References
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