Pererisl

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
village
Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 48°41′58″N 24°38′22″E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Raion	Nadvirna Raion
First mentioned	1424
Population	2,430[1]

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 [uk], Ukrainian journalist
• Mykola Ersteniuk [uk], Austrian-Ukrainian jurist and soldier in the Imperial-Royal Landwehr and Ukrainian Galician Army
• Antin Kobylianskyi [uk], Ukrainian writer
• Fedir Mykytyshyn [uk], Ukrainian Insurgent Army commander
• Omelian Reviuk [uk], Ukrainian-American journalist