Polivtsi, Ternopil Oblast

Polivtsi () is a village in Ukraine, Ternopil Oblast, Chortkiv Raion, Bilobozhnytsia rural hromada.

History

The first written mention dates from 1536.

Religion

• Saint Nicholas church (OCU, 1884)
• Saint Nicholas church (UGCC, converted from the RCC church in 2000)

People

• Myroslav Motiuk (born 1950), Ukrainian doctor, lawyer, businessman, public figure
• Isydor Nahaievskyi (1908-1989), participant of the national liberation struggle, leading specialist in the manufacture of missile weapons in the US Department of Defense, dean of New York University, author of scientific works
• Vasyl Pohoretskyi (born 1954), Ukrainian publicist, writer, Doctor of Theology and Candidate of Historical Sciences
• Volodymyr Pohoretskyi (born 1967), Ukrainian writer, editor, public figure
• Nestor Chyr (1938–2014), Ukrainian poet, publicist, oilman (resettled in 1945 with his family to Ternopil Oblast during the deportation of Ukrainians from Poland and Poles from Ukraine)

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