Bili Oslavy Explained

Official Name:Bili Oslavy
Native Name:Білі Ослави
Native Name Lang:uk
Other Name:Polish: Osławy Białe
Settlement Type:Village
Coordinates:48.4808°N 24.7019°W
Pushpin Map:Ukraine Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast#Ukraine
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Oblast (province)
Subdivision Type2:Raion (district)
Subdivision Name2:Nadvirna Raion
Subdivision Type3:Hromada (municipality)
Subdivision Name3:Deliatyn settlement hromada
Established Title:Founded
Established Date:1552
Population Total:4225
Population As Of:2001
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Postal Code:78460
Area Code Type:Area code
Area Code:+380 3475
Elevation M:515
Elevation Footnotes:[1]

Bili Oslavy (Ukrainian: Білі Ослави) is a village in Nadvirna Raion of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast of Ukraine. It belongs to Deliatyn settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[2]

History

Bili Oslavy was founded in around 1552, and the first written mention of its current name occurred in 1745.[3]

Father Ivan Mandychevskyi was the parish priest in the village. In 1823, he had a son, the future Greek Catholic priest Porfiry, who later became the organizer of the coronation of the Miraculous Icon of the Mother of God of Zarvany. During the Kovpak raid, the police department shot dead 71 villagers.[4]

On 1 August 1934, the rural was formed, the center of which was Osławy Białe. The commune was formed from the previous self-governing rural gmina: Osławy Białe, Czarny Osław, Czarny Potok, Zarzecze nad Prutem.[5] According to the regional administration of the MGB, in 1949 in the, the underground organization OUN was most active in the villages of Bili Oslavy and Chorni Oslavy.[6] On 9 September 1967, an obelisk to the victims of Nazism was erected in the village. A monument to Taras Shevchenko was also installed in the village.

On 14 July 2014, the world's first monument to the famous Ukrainian poet Mariika Pidhirianka was solemnly opened and consecrated in her homeland in the village of Bili Oslavy.[7]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bili Oslavy (Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast). weather.in.ua. 18 March 2023.
  2. Web site: Делятинская громада . Портал об'єднаних громад України . ru.
  3. Web site: Ortsgeschichte Bili Oslawy. The History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR. 29 October 2017. uk.
  4. Web site: Василь Яшан "Під брунатним чоботом" . 9 May 2017 . 9 April 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160409014746/http://kalusz.io.ua/s115732/vasil_yashan_pid_brunatnim_chobotom .
  5. Web site: Rozporządzenie Ministra Spraw Wewnętrznych z dnia 21 lipca 1934 r. o podziale powiatu nadwórniańskiego w województwie stanisławowskiem na gminy wiejskie. Dz.U. 1934 nr 68 poz. 627. https://web.archive.org/web/20161013025122/http://isap.sejm.gov.pl/DetailsServlet?id=WDU19340680627. 13 October 2016. pl.
  6. Web site: Реабілітовані історією. ІВАНО-ФРАНКІВСЬКА ОБЛАСТЬ. Книга перша.—Івано-Франківськ: Місто НВ, 2004.—С. 43.—ISBN 966-8090-63-2 . 5 December 2019 . 1 October 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201001054529/http://www.reabit.org.ua/files/store/Ivano-Frankivsk_1.pdf .
  7. Web site: У Білих Ославах постав пам'ятник Марійці Підгірянці . 17 January 2016 . 4 August 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160804214231/http://visti-kalush.com.ua/articles/category/society/2014/07/18/9522/view .