Velykyi Hlybochok Explained

Official Name:	Velykyi Hlybochok
Native Name:	Великий Глибочок
Pushpin Map:	Ukraine Ternopil Oblast
Pushpin Map Caption:	Location in Ternopil Oblast
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Type1:	Oblast
Subdivision Name1:	Ternopil Oblast
Subdivision Type2:	Raion
Subdivision Name2:	Ternopil Raion
Subdivision Type3:	Hromada
Subdivision Name3:	Bila rural hromada
Timezone:	EET
Utc Offset:	+2
Timezone Dst:	EEST
Utc Offset Dst:	+3
Coordinates:	49.6211°N 25.5308°W
Postal Code Type:	Postal code
Postal Code:	47703

Velykyi Hlybochok (Ukrainian: Великий Глибочок) is a village in Bila rural hromada, Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.^[1]

History

The first written mention of the village was in 1463.

Religion

• Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1846, brick),
• Roman Catholic church (1904).

Famous people

• Yaroslav Stetsko (1912–1986), Ukrainian politician, writer and ideologist who served as the leader of Stepan Bandera's faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, the OUN-B, from 1941 until his death.
• Petro Medvedyk (1925–2006), Ukrainian literary critic, folklorist, ethnographer, bibliographer, art historian, local historian.

The village was visited by writers Ivan Franko and Les Martovych (1898), poet Andrii Malyshko and novelist Vadym Sobko (1939), composers Yevhen Kozak and Heorhii Maiboroda, Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytskyi, public and political figure Leonid Kravchuk, and others.

Notes and References

1. https://decentralization.ua/newgromada/4585 Білецька територіальна громада