Kupchyntsi, Ternopil Oblast

Kupchyntsi Купчинці
Church of the Presentation of Mary in Kupchyntsi
49°26′54″N 25°21′21″E / 49.44833°N 25.35583°E / 49.44833; 25.35583
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Ternopil Oblast
Raion	Ternopil Raion
Hromada	Kupchyntsi rural hromada
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	47662

Купчинці (Ukrainian: Kupchyntsi) is a village in Kupchyntsi rural hromada, Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.^[1]

The first written mention dates back to 1312.^[2]

In the village there was also a castle built in the 17th century, which has not survived to this day.^[2]

After the liquidation of the Kozova Raion on 19 July 2020, the village became part of the Ternopil Raion.^[3]

• Church of the Presentation of Mary (1899, stone, UGCC)^[2]

• Mass grave of the Fighters for the Freedom of Ukraine (1991)^[2]
• monuments to Ivan Franko (1970, sculpted by Ivan Honchar), soldiers from the same village who died in the German-Soviet war (1970), Pavlo Dumka (1994, sculptor Ivan Muliarchuk)^[2]
• memorial crosses in honor of the abolition of serfdom, the founding of the Brotherhood of Sobriety (1878)^[2]
• a garden to the fallen participants of Euromaidan (2014, "Garden of the Nebesna Sotnia")^[2]

They were born in Kupchyntsi:^[2]

• Ivan Blazhkevych (1881–1945), Ukrainian teacher, cultural and educational activist
• Illia Blazhkevych (1894–1978), Ukrainian legal scholar
• Ilko Blazhkevych (1873–1943), Ukrainian conductor, singer, musician
• Oleksandr Vilchynskyi (b. 1963), Ukrainian writer, journalist
• Kateryna Danylchyk (b. 1949), Ukrainian teacher, public and political activist
• Hryhorii Dumka (1882–1951), Ukrainian agricultural scientist
• Pavlo Dumka (1854–1918), Ukrainian poet, publicist, ambassador (1908–1914) to the Galician Sejm, public figure
• Olha Zastavetska (1953–2017), Ukrainian geographer and teacher
• Bohdan Kachun (pseudonyms "Orel," "Borkun," etc.; 1912–1951), Ukrainian participant in the national liberation struggle
• Mykola Koval (1889–1982), Ukrainian teacher, amateur actor, director
• Mykola Kosar (pseudonym – Y. Chornobryvyi, cryptic – Y. C.; 1897–1945), Ukrainian amateur poet
• Mykhailo Kosar (1895–1972), Ukrainian public figure
• Vasyl Krysa (1904–1969), Ukrainian publicist, poet, cultural and public figure
• Mike Mazurki (|Mykhailo (Markiian) Mazurkevych; 1907–1990), American film actor and athlete
• Oleksa Oliinyk (1888–1971), Ukrainian military officer, lawyer, public and political figure
• Yaroslav Oliinyk (b. 1953), Ukrainian a scientist in the field of economic and social geography
• Yosyf Paratsii (pseudonym "Petryk"; 1900–1956), Ukrainian military officer, amateur actor and musician
• Bohdan Pastukh (1924–2009), Ukrainian literary critic, artist, teacher, public figure
• Ihor Pochynok (b. 1949), Ukrainian athlete, coach (biathlon, cross-country skiing)
• Boryslav (Borys) Skopivskyi (1931–2007), Ukrainian journalist, editor, writer, teacher, local historian, public figure
• Ivan Stadnyk (1888–1979), Ukrainian lawyer, publicist
• Mykola Stadnyk (1879–1947), Ukrainian lawyer, publicist, cultural and educational activist
• Mykhailo Tsybulko (b. 1949), Ukrainian artist, scholar, teacher
• Nestor Chornyi (b. 1922), Ukrainian teacher, engineer, local historian, publicist
• Mykhailo Shkilnyi (b. 1968), Ukrainian economist, public figure
• Illia Yakymyshyn (1891–1937), Ukrainian lawyer

Ivan Franko visited the village.^[2]

In 2000, Volodymyr Khoma published a book about the village called "Starovynni Kupchyntsi".^[2]

• (in Ukrainian) Гоцул В., Хома В., Купчинці // Ternopil Encyclopedic Dictionary: in 4 v. / editorial board: H. Yavorskyi and other, Ternopil: "Zbruch", 2005, V. 2: К—О, S. 285—286. — ISBN 966-528-199-2.
• "Kupczyńce, z przys. Józefówka, pow. tarnopolski". Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (in Polish). 4. Warszawa: Kasa im. Józefa Mianowskiego. 1883. p. 884.

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