Staryi Uhryniv (Old Uhryniv) is a village in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast is an oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Ivano-Frankivsk. As is the case with most other oblasts of Ukraine this region has the same name as its administrative center – which was renamed by the Soviets after the Ukrainian writer, nationalist...

 in western Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

. Staryi Uhryniv is the birthplace of the Ukrainian nationalist Stepan Bandera

Stepan Bandera

Stepan Andriyovych Bandera was a Ukrainian politician and one of the leaders of Ukrainian national movement in Western Ukraine , who headed the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists...

.

History

The first mention of Staryi Uhryniv is in 1447. Villagers are known to have taken part in the Khmelnytsky Uprising

Khmelnytsky Uprising

The Khmelnytsky Uprising, was a Cossack rebellion in the Ukraine between the years 1648–1657 which turned into a Ukrainian war of liberation from Poland...

 of 1648.

Notable residents

Today Staryi Uhryniv is the best known as the birthplace of Stepan Bandera

Stepan Bandera

Stepan Andriyovych Bandera was a Ukrainian politician and one of the leaders of Ukrainian national movement in Western Ukraine , who headed the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists...

, one of the most famous leaders of the national movement, who was born here on January 1, 1909.

Grigoriy Pereginyak ("Korobka" or "Dovbeshka") (1912 - 22 February 1943) (Cyrillic

Cyrillic alphabet

The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...

: Григорій Перегіняк), organiser of УПА (UPA).

Further reading

• Грабовецький В. Г — 75 Ілюстрована історія Прикарпаття. Друге доповнене видання. — Івано-Франківськ: «Нова Зоря», 2002.