Pererisl (; ) is a village in

Nadvirna Raion Nadvirna Raion () is a raion (district) of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (region). The town of Nadvirna is the administrative center of the raion. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of I ...

, in the western

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. It is the administrative centre of Pererisl rural hromada.

History

Pererisl was first mentioned in a 1424 document in which the village's chieftain, Khodko Holovachyn, sold half the village to his brother for 30 silver

grivna The grivna () was a currency as well as a measure of weight used in Kievan Rus' and other states in Eastern Europe from the 11th century. Name The word ''grivna'' is derived from from . In Old East Slavic, it had the form , ''grivĭna''. ...

s. In 1939, the village had a population of 1,980 people, including 1,660

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, 280 Ukrainian Roman Catholics, 20

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, and 20

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. Residents of the village participated in

anti-Soviet resistance by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army The anti-Soviet resistance by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (''Ukrainska Povstanska Armiya'', UPA) was a guerrilla war waged by Ukrainian nationalist partisan formations against the Soviet Union in the western regions of the Ukrainian SSR and ...

, raising the

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in the village centre on 31 October 1953.

Notable residents

* , Ukrainian journalist * , Austrian-Ukrainian jurist and soldier in the

Imperial-Royal Landwehr The Imperial-Royal Landwehr ( or ''k.k. Landwehr''), also called the Austrian Landwehr, was the territorial army of the Cisleithanian or Austrian half of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1869 to 1918. Its counterpart was the Royal Hungarian Land ...

and

Ukrainian Galician Army The Ukrainian Galician Army ( UGA; ), was the combined military of the West Ukrainian People's Republic during and after the Polish-Ukrainian War. It was called the "Galician army" initially. Dissatisfied with the alliance of Ukraine and Polan ...

* , Ukrainian writer * ,

Ukrainian Insurgent Army The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (, abbreviated UPA) was a Ukrainian nationalist partisan formation founded by the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) on 14 October 1942. The UPA launched guerrilla warfare against Nazi Germany, the S ...

commander * {{ill, Omelian Reviuk, uk, Рев'юк Омелян, Ukrainian-American journalist

References

Villages in Nadvirna Raion