Tovstenke (Ukrainian: Товстеньке) is a village in Ukraine, Ternopil Oblast, Chortkiv Raion, Kolyndiany rural hromada.[1]

Tovstenke
Товстеньке
Tovstenke is located in Ternopil Oblast
Tovstenke
Tovstenke
Location in Ternopil Oblast
Coordinates: 49°1′11″N 26°3′46″E / 49.01972°N 26.06278°E / 49.01972; 26.06278
Country Ukraine
Oblast Ternopil Oblast
RaionChortkiv Raion
Postal code
48521

Notable locations

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Churches

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  • Church of the Holy Trinity (1846; UGCC; stone)
  • Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (built in the beginning of the XIX century, functioned until 1946)

There are two chapels in the village (1991, 1998).

Monuments

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In 1921, on the initiative of о. Ivan Blavatskyi, the first symbolic grave of the fighters for freedom of Ukraine was built; it was restored in 1990.[2]

Monuments were erected to the soldiers-fellow villagers who died in the German-Soviet war, and to Ivan Franko (2004).

Figures of the Mother of God (1864) and crosses in honor of the 50th anniversary of the abolition of serfdom (1848) were installed.

Notable residents

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References

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Sources

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  • (in Ukrainian) Качмарський Б., Уніят В., Товстеньке // Ternopil Encyclopedic Dictionary: in 4 v. / editorial board: H. Yavorskyi and other, Ternopil: "Zbruch", 2008, V. 3: П—Я, S. 456. — ISBN 978-966-528-279-2.
  • (in Ukrainian) Карпович В., Федечко М., Щавінський В., Товстеньке // Ternopil region. History of cities and villages: in 3 v. / Ternopil: "Terno-graph", 2014, V. 3: М—Ш, S. 512—513. — ISBN 978-966-457-246-7.
  • "Tłusteńkie". Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (in Polish). 12. Warszawa: Kasa im. Józefa Mianowskiego. 1892. p. 353.