Konopnytsia

Konopnytsia (old Name Sopilka (Fuyarivka), Ukrainian: Коно́пниця, Сопілка (Фуярівка)) is a village (selo)[1] in Pustomyty Raion, Lviv Oblast of Western Ukraine.
Local government is administered by Konopnytska village council.[2]

Konopnytsia

Коно́пниця
Konopnytsia
Coordinates: 49°49′00″N 23°51′27″E
Country Ukraine
Province Lviv Oblast
District Pustomyty Raion
Established1370
Area
  Total167 km2 (64 sq mi)
Elevation
/(average value of)
319 m (1,047 ft)
Population
  Total562
  Density33,653/km2 (87,160/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
81111
Area code+380 3230
Websiteсело Конопниця (Ukrainian)

Geography

Area of the village totals is 1,67 km2 and is located along the Highway in Ukraine M11 connecting Lviv with Przemyśl. Distance from the regional center Lviv is 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) , 18 kilometres (11 mi) from the district center Pustomyty, and 84 kilometres (52 mi) from Przemyśl.

History

The first written mention of the village Sopilka dates back to 1370 year. But in Polish documents 16th - 19th centuries been writing name Fuyarivka.[3]

But the village Konopnytsia was really built up in the early twentieth century, when it was populated by immigrants from Western Poland. The Polish writer Maria Konopnicka was visited the village Konopnytsia. There is a record of the opening of the school in the village Konopnytsia (1914).

The village was inhabited again after the 1944-1946 forced resettlement of Ukrainians from Poland to the Soviet Union (Ukrainian SSR and Siberia).

Religious buildings

  • Church of the Nativity the Blessed Virgin Mary (stone, 1993).
Church of the Nativity the Blessed Virgin Mary (stone, 1993)

References


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