Trostianets, Berezhany Raion

Trostianets (Ukrainian: Тростянець, romanized: Trostyanets, Russian: Тростянец, romanized: Trostyanets, Polish: Troscianiec, Troscaniec, Yiddish: טראָסטיניץ‎, romanized: Trostinits) is a village of 428 people in the Berezhany Raion (county) of Ternopil Oblast of western Ukraine. It lies in the very heart of the historic region of Halychyna (Eastern Galicia). The current population is decreasing as a result of the remoteness of the village, and many houses are left empty. The village is located in a very remote forest area about 20 km south-west of Berezhany, among thick and large forests which provided the name for the village - Trostyanets (from "Troshchi," thick woods). The landscape is very picturesque, with a little brook in the village valley, surrounded by pasture hills on both sides. One hill's name is "Sus' hill" from the Tartar word "sus," swine. There was a fire-post on that mountain which gave signs when the Tartars came to invade. There is a lake at the southern end of the village. The closest villages are Siltse (locally referred as Siulko) and Bozhykiv (formerly Kvitkove).

Street in Trostianets

Bus stop at Trostianets. There are 2 daily bus connections to Berezhany city.

The village witnessed heavy front-line fighting during the First World War, and there is a desolate Russian military cemetery with Orthodox crosses deep in the forest, as well as numerous Austrian military cemeteries in the neighbourhood. Two million troops were concentrated in the region in times of the First World War with casualties measured in many thousands.

The distance to the closest railway station in Potutory is 11 km.