Zarichchia (Nadvirna Raion)

The village, the center of the village council, is located at a distance of 14 km from the town of Nadvirna, from the railway station Deliatyn - 5 km. The Ivano-Frankivsk — Yabluniv highway passes through the village. The village stretches for 4 km along the right bank of the Prut River.

Bronze Age burials have been discovered in the territory of Zarichchia.

It is mentioned on March 4, 1463 in the books of the Galician court.[1] The village is mentioned in historical sources of the second half of the XVIII century.

As of January 1, 1939, the village had 3,920 inhabitants, including 3,790 Ukrainian Greek Catholics, 80 Poles, and 50 Jews.[2]

In August 1943, the remnants of SA Kovpak's partisan unit, after being defeated by the SS detachment in Deliatyn, passed through the Zarichchia in the direction of the village of Bili Oslavy. The apartment of the inhabitant of the village AM Kovalchuk housed the headquarters of the connection. A fierce battle broke out outside the village in the Dilok tract, in which Major General SV Rudnev, the union's commissioner, was killed. Residents of the village DV Vatsyk, MY Kostytsky, MS Humeniuk, I. Yu. Boychenyuk were the leaders of the Kovpakivtsi.

During the passage of the front in the building of the village school was a hospital, here after a serious injury on August 31, 1944, died Hero of the Soviet Union, Lieutenant VM Gorshkov. On the outskirts of the village in the tract Dilok in honor of the 50th anniversary of Soviet rule and the 20th anniversary of the Carpathian raid Kovpak laid a Park of Partisan Glory.

On February 17, 1944, the criminal elements of the village killed the village foreman Mykhailo Stelmashchuk, who ran away for fear of punishment, and therefore on February 28 the Gestapo shot 24 innocent people.[3]

The village has a lyceum named after Volodymyr Yavorskyi, a post office, a first-aid post, a house of culture, and a library. The village is fully gasified, there is street lighting. The Orthodox Church of Ukraine of the Holy Intercession, Father Mykhailo Kupchak, and the Greek Catholic Church, Father Mykhailo Smetaniuk, are registered in the village.

• Pavlo Ivanovych Vatsyk — UPA major.
• Mykhailo Ivanovych Hnatiuk — Ukrainian philologist, historian and theoretician of literature, literary critic, Doctor of Philology, Chairman of the International Association of French Studies.
• Mykhailo Yuriiovych Kosylo — teacher, local historian, honored worker of education of Ukraine.
• Stepan Vasyliovych Mochernyi — economist, teacher, doctor of economics, professor.
• Dmytro Yakymishchak — teacher, lawyer, ambassador.

• Deliatyn Amalgamated Hromada
• Deliatyn

• Історичне Прикарпаття
• Заріччя на сайті Надвірнянської райради
• І. Косило, М. Косило. Заріччя: Історично-краєзнавча довідка
• «Моє Заріччя над Прутом» — Блог Михайла Клим'юка про Заріччя
• "Zarzecze al. Zarzyce (12), powiat nadwórniański". Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (in Polish). 14. Warszawa: Kasa im. Józefa Mianowskiego. 1895. p. 434.