Sheshory
{{short description|Village in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2024}}
{{Infobox settlement
| official_name = Sheshory
| native_name = Шешори
| native_name_lang = uk
| settlement_type = village
| image_skyline = Sheshory-2.jpg
| pushpin_map = Ukraine Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast#Ukraine
| pushpin_map_caption = Location of Sheshory in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast##Location of Sheshory in Ukraine
| coordinates = {{coord|48|20|11|N|24|59|28|E|region:UA_type:city|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{UKR}}
| subdivision_type1 = Oblast
| subdivision_name1 = {{Flag|Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast}}
| subdivision_type2 = Raion
| subdivision_name2 = {{flagicon image|Flag of Kosiv Raion.svg}} Kosiv Raion
| subdivision_type3 = Hromada
| subdivision_name3 = Kosiv urban hromada
| established_title = First mentioned
| established_date = 1427 or 1445
| population = 2,116
| population_as_of = 2020
}}
Sheshory ({{langx|uk|Шешори}}; {{langx|pl|Szeszory}}) is a village in Kosiv urban hromada,{{Cite web |title=Склад громади |trans-title=List of communities |url=https://decentralization.gov.ua/newgromada/3995/composition |access-date=22 May 2024 |website=decentralization.gov.ua |language=uk}} Kosiv Raion, in Ukraine's western Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. Its population is 2,116 (as of 2020).{{Cite web |title=Шешорівська сільська рада |trans-title=Sheshory village council |url=https://www.rada.info/rada/04354491/ |access-date=22 May 2024 |website=Sheshory village council |language=uk}}
Overview
File:Церква Св. Параскеви (Шешори) 02.JPG
Sheshory was first mentioned in 1427{{Cite web |date=15 September 2022 |title=Шешори — срібний курорт на Прикарпатті |trans-title=Sheshory: a silver resort in Prykarpattia |url=https://karpaty.love/naprjamky-vidpochynku/vidpochynok-v-karpatah-ivano-frankivska-oblast/82-sheshory.html |access-date=22 May 2024 |website=Karpaty.love |language=uk}} or 1445,{{Cite web |title=Шешори |trans-title=Sheshory |url=http://www.kosivart.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/sheshory.main/ |access-date=22 May 2024 |website=KosivArt |language=uk}} although evidence of human settlement in the village dates to the Stone Age. The village is located near the {{ill|Pistynka|uk|Пістинька}} river, and several waterfalls are located near the village. A sanatorium and tourist resort both exist in the village.
The village is inhabited by Hutsuls, and contains Horishnia Tserkva, one of the oldest Hutsul churches. A narodnyi dim was founded in 1924, and the wooden {{ill|Church of the Holy Great Martyr Paraskeva of Sunday, Sheshory|lt=Church of the Holy Great Martyr Paraskeva of Sunday|uk|Церква Святої Великомучениці Параскеви П'ятниці (Шешори)}} continues to stand.{{Cite web |title=Шешори |trans-title=Sheshory |url=https://www.karpaty.info/ua/uk/if/ks/sheshory/ |access-date=22 May 2024 |website=Karpaty.info |language=uk}} Sheshory was the site of a battle on 20 October 1950, during the anti-Soviet resistance by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. As a result of the battle, two commanders of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army ({{ill|Vasyl Savchak|uk|Савчак Василь Миколайович}} and {{ill|Hryhorii Lehkyi|uk|Легкий Григорій Йосипович}}) were killed.{{Cite web |date=1 January 2012 |title=Заходи по ліквідації провідника ОУН Карпатського краю – «Єфрема» |trans-title=Liquidation efforts against the OUN's Carpathian regional providnyk, "Yefrem" |url=https://museum-bandera.if.ua/main.php?m0prm=6&entry=20&showItem=40 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171022142834/https://museum-bandera.if.ua/main.php?m0prm=6&entry=20&showItem=40 |archive-date=22 October 2017 |access-date=22 May 2024 |website=Stepan Bandera Historical and Memorial Museum |language=uk}}
A monument to the writer, poet, and artist Taras Shevchenko, created by {{ill|Ivan Honchar|uk|Гончар Іван Макарович}},{{Cite web |title=Шешори |url=https://castles.com.ua/szeszory.html |access-date=22 May 2024 |website=Castles and Churches of Ukraine |language=uk}} was opened by Viacheslav Chornovil in his capacity as a Komsomol worker on 8 August 1965. As a result of the speech Chornovil gave during the opening of the monument, he was removed from the Komsomol.{{Cite news |date=24 August 2017 |title=В'ячеслав Чорновіл. "Неугомонный" у боротьбі за Україну |trans-title=Viacheslav Chornovil: Restless in the fight for Ukraine |url=https://www.istpravda.com.ua/articles/2017/08/24/150177/ |access-date=22 May 2024 |work=Istorichna Pravda |language=uk}} A plaque commemorating the speech is placed at the bottom of the monument. Another monument, to the writer and poet Ivan Franko, was erected in the village on 13 August 1995.
Notable people
- {{ill|Ksenia Danylyshyn|uk|Данилишин Ксеня Денисівна}}, songwriter
- {{ill|Oleh Haborak|uk|Габорак Олег Васильович}}, soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine killed during the War in Donbas
- {{ill|Volodymyr Oleksiuk|uk|Олексюк Володимир Ілліч}}, philosopher
- {{ill|Hanna Vasylashchuk|uk|Василащук Ганна Василівна}}, weaver
- {{ill|Oleksandra Vasylashchuk|uk|Василищук Олександра Іллівна}}, writer
- {{ill|Myroslav Yakibchuk|uk|Якібчук Мирослав Ілліч}}, trade unionist and politician