Sheshory

Sheshory was first mentioned in 1427[3] or 1445,[4] although evidence of human settlement in the village dates to the Stone Age.[3] The village is located near the Pistynka river, and several waterfalls are located near the village. A sanatorium and tourist resort both exist in the village.[4]

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 Church of the Holy Great Martyr Paraskeva of Sunday continues to stand.[5] 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 (Vasyl Savchak and Hryhorii Lehkyi) were killed.[6]

A monument to the writer, poet, and artist Taras Shevchenko, created by Ivan Honchar,[7] 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.[8] 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.[7]

• Ksenia Danylyshyn, songwriter
• Oleh Haborak, soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine killed during the War in Donbas
• Volodymyr Oleksiuk, philosopher
• Hanna Vasylashchuk, weaver
• Oleksandra Vasylashchuk, writer
• Myroslav Yakibchuk, trade unionist and politician