Tukholka

Tukholka
Village
Church of the Dormition (wood), Tukholka. Skole Raion, Lviv Oblast. (1858)
Tukholka
Coordinates: UA 48°52′36″N 23°16′56″E / 48.87667°N 23.28222°ECoordinates: UA 48°52′36″N 23°16′56″E / 48.87667°N 23.28222°E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Lviv Oblast
Raion	Skole Raion
Area	3,926 km^2 (1,516 sq mi)
Elevation	731 m (2,398 ft)
Population	955
• Density	243,25/km^2 (63,000/sq mi)
Website	село Тухолька (Ukrainian)

The village Tukholka is surrounded by Eastern Beskids.

Tukholka (Ukrainian: Ту́холька) is a village (selo) in Skole Raion, Lviv Oblast, in western Ukraine. The village Tukholka is located in the Ukrainian Carpathians within the limits the Eastern Beskids (Skole Beskids) in southern Lviv Oblast in Skole Raion. Remotely from Lviv on 131 km, from Skole - 28 km and from Uzhhorod – 131 km. The village is located in the river valley Brynivka. Local government — Tukholkivska village council.^[1]

The first written mention of the settlement dates back to 1552. The first settlers were farmers from the village Tuhlya.^[2]

Preserved in the Tukholka a wooden church of the Dormition of Virgin (1858)

People from Tukholka

• Mykola Dychkovskyi (Ukrainian: Мико́ла Дичко́вський (1910 -1985) — a priest of the village Tukholka, repressed, was exiled to Vorkuta. Dean of city Stryi, the nephew of Cardinal Josyf Slipyj.

Notes

1. Tukholkivska village council
2. Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich dir.icm.edu.pl. Retrieved 2014-05-19.

References

• Ukrainian: Прадідівська слава: база даних українських пам’яток і визначних місць
• Ukrainian: weather.in.ua
• Ukrainian: Сколівщина.-Львів.1996

Literature

• Ukrainian: М. Арендач. Село Плав'є: погляд крізь віки. Львів: Ініціатива, 2012–176с. Редактор Ігор Дах.
• Ukrainian: Історія міст і сіл УРСР : Львівська область. – К. : ГРУРЕ, 1968 р.