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2 unusual facts about Volyn Oblast


For Ukraine!

In the 2010 local elections For Ukraine! won representatives in municipalities and 1 seat in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Council and Volyn Oblast Council and 2 seats in the Sumy Oblast Council (regional parliaments of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Volyn Oblast and Sumy Oblast).

Volyn Oblast

Volyn was once part of Kievan Rus' before becoming an independent local principality and an integral part of the Halych-Volynia, one of Kievan Rus' successor states.


Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church

The church is known locally as "The Russian Church" because it was built in 1915 by Russian immigrants who were mostly from the provinces of Grodno, Volyn, and Minsk in modern-day Belarus and Ukraine.


see also

Shatsk

Shatsk, Ukraine, an urban-type settlement in Volyn Oblast, Ukraine

Taras Mykhalyk

After graduating from the Vocational technical school in his region, Mykhalyk enrolled in the Institute of Physical Education at the Volyn National University, and played in the team there that participated in the championship of the Volyn Oblast.

Włodzimierz

Volodymyr-Volynskyi in Volyn Oblast (Western Ukraine) formerly known as Włodzimierz Wołyński.