Vovchynets, Ivano-Frankivsk

Notable personalities

• Mykhailo Ivanovych Debenko, a political figure of the early 20th century. In 1865 he built a local church that became a cultural benchmark of the village. He also built one of the first monuments of Taras Shevchenko in Prykarpattya. Debenko as a member of the local Ukrainian Radical Party, closely worked with such other Ukrainian personalities as Mykhailo Vytvytsky, Dmytro Vitovsky, and others.
• Myroslav Borysyuk, a deputy of Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR, head of the Oblast Department of Education, veteran of the Nazi Germany Armed Forces Halychyna Division, doctor of Classical Philology from the Columbia University, awarded a golden medal and a diploma signed by the Pope John Paul II, professor of Harvard University.