Lanchyn

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Coordinates: 48°32′51″N 24°45′6″E / 48.54750°N 24.75167°E / 48.54750; 24.75167

Lanchyn
Ланчин
Łanczyn
Urban type settlement
Flag of Lanchyn
Flag
Coat of arms of Lanchyn
Coat of arms
Lanchyn is located in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Lanchyn
Lanchyn
Coordinates: 48°32′51″N 24°45′6″E / 48.54750°N 24.75167°E / 48.54750; 24.75167
Country Ukraine
Oblast Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
RaionNadvirna Raion
Government
 • Head of Village CouncilMykhaylo Mykhaylovych Ivanyuk
Area
 • Total27.89 km2 (10.77 sq mi)
Population
 (2021)
 • Total7,855
 • Density280/km2 (730/sq mi)
Area code(s)(+380) 3475

Lanchyn (Ukrainian: Ланчин, Polish: Łanczyn, Hebrew: לאנצ'ין, Romanian: Lanciîn) is an urban-type settlement in Nadvirna Raion in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. It hosts the administration of Lanchyn settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1] Its population was 7,855 (2021 est.)[2].

Location[]

Lanchyn is located on the Prut about 42 kilometers south of Ivano-Frankivsk and 16 kilometers southeast of Nadvirna.

History[]

Between 1772 and 1918 it was part of Austrian Galicia. After the end of World War I Lanchyn (as Łanczyn) became part of Nadvirna Powiat in Stanisławów Voivodeship, part of Poland. In 1939 it was annexed by the Soviet Union. In 1940 it became an urban-type settlement.

Lanchyn was occupied by German troops during World War II from 1941 to 1944, part of the District of Galicia.

Postwar, Lanchyn was briefly the center of the raion.

Notable people[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Ланчинская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
  2. ^ "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (PDF) (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
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