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Vyshniv is a village in the Rohatyn district of Ivano-Frankivsk region, located on the Dniester-Svirzh watershed, 35 km from Rohatyn and 85 km from Ivano-Frankivsk. The name of the village has been known since the XV century. The village includes the village of Zrub. Ethnographically, Vyshniv belongs to the Opillya region. The residents of Vyshniv are Greek Catholics by religion. The total area is 1744.8 hectares, the population is 435 people.

The village of Vyshniv is located in the interfluve of the Dniester and Svirzh (the left tributary of the Dniester), characterized by slopes towards the Dniester (southern part) and towards the Svirzh (northern part). The altitudes range from 270-310 meters above sea level. The southern part is deeply dissected by the valleys of two streams, and looks like flat ridges 7-15 km long, from the Dniester-Svirzh watershed to the Dniester valley. The territory is almost completely covered with forest vegetation. The northern part has a slight slope to the Svirzh River, with numerous wetlands alternating with agrocenoses, pastures, hayfields, groves, etc.

The first mention of Vyshniv dates back to the second half of the 17th century. According to a local legend, Vyshniv was founded by immigrants from the village of Hrabiv, which was destroyed during a Tatar raid. The place of foundation of the new village was indicated by a miraculous icon that disappeared from the Hrabiv Monastery and miraculously turned up in the forest, suspended from a cherry tree (hence the name), far from Hrabiv. A church was built on the site of the recovered icon, and a village was built around it, which was named Vyshniv.

The present-day site of Hrabiv is located in the Bushivetskyi Lis tract, 4.5 km away (geographic coordinates: 49°15' N and 24°22' E) southwest of the village of Vyshniv. The archaeological expedition of the Ivano-Frankivsk Museum of Local Lore found the foundation of a religious building, probably a monastery, numerous remains of ceramics, and traces of a settlement. Residents of the village of Vyshniv make pilgrimages to Hrabiv, believing the water from the spring there to be healing.

According to one version, the village was founded by a Cossack Vasyl Pasichnyk (this surname is still common in Vyshniv) from Bila Tserkva. According to legend, he is buried near the village church. His great-grandson Vasyl was one of the founders of the church, built in 1776 (it has not survived to this day). According to another version, the village was founded by the boyar Vyshenia, from whose name the village derives.

The Church of St. Michael the Archangel was built in 1804 and is listed as an architectural monument in the Rohatyn district of Ivano-Frankivsk region (Okh. No. 866). Before the new church was consecrated in 2007, the old church was a functioning church. Now it remains an architectural monument.