Deliatyn

Delyatyn is a town located in the southeastern part of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast on the Prut River. Delyatyn belongs to the Nadvirna district of Ivano-Frankivsk region. This region is ethnographically considered to be Hutsulshchyna.

In historical documents, Delyatyn was first mentioned in 1400 when Polish King Władysław II Jagiełło granted the lands in the Kolomyia region above the Prut River to the brothers Stetsko and Ivashko Negovych. After receiving an official document from the king, the brothers took a new surname and became Daliatynski, and from the 1440s - Delyatynski. They held Delyatyn and the surrounding area until 1579, when the owners of the Delyatyn region were Yakiv Khotymyrskyi, Khrystofor Bludnytskyi, and Pavlo and Ivan Turetskyi. At that time, Delyatyn was a town and had a population of 465. Soon, Delyatyn became the center of a separate parish, which included Mykulychyn, Velyki and Mali Oslavy (probably Bili and Chorni Oslavy), Lanchyn, and Sadzhavka.

Delyatyn changed its status: from a town it became a village, then a town again, or a so-called rural town, and then a town again. The first written document about Delyatyn dates back to March 9, 1400. In 1434, the "Ruthenian law" was abolished, the Polish system was introduced, and Latin was recognized as the official language. In 1579, Delyatyn was already considered a city, had 465 inhabitants, and was considered the center of a separate parish, which included Mykulychyn, Velyki and Mali Oslavy, Lanchyn, and Sadzhavka. At the end of the 16th century, the Delyatyn parish was in the hands of the magnate Belzetskyi, who concentrated about 50 settlements between Chornohora and Obertyn.

In 1645, a castle was built in Delyatyn. It had a large private library. It is known that it was the subject of a property dispute in the Galician City Court in 1643-1646 between the brothers Bonaventure and Theodore Belzec after the death of their father.

In the eighteenth century, Delyatyn passed to the Potocki counts.

After the three partitions of Poland, Delyatyn, like the rest of Prykarpattia, was ceded to the Austrian Empire in 1772. After 1772, Delyatyn became the county town of the Stanislaviv district. Since 1783, the town's inhabitants (tenants) were counts Zetner.

In the XIX century Delyatyn was a Jewish town.

The end of the 80s of the XX century was marked by the intensification of political life in Delyatyn.

In 1989, the Taras Shevchenko Youth Organization was established in Delyatyn secondary school No. 1 to protect the native Ukrainian language. Its active members were Tymofii Antoniuk, Adelia Brik, Kalyna and Hryhorii Pavlyshyn, and others. In November 1989, Yuriy Mykytyuk, Yuriy Mushak, and Eduard Kovtun hung blue and yellow flags over the administrative building of the village council, the house of Mykola Lahodynskyi, and the spire of the church.

Currently, Delyatyn has two secondary schools of I-III levels, one school of I-II levels and a school of I level, a structural unit of the educational complex, a children's music school, a kindergarten "Sonechko", Delyatyn Lyceum, a village hospital with two inpatient departments and 6 auxiliary services, a paramedic and obstetric station, a community center, and a library. The village is fully gasified and has partial street lighting.

There are 17 archaeological sites on the territory of Delyatyn. Traces of Neanderthal life in this area date back to about 40 thousand years ago. The traces of Neanderthals' presence are flint choppers, scrapers and massive chips found in the 70s of the XX century by archaeologist Mykhailo Klapchuk in the Pidkiziv tract on the outskirts of Delyatyn. From the late Paleolithic to the early Mesolithic (8-12 thousand years ago), traces of an archaeological phenomenon called the Ploschanska culture have been found in the Kruhlyak and Kutsykove Pole tracts. At the entrance to Delyatyn, in the Hnyla Krynytsia tract in Vilkhivka, stone grain grinders, a stone hammer, a flint sickle, knives, and scrapers were found, which are associated with the Komarivska culture, which existed 1.5-1.3 thousand years ago.