Mamaivtsi

Mamayivtsi got their name from the landowner Mamayeskul; folk legends say that the name comes from a woman from Galicia called Mamanna who settled in a monastery there, and there is also a legend that claims the name of the village came from the famous khan Mamai, who allegedly stopped here with his horde before venturing across the Carpathian Mountains. The first mention of the village dates back to 1580. Hetman Pylyp Orlyk was passing through here in 1722. Kyn. XVIII - early XIX centuries.

The village of Mamayivtsi was divided into two parts: New and Old Mamayivtsi. Mamayivtsi, as an integral settlement, was revived in the first year of independence. Mamayivtsi is located on the left bank of the Prut River.

There is a railroad, Chernivtsi-Ternopil and Ivano-Frankivsk highways passing through the village. Mamayivtsi is a village located in Kitsman district, Chernivtsi region. The distance to the regional center of Chernivtsi is 10 km. The population is 5830 people. It is known that in the part called Novi Mamayivtsi, there were two monasteries that were branches of the Manyavskyi (Great) Skytus. Today in Novi Mamayivtsi, the large Orthodox Church of the Intercession, built in 1906 with a combination of Neo-Byzantine and Romanian architectural traditions, is striking in its colorfulness from a car window. Numerous roadside private hotels and restaurants are even more striking.

The village's location on a national highway near the regional center contributes to the development of tourist services. Mamaievtsi is said to be the richest village in Bukovyna. In the part of Mamayivka that used to be called Staroselia, to the left of the road next to the new stone church, there is a small wooden church painted green with a tin roof and porch. This is St. Ivan's Church, built in 1863 (according to other sources, in 1773), which acquired its modern appearance after a recent restoration. The church is three-domed, one-story with a small octagonal dome growing out of the nave's quadrangle. It was in this church in the 1930s that the future great Ukrainian singer, academician of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine, chief director of the Taras Shevchenko National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater, professor of the Tchaikovsky Music Academy Dmytro Hnatiuk took his first singing lessons from a local priest. A large stone church was built next to the wooden church in 1996, which was also consecrated in the name of John the Baptist.

There are the following institutions in the village: post office, medical institution, educational institution, club, library, local history museum, police, banking institutions. The main population is Ukrainians. The villagers are engaged in farming and animal husbandry, entrepreneurial activity and work in various institutions.