Ust-Putyla

Ust-Putyla is a village in Ukraine, the center of the Ust-Putyla rural territorial community of the Putyla district of the Chernivtsi region. The village is located at the confluence of the Putylka River into the Cheremosh. It has been known since the eighteenth century as Mezhybridky, and later as Ust-Putyliv. 1183 meters above sea level, 623 inhabitants, a mountain around the village, 2 unusual wells, 1 wooden green church, and many, many sheep.

In the village there is an architectural monument of national importance - the Church of St. Paraskeva (1881). In the southern part of the village there is a well-known natural monument, the rock "Kamiana Bahachka", not far from the place where the small river Putylka flows into the famous Cheremosh. You don't need to look for the rock - it stands out to show off its stones right next to the Putyla trail. The height of this natural wonder is 30 meters. The area near the rock is well-maintained.

Traditional folk crafts: logging, timber processing, trade in construction timber, animal husbandry, Easter egg making, embroidery, weaving, carving.

In November 2008, the graves of UPA soldiers Vasyl Vakariuk and Oleksii Mometko from Borysenko's hundred were found in the village. The rebel scouts died after long torture at the hands of the NKVD in 1944. Their bodies bore more than 50 bayonet wounds. The graves were found by members of the Chernivtsi Society of Political Prisoners and Repressed.

XVIII-XIX centuries - the territory of the modern Putyla district is an integral part of the land of Bukovyna. Historians point out that in the eleventh and twelfth centuries the district was part of Kyivan Rus, and later - of the Galician and Galicia-Volyn principalities, then of Austria-Hungary, in 1919 - of the Ukrainian People's Republic, then of Romania until 1940. The oldest settlements, such as Putyla, Selyatyn, and Dovhopillia, are mentioned in documents dating back to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. One of the villages of the Dovhopillia district was the village of Ust-Putyla (Ust-Putyliv), which was formerly called Mezhybridky because it was located between the fords of rivers and streams. The first written mention of the village of Ust-Putyla dates back to the eighteenth century. According to I.M. Novosivskyi: "The village of Ust-Putyliv took an active part in the struggle against the enslavers under the leadership of L. Kobylitsa. The Ukrainian-conscious rise of the village came only after the appearance of the Hutsul poet Osyp Yurii Fedkovych on the literary and public field." At the end of the nineteenth century, there were 691 residents in the community and 82 people in the yard of the landowners Dzhurdzhuvan and Romashkan. At the end of the nineteenth century there was a district court and a post office in the village.