Tustan

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Tustan is a village of Halych district of Ivano-Frankivsk region. It is the center of the village council. It is located on the left bank of the Dniester (between the rivers Hnyla Lypa and Bybelka), 2.5 km from the district center and the railway station Halych. The road to Halych and Pidhaitsi passes through the village. The population is 1527 people. The suburban train Khodoriv - Ivano-Frankivsk stops at the Tustan platform.

On the territory of Tustan, a settlement of ancient Russian times was discovered, and on the territory of neighboring Medukha - stone tools of the Bronze Age and an anthropomorphic figure. In the XII-XIII centuries. Tustan station was a place of anchorage for river vessels sailing along the Dniester. The first written mention of the village dates back to 1621.

The village used to be the central estate of the Leninskyi Shlyakh collective farm. The farm had 2551.6 hectares of land and specialized in pork production. For high corn yields, the collective farm participated in the USSR VDNKh in 1963 and was awarded a second-degree diploma. In 1965, it won the regional transitional Red Banner for high milk yields and fulfilling its obligations to sell meat to the state. In 1983, the villages of Semakivtsi and Khorostkiv were annexed. In the books of the Galician court, Khorostkiv is mentioned on June 24, 1447, and Semakivtsi on May 5, 1449.

The village has a twelve-year school, a club, a library, a medical center, six shops, and a nursery. During the Soviet era, the village was half rebuilt, and 62 families became new settlers. The decline in agriculture and livestock production was interrupted in the 2000s by the emergence of the Ukrainian-Danish agricultural company Danosha, which built a modern farm complex in Tustan with a powerful pig farm and fodder production. The company announced the upcoming construction of a biogas plant at the end of 2019.

The Church of St. Basil the Great was built in 1936. The previous wooden church, which was located in the village of Semakivtsi (now part of the village of Tustan), was called the Church of the Resurrection of Christ, and was destroyed during the First World War. In 1925, a temporary wooden chapel was built in Tustan, and the construction of the existing church was completed in 1936. It was a branch church. The church is used by the UGCC community.

It is located in the southeastern part of the village, near the lake, near the street. It is a cross-shaped three-story building with considerable extensions. In the center is a square nave, crowned with a light octagon covered with a cupola with a lantern and a dome. To the east of the nave is an equally wide faceted altar, the octagon of which is also covered with a dome topped with a lantern and a dome. To the north and south are rectangular side frames (the northern one has a side entrance), which complete the faceted walls covered with low domes with tops.

To the west, there is an equally wide rectangular narthex, completed in the same way as the altar. A narrower rectangular narthex is attached to the narthex along the axis. In the gaps between the side frames, the chancel, and the narthex, large screened porches were made on both sides; the main entrance to the church is through the northern one, and the doors of the narthex are not in use.

The church is surrounded by a porch supported by the crowns of the log cabins. The walls were preserved from open painted log beams under the porch, and vertically lined with boards and platbands above the porch. To the northwest of the church there are two bell towers: an old wooden square three-tiered one covered with a pyramidal roof and a new brick two-tiered one covered with a dome crowned with a lantern with a crown.

The Pokrovskyi Convent of the Moscow Patriarchate, established in 1995, is located in the village and is headed by Abbess Maria (Tymishak).

The village is home to the famous Ukrainian teacher, translator, and lexicographer of the sixteenth century Lavrentii Zyzanii.
Volodymyr Chaviak "Chornota" is a legendary insurgent commander and Gulag prisoner, author of memoirs.
Stepan Dmytrovych Yarytskyi - commander of the UPA "Beasts" hundred, Knight of the Bronze Cross of Military Merit of the UPA.
Andrii Omelianovych Dobrovolskyi (*11.12.1996-†17.11.2017) - a native of the village of Tustan, commander of the 8th Battalion of the 10th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade, died in the war with the Russian occupiers.

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