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{{short description|Village in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2024}}
{{Infobox settlement
| official_name            = Sheshory
| native_name              = Шешори
| native_name_lang         = uk
| settlement_type          = [[village]]
| image_skyline            = Sheshory-2.jpg
| pushpin_map              = Ukraine Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast#Ukraine
| pushpin_map_caption      = Location of Sheshory in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast##Location of Sheshory in Ukraine
| coordinates              = {{coord|48|20|11|N|24|59|28|E|region:UA_type:city|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type         = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name         = {{UKR}}
| subdivision_type1        = [[Oblasts of Ukraine|Oblast]]
| subdivision_name1        = {{Flag|Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast}}
| subdivision_type2        = [[Raions of Ukraine|Raion]]
| subdivision_name2        = {{flagicon image|Flag of Kosiv Raion.svg}} [[Kosiv Raion]]
| subdivision_type3        = [[List of hromadas of Ukraine|Hromada]]
| subdivision_name3        = [[Kosiv urban hromada]]
| established_title        = First mentioned
| established_date         = 1427 or 1445
| population               = 2,116
| population_as_of         = 2020
}}
'''Sheshory''' ({{langx|uk|Шешори}}; {{langx|pl|Szeszory}}) is a village in [[Kosiv urban hromada]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Склад громади |trans-title=List of communities |url=https://decentralization.gov.ua/newgromada/3995/composition |access-date=22 May 2024 |website=decentralization.gov.ua |language=uk}}</ref> [[Kosiv Raion]], in Ukraine's western [[Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast]]. Its population is 2,116 (as of 2020).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Шешорівська сільська рада |trans-title=Sheshory village council |url=https://www.rada.info/rada/04354491/ |access-date=22 May 2024 |website=Sheshory village council |language=uk}}</ref>
== Overview ==
Sheshory was first mentioned in 1427<ref name="karpaty-love">{{Cite web |date=15 September 2022 |title=Шешори — срібний курорт на Прикарпатті |trans-title=Sheshory: a silver resort in Prykarpattia |url=https://karpaty.love/naprjamky-vidpochynku/vidpochynok-v-karpatah-ivano-frankivska-oblast/82-sheshory.html |access-date=22 May 2024 |website=Karpaty.love |language=uk}}</ref> or 1445,<ref name="KosivArt">{{Cite web |title=Шешори |trans-title=Sheshory |url=http://www.kosivart.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/sheshory.main/ |access-date=22 May 2024 |website=KosivArt |language=uk}}</ref> although evidence of human settlement in the village dates to the [[Stone Age]].<ref name="karpaty-love"/> The village is located near the {{ill|Pistynka|uk|Пістинька}} river, and several waterfalls are located near the village. A [[sanatorium (resort)|sanatorium]] and tourist resort both exist in the village.<ref name="KosivArt"/>
The village is inhabited by [[Hutsuls]], and contains Horishnia Tserkva, one of the oldest Hutsul churches. A ''[[narodnyi dim]]'' was founded in 1924, and the [[wooden churches in Ukraine|wooden]] {{ill|Church of the Holy Great Martyr Paraskeva of Sunday, Sheshory|lt=Church of the Holy Great Martyr Paraskeva of Sunday|uk|Церква Святої Великомучениці Параскеви П'ятниці (Шешори)}} continues to stand.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Шешори |trans-title=Sheshory |url=https://www.karpaty.info/ua/uk/if/ks/sheshory/ |access-date=22 May 2024 |website=Karpaty.info |language=uk}}</ref> Sheshory was the site of a battle on 20 October 1950, during the [[anti-Soviet resistance by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army]]. As a result of the battle, two commanders of the [[Ukrainian Insurgent Army]] ({{ill|Vasyl Savchak|uk|Савчак Василь Миколайович}} and {{ill|Hryhorii Lehkyi|uk|Легкий Григорій Йосипович}}) were killed.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1 January 2012 |title=Заходи по ліквідації провідника ОУН Карпатського краю – «Єфрема» |trans-title=Liquidation efforts against the OUN's Carpathian regional providnyk, "Yefrem" |url=https://museum-bandera.if.ua/main.php?m0prm=6&entry=20&showItem=40 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171022142834/https://museum-bandera.if.ua/main.php?m0prm=6&entry=20&showItem=40 |archive-date=22 October 2017 |access-date=22 May 2024 |website=Stepan Bandera Historical and Memorial Museum |language=uk}}</ref>
A monument to the writer, poet, and artist [[Taras Shevchenko]], created by {{ill|Ivan Honchar|uk|Гончар Іван Макарович}},<ref name="Castles">{{Cite web |title=Шешори |url=https://castles.com.ua/szeszory.html |access-date=22 May 2024 |website=Castles and Churches of Ukraine |language=uk}}</ref> was opened by [[Viacheslav Chornovil]] in his capacity as a [[Komsomol]] worker on 8 August 1965. As a result of the speech Chornovil gave during the opening of the monument, he was removed from the Komsomol.<ref>{{Cite news |date=24 August 2017 |title=В'ячеслав Чорновіл. "Неугомонный" у боротьбі за Україну |trans-title=Viacheslav Chornovil: Restless in the fight for Ukraine |url=https://www.istpravda.com.ua/articles/2017/08/24/150177/ |access-date=22 May 2024 |work=[[Ukrainska Pravda|Istorichna Pravda]] |language=uk}}</ref> A plaque commemorating the speech is placed at the bottom of the monument. Another monument, to the writer and poet [[Ivan Franko]], was erected in the village on 13 August 1995.<ref name="Castles"/>
== Notable people ==
* {{ill|Ksenia Danylyshyn|uk|Данилишин Ксеня Денисівна}}, songwriter
* {{ill|Oleh Haborak|uk|Габорак Олег Васильович}}, soldier of the [[Armed Forces of Ukraine]] killed during the [[War in Donbas]]
* {{ill|Volodymyr Oleksiuk|uk|Олексюк Володимир Ілліч}}, philosopher
* {{ill|Hanna Vasylashchuk|uk|Василащук Ганна Василівна}}, weaver
* {{ill|Oleksandra Vasylashchuk|uk|Василищук Олександра Іллівна}}, writer
* {{ill|Myroslav Yakibchuk|uk|Якібчук Мирослав Ілліч}}, trade unionist and politician
== References ==
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{{Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast}}
[[Category:Spa towns in Ukraine]]
[[Category:Villages in Kosiv Raion]]