Smorzhiv, Lviv Oblast

Smorzhiv (, ) is a village in the Lopatyn settlement hromada of the Sheptytskyi Raion of Lviv Oblast in Ukraine.

History On 19 July 2020, as a result of the administrative-territorial reform and liquidation of the Radekhiv Raion, the village became part of the Chervonohrad Raion (now Sheptytskyi Raion).Постанова Верховної Ради України від 17 липня 2020 року No. 807-IX "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів"

In the Second Polish Republic, until 1934, the village constituted an independent rural municipality (gmina) within of the Tarnopol Voivodeship. As part of the consolidation reform, on August 1, 1934, it was incorporated into the newly established rural Szczurowice in the same county and voivodeship.https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU19340640569 Rozporządzenie Ministra Spraw Wewnętrznych z dnia 14 lipca 1934 r. o podziale powiatu rudziechowskiego w województwie tarnopolskiem na gminy wiejskie. Dz.U. 1934 nr 64 poz. 569 After World War II, the village became part of the administrative structures of the Soviet Union.

During the Nazi German occupation, the Polish family Miniewski, who lived in the village, provided help to Jewish: Izaak Sterling and Józef (Yossel) Parnas. In 1984, the Yad Vashem decided to award Stefan Miniewski and his son Jan the title of Righteous Among the Nations.https://sprawiedliwi.org.pl/pl/historie-pomocy/wiecej-o-rodzinie-miniewskich

Notable residents Yulian Butsmaniuk (1885–1967), Ukrainian artist and monumentalist, student of Modest Sosenko. He was a senior officer of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and the Ukrainian Galician Army. (1889-1944/1945), Polish Righteous Among the Nations

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