Rudnyky (, ) is a village in the Mykolaiv urban hromada of the Stryi Raion of Lviv Oblast in Ukraine.
History The first written mention of the village was in 1515.Zródla dziejowe. Tom XVIII. Polska XVI wieku pod względem geograficzno-statystycznym. Cz. I. Ziemie ruskie. Ruś Czerwona. — Warszawa: Sklad główny u Gerberta I Wolfa, 1902. — S. 166, 167.
In the Second Polish Republic, until 1934, the village constituted an independent rural municipality (gmina) within the Żydaczów County of the Stanisławów Voivodeship. As part of the consolidation reform, on August 1, 1934, it was incorporated into the newly established rural Mikołajów nad Dniestrem municipality 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
March 10, 1944, Ukrainian nationalists from the OUN-UPA murdered 3 Poles here as a part of Volhynia genocide.https://zbrodniawolynska.pl/zw1/form/r1035827136959,Zbrodnia-w-m-Rudniki-w-dn-10-marca-1944-r.html After the war, the village was detached from Poland and incorporated into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
On 19 July 2020, as a result of the administrative-territorial reform and liquidation of the Mykolaiv Raion, the village became part of the Stryi Raion.Постанова Верховної Ради України від 17 липня 2020 року No. 807-IX "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів"
Religion In 1885, a brick Saint Michael church was built in the village, modeled after Saint Andrew church in Kyiv.
Notable residents (1997–2021), Ukrainian soldier Lavrentia Herasymiv (1911–1952), ethnic Ukrainian Soviet Greek Catholic nun and martyr (born 1954), Ukrainian journalist, writer, volunteer (1919–1978), OUN activist, OUN SB super-district referent, acting district referent of the OUN SB in Horodok Raion (1901-1989), Polish engineer, rector of Silesian University of Technology (1943–2017), Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor
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